Ranulph

Ranulph is a masculine given name of Norman origin.

Ranulph is a composite name, from "Ran-," which comes from the Old Norse "rann" ("house")[1] or Germanic "ragn" ("advice" or "power"),[2] with "-ulf," from the Old Norse word "úlfr" ("wolf"), cognate with Danish "ulv," Icelandic "úlfur," Swedish "ulv," Norwegian "ulv," and Faroese "úlvur."[3]

Famous people with the name Ranulph include:

  • Ranulph Bacon QPM (1906–1988), British police officer
  • Ranulph Brito or Le Breton (died 1246), canon of St. Paul's
  • Ranulph Crewe (1558–1646), English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench
  • Ranulph de Mortimer (bef. 1070 to c. 1104) of Mortemer-sur-Eaulne, a Marcher Lord from the Montgomery lands in the Welsh Marches
  • Ranulph Fiennes, OBE (born 1944), British adventurer and holder of several endurance records
  • Ranulph Glanville (born 1946), British freelance researcher and theoretician in both architecture and cybernetics
  • Robert Ranulph Marett (1866–1943), British ethnologist from Jersey
  • John Ranulph Vincent, Dean of Bloemfontein, in South Africa, from 1892, and afterwards of Grahamstown, 1912–1914

Notes
  1. "RANN - Nordic Names Wiki - Name Origin, Meaning and Statistics". nordicnames.de. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  2. "RAGN - Nordic Names Wiki - Name Origin, Meaning and Statistics". nordicnames.de. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  3. "UlfR - Nordic Names Wiki - Name Origin, Meaning and Statistics". nordicnames.de. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
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