Elder



Gender:
Origin: Dutch, English, Europe
476 famous people named Elder found on Wikipedia.
1949 male, 52 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 3693-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 556-th in year 1899
Used in: Portuguese

Meanings

Elder or Élder is a masculine given name which may refer to:
Élder (footballer) (born 1976), Brazilian former footballer Élder Alencar Machado de Campos
Elder Watson Diggs (1883-1947), principal founder and first Polemarch (chairman) of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity
Elder José Figueroa (born 1980), Colombian-born Salvadorian footballer
Élder Granja (born 1982), Brazilian footballer
Elder Herrera (born 1968), Colombian retired road cyclist
Elder Olson (1909–1992), American poet, teacher and literary critic
Elder Vogel, Jr., American politician
Elder White (1933-2010), Major League Baseball player in part of the 1962 season


"more old," Old English (Mercian) eldra, comparative of eald, ald (see old); only English survival of umlaut in comparison. Superseded by older since 16c. Elder statesman (1921) originally was a translation of Japanese genro (plural).


Older sibling. A variant of the Portuguese name Helder, derived from the name of a Dutch town Helder, means: clear.

Famous People: 476 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Pliny the Elder 0023 Roman military commander
2 Pieter Brueghel the Elder 1525 Flemish Renaissance painter
3 Edward the Elder 0871 English king, son of Alfred the Great
4 Cato the Elder Politician, writer and economist (0234-0149)
5 Larry Elder 1952 Radio and television personality, political commentator
6 Hillel the Elder Mishnah rabbi
7 Helmuth von Moltke the Elder 1800 German Field Marshal
8 Lorenzo the Elder 1395 Italian banker
9 Lucas Cranach the Elder 1472 German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving
10 Julia the Elder Only biological child of Augustus
11 Judyann Elder 1948 American actress
12 Agrippina the Elder Prominent Roman woman of the first century CE
13 Seneca the Elder Roman scholar
14 Jan Brueghel the Elder 1568 Flemish painter
15 Hans Holbein the Elder 1465 German painter
16 Faustina the Elder 0105 Roman empress
17 Ann Elder 1942 American screenwriter
18 Callum Elder 1995 Australian footballer
19 Osorkon the Elder Sovereign (1100-0978)
20 Lee Elder 1934 Professional golfer
21 Alexander Elder 1951 American businessman
22 John Tradescant the elder 1570 English botanist
23 John Rennie 1761 Engineer from Scotland
24 Mark Elder 1947 British conductor
25 Steven Elder British actor
26 Ælfflæd, wife of Edward the Elder Wife of Edward the Elder
27 John Wood 1704 English architect, working in Bath, Somerset
28 Marcus Junius Brutus the Elder Tribune of the Roman Republic in 83 BC
29 Pierfrancesco the Elder 1430 Italian banker and diplomat
30 Robert Peake the elder 1551 English painter
31 Elder Watson Diggs 1883 Kappa Alpha Psi founder
32 Inge the Elder 1100 King Of Sweden
33 George Elder 1921 American baseball player
34 Robert Livingston the Elder 1654 New York colonial official, fur trader, and businessman
35 Will Elder 1921 American illustrator
36 Boso the Elder Frankish nobleman
37 Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder 1100
38 Sten Sture the Elder 1440 Swedish statesman and military figure
39 Octavia the Elder Roman noblewoman, half-sister of Augustus
40 Heraclius the Elder 0600 Byzantine general
41 Domitilla the Elder Wife of the Roman Emperor Vespasian
42 Tiberius Gracchus the Elder Roman politician
43 Murat Reis the Elder Ottoman admiral
44 Jan van Kessel the Elder 1626 Painter from the Southern Netherlands
45 Ruth Elder 1902 American pilot and actress
46 Frans van Mieris the Elder 1635 Dutch painter
47 Álvaro de Bazán el Viejo 1506 Commander of the galleys
48 Caspar Bartholin the Elder 1585 Danish polymath
49 Claybourne Elder American actor
50 Grimoald the Elder 0615 Nobleman
51 Willem van de Velde the Elder 1611 Dutch painter
52 Alma the Elder
53 Melania the Elder 0325 Holy Land saint
54 Henry Vane the Elder 1589 English politician
55 Alexander Henry the elder 1739 British-Canadian fur trader
56 Edwin, son of Edward the Elder Anglo-Saxon prince
57 Intef the Elder Egyptian pharaoh
58 Lucius Vitellius the Elder Politician (0010-0051)
59 Linda Elder American educational psychologist, author and president of the Foundation for Critical Thinking
60 Nikephoros Phokas the Elder Byzantine general
61 Nathan Elder 1985 English footballer
62 Gratian 0290 Illyrian soldier of the Roman Empire
63 Barthel Bruyn the Elder 1493 German painter
64 Hanno the Elder Carthaginian general
65 Aristaeus the Elder
66 Leo Phokas the Elder Byzantine general
67 David Teniers the Elder 1582 Flemish painter
68 Nathaniel Hone the Elder 1718 Irish artist
69 Drusilla of Mauretania Mauretania princess
70 Antonia Major Daughter of Mark Antony
71 Macrina the Elder 0260 Mother of Saint Basil the Elder
72 George Bickham the Elder 1684 British engraver
73 Bardas Phokas the Elder 0878 Byzantine general
74 Jörg Breu the Elder 1475 German Renaissance painter
75 Robert K. Elder 1976 American journalist
76 Thomas Linley the elder 1733 British composer
77 Axel von Fersen the Elder 1719 Lantmarskalk or marshal of the diet
78 Çandarlı Kara Halil Hayreddin Pasha Ottoman Grand Vizier
79 Peter Vischer the Elder 1455 German sculptor
80 Norman Elder 1939 Explorer, author, artist and equestrian
81 Antonio da Sangallo the Elder 1455 Italian architect
82 Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder 1751 Austrian-Italian painter
83 Alex Elder 1941 Northern Irish footballer
84 Francisco Herrera the Elder 1576 Spanish artist
85 Jake Elder 1936 NASCAR crew chief
86 Jean Bérain the Elder 1640 French artist
87 Elder Roma Wilson 1910 Gospel harmonica player and singer
88 Raymond Elder
89 Joseph Bonomi the Elder 1739 Italian architect and draughtsman
90 George Dance the Elder 1695 English architect of the 18th century
91 Albrecht Dürer the Elder 1427 German artist
92 Olympiodorus the Elder 0500
93 William Henry Elder 1819 Catholic bishop
94 Wichmann the Elder Duke of Saxon
95 Miriam Elder Journalist
96 Jean Cousin 1500 French painter, sculptor and engraver
97 Jakob Fugger the Elder 1398 German merchant
98 Corn Elder
99 Guillaume Coustou the Elder 1677 Sculptor from France
100 Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder 1519 Flemish printmaker and painter to the English court
101 Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder 1543 Italian composer
102 Samuel Bagster the Elder 1772 British publisher
103 Peter Schenk the Elder 1660 German engraver and cartographer
104 Bonaventura Peeters 1614 Painter from the Southern Netherlands
105 Edmund Calamy 1600 English Presbyterian church leader
106 Basil the Elder
107 Lauren Elder American artist and designer
108 Glen Elder 1934 Professor of sociology
109 George Colman the Elder 1732 British writer
110 Joseph Heintz the Elder 1564 Swiss painter
111 Marino Sanuto the Elder 1260 Greek nobleman; Duke of the Archipelago
112 Domitia Lepida the Elder
113 Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder 1370 Italian humanist scholar
114 Alexander Gill 1565 English scholar, spelling reformer, and high-master of St Paul's School, London
115 Cephisodotus the Elder Ancient Greek sculptor
116 Lucius Arruntius the Elder Roman admiral
117 Nicodemus Tessin the Elder 1615 Swedish architect
118 Giles Fletcher 1548 English poet, diplomat and politician
119 Christine A. Elder
120 Filippo Strozzi the Elder 1428 Italian banker
121 Ebo Elder 1978 American boxer
122 Thomas Lupo 1571 English composer and viol player
123 Christian Elder 1968 American racing driver
124 Daniel Dulany the Elder 1685 American politician
125 Nicholas Lanier French musician
126 Çandarlı Ibrahim Pasha Ottoman Grand Vizier
127 Andrew Duncan 1744 Scottish physician and founder of Royal Edinburgh Hospital
128 Elder Barber 1934
129 James Craggs the Elder 1657 English politician
130 Artus Quellinus 1609 Sculptor from the Southern Netherlands
131 Abraham Pierson, the elder English churchman and minister in New England
132 Elder Vogel 1956 American politician
133 Frans Pourbus the Elder 1545 Flemish painter
134 Adobogiona the Elder
135 Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder 1741 German writer
136 Dave Elder 1975 American baseball player
137 Dorothy-Grace Elder 1942 British politician
138 John Bettes the Elder 1530 English painter and wood engraver, active 1545-1559
139 Gregory of Nazianzus the Elder 0276 Bishop of Nazianzus
140 Elder Olson 1909 American writer
141 Pierre Phalèse the Elder 1510 Flemish music publisher
142 Brad Elder 1975 Professional golfer
143 Per Brahe the Elder 1520 Swedish noble
144 James Addison Baker the elder 1821 American politician
145 Elder Tadej Štrbulović 1914 Serbian Orthodox archimandrite
146 Pieter Burman the Elder 1668 Dutch classical scholar
147 Ray Elder 1942 American racing driver
148 Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Elder 1724 German anatomist
149 Pieter van der Borcht 1540 Flemish Renaissance painter, draughtsman and etcher
150 Lucas Watzenrode the Elder 1400 Prussian merchant
151 Christoph Weigel the Elder 1654 German engraver, art dealer and publisher
152 Candida the Elder Christian martyr
153 Cornelis Galle the Elder 1576 Flemish engraver
154 James Walter Elder 1882 American politician
155 Miltiades the Elder Ancient Greek ruler
156 Pieter Pietersz the Elder 1540 Dutch Renaissance painter
157 André Danican Philidor 1652 French oboist and composer
158 Rupert Elder Poker player
159 Troy Elder 1977 Field hockey player
160 Jörg Syrlin the Elder 1425 German sculptor
161 Frans Francken I 1542 Flemish painter
162 Murray Elder, Baron Elder 1950 British politician
163 Crescentius the Elder Italian noble and aristocrat
164 Josh Elder 1980 Writer
165 Rob Elder 1981 Fijian archer
166 Cornelis Evertsen the Elder 1610 Dutch admiral
167 Pieter Neeffs I 1568 Flemish painter
168 Don Elder New Zealand engineer
169 Benedetto Accolti the Elder 1415 Italian historian
170 John Cleveley the Elder 1712 British artist
171 Elder Torres 1995 Honduran association football player
172 Bill Elder 1938 American Journalist
173 Richard Abberbury 1331 Chamberlain to Anne of Bohemia, Queen to King Richard II of England
174 Jan Vermeer van Haarlem the Elder 1628 Painter from the Northern Netherlands and father of Barend, Isaac, and Jan Vermeer or van der Meer II
175 Jim Elder 1950 Australian politician
176 Gerard ter Borch the Elder 1583 Dutch painter; father of the famous portrait and genre painter
177 Lucas Osiander the Elder 1534 German pastor
178 Isabella Elder 1828 Scottish philanthropist
179 Steve Elder 1956 Australian politician
180 Per Krafft the Elder 1724 Swedish artist
181 Dawn Elder American record producer
182 B.J. Elder 1982 American volleyball player and basketball player
183 Jacob Bobart the Elder 1599 German botanist
184 Friedrich Preller the Elder 1804 German painter and engraver
185 Diebold Schilling the Elder 1445 Swiss chronicler
186 R. Bruce Elder 1947 Canadian filmmaker
187 Bruce Elder American basketball player
188 William Macready 1755 Irish actor-manager
189 Carthage the Elder Irish saint
190 Jean Aubert the Elder 1680 French architect
191 Francis Tregian the Elder 1548 British landowner
192 Brenda Elder
193 Martin Ruland the Elder 1532 German alchemist
194 William Theed the elder 1764 English sculptor and painter
195 Pierre Le Gros the Elder 1629 French artist
196 Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder 1612 Painter
197 Ulrich Fugger the Elder 1441 Businessman
198 John Pinch the elder 1769 Architect
199 Sprouts Elder 1904 American motorcycle speedway rider
200 Erik Benzelius the Elder 1632 Swedish bishop