Ranulph
Ranulph is a masculine given name of Norman origin.
Ranulph is a composite name, from "Ran-," which comes from the Old Norse "rann" or Germanic "ragn", with "-ulf," from the Old Norse word "úlfr", 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 Bacon QPM, British police officer
- Ranulph Brito or Le Breton, canon of St. Paul's
- Ranulph Crewe, English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench
- Ranulph Dacre, British master mariner and merchant active in Australia and New Zealand
- Ranulph de Mortimer, a Marcher Lord in the Welsh Marches
- Ranulph Drengot, Norman adventurer and mercenary in southern Italy
- Ranulph Fiennes, OBE, British explorer, writer and poet, who holds several endurance records
- Ranulph Glanville, Anglo-Irish cybernetician and design theorist
- Ranulph Neville, 1st Baron Neville, English nobleman
- Robert Ranulph Marett, British ethnologist from Jersey
- John Ranulph Vincent, Dean of Bloemfontein, in South Africa, from 1892, and afterwards of Grahamstown, 1912–1914