Royston

Royston may refer to:

Places

Australia

• Royston, Queensland, a rural locality

Canada

• Royston, British Columbia, a small hamlet

England

• Royston, Hertfordshire, a town and civil parish, formerly partly in Cambridgeshire
• Royston, South Yorkshire, a suburban village, near Barnsley, and Wakefield
• Royston Vasey, a fictional town in the television series The League of Gentlemen

Scotland

• Royston, Glasgow, a district of Glasgow, traditionally known as Garngad

United States

• Royston, Georgia, a town
• Royston, Texas, a ghost town

Surname

Royston is an English Toponymic Surname, and comes from a place in South Yorkshire named Royston.

People

• Royston Drenthe (born 1987), Dutch football player
• Royston Ellis (born 1941), English writer
• Royston Ffrench (born 1975), British jockey
• Royston Evans (1884–1977), Australian cricketer and soccer player, commonly known as Mac Evans
• Royston Gabe-Jones (1906–1965), Welsh cricketer
• Royston or Roy Goodacre (born 1967), British Microbiologist and Analytical Chemist
• Royston Nash, English conductor
• Royston Tan (born 1976), Singaporean film-maker
• Royston Vasey, real name of English comedian Roy 'Chubby' Brown
• Henry Royston (1819–1873), English cricketer
• Young Lea Royston (1819–1884), Confederate States Army colonel
• Ivor Royston, American physician and entrepreneur
• Brigadier General John Royston (1860–1942), South African-born British army officer
• Richard Royston (1601-1686), English bookseller and publisher
• Robert Royston (1918–2008), master landscape architect
• Shad Royston (born 1982), Australian rugby league player
• Royston Sagigi-Baira (born 1999), Australian singer and winner of Australian Idol in 2023

See also

• Royston crow, another name of the hooded crow
• Royston Vasey, a fictional town in which The League of Gentlemen is set
• Royston Town F.C., an English football club in Hertfordshire
• Craigroyston F.C., a Scottish football side
• Craigroyston Community High School