Ranulph is a masculine given name of Norman origin. Ranulph is a composite name, from "Ran-," which comes from the Old Norse "rann" ("house") or Germanic "ragn" ("advice" or "power"), with "-ulf," from the Old Norse word "úlfr" ("wolf"), cognate with Danish "ulv," Icelandic "úlfur," Swedish "ulv," Norwegian "ulv," and Faroese "úlvur." Notable people with the name Ranulph include: *

Ranulph (Archdeacon of Leicester) Ranulph was the first recorded archdeacon of Leicester: he was appointed by Remigius de Fécamp, Remigius, Bishop of Lincoln in 1092. Notes See also

* Diocese of Lincoln * Anglican Diocese of Peterborough, Diocese of Peterborough * Dioces ...

(fl. 1092) * Ranulph Bacon QPM (1906–1988), British police officer *

Ranulph Brito Ranulph Brito or Le Breton (died 1246) was a canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. Life Brito is first mentioned in 1221 as a chaplain of Hubert de Burgh. During the administration of his patron he stood high in the favour of Henry III and be ...

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 Dacre (1797–1884), British master mariner and merchant active in Australia and New Zealand *

Ranulph de Mortimer Ranulph I de Mortimer (''Ralf'', ''Ralph'', ''Raoul de Mortemer'') (born before –died in/after 1104) was a Marcher Lord from the Montgomery lands in the Welsh Marches (border lands between Wales and England). In England, he was Lord of Wigmore ...

(bef. 1070 to c. 1104), a Marcher Lord in the Welsh Marches * Ranulph Drengot (d. 1045), Norman adventurer and mercenary in southern Italy *

Ranulph Fiennes Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet (born 7 March 1944), commonly known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes () and sometimes as Ran Fiennes, is a British explorer, writer and poet, who holds several endurance records. Fiennes served in the ...

, OBE (born 1944), British explorer, writer and poet, who holds several endurance records * Ranulph Glanville (1946–2014), Anglo-Irish cybernetician and design theorist *

Ranulph Neville, 1st Baron Neville Ranulph Neville, 1st Baron Neville (18 October 1262 – c. 18 April 1331) of Raby Castle, County Durham, was an English nobleman and head of the powerful Neville family. Origins He was the eldest son of Robert de Neville (who predeceased his o ...

(1262–1331), English nobleman *

Robert Ranulph Marett Robert Ranulph Marett (13 June 1866 – 18 February 1943) was a British ethnologist and a proponent of the British Evolutionary School of cultural anthropology. Founded by Marett's older colleague, Edward Burnett Tylor, it asserted that mode ...

(1866–1943), British ethnologist from Jersey * John Ranulph Vincent, Dean of Bloemfontein, in South Africa, from 1892, and afterwards of Grahamstown, 1912–1914

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