Kenneth
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Origin

It is an anglicized (Scots
Scots language
Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster . It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language variety spoken in most of the western Highlands and in the Hebrides.Since there are no universally accepted...

) form of either the Pictish
Picts
The Picts were a group of Late Iron Age and Early Mediaeval people living in what is now eastern and northern Scotland. There is an association with the distribution of brochs, place names beginning 'Pit-', for instance Pitlochry, and Pictish stones. They are recorded from before the Roman conquest...

 name Ciniod or the Goidelic
Goidelic languages
The Goidelic languages or Gaelic languages are one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages, the other consisting of the Brythonic languages. Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from the south of Ireland through the Isle of Man to the north of Scotland...

 name Cináed, often thought to mean "fire-head" or "born of fire" (see Áed
Áed (given name)
Aodh or Áed is an Irish word of Indo-European origin, equivalent to fire in English. Aodh , and its many variants is used today in the Irish and Scottish Gaelic languages as a given name for both sexes , and in even more variants as a family name...

), but ultimately derives from a shared prototype with Kennedy
Kennedy (given name)
Kennedy, , is a unisex given name in the English language. The name is an Anglicised form of a masculine given name in the Irish language. The has been sometimes been given in honour of American politicians John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy, who were both assassinated in the...

; Cunedagius
Cunedagius
Cunedagius was a legendary king of the Britons, as recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth. He was the son of Henwinus, Duke of Cornwall, and Regan, the daughter of King Leir....

, originally Cornish (then indistinct from other Brythonic languages
Brythonic languages
The Brythonic or Brittonic languages form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic language family, the other being Goidelic. The name Brythonic was derived by Welsh Celticist John Rhys from the Welsh word Brython, meaning an indigenous Briton as opposed to an Anglo-Saxon or Gael...

)--after which was carried north to Valentia
Valentia (Roman Britain)
Valentia was the name of a consular northern province of Roman Britain.-History:Count Theodosius set up Valentia in 369 AD as part of his reorganisation of Britain following the Great Conspiracy, and probably named it after the reigning emperors, Valentinian and Valens.Ammianus tells of how the...

 and borne by Cunedda
Cunedda
Cunedda ap Edern , was an important early Welsh leader, and the progenitor of the royal dynasty of Gwynedd.-Background and life:The name Cunedda derives from the Brythonic word , meaning good hound. His genealogy is traced back to Padarn Beisrudd, which literally translates as Paternus of the...

 (Latin Cunetacius), founder of Gwynedd
Kingdom of Gwynedd
Gwynedd was one petty kingdom of several Welsh successor states which emerged in 5th-century post-Roman Britain in the Early Middle Ages, and later evolved into a principality during the High Middle Ages. It was based on the former Brythonic tribal lands of the Ordovices, Gangani, and the...

. Its popularity among the Britons also led to another form in Welsh
Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

 Cenydd
Cenydd
Cenydd was a Christian hermit saint who lived in Britain in Gower and in France in Brittany, probably in the 6th century...

or Cennydd (the name of a Welsh
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...

 hermit
Hermit
A hermit is a person who lives, to some degree, in seclusion from society.In Christianity, the term was originally applied to a Christian who lives the eremitic life out of a religious conviction, namely the Desert Theology of the Old Testament .In the...

 saint
Saint
A saint is a holy person. In various religions, saints are people who are believed to have exceptional holiness.In Christian usage, "saint" refers to any believer who is "in Christ", and in whom Christ dwells, whether in heaven or in earth...

 who traditionally lived in the 6th century).

Similar names have also been anglicized as Kenneth, including the Gaelic
Goidelic languages
The Goidelic languages or Gaelic languages are one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages, the other consisting of the Brythonic languages. Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from the south of Ireland through the Isle of Man to the north of Scotland...

 Coinneach ("handsome one"; eg Cainnech of Aghaboe) and the Old English
Old English language
Old English or Anglo-Saxon is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons and their descendants in parts of what are now England and southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century...

 Cyneath may mean "royal oath", used as a non-Celtic alternative etymology.

English nickname
Nickname
A nickname is "a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name.", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name....

s include Kenny
Kenny
Kenny is an Irish family surname, an anglicisation of the Irish Ó Cionnaith, sometimes spelled Ó Cionnaoith.One bearer of the name was Cainnech of Aghaboe, better known in English as Saint Canice - a sixth century Irish priest and missionary, after whom the city and county of Kilkenny is also named...

,Km,[MS - Km], Kenn and Ken, the latter also being a Japanese name
Japanese name
in modern times usually consist of a family name , followed by a given name. "Middle names" are not generally used.Japanese names are usually written in kanji, which are characters of usually Chinese origin in Japanese pronunciation...

.

People

(see also Ken (name)
Ken (name)
Ken is a masculine given name. It is used either as a given name or as a short form of names starting with "Ken"...

 and Kenny
Kenny
Kenny is an Irish family surname, an anglicisation of the Irish Ó Cionnaith, sometimes spelled Ó Cionnaoith.One bearer of the name was Cainnech of Aghaboe, better known in English as Saint Canice - a sixth century Irish priest and missionary, after whom the city and county of Kilkenny is also named...

)
  • Cainnech of Aghaboe, Saint Canice or Saint Kenneth
  • Saint Cenydd
    Cenydd
    Cenydd was a Christian hermit saint who lived in Britain in Gower and in France in Brittany, probably in the 6th century...

     or (Welsh Saint Keneth, a separate individual from above)
  • Kenneth MacAlpin, Kenneth I of Scotland
  • Kenneth II of Scotland
    Kenneth II of Scotland
    Cináed mac Maíl Coluim was King of Scots...

  • Kenneth III of Scotland
    Kenneth III of Scotland
    Cináed mac Duib anglicised as Kenneth III, and nicknamed An Donn, "the Chief" or "the Brown", was King of Scots from 997 to 1005. He was the son of Dub...

  • Kenneth Alford
    Kenneth Alford
    Frederick Joseph Ricketts was a British composer of marches for band. Using the pen name Kenneth J. Alford, his marches are considered to be great examples of the art...

    , composer
  • Kenneth Amis
    Kenneth Amis
    Kenneth Amis is the tuba player with the Empire Brass. He is also the assistant conductor of the MIT Wind Ensemble, a group he has been involved with since its creation in 1999. In addition, as of 2005, Amis is an Affiliated Artist of MIT....

    , tuba player
  • Kenneth Anger
    Kenneth Anger
    Kenneth Anger is an American underground experimental filmmaker, occasional actor and author...

    , avant-garde-film director
  • Kenneth Arrow
    Kenneth Arrow
    Kenneth Joseph Arrow is an American economist and joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. To date, he is the youngest person to have received this award, at 51....

    , Nobel Peace Prize winner for Economics, 1972
  • Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking, UK Home Secretary
  • Kenneth Benton
    Kenneth Benton
    Kenneth Benton, CMG was an English MI6 officer and diplomat from 1937-68.Following retirement, Benton began a second career as writer of spy and crime thrillers.-Early life and education:...

    , (1909-1999) British MI6 officer and author
  • Kenneth Bianchi, one of the Hillside Stranglers
  • Kenneth Bigley
    Kenneth Bigley
    Kenneth John Bigley , born Liverpool, England, was a civil engineer who was kidnapped in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq on 16 September 2004, along with his colleagues Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, both U.S. citizens...

    , contractor, beheaded on television in Iraq
  • Kenneth E. Boulding
    Kenneth E. Boulding
    Kenneth Ewart Boulding was an economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher. He was cofounder of General Systems Theory and founder of numerous ongoing intellectual projects in economics and social science. He was...

    , economist
  • Kenneth Box
    Kenneth Box
    Kenneth James Box is a retired track and field sprinter, who represented Great Britain in the men's 100m and men's 4x100m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia....

    , British track and field sprinter
  • Kenneth Lee Boyd
    Kenneth Lee Boyd
    Kenneth Lee Boyd was a murderer who was executed by the U.S. state of North Carolina. He was convicted of the March 4, 1988 murder in Stoneville of his wife, Julie Curry Boyd and her father Thomas Dillard Curry. He was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m...

    , murderer
  • Kenneth Branagh
    Kenneth Branagh
    Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from Northern Ireland. He is best known for directing and starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V , Much Ado About Nothing , Hamlet Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from...

    , Shakespearean and film actor
  • Kenneth Burke
    Kenneth Burke
    Kenneth Duva Burke was a major American literary theorist and philosopher. Burke's primary interests were in rhetoric and aesthetics.-Personal history:...

    , American literary theorist and philosopher
  • Kenneth Calman
    Kenneth Calman
    Sir Kenneth Charles Calman, KCB, DL, FRSE is a Scottish cancer researcher and former Chief Medical Officer of Scotland, and then England. He was Warden and Vice-Chancellor of Durham University from 1998 to 2006, before becoming Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. He has held the position of...

    , English chief medical officer
  • Kenneth Carpenter
    Kenneth Carpenter
    Kenneth Carpenter is a paleontologist. He is the museum director of the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum and author or co-author of a number of books on dinosaurs and Mesozoic life...

    , paleontologist
  • Kenneth Arnold Chesney, country singer
  • Kenneth Clark
    Kenneth Clark
    Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark, OM, CH, KCB, FBA was a British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians of his generation...

    , English art historian
  • Kenneth Clark (psychologist)
  • Kenneth Clarke
    Kenneth Clarke
    Kenneth Harry "Ken" Clarke, QC, MP is a British Conservative politician, currently Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. He was first elected to Parliament in 1970; and appointed a minister in Edward Heath's government, in 1972, and is one of...

    , Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Kenneth Cole (designer)
    Kenneth Cole (designer)
    Kenneth Cole is an American clothing designer. Born in Brooklyn, New York, his father, Charles Cole, owned the El Greco shoe manufacturing company. Before learning the family business and starting his own company in 1982, Cole studied law at Emory University.- Birth of a shoe company :Kenneth Cole...

    , clothing designer
  • Kenneth Colley
    Kenneth Colley
    Kenneth Colley is an English actor. A long-time character actor, he came to wider prominence through his role as Admiral Piett in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi....

    , actor
  • Kenneth R. Conklin
    Kenneth R. Conklin
    Kenneth R. Conklin is a retired schoolteacher who moved to Hawaii from Boston in 1992 and currently lives in Kāneʻohe. He is an opponent of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, accusing those within it of preaching racism and apartheid, and has also sought to overturn existing laws and practices...

    , activist
  • Kenneth Connor
    Kenneth Connor
    Kenneth Connor MBE was an English comedy stage, radio, film and TV actor, best known for his appearances in the Carry On films.-Career:...

    , British comedic actor
  • Kenneth Cope
    Kenneth Cope
    Kenneth Cope is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as Marty Hopkirk in Randall and Hopkirk , Jed Stone in Coronation Street and Ray Hilton in Brookside.- Career :...

    , actor
  • Kenneth Cope (musician)
    Kenneth Cope (musician)
    Kenneth Cope is a composer and performer of religious music geared towards Latter Day Saints. His first album, Heaven — Don't Miss It For The World, was released in February 1988...

    , Mormon music composer
  • Kenneth Darling
    Kenneth Darling
    General Sir Kenneth Thomas Darling GBE KCB DSO was a senior British Army officer who was Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe from 1967 to 1969.-Early life:...

    , British general
  • Kenneth C. Davis
    Kenneth C. Davis
    Kenneth C. Davis is an American popular historian, best known for his Don't Know Much About... series. Born in Mount Vernon, New York, Davis attended Concordia College, Bronxville in New York, and Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York City...

    , author
  • Kenneth Dover
    Kenneth Dover
    Sir Kenneth James Dover, FRSE, FBA was a distinguished British Classical scholar and academic, who was head of an Oxford college and from 1981 until his retirement in December 2005 was Chancellor of the University of St Andrews....

     (1920-2010), British academic
  • Kenneth K. K. Downing
    K. K. Downing
    Kenneth "K.K." Downing, Jr. is a Grammy Award winning guitarist, songwriter and a founding member of the British heavy metal band Judas Priest...

    , guitarist
  • Kenneth Edmonds ("Babyface"), American R&B singer
  • Kenneth Erskine
    Kenneth Erskine
    Kenneth Erskine is an English serial killer who became known as the Stockwell Strangler.-Early life:Erskine was born in July 1963 to an English mother and Antiguan father...

    , serial killer
  • Kenneth Fearing
    Kenneth Fearing
    Kenneth Fearing was an American poet, novelist, and founding editor of the Partisan Review. Literary critic Macha Rosenthal called him "the chief poet of the American Depression."-Early life:...

    , American poet
  • Kenneth Feinberg
    Kenneth Feinberg
    Kenneth Feinberg is an American attorney, specializing in mediation and alternative dispute resolution. Feinberg was appointed Special Master of the U.S...

    , attorney
  • Kenneth Frampton
    Kenneth Frampton
    Kenneth Frampton , is a British architect, critic, historian and the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York....

    , architect and architecture critic
  • John Kenneth Galbraith
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith , OC was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism...

    , economist
  • Kenneth Gamble, songwriter and producer
  • Kenneth J. Gergen
    Kenneth J. Gergen
    Kenneth J. Gergen is an American psychologist and professor at Swarthmore College. He obtained his B.A. at Yale University in 1957 and his Ph.D. at Duke University in 1962.-Biography:...

    , American psychologist
  • Kenneth R. Giddens
    Kenneth R. Giddens
    Kenneth R. Giddens was an architect and movie theater owner, but most notably the broadcaster who put two radio stations and one television station based in Mobile, Alabama on the air, all at one point in time bearing the call sign “WKRG”...

    , broadcaster
  • Kenneth Gorelick (Kenny G
    Kenny G
    Kenneth Bruce Gorelick , better known by his stage name Kenny G, is an American, adult contemporary and smooth jazz saxophonist. His fourth album, Duotones, brought him breakthrough success in 1986...

    ), smooth jazz professional saxophonist
  • Kenneth C. Griffin
    Kenneth C. Griffin
    Kenneth C. Griffin is an American hedge fund manager. He is the founder and CEO of Citadel LLC, a Chicago-based investment firm...

    , billionaire
  • Kenneth E. Hagin
    Kenneth E. Hagin
    Kenneth Erwin Hagin was an influential American Pentecostal preacher. He is often referred to as the "father" of the "Word of Faith" movement. Many of his followers often refer to him affectionately as "Dad Hagin", "Pappa Hagin" and more commonly "Brother Hagin".- Personal life :Kenneth E...

    , Pentecostal minister
  • Kenneth L. Hale
    Kenneth L. Hale
    Kenneth Locke Hale was a linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studied a huge variety of previously unstudied and often endangered languages—especially indigenous languages of North America, Central America and Australia...

    , linguist
  • Kenneth Halliwell
    Kenneth Halliwell
    Kenneth Halliwell was a British actor and writer. He was the mentor, boyfriend and eventual murderer of playwright Joe Orton.- Childhood :...

    , lover and murderer of Joe Orton
  • Kenneth Ham
    Kenneth Ham
    Kenneth "Hock" Todd Ham is an American astronaut and a captain in the United States Navy. Ham was selected for NASA's astronaut program in August 1998, while serving as the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet lead carrier suitability test pilot. Ham's U.S...

    , astronaut
  • Kenneth Horne
    Kenneth Horne
    Kenneth Horne was an English comedian and businessman. The son of a clergyman and politician, he combined a successful business career with regular broadcasting for the BBC. His first hit series Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh written with his co-star Richard Murdoch arose out of his wartime service as...

    , actor and comedian
  • Kenneth Gardner Hughes
    Kenneth Gardner Hughes
    Kenneth Gardner Hughes was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He became a professor, geologist and manager by career....

    , Canadian politician
  • Kenneth Irons
    Kenneth Irons
    Kenneth Irons is a fictional comic book supervillain. He is a criminal mastermind who is depicted as the person behind nearly every evil deed in the Top Cow series Witchblade....

    , comic book character in Witchblade
  • Kenneth E. Iverson
    Kenneth E. Iverson
    Kenneth Eugene Iverson was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the APL programming language in 1962. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 for his contributions to mathematical notation and programming language theory...

    , computer scientist, developed the APL programming language
  • Kenneth Kaunda
    Kenneth Kaunda
    Kenneth David Kaunda, known as KK, served as the first President of Zambia, from 1964 to 1991.-Early life:Kaunda was the youngest of eight children. He was born at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali, Northern Province of Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia...

    , first President of Zambia
  • Kenneth Keating
    Kenneth Keating
    Kenneth Barnard Keating , was a United States Representative and a U.S. Senator from New York, and in later life, an appellate judge and a diplomat representing the United States as ambassador to India and later to Israel.-Life:...

    , US Senator
  • Kenneth Kendall
    Kenneth Kendall
    Kenneth Kendall is a retired British broadcaster. He was a contemporary of Richard Baker and Robert Dougall...

    , newsreader
  • Kenneth Kennedy (speed skater), Australian Winter Olympian
  • Jonathan King
    Jonathan King
    Jonathan King is an English singer, songwriter, impresario and record producer. He is also the author of three novels, Bible Two and The Booker Prize Winner , and Beware the Monkey Man , and an autobiography, 65 My Life So Far .King first came to prominence as an...

    , born Kenneth George King, pop music mogul
  • Kenneth Kitchen
    Kenneth Kitchen
    Kenneth Anderson Kitchen is Personal and Brunner Professor Emeritus of Egyptology and Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, England...

    , Egyptologist
  • Kenneth Koch
    Kenneth Koch
    Kenneth Koch was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77...

    , poet
  • Kenneth Lay
    Kenneth Lay
    Kenneth Lee "Ken" Lay was an American businessman, best known for his role in the widely reported corruption scandal that led to the downfall of Enron Corporation. Lay and Enron became synonymous with corporate abuse and accounting fraud when the scandal broke in 2001...

    , former CEO of Enron
  • Kenneth McKellar
    Kenneth McKellar
    Kenneth Douglas McKellar was an American politician from Tennessee who served as a United States Representative from 1911 until 1917 and as a United States Senator from 1917 until 1953...

    , American politician
  • Kenneth McKellar (singer)
    Kenneth McKellar (singer)
    Kenneth McKellar was a Scottish tenor.-Career:McKellar studied forestry at the University of Aberdeen, after graduation working for the Scottish Forestry Commission. He later trained at the Royal College of Music as an opera singer...

    , Scottish singer
  • Kenneth More
    Kenneth More
    Kenneth Gilbert More CBE was a highly successful English film actor during the post-World War II era and starred in many feature films, often in the role of an archetypal carefree and happy-go-lucky middle-class gentleman.-Early life:Kenneth More was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the...

    , actor (Genevieve, Reach for the Sky)
  • Kenneth O'Keefe
    Kenneth O'Keefe
    Kenneth Nichols O'Keefe is an Irish-American activist and former US Marine. He led the human shield action to Iraq and was a passenger on the MV Mavi Marmara during the Gaza flotilla raid...

    , activist
  • Kenneth Perez
    Kenneth Perez
    Kenneth Pérez Dahl Jensen is a Danish former professional football player. Perez scored two goals in 24 matches for the Danish national team from 2003 to 2006, and he was chosen to compete at the 2004 European Championship....

    , Danish footballer
  • Kenneth Peters
    Kenneth Peters
    Kenneth Peters is a Danish handballer, currently playing for Danish Handball League side Fredericia HK.-External links:*...

    , Danish handballer
  • Kenneth Lee Pike, linguist and anthropologist
  • Kenneth Platts
    Kenneth Platts
    Kenneth Platts was a British composer.He studied composition at the London College of Music with W. R. Pasfield and Lennox Berkeley. He is often classed as a composer of 'light music'. He wrote in an accessible style, and produced many works suitable for children and amateurs...

    , British composer
  • Kenneth Rexroth
    Kenneth Rexroth
    Kenneth Rexroth was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement...

    , American poet
  • Kenneth Robinson
    Kenneth Robinson
    Sir Kenneth Robinson PC was a British Labour politician who served as Minister of Health in Harold Wilson's first government, from 1964 to 1968, when the position was merged into the new title of Secretary of State for Social Services.-Early life:The son of Dr Clarence Robinson and a nurse, Ethel...

    , politician and broadcaster
  • Kenneth Rose
    Kenneth Rose
    Kenneth Vivian Rose is a royal biographer in the United Kingdom.Rose is an award winning writer, having won the prestigious Whitbread Book Award in the biography category in 1983 for his book, King George V...

    , royal biographer
  • Kenneth Ross, Scottish-American screenwriter of the films The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, etc.
  • Kenneth G. Ross
    Kenneth G. Ross
    Kenneth Graham Ross is an Australian playwright and screenwriter best known for writing the 1978 stage play Breaker Morant, that was based on the life of Australian soldier Harry "Breaker" Morant....

    , Australian playwright, and screenwriter of the film Breaker Morant
  • Kenneth Searight
    Kenneth Searight
    Kenneth Searight was the creator of the international auxiliary language Sona. His book Sona; an auxiliary neutral language outlines the language's grammar and vocabulary. Encounters with Searight also influenced English author E.M...

    , linguist
  • Kenneth Shaw ("Buzz" Shaw), college chancellor
  • Kenneth Starr
    Kenneth Starr
    Kenneth Winston "Ken" Starr is an American lawyer and educational administrator who has also been a federal judge. He is best known for his investigation of figures during the Clinton administration....

    , special investigator in Monica Lewinsky scandal
  • Kenneth M. Taylor
    Kenneth M. Taylor
    Kenneth Marlar Taylor was a new United States Army Air Forces Second Lieutenant pilot stationed at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. Along with his fellow pilot and friend George Welch, they got airborne while under fire and Taylor shot down four Japanese dive bombers...

    , American WWII pilot
  • Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet
    Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet
    Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet , in Canada known as Ken Thomson, was a Canadian businessman and art collector who, at the time of his death, was the richest person in Canada, and the ninth richest person in the world, according to Forbes.com, with assets of approximately US $17.9...

    , Canadian businessman, billionaire
  • Kenneth Tolon II
    Kenneth Tolon II
    Kenneth Tolon II is a former running back for the Stanford Cardinal. He played for Stanford from 2000 to 2004.-Valley High School:...

     (b. 1981), college football player
  • Kenneth Tynan
    Kenneth Tynan
    Kenneth Peacock Tynan was an influential and often controversial English theatre critic and writer.-Early life:...

    , critic
  • Kenneth Welsh
    Kenneth Welsh
    Kenneth Welsh, CM is a Canadian film and television actor . He is known to Twin Peaks fans as the multi-faceted villain Windom Earle, and has more recently played the father of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator.In 1984 he was nominated for a Genie Award as Best Actor for his...

    , actor
  • Kenneth Williams
    Kenneth Williams
    Kenneth Charles Williams was an English comic actor and comedian. He was one of the main ensemble in 26 of the Carry On films, and appeared in numerous British television shows, and radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne.-Life and career:Kenneth Charles Williams was born on 22 February...

    , comedian and actor
  • Kenneth G. Wilson
    Kenneth G. Wilson
    Kenneth Geddes Wilson is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner.As an undergraduate at Harvard, he was a Putnam Fellow. He earned his PhD from Caltech in 1961, studying under Murray Gell-Mann....

    , winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1982

Places

In the United States:
  • Kenneth, Indiana
    Kenneth, Indiana
    Kenneth is an extinct town in Jefferson Township, Cass County, Indiana....

  • Kenneth, Minnesota
    Kenneth, Minnesota
    Kenneth is a city in Rock County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 68 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....

  • Kenneth City, Florida
    Kenneth City, Florida
    Kenneth City is a town located in southern Pinellas County, Florida, between St. Petersburg and Pinellas Park, in the United States. Kenneth City was founded in 1957 by Sidney Colen, a local developer, who named the city after his son Kenneth Colen. The population was 4,400 at the 2000 census. As...

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