Blyth (surname)

Blyth is a surname of Scottish origin.^[1] It is derived from the Old English pre 7th Century "blithe", meaning a happy or cheerful person.

Notable people with the surname include:

• Alan Blyth (1929–2007), English musicologist
• Alan Blyth (artist) (c. 1921 – 1953), English painter
• Ann Blyth (born 1928), American actress
• Sir Arthur Blyth (1823–1890), thrice Premier of South Australia
• Benjamin Blyth (1819–1866), Scottish civil engineer
• Benjamin Blyth II (1849–1917), son of the above, also a civil engineer
• Bob Blyth (1870–1941), Scottish football player and manager
• Chay Blyth (born 1940), Scottish yachtsman
• Edward Blyth (1810–1873), the biologist abbreviated Blyth in taxonomic references
• George Blyth (died 1914), Anglican Bishop
• James Blyth (1839-1906), Scottish electrical engineer
• James Blyth, 1st Baron Blyth (1841–1925), British businessman
• Sir James Blyth, Baron Blyth of Rowington (born 1940), British businessman
• Jim Blyth (born 1955), Scottish football goalkeeper
• John Blyth (died 1499), Bishop of Salisbury
• Len Blyth, Wales international rugby player
• Reginald Horace Blyth (1898–1964), English translator of and writer about haiku, and interpreter to the West of Asian culture
• Robert Henderson Blyth (1919-1970), Scottish landscape painter and artist

References

1. "Blyth at surnamedb.com". Retrieved 2013-09-27.