List of people with surname Taylor

Art

• Josephine Taylor, American artist
• Leonard Campbell Taylor, English painter and war artist
• Mary Taylor, New Zealand artist
• Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor, American/Hawaiian painter and sketch artist

  Business

• Alec Taylor Sr., British racehorse trainer
• Alec Taylor Jr., British racehorse trainer
• E. P. Taylor, Canadian businessman and horse breeder
• Frank Taylor, English businessman, founder of Taylor Woodrow
• Frederick Southgate Taylor, American businessman, politician and founder of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity
• Frederick Winslow Taylor, American engineer and management scholar
• Jack C. Taylor, founder of Enterprise Rent-a-Car
• John Taylor , American businessman
• Rebecca Taylor, New Zealand-born fashion designer

  Entertainment

• Al Taylor , American silent film actor
• Alex Taylor , American singer
• Andy Taylor, English guitarist with Duran Duran
• Cecil Taylor, American pianist and poet
• Christine Taylor, American actress, wife of Ben Stiller
• Corey Taylor, American musician, best known as the lead singer of Slipknot
• Dave D. Taylor, game programmer formerly employed by id Software
• Dean Taylor, American rock guitarist
• Deems Taylor, American composer, music critic, and promoter of classical music
• Dick Taylor, English musician and early Rolling Stones bassist
• Don Taylor, American actor and film director
• Dorothy Brenda Taylor, better known as Brenda Forbes, British-born American actress
• Dub Taylor, American actor
• Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress
• Estelle Taylor, American actress, singer, model, and animal rights activist
• Eva Taylor, American blues singer and stage actress
• Gwen Taylor, English actress
• Hound Dog Taylor, American blues guitarist, singer and bandleader
• Jack Taylor
• Jack Taylor , American horror movie actor
• Jack Taylor , heaviest man in Britain at his death
• James Taylor, American singer-songwriter
• James "J.T." Taylor, lead singer of Kool & the Gang
• Jane Taylor, English poet and novelist, wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
• Janie Taylor, principal dancer for the New York City Ballet
• Jayceon Terrell Taylor, birth name of rapper The Game
• Joanna Taylor, English actress and former model
• Johnnie Taylor, American singer-songwriter
• Little Johnny Taylor, American singer
• John Taylor , British co-founder of Duran Duran
• Kate Taylor, American singer-songwriter
• Karen Taylor , British comedian
• Koko Taylor, American singer
• Krissy Taylor, American model and sister of Niki Taylor
• Larry Taylor, American bass guitarist, member of the rock band Canned Heat
• Lili Taylor, American actress
• Livingston Taylor, American singer-songwriter
• Maria Taylor, American singer
• Melvin Taylor, American musician
• Mick Taylor, English guitarist, formerly with the Rolling Stones
• Niki Taylor, American model and business woman
• Niti Taylor, Indian model and actress
• Noah Taylor, Australian actor
• Otis Taylor, American musician
• Paul Taylor , American dancer and choreographer
• Paula Taylor Thai actress and model
• R. Dean Taylor, Canadian singer-songwriter
• Ralph Forbes Taylor, better known as Ralph Forbes, English actor
• Regina Taylor, American actress and playwright
• Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian
• Robert Taylor, American actor
• Rod Taylor, Australian actor
• Rod Taylor , Jamaican singer
• Roger Taylor
• Roger Taylor
• Ronnie Taylor, British cinematographer
• Russi Taylor, American voice actress
• Ruth Taylor , American film actress, starred in silent movies
• Sarah Taylor, Canadian television personality
• Sean Taylor , Australian guitarist
• Sharon Taylor, Canadian actress
• Steve Taylor, American recording artist and film director
• Tiffany Taylor, American model
• Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comic actor
• Vaughn Taylor , American actor
• Veronica Taylor, American voice actress
• Vincent Taylor , American guitarist with band Sha Na Na
• Taylor is the family name in the television show Home Improvement

  Journalism and literature

• Brandon Taylor, American writer
• Bride Neill Taylor, American journalist and author
• Cory Taylor , Australian writer
• D. J. Taylor, British author
• David Taylor , British author and television presenter on animal subjects
• Edgar Taylor , first English translator of Grimms' Tales
• Emily Taylor, English schoolmistress, poet, children's writer, hymnwriter
• George Augustine Taylor, Australian artist and journalist
• G. P. Taylor, British author
• Kathrine Taylor, American author, known mostly for her Address Unknown
• Matt Taylor , BBC weather presenter
• Patrick Gordon Taylor, Australian author and aviator
• Russell Taylor , British writer and cartoonist
• Ruth Ashton Taylor, American television journalist
• Samuel W. Taylor, American novelist, scriptwriter, and historian
• Sean Taylor, British children's book author
• Tom Taylor , Australian playwright and editorial writer
• Valerie Taylor , American writer of lesbian pulp fiction
• William Taylor, English scholar and linguist

  Liberal arts and sciences

• A. J. P. Taylor, English historian
• A. J. Taylor, English historian
• Alan D. Taylor, mathematician
• Alfred Edward Taylor, British philosopher
• Andrew Taylor , Australian poet, professor
• Anna Heyward Taylor, American artist
• Bert Leston Taylor, American columnist, humorist, poet, and author
• Brook Taylor, English mathematician
• Charles Taylor , Canadian philosopher
• Charlotte De Bernier Taylor, American entomologist
• Dwight Willard Taylor, American malacologist
• Edward Taylor, colonial American poet, physician, and pastor
• Effie J. Taylor, Canadian nurse
• Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor, English geographer and historian of science
• F. Sherwood Taylor, British historian of science and museum curator
• Fred M. Taylor, American economist
• Frederick Taylor , British historian
• Garth Taylor , Jamaican ophthalmologist
• Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, British physicist and mathematician
• George Ledwell Taylor, English architect
• George Taylor , Scottish botanist
• George W. Taylor , American academic and labor mediator
• Isaac M. Taylor, American physician and academic
• Jill Bolte Taylor, American neuroanatomist
• John B. Taylor, American economist
• John George Taylor, British official of the Foreign Office, an archaeologist investigating the antiquities of the Middle East
• John Bryan Taylor, English physicist
• Joseph L. Taylor, American mathematician
• Laurie Taylor , English sociologist and radio presenter
• Margerie Venables Taylor, English historian and archeologist
• Matt Taylor, project scientist for the Rosetta mission
• Richard Taylor , British mathematician
• Ruth Taylor , Canadian poet, editor and college professor
• Stuart Ross Taylor, New Zealand geochemist and planetary scientist
• Thomas Taylor , English translator and Neoplatonist

  Military

• David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy admiral and engineer
• George Taylor , soldier in Texas army, died in the Battle of the Alamo
• George A. Taylor, American army officer at D-Day invasion, Battle of Normandy
• George P. Taylor, American Air Force Surgeon General
• George W. Taylor , American Civil War general
• Herbert Taylor , adjutant general and private secretary to the British monarch
• Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot in World War II
• Maxwell Davenport Taylor, American general and diplomat
• Richard Taylor , son of U.S. president Zachary Taylor and Confederate general in the American Civil War
• Sarah Taylor , American Civil War soldier

  Politics and law

• Alfred A. Taylor, governor and U.S. Representative from Tennessee
• Breonna Taylor, shooting victim of Louisville Metro Police Department, for whom proposed legislation is named
• Bronnie Taylor, New South Wales politician
• Casper R. Taylor Jr., Maryland politician
• Charles G. Taylor, former president of Liberia
• Charles H. Taylor, former U.S. Congressman from North Carolina
• David Taylor , English politician, MP 1997–2009
• David Taylor , UK politician
• Dave Taylor , Alberta politician
• David James Taylor , Ontario politician
• Dean P. Taylor, American Congressman from New York
• Dick Taylor , Iowa state senator
• Dorothy Mae Taylor, African-American politician and civil rights activist from New Orleans, Louisiana
• Fawcett Taylor, Canadian politician and judge
• George Taylor , signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
• George Taylor , Canadian House of Commons member
• George Taylor , American Congressman from New York
• George Sylvester Taylor, American Massachusetts State senator
• George W. Taylor , American Congressman from Alabama
• George William Taylor, Canadian solicitor general
• Hoyt Patrick Taylor, American politician
• Hoyt Patrick Taylor Jr., American politician
• Ian Taylor, English politician and member of the Conservative Party
• James Madison Taylor, aka Matt Taylor, early Idaho settler and builder of the Taylor Bridge in what is now Idaho Falls
• Len Taylor, Canadian politician
• Larry Gene Taylor, American Missouri State senator
• Maretta Taylor, American politician
• Mary Taylor , American politician from Ohio
• Matthew Taylor , chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts, formerly advisor to Tony Blair and director of the IPPR
• Matthew Taylor , Cornish Liberal Democrat MP
• Mildred F. Taylor, New York politician
• Paula Losoya Taylor, Texan early settler and developer of Del Rio, Texas
• Rebecca Taylor , English politician
• Recy Taylor, African-American civil rights activist
• Roy A. Taylor, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina
• Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of US president Zachary Taylor and wife of Jefferson Davis
• Sophia Taylor, New Zealand suffragist and landowner
• Steve Taylor , Delaware State legislator
• Steven W. Taylor, Oklahoma Supreme Court justice
• Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn, British Labour Party politician
• Thomas Wardlaw Taylor, Canadian lawyer and judge
• Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the United States

  Religion

• Frederick Howard Taylor, British pioneer Protestant Christian missionary to China
• John Taylor , third president of the LDS Church
• Mary Virginia Taylor, American bishop in the United Methodist Church
• Michael Taylor , Englishman accused in the Ossett murder case

  Sports

• Alan Taylor, English footballer
• Alastair Taylor , English footballer
• Ally Taylor, Scottish footballer
• Angelo Taylor, American Olympic athlete
• Brian Taylor , English cricketer
• Charlie Taylor , English rugby league footballer
• Christian Taylor, American athlete
• Chuck Taylor , basketball player and sneaker pioneer
• Colin Taylor, association footballer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
• Colin Taylor association footballer of the 1990s
• Colin Taylor, rugby league footballer of the 1960s
• Danielle Taylor, New Zealand international football player
• Darrell Taylor, American football player
• David Taylor, several people
• Davion Taylor, American football player
• Dennis Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player
• Devin Taylor, American football player
• Dick Taylor , English manager of Aston Villa F.C.
• Dick Taylor
• Digby Taylor, New Zealand sailor
• Durell Taylor, American football player
• Elijah Taylor, New Zealand Rugby League player
• F. Morgan Taylor, Jr., American athlete and businessman
• Fred Taylor , American NFL running back
• Fred Taylor , American former NBA player
• Frederick "Cyclone" Taylor, Canadian ice hockey forward
• Fred Taylor , American college basketball coach
• Fred Taylor , American college football coach at Texas Christian University
• Fred Taylor , English footballer, played for Chelsea 1909–1919
• Gary Taylor-Fletcher, English footballer, played for Blackpool F.C.
• George Taylor , American Brooklyn Dodgers player
• Graham Taylor, English footballer
• Herbie Taylor, South African cricketer
• Ian Taylor, English footballer, played for Aston Villa
• Ian Taylor , English gold medalist at 1988 Seoul Olympics
• Ian Taylor, Scottish footballer, played for Aberdeen
• Jack Taylor
• Jack Taylor , Chicago Cubs pitcher
• Jack Taylor , English footballer and football manager
• Jack Taylor , Everton F.C. player
• Jack Taylor , English football referee for the 1974 World Cup Final
• Jack Taylor , American basketball player who set the NCAA single-game scoring record
• Jake Taylor , Welsh footballer
• James Taylor
• Jawaan Taylor, American football player
• Jeff Taylor , American basketball player
• Jeff Taylor , English footballer
• Jeffery Taylor, Swedish basketball player; son of basketball player Jeff Taylor
• Jerome Taylor, Jamaican cricketer
• Jermain Taylor, American boxer, former undisputed middleweight champion of the world
• Jim Taylor , Green Bay Packers player
• J. J. Taylor , American football player
• Jodie Taylor, English association football player
• John Taylor, British rugby league footballer of the 1950s and 1960s
• Candy Jim Taylor, American Negro league baseball player and manager
• Jonathan Taylor, multiple people
• Julie Ann Taylor, American voice actress
• Jullian Taylor, American football player
• Ken Taylor , English footballer
• Kris Taylor, English footballer
• Lawrence Taylor, New York Giants
• Lewis Taylor , Australian rules footballer
• Levonta Taylor, American football player
• Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
• Lorraine Taylor, New Zealand international football player
• Maik Taylor, German-British association football goalkeeper
• Mark Taylor, several people
• Matthew Taylor , English football player, played in the Premier League
• Matt Taylor, English football player
• Megan Taylor, British Olympic speed skater
• Mike Taylor , American basketball coach
• Morgan Taylor, American hurdler
• Natalie Taylor, New Zealand basketball player
• Orville Taylor, Jamaican track and field sprinter
• Penny Taylor, Australian basketball player
• Peta Taylor, English cricketer
• Phil Taylor , English darts player, 16 time world champion
• Phil Taylor , English footballer and former manager of Liverpool FC
• Rachel Taylor, Welsh rugby union player
• Richie Taylor, English footballer
• Rhys Taylor, Welsh footballer
• Rob Taylor, English footballer
• Rod Taylor , American football player
• Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer
• Samad Taylor, American baseball player
• Sarah Taylor , English cricketer
• Sarah Taylor , American tennis player
• Sean Taylor, American football player
• Shakial Taylor, American football player
• Shaun Taylor, British footballer
• Steven Taylor , British footballer, played for Newcastle United
• Taywan Taylor, American football player
• Trent Taylor, American football player
• Tyrod Taylor, American football player
• Vaughn Taylor, American golfer
• Vincent Taylor , American football player
• Zac Taylor, American football quarterback for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers