Kendrick
Appearance
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
- Asahel C. Kendrick (1809-1895), American classicist, grammarian and exegete
- 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
- 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 spying 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 Norton (born 1997), American football player
- Kendrick Office (born 1978), American football player
- Kendrick Perkins (born 1984), American basketball player
- Kendrick Taylor (born 1957), American scientist
Places
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