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 Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ranulph Robert Maunsell Bacon (6 August 1906 – 30 March 1988) was a British police officer. Bacon was born in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, and educated at Tonbridge School and Queens' College, Cambridge. He joined the Metro ...

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 Sir Ranulph (or Ranulphe, Randolph, or Randall) Crew(e) (1558 – 3 January 1646) was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Early life and career Ranulph Crewe was the second son of John Crew of Nantwich, who is said to hav ...

(1558–1646), English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench *

Ranulph Dacre Ranulph Dacre (23 April 1797 – 27 June 1884) was a British master mariner and merchant active in Australia and New Zealand. Early life He was born to George and Julia Dacre at Marwell Hall, Hampshire, England on 23 April 1797. His father was ...

(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 Rainulf Drengot (also Ranulph, Ranulf, or Rannulf; ''c.'' 990 – June 1045) was a Norman adventurer and mercenary in southern Italy. In 1030 he became the first count of Aversa. He was a member of the Drengot family. Early life and arrival in Ita ...

(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 Ranulph Glanville (13 June 1946 – 20 December 2014) was an Anglo-Irish cybernetician and design theorist. He was a founding vice-president of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (2006–2009) and president of the Ame ...

(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 The Very Revd John Ranulph Vincent was Dean of Bloemfontein, in South Africa, from 1892; and afterwards of Grahamstown, 1912–1914. Background and education Vincent was the son of the Revd R. Vincent, of Crockham Hall in Kent. He took an M.A ...

, Dean of Bloemfontein, in South Africa, from 1892, and afterwards of Grahamstown, 1912–1914

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