Kenneth
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Kenneth is a male given name.
Origin
It is an anglicized form of either the Pictish name Ciniod or the Goidelic name Cináed, and could mean "fire head" or "born of fire." Other names have also been anglicized as Kenneth, including the Irish Gaelic Coinneach, meaning "handsome one". The Old English Cyneath, may mean "royal oath", but may also be one of the earliest Anglicizations of the Scoto-Pictish name. Saint Kenneth's Day is October 11. English nicknames include Kenny and Ken.People
- Kenneth I of Scotland
- Kenneth II of Scotland
- Kenneth III of Scotland
- Kenneth Alford, composer
- Ken Anderson (wrestler), professional wrestler
- Ken Anderson (football player), defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears
- Kenny Anderson, baskeball player
- Kenneth Amis tuba player
- Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Peace Prize winner for Economics 1972
- Kenneth Baker, former Home Secretary
- Kenneth Bianchi, one of the Hillside Stranglers
- Kenneth Bigley, contractor, murdered on television in Iraq
- Kenneth E. Boulding, economist
- Kenneth Bowersox, astronaut
- Kenneth Lee Boyd, murderer
- Kenneth Branagh Shakespearean and film actor
- Kenneth Burke, American literary theorist & philosopher
- Kenneth Calman, ex-Chief Medical Officer, Englishman
- Ken Campbell (actor), writer and actor
- Ken Campbell (evangelist), evangelist
- Norman Kenneth Campbell, Canadian composer & tv producer
- Kenneth Carpenter, Paleontologist
- Kenny Chesney, American singer
- Ken Clark (actor), actor
- Kenneth Clark, (Lord Clark of Civilisation)
- Kenneth Clark (psychologist), psychologist
- Kenneth Clarke, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Kenny Clarke, jazz drummer
- Kenneth Cole, clothing designer
- Kenneth Colley, actor
- Kenneth R. Conklin, activist
- Kenneth Connor, British comedic actor
- Kenneth Cope, actor.
- Kenneth Cope (musician), Mormom music composer
- Kenneth C. Davis, author
- Ken Doane, American professional wrestler
- Kenneth Edmonds, American R&B singer also known as Babyface.
- Kenny Everett, disc-jockey and comedian
- Kenneth Fearing, American poet
- Kenneth Feinberg, attorney
- Kenny G, saxophonist
- John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
- Kenneth Gamble, songwriter and producer
- Kenneth Gergen, American psychologist
- Kenneth R. Giddens, broadcaster
- Kenneth C. Griffin, billionare
- Kenneth E. Hagin, Pentecostal minister
- Kenneth L. Hale linguist
- Kenneth Halliwell, lover and murderer of Joe Orton
- Ken Ham, creationist
- Kenneth Ham, astronaut
- Ken Hendricks, billionare, president Hendricks Group
- Kenneth Horne, actor and comedian
- Kenneth Irons comic book character in Witchblade
- Kenneth E. Iverson computer scientist, developed APL
- Kenneth Kaunda, first President of Zambia
- Kenneth Keating, US Senator
- Kenneth Kendall, newsreader
- Kenneth George Kennedy, Australian Winter Olympian
- Kenneth Kitchen, Egyptologist
- Kenneth Koch, poet
- Kenneth Lay, Former CEO of Enron
- Kenny Layne, professional wrestler.
- Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London
- Kenneth "Kenny" McCormick, South Park character
- Kenneth McKellar, scottish singer
- Kenneth Mars, actor
- Kenneth More, actor, (Genevieve, Reach For The Sky)
- Ken Morrison, English supermarket CEO
- Kenneth O'Keefe activist
- Kenneth L. Pike, linguist & anthropologist
- Kenneth Rexroth, American poet
- Kenneth Robinson politician and broadcaster
- Kenneth (Kenny) Rogers, American singer
- Kenneth Rose, royal biographer
- Ken Russell film director and actor
- Kenneth (Ken) Rutherford, New Zealand cricketer
- Ken Saro-Wiwa, writer and political activist
- Kenneth "Buzz" Shaw, college Chancellor
- Kenneth Searight, linguist
- Ken Spreitzer, computer programmer
- Kenneth Starr, special investigator in Monica Lewinsky scandal
- Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet Canadian businessman, billionare
- Kenneth Thompson, author of the original Unix operating system
- Kenneth Tynan The first person to say "fuck" on British television (1965)
- Kenneth Welsh, actor
- Kenneth Williams, comedian and actor
- Kenneth Whyld, British chess player & author
Places
- Kenneth City, Florida
- Kenneth, Minnesota
- Kenny, Australian Capital Territory a planned suburb in the Canberra district of Gungahlin
Other
- What's the Frequency, Kenneth? is the name of a song by R.E.M. that came from an incident in 1986 when Dan Rather was assaulted by the-then-unknown William Tager who shouted "Kenneth, what's the Frequency?" while he repeatedly kicked Rather. In the US, as a result of this incident, "Kenneth" is an outdated slang term for a confused or uninformed person.
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