Kendall (surname)

The surname Kendall or Kendal (also spelt Kendell, Kendoll, Kendel, Kendle, Kindell, Kindel, or Kindle) has two widely accepted origins. The first is from the market town of Kendal in Cumbria. The earliest recorded form of this town's name is in 1095 as Kircabikendala, literally "Church by Kent dale". The second is as an anglicization of Middle Welsh Kyndelw (modern Welsh Cynddelw), a given name, as in Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr (Kyndelw Brydyt Maur).

Kendall

• Amos Kendall, U.S. postmaster general under President Andrew Jackson
• Barbara Kendall, New Zealand boardsailor
• Brian Kendall, New Zealand boxer
• Bridget Kendall, British journalist and broadcaster for the BBC
• Bruce Kendall, New Zealand boardsailor
• Bruce Biers Kendall (born 1919), American hotelier and politician
• David E. Kendall, American lawyer
• David George Kendall, British mathematician and statistician
• Edward Kendall, disambiguation page
• Felicity Kendal, an English actress
• Fred Kendall, professional baseball player
• George Wilkins Kendall, a journalist and Mexican-American War correspondent, namesake of Kendall County, Texas
• Henry Kendall (ornithologist), Australian ornithologist
• Capt. Henry George Kendall, mariner
• Holliday Bickerstaffe Kendall (1844-1919), Primitive Methodist Minister and author
• Howard Kendall, soccer player and manager
• Jason Kendall, professional baseball player
• Jo Kendall, British actress and comedian
• Kenneth Kendall, British broadcaster
• Kerri Kendall (born 1970), Playboy model and actress
• Maurice Kendall, British statistician
• Megyn Kelly (formerly Megyn Kendall), reporter for the Fox News Channel
• Paul Murray Kendall, U.S. academic and historian
• Percy Fry Kendall, English geologist
• R. T. Kendall, American pastor of Westminster Chapel, London
• Raymond Kendall, sixth Secretary-General of the ICPO-Interpol
• Robert Kendall (poet), poet
• Samuel Austin Kendall, United States congressman from Pennsylvania
• Ted Kendall, British sound engineer
• Thomas Kendall, New Zealand schoolmaster, lapsed missionary, recorder of the Māori language, arms dealer, and Pākehā Māori
• Tommy Kendall, American race car driver
• Tony Kendall (poker player), English professional poker player
• Willmoore Kendall, American professor and author

Kendal

• Felicity Kendal (b. 1946), English television actress
• Geoffrey Kendal (1910–1988), English actor and theater manager; father of Felicity Kendal
• Jennifer Kendal (1933–1984), British actress; sister of Felicity Kendal
• Madge Kendal (1848–1935), English actress
• William Hunter Kendal (1843–1917), English actor