Randall (surname)
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Randall is a surname.
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[edit] Origins
- "Randall"' or '"Randolph"' are both derived from the Germanic name, Randwulf, meaning alternately "Shield and Wolf", "Shield with a Wolf" (as in a totemic symbol painted on a shield), "Shielded by the Wolf" or simply "Wolf Shield".
[edit] People
- Adam Randall, Actor from the Rhondda Valley, South Wales
- Addison Randall, American film actor
- Alexander Randall, American (Wisconsin) politician
- Alexander Randall (Maryland) Congressman, Attorney General of Maryland
- Alice Randall, African American author and songwriter
- Anne Randall, American model
- Benjamin Randall, Baptist preacher
- Chad Randall, Australian Rugby League player and model
- Charles Hiram Randall, American (California) politician
- Charles S. Randall, former US Representative from Massachusetts
- Dana Randall, Professor of theoretical computer science
- David Randall, English journalist, author, and comic.
- Derek Randall, England Cricketer
- Don Randall, Australian politician
- Dudley Randall, African-American poet and publisher
- Elizabeth Randall, American (New Jersey) politician
- Elliott Randall, American guitarist
- Frankie Randall, boxer
- George Morton Randall, American general
- Herbert Randall, American photographer
- Holly Randall, American erotic photographer
- Jack Randall (boxer)
- James Ryder Randall, American journalist and poet
- Jeff Randall (journalist)
- John Randall:
- Sir John Randall (physicist) (1905–1984), British physicist, developer of the cavity magnetron
- John Randall (UK politician) (born 1955), British Conservative Party politician, MP for Uxbridge
- John Randall (nanotechnologist) of Zyvex
- John A. Randall, former President of the Rochester Institute of Technology
- John W. Randall, American doctor and carcinologist
- Josh Randall, American television actor
- John Turton Randall, British physicist
- Julia Randall, American poet
- Keith Randall, American Musician
- Ken Randall, Canadian Ice Hockey player
- Kikkan Randall, American cross-country skier
- Lisa Randall (1962 - ), American particle physicist
- Marcus Randall, American football player
- Mark Randall (links to further disambiguation page)
- Marta Randall, Science Fiction writer
- Meg Randall, American film actress
- Merle Randall, American physical chemist
- Mike Randall, American actor / Mark Twain impersonator
- Nancy Randall, Brazilian-American model
- Paulette Randall, British theatre director
- Robert Randall, Author and Father of the Modern Medical Marijuana Movement
- Samuel J. Randall, US Congressman from Pennsylvania and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1876 to 1881
- Semeka Randall, American basketball player
- Stauder Randall, American soccer player
- Stuart Randall, Baron Randall of St Budeaux
- Suze Randall, American model, photographer, and pornographer originally from England
- Tony Randall, American comic actor
- Walter Randall, British television actor
- William Peter Randall, Canadian musician/politician
[edit] Fictional Characters
- Felix Randal, was the subject of a well-known poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Hester Randall, fictional character from the Channel 5 soap opera Family Affairs
- Jeff Randall is the fictional detective played by Mike Pratt in the original private detective series, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
- Lucas Randall, fictional character from Strange Days at Blake Holsey High
- Rex Randall, fictional character from the Channel 5 soap opera Family Affairs