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." Famous people with the name Ranulph include: *

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 Metropo ...

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 Ralulphe, 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 de Mortimer Ranulph I de Mortimer (''Ralf'', ''Ralph'', ''Raoul de Mortemer'') (born before c. 1070–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 Wi ...

(bef. 1070 to c. 1104) of Mortemer-sur-Eaulne, a Marcher Lord from the Montgomery lands in the Welsh Marches *

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 adventurer and holder of 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 ...

(born 1946), British freelance researcher and theoretician in both architecture and cybernetics *

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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