Kenneth
Kenneth is an English given name and surname. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: Cainnech and Cinaed. The modern Gaelic form of Cainnech is Coinneach; the name was derived from a byname meaning "handsome", "comely".[1] The name Cinaed is partly derived from the Celtic *aidhu, meaning "fire".[2] A short form of Kenneth is Ken. A pet form of Kenneth is Kenny.[3]
People
- (see also Ken (name) and Kenny)
- [[Cainnech of Osama bin laden
- Saint Cenydd or Welsh Saint Keneth, (a separate individual from above)
- Kenneth, born Kenneth Battelle but known simply as Kenneth, celebrity hairdresser
- Kenneth MacAlpin, Kenneth I of Scotland
- Kenneth II of Scotland
- Kenneth III of Scotland
- Kenneth Alford, composer
- Kenneth Allott, poet
- Kenneth Amis, tuba player
- Kenneth Anger, avant-garde-film director
- Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Peace Prize winner for Economics, 1972
- Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking, UK Home Secretary
- Kenneth Benton, (1909–1999) British MI6 officer and author
- Kenneth Bianchi, one of the Hillside Stranglers
- Kenneth Bigley, contractor, beheaded on television in Iraq
- Kenneth E. Boulding, economist
- Kenneth Box, British track and field sprinter
- Kenneth Lee Boyd, murderer
- Kenneth Branagh, Shakespearean and film actor
- Kenneth Bruffee, Professor emeritus at Brooklyn College
- Kenneth Burke, American literary theorist and philosopher
- Kenneth Calman, English chief medical officer
- Kenneth Carpenter, paleontologist
- Kenneth Arnold Chesney, country singer
- Kenneth Clark, English art historian
- Kenneth Clark (psychologist)
- Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Kenneth Cole (designer), clothing designer
- Kenneth Colley, actor
- Kenneth R. Conklin, activist
- Kenneth Connor, British comedic actor
- Kenneth Cope, actor
- Kenneth Cope (musician), Mormon music composer
- Kenneth Darling, British general
- Kenneth C. Davis, author
- Kenneth Dover (1920–2010), British academic
- Kenneth K. K. Downing, guitarist
- Kenneth Edmonds ("Babyface"), American R&B singer
- Kenneth Erskine, serial killer
- Kenneth Fearing, American poet
- Kenneth Feinberg, attorney
- Kenneth Frampton, architect and architecture critic
- John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
- Kenneth Gamble, songwriter and producer
- Kenneth J. Gergen, American psychologist
- Kenneth R. Giddens, broadcaster
- Kenneth Gorelick (Kenny G), smooth jazz professional saxophonist
- Kenneth Grahame, author
- Kenneth C. Griffin, billionaire
- Kenneth E. Hagin, Pentecostal minister
- Kenneth L. Hale, linguist
- Kenneth Halliwell, lover and murderer of Joe Orton
- Kenneth Ham, astronaut
- Kenneth Horne, actor and comedian
- Kenneth Gardner Hughes, Canadian politician
- Kenneth Irons, comic book character in Witchblade
- Kenneth E. Iverson, computer scientist, developed the APL programming language
- Kenneth Kaunda, first President of Zambia
- Kenneth Keating, US Senator
- Kenneth Kendall, newsreader
- Kenneth Kennedy (speed skater), Australian Winter Olympian
- Jonathan King, born Kenneth George King, pop music mogul
- Kenneth Kitchen, Egyptologist
- Kenneth Klassen, Canadian sex tourist
- Kenneth Koch, poet
- Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron
- Kenneth Ma, Hong Kong actor
- Kenneth McKellar, American politician
- Kenneth McKellar (singer), Scottish singer
- Kenneth More, actor (Genevieve, Reach for the Sky)
- Kenneth O'Keefe, activist
- Kenneth A. Oye, Associate Professor of Political Science and Engineering Systems, MIT
- Kenneth Perez, Danish footballer
- Kenneth Peters, Danish handballer
- Kenneth Lee Pike, linguist and anthropologist
- Kenneth Platts, British composer
- Kenneth Rexroth, American poet
- Kenneth Robinson, politician and broadcaster
- Kenneth Rose, royal biographer
- Kenneth Ross, Scottish-American screenwriter of the films The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, etc.
- Kenneth G. Ross, Australian playwright, and screenwriter of the film Breaker Morant
- Kenneth Searight, linguist
- Kenneth Shaw ("Buzz" Shaw), college chancellor
- Kenneth Sheets, American politician
- Kenneth Starr, special investigator of U.S. President Bill Clinton
- Kenneth M. Taylor, American WWII pilot
- Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman, billionaire
- Kenneth Tigar, American actor
- Kenneth Tolon II (b. 1981), college football player
- Kenneth Tynan, critic
- Kenneth Welsh, actor
- Kenneth Williams, comedian and actor
- Kenneth G. Wilson, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1982
- Kenneth Parcell from 30 Rock
Places
In the United States:
In Scotland:
- Inch Kenneth, an island off the west coast of the Isle of Mull
Other
- "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?", a song by R.E.M.
- Hurricane Kenneth (2011)
References
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A dictionary of first names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, pp. 157–158, 343, 401, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1
- ^ Busse, Peter E. (2006), "Cinaed mac Ailpín", in Koch, John T. (ed.), Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, p. 438, ISBN 1-85109-445-8
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A dictionary of first names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, pp. 157–158, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1