Kennan is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Elizabeth Topham Kennan
Elizabeth Topham Kennan (born February 25, 1938) is an American academic administrator who served as the 15th president of Mount Holyoke College from 1978 to 1995. She also served as president of the Five Colleges consortium from 1985 to 1994. ...
(born 1938), American academic
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George Kennan (explorer)
George Kennan (February 16, 1845 – May 10, 1924) was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of the Russian Empire. He was a cousin twice removed of the American diplomat and historian George F. K ...
(1845–1924), American explorer of Russia and an early "Russia Expert"
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George F. Kennan
George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly hist ...
(1904–2005), member of the United States Foreign Service and considered to be the "architect" of American Cold War strategy
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Jim Kennan
James Harley Kennan SC (25 February 1946 – 4 August 2010) was an Australian politician and later adjunct professor of law at Deakin University.
Kennan earned a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne. He was a member of parliament b ...
(1946–2010), Australian politician and adjunct professor of law
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Kent Kennan (1913–2003), American educator and composer
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Larry Kennan
Lawrence W. Kennan (born June 13, 1944) is an American football coach and former player. Kennan was most recently the head football coach for the Incarnate Word Cardinals football, University of the Incarnate Word from 2012 to 2017. He was also ...
(born 1944), former American football coach
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Kennan Adeang
Kennan Ranibok Adeang (23 December 1942 – 26 December 2011) was a Nauruan politician who served as President of Nauru for three separate very brief periods during the late 20th century. Born in Nauru, and educated in Australia, including at the ...
(1942-2011), former president of Nauru
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