Kenneth
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Kenneth is a male given name
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[edit] 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 ("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, the latter also being a Japanese name meaning "sword."
[edit] People
- Saint Canice or Saint Kenneth
- 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, beheaded 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
- Ken Burns, American documentary filmmaker
- Kenneth Calman, ex-Chief Medical Officer, Englishman
- Ken Caminiti, Major League Baseball player
- 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), Mormon music composer
- Kenneth C. Davis, author
- Kenny Dalglish, Scottish Footballer
- Ken Doane, American professional wrestler
- Kenneth "K.K." Downing, guitarist
- 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 George King, Jonathan King, disgraced pop music mogul
- Kenneth R. Giddens, broadcaster
- Kenneth C. Griffin, billionaire
- Kenneth E. Hagin, Pentecostal minister
- Kenneth L. Hale, linguist
- Kenneth Halliwell, lover and murderer of Joe Orton
- Ken Ham, creationist
- Kenneth Ham, astronaut
- Ken "Hawk" Harrelson, Major League Baseball player and broadcaster
- Ken Hendricks, billionaire, president Hendricks Group
- Ken Holtzman, Major League Baseball player
- 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
- Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist
- Kenneth More, actor, (Genevieve, Reach for the Sky)
- Ken Morrison, English supermarket CEO
- Kenny Muhammad, well known beatbox artist
- 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
- Kenneth Ross, Scottish-American screenwriter of the film The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, etc.
- Kenneth G. Ross, Australian playwright, and screenwriter of the film Breaker Morant, etc.
- 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, billionaire
- 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 G. Wilson, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics 1982
- Kenneth Whyld, British chess player & author
[edit] Places
- Kenneth City, Florida
- Kenneth, Minnesota
- Kenny, Australian Capital Territory a planned suburb in the Canberra district of Gungahlin
[edit] 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 mentally-disturbed William Tager, who shouted "Kenneth, what's the frequency?" while repeatedly kicking Rather.
