Floyd Roy Newman (May 4 1890 – October 10, 1990), known to his friends as F. R. or Flood, was an American oil man, founder of the Allied Oil Company, Inc. of Cleveland, and its senior partner and secretary-treasurer until it merged with the Ashland Oil and Refining Company and he joined the Board of Ashland.
An alumnus of Cornell University, Newman became one of its major benefactors, establishing four professorships and other facilities.