Speed (name)

Gravestone with the name "Speed" on Western Cemetery, Dundee.

Speed, as a name, may refer to:

Surname

• Benjamin Speed (born 1979), film composer and musician
• Chris Speed (born 1967), jazz musician
• Doris Speed (1899–1994), English actress
• E. J. Speed (born 1996), American football player
• Gary Speed (1969–2011), Welsh football player and manager
• Harold Speed (1872–1957), English artist
• Horace Speed (1852–1925), Oklahoma Territory's first US Attorney
• Horace Speed (baseball) (born 1951), American baseball player
• James Speed (1812–1887), Kentucky legislator and Attorney General of the United States
• James Breckenridge Speed (1844–1912), Louisville businessman and philanthropist
• James S. Speed (1811–1860), ninth mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
• John Speed (1542–1629), English cartographer
• Joshua Fry Speed (1814–1882), American businessman and intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln
• Keith Speed (1934–2018), English politician
• Kuini Speed (1949–2004), Fijian chief and politician
• Lake Speed (born 1948), American stock car driver
• Lancelot Speed (1860–1931), British book illustrator
• Lucy Speed (born 1976), English actress
• Malcolm Speed (born 1948), Australian businessman and sports administrator
• Ronski Speed (born 1975), German music producer and DJ
• Scott Speed (born 1983), American race car driver

Given name

• Speed S. Fry (1817–1892), 19th century American lawyer and judge

Nickname

• William Speed Gardner (1895–1972), American race car driver
• Bob Geary (baseball) (1891–1980), American baseball pitcher
• Timothy Levitch (born 1970), American actor, author, and tour guide
• Carl Shipp Marvel (1894–1988), American chemist
• Pepe Smith (born 1947), Pinoy rock singer and drummer, member of the trio Speed, Glue & Shinki
• Art Spector (1920–1987), American basketball player
• Björn Strid (born 1978), Swedish heavy metal singer
• Irving Speed Vogel (1918–2008), American sculptor, painter, and writer
• William Speed Weed, American television writer and producer

Fictional characters

• Speed (comics), a speedster and a new member of the Young Avengers
• Speed Racer, anime character
• Speed Saunders, DC Comics character
• the title character of Speed Buggy, an American 1970s Saturday morning cartoon
• one of the title characters of Mother, Jugs & Speed, a 1976 film; played by Harvey Keitel
• one of the characters in The Odd Couple, a 1965 play, and its adaptations
• Claude (Grand Theft Auto), from the Grand Theft Auto video game series

See also

• Speed (disambiguation)