Floyd Mann (August 20, 1920 - January 12, 1996) was an American law enforcement official, who served as Director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety between 1959 and 1963.

After schooling in Davidson and Alexander City, Alabama, Mann joined the United States Army Air Corps, serving as a tail gunner on a B-17, where he flew 27 combat missions including the first daylight raid on Berlin.

[1] Mann was the Director of Public Safety for Alabama in 1961, when the nonviolent Freedom Riders entered the state seeking an end to segregation.

As governor Patterson was resisting U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's demands that the Freedom Riders be protected from the Ku Klux Klan and others who were attacking them at their Alabama stops.

When the bus arrived in Birmingham, it was attacked by a mob of Ku Klux Klan members, assisted by the police under the orders of Commissioner Connor.

[2] Connor claimed that he had posted no officers at the bus depot because of the holiday; however, it was later discovered that the FBI knew of the planned attack and that the city police stayed away on purpose.

[5] A young black man, William Barbee, was knocked to the pavement, then struck repeatedly with a heavy club, with the mob shouting, "Kill him!

[6] Firing warning shots, he intervened on behalf of the Freedom Riders being beaten on the loading platform, and managed to ward off some of the attackers.

[7] After the end of Patterson's administration in 1963, Mann was interviewed for the position of police chief of Trenton, New Jersey, and Kansas City, Missouri.

When University of Alabama president F. David Mathews was appointed as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Mann went to Washington as his assistant.

At the induction ceremony, his superiors remarked “Floyd Mann knew what was going on.” At the time of his death, he was the executive director of the state Fraternal Order of Police, where he had served since 1988.