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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.

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People

(see also Ken (name) and Kenny)
  • Cainnech of Aghaboe, Ireland, Saint Canice or Saint Kenneth
  • 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 J. 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 Bager, Danish musician and record producer
  • Kenneth Bainbridge, physicist
  • 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 Bron (Kenny B), Surinamese-born singer
  • 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 Dougall, Australian football player
  • 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 B. Ferguson, American politician
  • 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 Kedi, Marshallese politician
  • 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 (politician), American politician
  • Kenneth McKellar (singer), Scottish singer
  • Kenneth More, actor (Genevieve, Reach for the Sky)
  • Kenneth L. Odinet, Sr., American politician
  • Kenneth O'Keefe, activist
  • Kenneth A. Oye, Associate Professor of Political Science and Engineering Systems, MIT
  • Kenneth Perez, Danish footballer
  • 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 Warren (politician), b. 1926
  • Kenneth N. Waltz, political scientist
  • 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:

  • Kenneth, Indiana
  • Kenneth, Minnesota
  • Kenneth City, Florida

    • 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

    Kenneth Wikipedia
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