The surname Pryde was first found in  Lanarkshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Lannraig) a former county in the central Strathclyde region of  Scotland, now divided into the Council Areas of North  Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, and the City of Glasgow, where they held a  family seat. Originally believed to be a junior branch of the Prideaux family, of which the senior branch was descended from Pagenus de Prideaux of Prideaux Castle in  Cornwall. The junior branch was granted lands in Larnarkshire, Scotland about 1140 by King David of  Scotland. Several of the name Prid or Pryde were registered in the area in the late 13th century.

• Peggy Pryde (1876-1943), born Letitia Matilda, a British music hall performer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
• James Richmond Northridge Pryde CBE, British retired General Manager of Poonmudi Tea and Rubber Co. Ltd.
• Bob Pryde (1913-1998), Scottish football midfielder
• James Pryde (1866-1941), Scottish painter, best remembered as one of the Beggarstaffs
• David Johnstone Pryde (1890-1959), Scottish Labour politician, Member of Parliament for Peebles & South  Midlothian (1945-1950), for  Midlothian & Peebles (1950-1955) and for  Midlothian (1955-1959)
• David Pryde (1913-1987), Scottish association football player
• Josephine Pryde (b. 1967), English artist
• Duncan McLean Pryde (1937-1997), Scottish-born, Canadian hunter, trapper, lexicographer and politician who served as a member of the Northwest Territories Council from 1966 to 1975
• Susannah Kate "Suzy" Pryde (b. 1973), New Zealand two-time silver medalist cyclist at the 1998 and 2002 Commonwealth Games
• Charles Pryde Cutten (b. 1875), American politician, Member of California State Assembly, 1907; Member of California State Senate, 1909 [2]
• Neil Pryde (b. 1938) Sailor, competed in the Flying Dutchman event at the 1968 Summer Olympics at Mexico.   Went on to found Neil Pryde Sails.