Gaylord

Gaylord, an anglicisation of the French surname Gaillard ("sprightly" or "spry"), may refer to:

People

Surname

• Edward K. Gaylord, founder of The Oklahoman, an Oklahoma City-based newspaper
• Edward Gaylord (Edward L. Gaylord), late owner of The Oklahoman and founder of the Gaylord Entertainment Company
• Edith Kinney Gaylord, journalist and founder of Inasmuch Foundation and Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation
• Harvey Gaylord, President of Bell Aerospace
• Mitch Gaylord, Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics
• Scott Gaylord, an American NASCAR driver

Given name

• Gaylord Kent Conrad, U.S. Politician
• Gaylord DuBois, American comic writer
• Gaylord Nelson, former U.S. senator from Wisconsin
• Gaylord Perry, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
• Gailard Sartain, American actor and comic (pronounced Gaylord)
• Gaylord Stinchcomb, American football player
• Gaillard Hunt, American author and civil servant
• Gaylord Harnwell, former president of the University of Pennsylvania
• Gayelord Hauser, German-born nutritionist
• Gaylord Silly, a long distance runner from the Seychelles

Fictional

• Gaylord Buzzard, anthropomorphic bird in the cartoon strip Broom Hilda
• Gaylord Focker, character played by Ben Stiller in Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers
• Gaylord Justice, a character featuring briefly in 1980 film Smokey and the Bandit II, played by Jackie Gleason
• Gaylord Ravenal, a character in Edna Farber's novel Show Boat, and the musical play and movies based on it
• Frederick Gaylord Crane, the son of the protagonist in the television series Frasier

Places

In the United States:

• Gaylord, Kansas
• Gaylord, Michigan
• Gaylord, Minnesota
• Gaylord, Oregon
• Gaylordsville, Connecticut
• Gaylord Entertainment Center, the former name of a hockey arena in Nashville, Tennessee, now called Bridgestone Arena
• Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, the football facility of the University of Oklahoma

See also

• Gaylord Hotels, several hotels

Other uses

• The Chicago Gaylords, a street gang in Chicago, Illinois
• Dean Ford and the Gaylords, 1960s Scottish beat group - later became The Marmalade
• The Gaylords (Dominican band)
• The Gaylords (American vocal group)
• Gaylord (automobile), a former car manufacturing company
• Gaylord Container Corporation, a former U.S. paper manufacturer (1986–2002)
  • Gaylord, a genericized term for a bulk box, a pallet sized corrugated box
  • Gaylord, a book publishing industry term describing an amount of books equal to a skid (pallet).^{[citation needed]}

• Gaylord Chemical Corporation, a U.S. chemical company
• Gaylord Entertainment Company