Kennedy

Kennedy is a surname of Irish and Scottish origin; for the history and origins please see Kennedy (surname).

For the Scottish clan, please see Clan Kennedy.

For the Irish clan, please see Kennedy (Ireland).

Notable Persons

• Members of the prominent Kennedy family of Massachusetts in the United States of America:
  • Caroline Kennedy (born 1957), attorney; daughter of John and Jacqueline Kennedy
  • Edward “Ted“ Kennedy (1932 - 2009), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
  • Ethel Skakel Kennedy (born 1928), widow of Robert F. Kennedy
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921 - 2009), sister of President John F. Kennedy; wife of Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr.
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994), First Lady of the United States; former widow of John F. Kennedy
  • Jean Kennedy Smith (born 1928), ambassador to Ireland; sister of President John F. Kennedy
  • John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th President of the United States
  • John F. Kennedy, Jr. (1960-1999), attorney, publisher; son of John and Jacqueline
  • Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (1888-1969), former Ambassador to the United Kingdom; father of President John F. Kennedy
  • Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (1915-1944), WWII pilot; eldest son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
  • Joseph Patrick Kennedy II (born 1952), former U.S. representative from Massachusetts; son of Robert F. Kennedy
  • Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (1920-1948), widow of the heir to the Devonshire dukedom; sister of President John F. Kennedy
  • Patrick J. Kennedy (born 1967), U.S. representative from Rhode Island
  • Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), U.S. senator from New York; U.S. Attorney General
  • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (born 1954), attorney, environmentalist, activist
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890-1995), Kennedy family matriarch; mother of President John F. Kennedy
  • Rosemary Kennedy (1918-2005), oldest sister of President John F. Kennedy

• A. L. Kennedy, Scottish novelist
• Adam Kennedy, Major League Baseball player
• Adam Kennedy (actor), actor, screenwriter, novelist, painter
• Alan Kennedy, footballer
• Alexander Kennedy, British civil engineer
• Anthony Kennedy, US Supreme Court Associate Justice
• Arthur Kennedy (actor), American actor
• Arthur Kennedy (governor), British colonial administrator
• Ben Kennedy, Australian rugby league player
• Betty Kennedy, retired Canadian senator, television personality
• Bill Kennedy (actor), actor and television personality
• Bob Kennedy, Major League Baseball player and manager; father of Terry Kennedy
• Bob Kennedy (athlete), distance runner
• Charles Kennedy, British politician, former leader of the Liberal Democrats
• Claudia Kennedy, first female lieutenant general in the US Army, noted intelligence officer
• Cory Kennedy, American internet celebrity
• Courtney Kennedy, dual Olympic medal winner in women's ice hockey
• D. James Kennedy, American Presbyterian pastor and theologian
• Diane Kennedy, American CPA, speaker, financial writer
• Donald Kennedy, American scientist, public administrator, and academic
• Douglas Kennedy (writer), UK-based American author
• Duncan Kennedy, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Harvard Law School
• Edgar Kennedy, American actor
• Edmund Kennedy, Australian explorer
• Edward Shirley Kennedy, British mountaineer
• George Kennedy, American actor
• Gerard Kennedy, Canadian politician
• Graeme K. (Graeme Kennedy), American musician
• Graham Kennedy, Australian comedian and television presenter
• Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, Scottish barrister, writer and politician
• Ian Kennedy (born 1984), American baseball player
• Jack Kennedy (train robber), American outlaw
• James Kennedy (bishop), 15th century Bishop of St Andrews
• James Kennedy (historian), American historian
• Jamie Kennedy, American comedian and actor
• John Kennedy (Scottish footballer), Scottish soccer player
• John Kennedy (shortstop), American baseball player
• John Kennedy (theologian), 19th-century Scottish theologian
• John J. Kennedy, New York State Treasurer 1911-1914
• John Neely Kennedy, Louisiana State Treasurer and 2008 U.S. Senate candidate
• John P. Kennedy, U.S. Secretary of the Navy
• John Kennedy Toole, American novelist
• Jonny Kennedy, subject of the documentary The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off
• Joshua Kennedy, Australian soccer player
• Kennedy (musical artist), American musician
• Kennedy Bakircioglü, Swedish footballer
• Kennedy Otieno, Kenyan cricketeer
• Kennedy Winston, American basketball player
• Kennedy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), fictional character from TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer* Kenneth Kennedy, the first Winter Olympian for Australia
• Leland T. Kennedy, U.S. Air Force pilot twice awarded the Air Force Cross
• Lena Kennedy, English romantic novelist
• Leon S. Kennedy, one of the two main characters in Resident Evil 2 and the protagonist in Resident Evil 4
• Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, (born 1972), American, former MTV VJ better known by her stage name Kennedy
• Ludovic Kennedy (1919-2009), British journalist, broadcaster, and author
• Mark Kennedy (footballer), Irish football (soccer) player
• Mark Kennedy (politician), American politician
• Mary Kennedy, Irish television personality
• Mr. Kennedy, stage name of professional wrestler Ken Anderson
• Nery Kennedy, Paraguayan javelin thrower
• Nick Kennedy, rugby player
• Nigel Kennedy, English violinist
• Paul Kennedy, British historian of international relations
• Ray Kennedy, English footballer
• Ron Kennedy (1953-2009), Canadian ice hockey player
• Sandra Kennedy (born 1937), American Democratic politician
• Sheila Kennedy, Penthouse model in the early 1980s
• Stetson Kennedy, American human rights activist and folklore collector
• Ted Kennedy (ice hockey) (1925-2009), Canadian ice hockey player
• Terry Kennedy, Major League Baseball player; son of Bob Kennedy
• Thomas Laird Kennedy, Premier of Ontario (1948 – 1949)
• Tom Kennedy, stage name of American game show host James Narz
• Walter Kennedy, Scottish poet of the Renaissance court of James IV of Scotland
• William J. Kennedy, American writer, winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Places

Cities and Districts

• Division of Kennedy, an electoral district of the Australian House of Representatives in Queensland
• Kennedy, the eighth locality of Bogotá, Colombia
• Kennedy, Alabama, a town in the United States of America
• Kennedy, California, a census-designated place in the United States of America
• Kennedy, Minnesota, a small city in the United States of America
• Kennedy, Saskatchewan a village in Canada
• Kennedy Island, also known by the names Plum Pudding Island and Kasolo Island, in the Solomon Islands
• Kennedy Town, in Hong Kong
• Kennedy Township, Pennsylvania, a township in the United States of America

Places named for U.S. President John F. Kennedy

• John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
• John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City
• John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts
• John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport in Ashland, Wisconsin
• John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge, connecting Louisville, Kentucky with Indiana
• John F. Kennedy Stadium, a now-demolished stadium in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• John F. Kennedy Stadium (Bridgeport) in Connecticut
• Kennedy Plaza in Providence, Rhode Island
• Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida

Schools, Colleges and Universities

For a list of middle schools, please see Kennedy Middle School.

For a list of high schools, please see John F. Kennedy High School.

• Kennedy-King College in Chicago, Illinois
• John F Kennedy Catholic School in Hemel Hempstead, England
• John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Great Neck, New York
• John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
• John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, a U.S. Army school in North Carolina
• John F. Kennedy University in the San Francisco Bay Area
• John Kennedy College in Mauritius
• Thomas L. Kennedy Secondary School, located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Roads

• John F. Kennedy Boulevard (Tampa, Florida)
• John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway in Maryland and Delaware
• Kennedy Expressway in Chicago, Illinois
• Kennedy Highway in Queensland, Australia
• Kennedy Interchange in Louisville, Kentucky
• Kennedy Tunnel in Antwerp, Belgium
• Kennedy Road (Toronto)
• Kennedy Road, Durban
• Kennedy Road, Hong Kong

Popular culture

• Kennedy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), fictional character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Kennedy (television), Irish television chat show
• Kennedy (TV miniseries), a TV miniseries about the life of President Kennedy starring Martin Sheen
• Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, stage name Kennedy, an American political satirist and former MTV VJ

Transportation

• Kennedy (TTC), a subway station in Toronto, Ontario
• Kennedy (VIVA), a bus rapid transit station in Markham, Ontario
• Kennedy GO Station in Toronto, Canada
• Kennedy Town Station, a proposed MTR station in Kennedy Town, Hong Kong

Other

• Dead Kennedys, American punk rock band
• Kennedy Channel, a sea passage between Canada and Greenland
• Kennedy's disease, neuromuscular disease
• Kennedy Doctrine, U.S. policy towards Latin America in the early 1960s
• Kennedy Lake on Vancouver Island in Canada
• Kennedy Mall in Dubuque, Iowa
• Kennedy march, a 50 mile-walk completed within 20 hours
• Kennedy Mine in Jackson, California
• Kennedy Road (horse), thoroughbred racehorse
• Kennedy Round, international trade negotiations held during the mid-1960s
• USS Kennedy, any of various U.S. naval vessels