List of Famous people named Cyril

Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt, FBA was an English educational psychologist and geneticist who also made contributions to statistics. He is known for his studies on the heritability of IQ. Shortly after he died, his studies of inheritance of intelligence were discredited after evidence emerged indicating he had falsified research data, inventing correlations in separated twins which did not exist.

Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood was a British physical chemist and a Nobel Prize laureate.

Cyril Joseph Trimnell-Ritchard, known professionally as Cyril Ritchard, was an Australian stage, screen and television actor, and director. He is best remembered today for his performance as Captain Hook in the Mary Martin musical production of Peter Pan. In 1945, he played Gabriele Eisenstein in Gay Rosalinda at the Palace theatre in London, a version of Strauss's Die Fledermaus by Erich Wolfgang Korngold in which he appeared with Peter Graves. The show was conducted by Richard Tauber and ran for almost a year.

Archbishop Cyril Conrad Cowderoy was a priest for over 45 years and a bishop for over 26 years in the Catholic Church in England and Wales.

Cyril Dessel is a former French professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2000 to 2011.

Cyril V. Jackson was a South African astronomer, known for discovering 72 asteroids and a number of comets.

Cyril Percy Callister was an Australian chemist and food technologist who developed the Vegemite yeast spread.