Leyland may refer to:

Places

Leyland, Lancashire Leyland () is a town in South Ribble, Lancashire, England, six miles (10 km) south of Preston. The population was 35,578 at the 2011 Census. The name of the town is Anglo-Saxon, meaning "untilled land". History English Leyland was an a ...

, an English town **

Leyland Hundred The Leyland Hundred (also known as Leylandshire) is a historic subdivision of the English county of Lancashire. It covered the parishes of Brindle, Chorley, Croston, Eccleston, Hoole, Leyland, Penwortham, Rufford, Standish and Tarleton. ...

, an hundred of Lancashire, England * Leyland, Alberta, a community in Canada

Companies

Leyland Line The Leyland Line was a British shipping transport line founded in 1873 by Frederick Richards Leyland after his apprenticeship in the firm of John Bibby, Sons & Co. After Frederick Leyland's death, the company was taken over by Sir John Ellerm ...

, a shipping company

Automotive manufacturers

Leyland Motors Leyland Motors Limited (later known as the Leyland Motor Corporation) was a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries, buses and trolleybuses. The company diversified into car manufacturing with its acquisitions of Triumph and Rover in 1960 and ...

, a defunct vehicle manufacturer based in Leyland, Lancashire * Ashok Leyland, an Indian company *

British Leyland British Leyland was an automotive engineering and manufacturing conglomerate formed in the United Kingdom in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following the merger of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings. It was partl ...

, a defunct vehicle manufacturer *

Leyland Bus Leyland Bus was a British bus and train manufacturer. It emerged from the Rover Group (formerly ''British Leyland'') as a management buyout of the bus business. It was subsequently acquired by Volvo Buses in 1988 and the Leyland name disappe ...

, a defunct bus manufacturer *

List of Leyland buses This is a list of all known passenger chassis and integral bus vehicles manufactured by Leyland Motors and Leyland Bus from 1919 until closure. 1919 - 1925 * A1, A5, A7, A9, A11, A13 - 1920-1926 * B - 1919-1920 * C, C1, C5, C7, C9 - 1919-1926 ...

Leyland DAF Leyland DAF was a commercial vehicle manufacturing company based in Leyland, United Kingdom, and a subsidiary of DAF NV. In February 1993, Leyland DAF was placed into receivership. History Leyland DAF was formed in February 1987, when the ...

, a defunct commercial vehicle manufacturer *

Leyland Trucks Leyland Trucks is a medium- and heavy-duty truck manufacturer based in Leyland, Lancashire, England. It can trace its origins back to the original Leyland Motors, which was founded in 1896, and subsequently evolved into British Leyland. Aft ...

, a medium and heavy duty truck manufacturer based in Leyland * Leyland Eight, a luxury car *

Leyland P76 The Leyland P76 is a large car that was produced by Leyland Australia, the Australian subsidiary of British Leyland. Featuring what was described at the time as the "standard Australian wheelbase of 111 inches", it was intended to provide the ...

, a car

People

* Carl Sonny Leyland (born 1965), English pianist * Frederick Richards Leyland (1832-1892), English shipowner *

Jim Leyland James Richard Leyland (born December 15, 1944) is an American former professional baseball player, coach and manager. He serves as a special assistant to the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Leyland led the Florida Marlins to the ...

(born 1944), American baseball manager * Joseph Bentley Leyland (1811-1851), English sculptor * Kellie-Ann Leyland (born 1986), British footballer *

Mal Leyland Michael James Leyland, MBE (4 September 1941–14 September 2009) and Malcolm Rex Leyland, MBE (born 2 October 1944), jointly known as the Leyland brothers, were Australian explorers and documentary filmmakers, best known for their popular t ...

(born 1945), Australian explorer and film-maker *

Maurice Leyland Maurice Leyland (20 July 1900 – 1 January 1967) was an English international cricketer who played 41 Test matches between 1928 and 1938. In first-class cricket, he represented Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1920 and 1946, scoring ove ...

(1900-1967), English cricketer *

Mike Leyland Michael James Leyland, MBE (4 September 1941–14 September 2009) and Malcolm Rex Leyland, MBE (born 2 October 1944), jointly known as the Leyland brothers, were Australian explorers and documentary filmmakers, best known for their popular t ...

(1941-2009), Australian explorer and film-maker *

Paul Leyland Paul Leyland is a British number theorist who has studied integer factorization and primality testing. He has contributed to the factorization of RSA-129, RSA-140, and RSA-155, as well as potential factorial primes as large as 400! + 1. He ...

, British mathematician *

Paul Leyland (rugby league) Paul Leyland (St. Helens) and is an English former professional rugby league footballer who was a professional with St. Helens in the Super League and formerly played in their reserve side. He is a by preference but could also play at or . He ...

(born 1986), English rugby league player *

Winston Leyland Winston Leyland (born 1940) is a British-American author and editor. Called "one of the seminal figures in gay publishing" by the ''San Francisco Sentinel'', he was originally ordained a Catholic priest and later graduated from UCLA. He worked for ...

(born 1940), British-American author

Other

Leyland Band The Leyland Band is a brass band based in Lancashire in the UK. History The Leyland Band was established in 1946 in the heart of industrial Lancashire as the Leyland Motors Band,Lancashire Post https://www.lep.co.uk/whats-on/music/leyland- ...

, a British band *

Leyland cypress The Leyland cypress, ''Cupressus'' × ''leylandii'', often referred to simply as leylandii, is a fast-growing coniferous evergreen tree much used in horticulture, primarily for hedges and screens. Even on sites of relatively poor culture, plant ...

, a tree *

Leyland number In number theory, a Leyland number is a number of the form :x^y + y^x where ''x'' and ''y'' are integers greater than 1. They are named after the mathematician Paul Leyland. The first few Leyland numbers are : 8, 17, 32, 54, 57, 100, 145, 177, ...

, a set of numbers named after Paul Leyland

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