Lyle
# Lyle

Lyle may refer to:

## People

### Surname

* Lyle (surname)

### Given name

* Lyle Alzado (1949–1992), American NFL All-Pro football player
* Lyle Beerbohm (born 1979), professional mixed martial arts fighter
* Lyle Bennett (1903–2005), head coach of the Central Michigan college football program from 1947 to 1949
* Lyle Berman (born 1941), professional poker player and business executive
* Lyle Bettger (1915–2003), character actor known most for his Hollywood roles from the 1950s
* Lyle Bigbee (1893–1942), outfielder, pitcher and halfback
* Lyle Blackwood (born 1951), played in the National Football League with the Miami Dolphins
* Lyle Boren (1909–1992), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma
* Lyle Bouck (1923–2016), lieutenant of the I&R Platoon of the 394th Infantry Regiment of the 99th Infantry Division in World War II
* Lyle Bradley (1943–2022), former ice hockey center
* Lyle Campbell (born 1942), linguist and leading expert on American Indian languages
* Lyle Craker, professor in the department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences at the University of Massachusetts
* Lyle Green (born 1976), fullback for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League
* Lyle Hanson (1935-2020), American politician from North Dakota
* Lyle W. Hillyard (born 1940), American politician and attorney from Utah
* Lyle Kessler, American playwright and screenwriter
* Lyle Franklin Lane (1926–2013), United States diplomat
* Lyle H. Lanier (1903–1988), American experimental psychologist, university professor and administrator.
* Lyle Larson (born 1959), American politician
* Lyle Lovett (born 1957), American singer-songwriter and actor
* Lyle Martin (born 1985), American soccer player for the Vancouver Whitecaps
* Lyle Mays (1953–2020), American jazz pianist and composer
* Lyle and Erik Menéndez (born 1971), convicted for the shotgun murders in 1989 of their parents in Beverly Hills, California
* Lyle Mouton (born 1969), former professional baseball player
* Lyle Neff (born 1969), poet and journalist in Vancouver, British Columbia
* Lyle Oberg (born 1960), Albertan politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly
* Lyle Odelein (born 1968), retired hockey player in the National Hockey League
* Lyle Overbay (born 1977), American baseball player
* Lyle Owerko, filmmaker and photographer
* Lyle Preslar, American musician: guitar player and songwriter for the hardcore punk band Minor Threat
* Lyle Rains, senior executive at the arcade game company Atari
* Lyle Reifsnider (1901–1980), set decorator who worked in Hollywood films from 1946 to 1962
* Lyle Saxon (1891–1946), New Orleans journalist who reported for The Times-Picayune
* Lyle F. Schoenfeldt (born 1939), American business management professor
* Lyle Sendlein (born 1984), American football center for the Arizona Cardinals
* Lyle Smith (1916–2017), assistant coach and head coach of the Boise State college football program
* Lyle M. Spencer (1911–1968), founder of Science Research Associates (SRA) and The Spencer Foundation
* Lyle Stewart (born 1951), Canadian provincial politician
* Lyle Stuart (1922–2006), American author and independent publisher of controversial books
* Lyle Talbot (1902–1996), American actor best known for playing Joe Randolph on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
* Lyle Taylor (born 1991), footballer
* Lyle Tayo (1889–1971), American film actress
* Lyle Tuttle (1931–2019), American tattoo artist and historian
* Lyle Vanclief (born 1943), PC, Canada's Minister of Agriculture from 1997 to 2003
* Lyle Waggoner (1935–2020), American actor and former model
* Lyle R. Wheeler (1905–1990), American Academy Award-winning motion picture art director
* Lyle Wicks (1912–2004), British Columbia politician
* Lyle Williams (1942–2008), U.S. representative from Ohio
* Lyle Workman, American guitarist, composer and music producer
* Lyle Wright, (1898–1963), United States Hockey Hall of fame inductee
* Lyle Yorks (born 1982), retired American soccer midfielder

## Places

### United Kingdom

* Lyle Hill, viewpoint in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland

### United States

* Lyle, Kansas
* Lyle, Minnesota, city in Mower County
* Lyle Township, Mower County, Minnesota
* Lyle, Washington, census-designated place in Klickitat County

## Other uses

* Lord Lyle, an extinct Lordship of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland
* Lyle baronets, three baronetcies in the Lyle family, all created in the Baronetage of the UK
* Lyle guitars, made in Japan in the Matsumoku guitar factory
* Lyle gun, a line-throwing gun for rescue
* Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, children's book written by Bernard Waber
* "Lyle the Kindly Viking", an episode of VeggieTales
* Lyle & Scott, Scottish clothing brand, mainly known for their high quality knitwear
* Lyle's flying fox, species of bat in the family Pteropodidae
* Tate & Lyle, UK-based multinational agri-processor
* Lyle (film), a 2014 American drama film
* Lyle, a character in the 2003 film The Italian Job
* Lyle, a character in the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite
* Lyle Lanley, the villain in The Simpsons episode "Marge vs. the Monorail"
* Lyle Norg, the first Invisible Kid in DC Comics
