Kendrick

Kendrick is a surname which may originate from:

• The Welsh word Cynwrig meaning "greatest champion", or
• The Anglo-Saxon word Cyneric meaning "family ruler".
• The Highland Scots surname Machendrie, frequently anglicized into Kendrick and MacKendrick

People

Surname

• Alex Kendrick (born 1970), pastor, screenwriter, director and actor
• Anna Kendrick (born 1985), American actress
• Brian Kendrick (born 1979), American professional wrestler
• Donald M. Kendrick (born 1947), Canadian choirmaster
• Eddie Kendricks (1939–1992), Motown recording artist and founding member of The Temptations
• Ellie Kendrick (born 1990), British actress
• Fiona Kendrick (born 1955), chairman and CEO of Nestlé UK & Ireland
• George Prentiss Kendrick, American artist
• Graham Kendrick (born 1950), British Christian singer-songwriter
• Helen Kendrick Johnson (1844-1917), American anti-suffragist activist and writer
• Howie Kendrick (born 1983), American baseball player for the Washington Nationals
• Kyle Kendrick (born 1984), American baseball pitcher in the Boston Red Sox organization
• John Kendrick:
  • John Kendrick (cloth merchant) (1573–1624), English cloth merchant
  • John Kendrick (American sea captain) (c. 1740–1794), American northern Pacific explorer and merchant
  • John B. Kendrick (1857–1933), United States Senator from Wyoming
  • John Whitefield Kendrick (1917-2009), American economist
• Malcolm Kendrick Scottish doctor and author of "The Cholesterol Con"
• Rhonda Ross Kendrick (born 1971), American actress
• Rob Kendrick, British guitarist
• Robert Kendrick (born 1979), American tennis player
• Rodney Kendrick (born 1960) American jazz pianist
• Stephen Kendrick, pastor, screenwriter and producer
• T. D. Kendrick (Sir Thomas Downing Kendrick, 1895–1979), archaeologist and Director of the British Museum
• Thomas Joseph Kendrick (born 1881) British intelligence agent in Vienna and later leader of anti-Nazi efforts in SIS
• W. Freeland Kendrick, mayor of Philadelphia (1924–1928)
• William Kenrick (writer) (1725?–1779), an English novelist, playwright, translator and satirist

First name

• Kendrick Frazier (born 1942), American science writer
• Kendrick Jeong, better known as Ken Jeong (born 1969), American actor and comedian
• Kendrick Lamar (born 1987), American rapper
• Kendrick Office (born 1978), American football player
• Kendrick Perkins (born 1984), American basketball player
• Kendrick Taylor (born 1957), American scientist

Places

• Kendrick, Florida
• Kendrick, Idaho
• Kendrick, Oklahoma
• Kendrick, Utah

Schools

• Kendrick School, a foundation girls' Grammar School, in Reading, Berkshire, England—named after John Kendrick (1573-1624)
• Kendrick Boys School, founded in 1875 from the legacy of John Kendrick (1573-1624) subsequently taken over by the Reading School, in Reading, Berkshire, England

See also

• Clan Henderson