Kenneth


Gender:
Origin: Gaelic
1942 famous people named Kenneth found on Wikipedia.
1274267 male, 5335 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 226-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 13-th in year 1939
Used in: Danish, English, Norwegian, Scottish, Swedish

Meanings

A male given name: from an Irish word meaning “handsome.”.

Kenneth is an English given name and surname. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: Cainnech and Cináed. The modern Gaelic form of Cainnech is Coinneach; the name was derived from a byname meaning "handsome", "comely". The name Cinaed is partly derived from the Celtic *aidhu, meaning "fire". A short form of Kenneth is Ken or Kenn. A pet form of Kenneth is Kenny.

Masc. proper name, Scottish, from Gaelic Caioneach, literally "handsome, comely."

Loyal, handsome and born of Fire.

Famous People: 1942 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Kenneth Branagh 1960 British actor, screenwriter, film director and producer
2 Kenneth Lay 1942 Former chairman and CEO of Enron Corporation
3 Kenneth Choi 1971 American actor
4 Kenneth Williams 1926 English actor and comedian
5 Kenneth Lonergan 1962 American film director and writer
6 Kenneth C. Griffin 1968 American hedge fund manager
7 Kenneth Clarke 1940 British Conservative politician
8 Kenneth Copeland 1936 American televangelist
9 Kenneth Mars 1935 American actor
10 Kenneth More 1914 English film and stage actor
11 Kenneth Bae 1968 American missionary held as prisoner in North Korea
12 Kenneth Faried 1989 American professional basketball player
13 Kenneth Bianchi 1951 Serial killer
14 Kenneth Connor 1918 English actor
15 Kenneth Cranham 1944 Scottish actor
16 Kenneth Anger 1927 Film director, author
17 Kenneth O'Donnell 1924 American political aide
18 Kenneth McGriff 1960 American drug trafficker
19 Kenneth Arrow 1921 American economist
20 Kenneth Erwin Hagin 1917 American theologian
21 Kenneth Noye 1947 English criminal
22 Kenneth Parcell
23 Kenneth O'Keefe 1969 Irish-American political activist
24 Kenneth Washington 1946 American actor
25 Kenneth Kaunda 1924 First President of Zambia
26 Kenneth MacAlpin 0810 King of the Picts
27 Kenneth Welsh 1942 Canadian actor
28 Kenneth Cole 1954 American clothing designer
29 Kenneth Chenault 1951 American business executive
30 Kenneth Langone 1935 American businessman
31 Kenneth Parnell 1931 American sex offender
32 Kenneth D. Taylor 1934 Canadian diplomat, educator and businessman
33 Kenneth Fisher 1950 American investment analyst
34 Kenneth Omeruo 1993 Nigerian footballer
35 Kenneth I. Starr 1943 American fraudster
36 Kenneth Clark 1903 Art historian, broadcaster and museum director
37 Kenneth Lieberthal 1943 American political scientist
38 Kenneth Waltz 1924 American political scientist and international relations theoretician
39 Kenneth Ma 1974 Hong Kong actor
40 Kenneth Tobey 1917 American actor
41 Kenneth Mitchell 1974 Actor
42 Kenneth Grahame 1859 British novelist
43 Kenneth II of Scotland 0954 King of Alba
44 Kenneth McDuff 1946 American criminal
45 Kenneth Bigley 1942 British civil engineer who was kidnapped in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq, on 16 September 2004
46 Kenneth III of Scotland 1000 King of Alba
47 Kenneth Cope 1931 British actor
48 Kenneth Tynan 1927 Writer, theatre critic
49 Kenneth Burke 1897 American philosopher
50 Kenneth McMillan 1932 American actor
51 Kenneth P. Thompson 1966 American lawyer
52 Kenneth Erskine 1963 British serial killer
53 Kenneth Dixon 1994
54 Kenneth M. Taylor 1919 World War II pilot and flying Ace
55 Kenneth Zohore 1994 Footballer
56 Kenneth Colley 1937 British actor
57 Kenneth Vermeer 1986 Dutch footballer
58 Kenneth Rogoff 1953 Economist and chess player
59 Kenneth Gärdestad 1948 Swedish architect
60 Kenneth Tsang 1938 Hong Kong actor
61 Kenneth Waller 1927 English actor
62 Kenneth Frazier 1954 American businessman
63 Kenneth Halliwell 1926 Actor, writer
64 Kenneth Feinberg 1945 American lawyer
65 Kenneth Griffith 1921 Welsh actor
66 Kenneth Mapp 1955 Is an American politician who is the 29th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands.
67 Kenneth Anderson 1910 British writer and hunter
68 Kenneth Horne 1907 Comedian and businessman
69 Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking 1934 British politician
70 Kenneth Haigh 1931 British actor
71 Kenneth Dart 1955 American businessman
72 Kenneth G. Wilson 1936 Physicist
73 Kenneth Grant 1924 British occult writer
74 Kenneth E. Boulding 1910 British-American economist
75 Kenneth H. Cooper 1931 American exercise instructor
76 Kenneth Duberstein 1944 American lobbyist and businessman
77 Kenneth Goldsmith 1961 American writer
78 Kenneth Noland 1924 American artist
79 Kenneth Lerer American businessman
80 Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet 1923 Canadian businessman
81 Kenneth Roth 1955 American human rights activist
82 Kenneth Jeyaretnam 1959 Singaporean politician
83 Kenneth Tigar 1942 American actor
84 Kenneth Johnson 1942 American sci-fi writer and producer
85 Kenneth Rexroth 1905 American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector
86 Kenneth R. Miller 1948 American biologist
87 Kenneth Oppel 1967 Canadian children's writer
88 Kenneth Arnold 1915 American aviator and businessman
89 Kenneth Weishuhn 1997 American teenager who is known for his suicide as a result of bullying for being a gay youth.
90 Kenneth Kendall 1924 British newsreader
91 Kenneth Feld 1948 American businessman
92 Kenneth Medrano 1991
93 Kenneth E. Iverson 1920 Canadian computer scientist
94 Kenneth Marshall 1950 American actor
95 Kenneth M. Curtis 1931 American diplomat
96 Kenneth Turan 1946 American film critic
97 Kenneth Kluivert
98 Kenneth Zucker 1950 American sexologist
99 Kenneth Wolstenholme 1920 Association football commentator
100 Peter Kenneth 1965 Politician
101 Kenneth Nichols 1907 United States Army officer and engineer
102 Kenneth Jay Lane 1930 American fashion designer
103 Kenneth Roberts 1885 American writer
104 Kenneth MacMillan 1929 British ballet dancer and choreographer
105 Kenneth Keating 1900 American politician
106 Kenneth Brumley 1968 One of the Worlds heaviest people
107 Kenneth H. Dahlberg 1917 American World War II flying ace and businessman
108 Kenneth E. Tovo 1961 American officer
109 Kenneth Grange 1929 British industrial designer
110 Kenneth Frampton 1930 Architecture critic and historian (b.1980)
111 Kenneth M. Jacobs 1958 American businessman
112 Kenneth Bainbridge 1904 American physicist
113 Kenneth Acker 1992
114 Kenneth Hall 1935 Player of American and Canadian football
115 Kenneth Calman 1941 British cancer researcher
116 Kenneth A. Jackson 1957 American businessman
117 Kenneth Koch 1925 American poet, playwright, and professor
118 Kenneth J. Gergen 1935 American psychologist
119 Kenneth Patchen 1911 American writer and poet
120 Kenneth J. Alford 1881 British composer of marches for band
121 Kenneth MacKenna 1899 American stage actor
122 Kenneth P. Moritsugu 1945 American physician
123 Kenneth I. Juster 1954 American businessman
124 Kenneth Nelson 1930 Actor
125 Kenneth Vogel
126 Kenneth MacDonald 1901 Actor
127 Kenneth Duremdes 1974 Filipino basketball player
128 Kenneth Claiborne Royall 1894 United States general
129 Kenneth Cobonpue 1968 Furniture Designer
130 Kenneth French 1954 American economist
131 Kenneth J. Gray 1924 American politician
132 Kenneth Price 1935 American ceramic artist and printmaker
133 Kenneth A. Kitchen 1932 British egyptologist
134 Kenneth Hawks 1898 American film director
135 Kenneth T. Jackson 1939 American historian
136 Kenneth Walker 1898 United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient
137 Kenneth Widmerpool
138 Kenneth McClintock 1957 American politician
139 Kenneth Preston 1957 US Army soldier
140 Kenneth Snelson 1927 American artist
141 Kenneth Ascher 1944 American musician
142 Kenneth Hahn 1920 American politician
143 Kenneth Scott Latourette 1884 American historian
144 Kenneth Ham 1964 American astronaut and a Captain in the United States Navy
145 Kenneth Michael Trentadue 1950 Suspicious death in custody
146 Kenneth Biros 1958 American murderer
147 Kenneth M. Stampp 1912 American historian
148 Kenneth Matiba 1932 Kenyan politician
149 Kenneth Sims 1959 All-American college football player, professional football player, defensive lineman, defensive end
150 Kenneth Ehrlich 1943 American television producer
151 Kenneth Perez 1974 Danish footballer
152 Kenneth Kimmins 1941 American actor
153 Kenneth L. Hale 1934 American linguist
154 Kenneth Slessor 1901 Australian poet and journalist
155 Garry Kenneth 1987 Footballer
156 Kenneth Pomeranz 1958 American historian
157 Kenneth Rocafort 1977 Comic artist
158 Kenneth Newman 1926 British Chief Constable
159 Kenneth Dover 1920 British classical scholar
160 Kenneth Adelman 1946 Diplomat; writer; historian
161 Kenneth D. Bailey 1910 United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
162 Kenneth Stewart Cole 1900 American biophysicist
163 Kenneth Foster 1976 American murderer
164 Kenneth Good 1942 American anthropologist
165 Kenneth A. Gibson 1932 American mayor
166 Kenneth L. Wainstein 1962 American lawyer
167 Kenneth Appel 1932 American mathematician
168 Kenneth Littlejohn British armed robber
169 Kenneth O. Morgan 1934 British historian
170 Kenneth Dunkin 1974 American politician
171 Kenneth Binmore 1940 British economist
172 Kenneth Harlan 1895 Actor
173 Kenneth Minimah 1959 Nigerian general
174 Kenneth C. Davis 1954 American historian
175 Kenneth Pollack 1966 CIA analyst
176 Kenneth Berry 1925 SS-Mann in the Waffen-SS British Free Corps during the Second World War
177 Kenneth Rayment 1921
178 Kenneth R. Shadrick 1931 US Army soldier
179 Kenneth N. Stevens 1981 American phonetician
180 Kenneth Allen 1942 American convicted murderer
181 Kenneth Michael Kays 1949 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
182 Kenneth R. Andrews 1916 Business scholar
183 Kenneth Ives 1934 British actor and director
184 Kenneth Gant 1967 American football player
185 Kenneth Lee Pike 1912 American linguist
186 Kenneth Minihan 1943 United States general
187 Kenneth Bacon 1944 American journalist
188 Kenneth Rush 1910 American diplomat
189 Kenneth Lin
190 Kenneth Farrow 1993
191 Kenneth Leighton 1929 British composer and pianist
192 Kenneth Davis 1948 Basketball player
193 Kenneth Cooper Alexander 1966 Virginia politician
194 Kenneth Ulman 1974 American politician
195 Kenneth Diplock, Baron Diplock 1907 British judge
196 Kenneth A. Walsh 1916 United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
197 Kenneth Allsop 1920 Broadcaster, author and naturalist
198 Kenneth Dougall 1993 Australian soccer player
199 Kenneth Macksey 1923 British historian
200 Kenneth Darby 1982 Player of American football