Kennedy (name)

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Kennedy is a surname of Irish and Scottish origin. It is also used as a given name. Kennedy is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Ó Ceannéidigh meaning "descendant of Ceannéidigh". The Gaelic personal name Ceannéidigh is derived from ceann meaning "head" + éidigh meaning "ugly".^[1]

Contents 1 Surname 2 Given name 3 References 4 See also

[edit] Surname

• Members of the Kennedy family of the United States, including:
  • Edward Kennedy ("Ted") - U.S. Senator
  • Ethel Kennedy - Famous and admired political wife of Bobby Kennedy
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver - wife of politician Sargent Shriver
  • Caroline Bouvier Kennedy - daughter of John and Jacqueline; attorney
  • Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy - first lady of the United States and wife of John F. Kennedy
  • Jean Ann Kennedy - Ambassador to Ireland
  • John F. Kennedy - U.S. President
  • John F. Kennedy, Jr. - son of John and Jacqueline; attorney
  • Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. - Ambassador to the United Kingdom
  • Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. - Eldest son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and WWII pilot.
  • Joseph Patrick Kennedy II -son of Robert Kennedy and former US Representative
  • Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington - English nobility by marriage
  • Patrick J. Kennedy - U.S. Representative
  • Robert F. Kennedy ("Bobby") - U.S. Senator, and Attorney General
  • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. - American lawyer, environmentalist, and radio host
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy - Matriarch of the Kennedy family
  • Rosemary Kennedy - oldest sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy

• A. L. Kennedy - Scottish novelist
• Adam Kennedy - Major League Baseball player
• Alexander Kennedy - British civil engineer
• Anthony M. Kennedy - US Supreme Court Associate Justice
• Arthur Kennedy (actor) - American Actor
• Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy - British colonial administrator, Governor of Sierra Leone, Western Australia, Vancouver Island, Hong Kong and Queensland.
• Ben Kennedy - Australian rugby league player
• Betty Kennedy - retired Canadian senator, television personality
• Bill Kennedy (actor) - actor and television personality
• Bob Kennedy - Major League Baseball player and manager; father of Terry Kennedy
• Bob Kennedy (athlete) - distance runner
• Charles Kennedy - British politician, was the leader of the Liberal Democrats
• Claudia Kennedy - first female Lt. Gen in the US Army, noted intelligence officer
• Cory Kennedy - American Internet celebrity
• Courtney Kennedy - Dual Olympic Medal Winner in Women's Ice Hockey
• Diane Kennedy - American CPA, speaker, and financial writer.
• Donald Kennedy - American scientist, public administrator, and academic
• Douglas Kennedy (writer) - A UK based American author
• Duncan Kennedy - Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Harvard Law School
• E. S. Kennedy – British mountaineer
• Edgar Kennedy - American actor
• Edmund Kennedy - Australian explorer
• George Kennedy - American actor
• Gerard Kennedy - Canadian politician
• Graham Kennedy - Australian comedian and television presenter
• Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws - Scottish barrister, writer and politician
• Ian Kennedy - (born 1984) American baseball player
• James Kennedy (bishop) - 15th century Bishop of St Andrews
• Jamie Kennedy - American comedian and actor
• John Kennedy (baseball 1957) - American baseball player
• John Kennedy - Scottish soccer player
• John P. Kennedy - U.S. Secretary of the Navy
• John Kennedy (theologian), 19th-century Scottish theologian
• Jonny Kennedy - subject of the documentary "The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off"; suffered from dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (EB or DEB)
• Joshua Kennedy - Australian soccer player
• Kenneth Kennedy - the first Winter Olympian for Australia
• Lena Kennedy - English romantic novelist
• Leon S. Kennedy - one of the two main characters in Resident Evil 2 and the protagonist in Resident Evil 4
• Ludovic Kennedy - British journalist, broadcaster, and author.
• Mark Kennedy - American politician
• Mark Kennedy - Irish football (soccer) player
• Mary Kennedy - Irish television personality
• Mr. Kennedy - Stage name of professional wrestler Ken Anderson.
• Nery Kennedy - Paraguayan javelin thrower
• Nick Kennedy - Rugby player
• Nigel Kennedy - English violinist
• Paul Kennedy (historian) - British historian of international relations
• Sean Kennedy - Canadian writer, internet radio and television personality.
• Sheila Kennedy - Penthouse model in the early 1980s
• Stetson Kennedy - American human rights activist and folklore collector
• Ted Kennedy (hockey) - former hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs
• Terry Kennedy - Major League Baseball player; son of Bob Kennedy
• Thomas Laird Kennedy - Premier of Ontario October 19, 1948 – May 04, 1949
• Tom Kennedy - Stage name of American game show host James Narz
• William J. Kennedy - American writer, winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

[edit] Given name

• Kennedy Bakircioglü, a Swedish footballer
• Kennedy Otieno, a Kenyan cricketeer
• Kennedy Winston, a U.S. basketball player
• Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, (born 1972), American, former MTV VJ, television host and political satirist.

[edit] References

1. ^ Kennedy Name Meaning and History Retrieved on 2008-03-22

[edit] See also

• Clan Kennedy, a Scottish clan.