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Flowise
Flowise is an open source, low-code platform for building AI agents and LLM workflows on a drag-and-drop canvas, founded in 2023, backed by Y Combinator, and acquired by Workday in 2025.
Flowmeters
Flowmeters are instruments measuring liquid or gas flow rate via Coriolis, differential pressure, ultrasonic, electromagnetic, turbine, vortex, or thermal principles; about sixty techniques exist, calibrated against NIST primary standards with uncertainties below 0.03%.
Flowonix Medical
Flowonix Medical Inc, formerly Inset Technologies, was a New Jersey medical device company founded in 2005 that made the Prometra implantable pump for chronic pain.
Flowserve Corporation
Flowserve Corporation is a Dallas, Texas-based provider of flow control products and services, formed in 1997 by merging BW/IP and Durco International, serving energy, chemical, water, and general industries.
Flowstone
Flowstone is a sheet-like cave deposit formed by films of flowing water that leave layers of calcite on cave floors, walls, and ceilings, often resembling frozen waterfalls.
Floxuridine
Floxuridine, also called FUDR, is a fluorinated pyrimidine antimetabolite chemotherapy drug, FDA-approved in 1970 and given by continuous hepatic artery infusion, mainly for colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver.
Floyd Collins
Floyd Collins (William Floyd Collins, 1887-1925), Kentucky cave explorer who discovered Crystal Cave in 1917 and died trapped in Sand Cave in 1925 after a 17-day rescue that became a national media spectacle.
Floyd Dunn
Floyd Dunn (1924–2015) was an American electrical engineer and biophysicist at the University of Illinois who quantified how living tissue absorbs ultrasound, work that became the basis for worldwide diagnostic ultrasound safety standards.
Floyd E. Bloom
Floyd E. Bloom (1936–2025) was an American neuroscientist and physician who established norepinephrine as a brain neurotransmitter, chaired the neuropharmacology department at the Scripps Research Institute, and edited Science from 1995 to 2000.
Floyd E. Romesberg
Floyd E. Romesberg is an American biochemist and geneticist who spent most of his career at The Scripps Research Institute and created the first semi-synthetic organism, a bacterium with an added human-made DNA base pair.
Floyd Firestone
Floyd Firestone was an American acoustical physicist at the University of Michigan who invented the supersonic reflectoscope, a pulse-echo ultrasonic flaw detector, and edited the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Floyd Heard
Floyd Wayne Heard, born 1966 in West Point, Mississippi, is an American 200 m sprinter, 1986 Goodwill Games champion and world No. 1, 1987 Pan American Games gold medalist, holder of the 4x200 m world record 1:18.68, and a 2000 Sydney Olympian.
Floyd J. Malveaux
Floyd J. Malveaux is an American physician-scientist in allergy and asthma who served as dean of Howard University College of Medicine and led the Merck Childhood Asthma Network.
Floyd James Thompson
Floyd James "Jim" Thompson (1933–2002), U.S. Army Special Forces colonel, was captured in South Vietnam on March 26, 1964 and held 3,278 days, the longest of any American POW in history, released March 16, 1973.
Floyd K. Richtmyer
Floyd K. Richtmyer (1881–1939) was an American physicist and X-ray spectroscopist who spent his career at Cornell University, led its Graduate School, and wrote the influential textbook Introduction to Modern Physics.
Floyd L. Culler
Floyd L. Culler Jr. (1923–2004) was an American chemical engineer and nuclear scientist who served as deputy director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and president of EPRI.
Floyd Landis
Floyd Landis, American cyclist who won the 2006 Tour de France, was stripped of the title for testosterone doping, confessed in 2010 and implicated Lance Armstrong, later founding Floyd's of Leadville.
Floyd Little
Floyd Little (1942-2021), "The Franchise," was a Hall of Fame running back for the Denver Broncos (1967-75), sixth pick of the 1967 draft from Syracuse, 1971 NFL rushing champion with 1,133 yards, and credited with keeping the Broncos in Denver.
Floyd Lounsbury
Floyd Lounsbury (1914–1998) was an American linguist and anthropologist who taught at Yale from 1947 to 1979, known for Iroquoian languages, kinship analysis, and deciphering Maya hieroglyphs.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. (Floyd Mayweather) is a celebrated American professional boxer, born in 1977 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who accumulated a perfect 50-0 win-loss record.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor, the 2017 Las Vegas crossover boxing match; Mayweather won by 10th-round TKO, retiring 50-0, with 4.3 million PPV buys, a $55.4 million gate, and roughly $275M/$85M fighter earnings.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Logan Paul
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Logan Paul: June 6, 2021 eight-round exhibition boxing match at Hard Rock Stadium, Miami; no judges, no official winner, no knockout; about 1 million Showtime PPV buys, over $50 million.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao
Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, the 2015 "Fight of the Century" at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas: Mayweather won a unanimous decision, and the bout set the pay-per-view record with 4.4 million buys.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao II
Mayweather vs. Pacquiao II: the agreed 2026 professional welterweight rematch between Floyd Mayweather Jr. (50-0) and Manny Pacquiao (62-8-3), announced by Netflix for Las Vegas after their record $425 million, 4.4-million-buy 2015 fight.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana: two 2014 Las Vegas welterweight fights. Mayweather won a majority decision on May 3 and the September 13 rematch; Maidana landed a record 221 punches.
Floyd Mayweather Sr.
Floyd Mayweather Sr., American former welterweight contender and boxing trainer, father of Floyd Mayweather Jr. Taught his son the shoulder roll, trained Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton, served five years in prison for cocaine trafficking from 1993.
Floyd Patterson
Floyd Patterson, American boxer (1935–2006), 1952 Olympic middleweight gold medalist, youngest world heavyweight champion at 21 in 1956, and first fighter to regain the heavyweight title, beating Ingemar Johansson in 1960.
Floyd Prozanski
Floyd Prozanski is an American Democratic politician and municipal prosecutor who has represented Oregon's 4th Senate district since first winning election to the legislature in 1994.
Floyd Samba
Floyd Samba (born 2009) is an English midfielder at Manchester City, son of Christopher Samba and brother of Tyrone Samba; scored twice on his senior debut in a 5-0 League Cup win over Norwich in September 2026.
Floyd Schofield
Floyd Schofield Jr., "Kid Austin" (born 2002), American lightweight boxer from Austin, Texas; 20-0 (13 KOs), won the vacant WBA lightweight title by decision over Lucas Bahdi on October 10, 2026, after a first-round KO of Tevin Farmer.