Leadership

• Byron G. Skelton

  American judge.

  • Senior Circuit Judge, Federal Circuit Court (see list of Judges of the U.S. Courts of Appeals)
• Byron R. ''Whizzer'' White (born 1917)

  American football player and jurist.

  • U.S. Supreme Court justice, 1962-93 (see list of U.S. Supreme Court Justices)

Science and Philosophy

• Byron K. Lichtenberg

  American astronaut.

  • Astronaut on Columbia (1983), Atlantis (1992) (see list of Spaceflight Veterans)

Sports

• Byron Bancroft ''Ban'' Johnson (born 1864, died 1931)

  Founder and first president of baseball's American League.

  • Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937 (see list of Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame)
• Byron Nelson

  American golfer.

  • 1939 U.S. Open golf tournament winner (see list of U.S. Open Golf Champions)
  • 1937, 1942 Masters golf tournament winner (see list of Masters Tournament Golf Champions)
  • 1940, 1945 Professional Golf Association tournament winner (see list of PGA Champions)
  • 1944-45 Associated Press Athlete of the Year (see list of Associated Press Athletes of the Year)

The Literary World

• Byron Acohido
  • 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner for Beat Reporting (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting)
• George Gordon, Lord Byron (born 1788, died 1824)

  English poet.

  • Wrote Don Juan (see list of Writers of the Romantic Period (1785-1830))
• Byron Price

  American newspaper man. Executive news editor of the Associated Press, 1937-41; U.S. director of censorship, 1941-45.

  • 1944 recipient of a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation (see list of Winners of a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation)