Kendrick (name)

Kendrick is a surname, sometimes used as a masculine given name, which may originate from:

• The Welsh name Cynwrig meaning "greatest champion", or
• The Anglo-Saxon name Cyneric meaning cyne (royal, of a king) + rīks (king, ruler).
• The Highland Scots surname Machendrie, frequently anglicized into Kendrick and MacKendrick

Notable people with the name include:

Surname

• Alex Kendrick (born 1970), pastor, screenwriter, director and actor
• Anna Kendrick (born 1985), American actress
• Asahel C. Kendrick (1809–1895), American classicist, grammarian and exegete
• Brian Kendrick (born 1979), American professional wrestler
• Derion Kendrick (born 2000), American football player
• Donald M. Kendrick (born 1947), Canadian choirmaster
• Eddie Kendricks (1939–1992), Motown recording artist and founding member of The Temptations
• Ella B. Kendrick (1849–1928), American temperance activist
• Ellie Kendrick (born 1990), British actress
• Fiona Kendrick (born 1955), chairman and CEO of Nestlé UK & Ireland
• Flora Kendrick (1880–1969), British artist
• George Prentiss Kendrick, American artist
• Graham Kendrick (born 1950), British Christian singer-songwriter
• Helen Kendrick Johnson (1844–1917), American anti-suffragist activist and writer
• Howie Kendrick (born 1983), American baseball player for the Washington Nationals
• John Kendrick (disambiguation), multiple people
• Ken Kendrick (born 1943), American businessman and principal owner/managing general partner of Arizona Diamondbacks
• Kyle Kendrick (born 1984), American baseball pitcher in the Boston Red Sox organization
• Nancy Kendrick, American philosopher
• Rhonda Ross Kendrick (born 1971), American actress
• Rob Kendrick, British guitarist
• Robert Kendrick (born 1979), American tennis player
• Rodney Kendrick (born 1960) American jazz pianist
• Stephen Kendrick, pastor, screenwriter and producer
• Thomas Kendrick (agent) (1881–1972) British intelligence agent
• T. D. Kendrick (Sir Thomas Downing Kendrick, 1895–1979), archaeologist and Director of the British Museum
• W. Freeland Kendrick, mayor of Philadelphia (1924–1928)
• William Kenrick (writer) (1725?–1779), an English novelist, playwright, translator and satirist

Given name

• Kendrick Frazier (1942-2022), American science writer
• Kendrick Green (born 1998), American football player
• Kendrick Lamar (born 1987), American rapper
• Kendrick Norton (born 1997), American football player
• Kendrick Nunn (born 1995), American basketball player
• Kendrick Office (born 1978), American football player
• Kendrick Perkins (born 1984), American basketball player
• Kendrick Scott (born 1980), American jazz drummer and bandleader
• Kendrick Taylor (born 1957), American scientist

See also

• Clan Henderson, a Scottish clan for which Kendrick is an Anglicized sept
• Kendricks, a surname
• Kendrix