Randall, , is a masculine given name

Given name

A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

 in the English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

. Its modern use as a given name originates from the transferred use of the English–language surname

Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

 Randall

Randall (surname)

-Etymology:Randall or Randolph are both derived from the Old English Randwulf or Old Norse Randólfr , from rand "the rim of a shield" and wulf "wolf", a kenning meaning "hunter or enemy of the shield", i.e...

. There are two explanations for the derivation of this surname. One is that it originate from a personal name

Personal name

A personal name is the proper name identifying an individual person, and today usually comprises a given name bestowed at birth or at a young age plus a surname. It is nearly universal for a human to have a name; except in rare cases, for example feral children growing up in isolation, or infants...

 that is an apocopal

Apocope

In phonology, apocope is the loss of one or more sounds from the end of a word, and especially the loss of an unstressed vowel.-Historical sound change:...

 form, or a vernacular

Vernacular

A vernacular is the native language or native dialect of a specific population, as opposed to a language of wider communication that is not native to the population, such as a national language or lingua franca.- Etymology :The term is not a recent one...

 form of Randolf; another explanation is that they originate from a diminutive

Diminutive

In language structure, a diminutive, or diminutive form , is a formation of a word used to convey a slight degree of the root meaning, smallness of the object or quality named, encapsulation, intimacy, or endearment...

 of a mediaeval form of Randolf. Early forms of Randolf were brought to England

England

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 by Scandinavian settlers, and later by the Normans

Normans

The Normans were the people who gave their name to Normandy, a region in northern France. They were descended from Norse Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock...

. These mediaeval names are ultimately derived from two Germanic language elements—the first meaning: "shield

Shield

A shield is a type of personal armor, meant to intercept attacks, either by stopping projectiles such as arrows or redirecting a hit from a sword, mace or battle axe to the side of the shield-bearer....

" or "rim"; the second meaning "wolf".

There several variant spellings of the given name; these include Randal, Randel, Randell, and Randle. The pet form of Randall is Randy

Randy

Randy is both a pet name, and a given name in the English language. It is both a masculine name and a feminine name. The masculine name was originally derived from the names Randall, Randolf, and also Andrew. The feminine name may have originated from the masculine Randy, or it may have originated...

. The form Randal has also used as an Anglicisation

Anglicisation

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 of Raghnall, an etymologically unrelated Irish

Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

 and Scottish Gaelic name. Randal, as an Anglicisation of this Gaelic name, has been noted as being particularly common amongst several Irish families

Irish clans

Irish clans are traditional kinship groups sharing a common surname and heritage and existing in a lineage based society prior to the 17th century.-History:...

 of note. Randal has not been among the 1,000 most popular masculine baby names in the United States of America since 1994, and Randall has been among the top 1,000 names since 1906. According to US Census data, in 1990 both names were among the top 500 most popular masculine names in the country. Neither names are currently among the 100 most popular masculine (or feminine) baby names in either the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 nor the Republic of Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

.

Etymology and early history

The modern given name

Given name

A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

 Randall, , is derived from the transferred use of the surname Randall. There have been two explanations for the origin of this surname. One explanation is that the surname is derived from the Middle English

Middle English

Middle English is the stage in the history of the English language during the High and Late Middle Ages, or roughly during the four centuries between the late 11th and the late 15th century....

 personal name Randel. This name is a diminutive

Diminutive

In language structure, a diminutive, or diminutive form , is a formation of a word used to convey a slight degree of the root meaning, smallness of the object or quality named, encapsulation, intimacy, or endearment...

 of the mediaeval personal name Rand compounded with the Anglo Norman hypocoristic

Hypocoristic

A hypocorism is a shorter form of a word or given name, for example, when used in more intimate situations as a nickname or term of endearment.- Derivation :Hypocorisms are often generated as:...

 suffix

Suffix

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 -el. The Middle English Rand can be a short form of any of several names composed of the first element rand, meaning "shield" or "rim"; however the specific names associated with Randel are Randulf and Randolf—names that were brought to England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 by the Normans

Normans

The Normans were the people who gave their name to Normandy, a region in northern France. They were descended from Norse Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock...

. Another explanation for the surname Randall, is that it is merely an apocopal

Apocope

In phonology, apocope is the loss of one or more sounds from the end of a word, and especially the loss of an unstressed vowel.-Historical sound change:...

 form, or mediaeval vernacular

Vernacular

A vernacular is the native language or native dialect of a specific population, as opposed to a language of wider communication that is not native to the population, such as a national language or lingua franca.- Etymology :The term is not a recent one...

 form of Randolf.

The Norman personal name

Personal name

A personal name is the proper name identifying an individual person, and today usually comprises a given name bestowed at birth or at a young age plus a surname. It is nearly universal for a human to have a name; except in rare cases, for example feral children growing up in isolation, or infants...

s Randulf and Randolf are ultimately derived from the Old Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....

 Rannúlfr. In fact, Rannúlfr was introduced into England by Scandinavians well before the arrival of the Norman name, and because of the introduction of the form used by the Normans, both names were reinforced in England. The Old Norse Rannúlfr is composed of two elements—the first element is rand, meaning "shield

Shield

A shield is a type of personal armor, meant to intercept attacks, either by stopping projectiles such as arrows or redirecting a hit from a sword, mace or battle axe to the side of the shield-bearer....

" or "rim"; the second element is úlfr, meaning "wolf". The Old English form of these names is Randwulf (similarly composed of rand and wulf). Other cognate

Cognate

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s include: the Old Low German Randwulf, Randulf; and the Old Norse Röndúlfr.

There are several early occurrences in British sources of the names that gave rise to the modern given name Randall. An early occurrence of the modern surname is: Richard Randall, in 1547 (in Huntingdonshire

Huntingdonshire

Huntingdonshire is a local government district of Cambridgeshire, covering the area around Huntingdon. Traditionally it is a county in its own right...

, England). A mediaeval occurrence of the surname is: Thomas Randel, in 1250 (in Suffolk

Suffolk

Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...

, England). An early occurrence of the short form Rand is: Rande de Borham, in 1299. An early occurrence of Randel (a diminutive

Diminutive

In language structure, a diminutive, or diminutive form , is a formation of a word used to convey a slight degree of the root meaning, smallness of the object or quality named, encapsulation, intimacy, or endearment...

 of Rand) is: Randal, in 1204 (in Yorkshire

Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...

, England). An early occurrence of the mediaeval personal names Randolf, Randulf is: Randulfus, in about 1095 (in the Assize Rolls of Yorkshire, England); another is: Nicolaus filius Randulphi, in the years spanning 1175–86 (in Norfolk

Norfolk

Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

, England).

According to etymologist P. H. Reaney, the mediaeval name Randulf was commonly confused with Old German

Old German

Old German usually refers to Old High German, but it could also refer to:*Old Low German *Altdeutsche Tracht , a dress style popular among early 19th century German radicals...

 Rannulf. This Old German name is composed of elements meaning "raven

Raven

Raven is the common name given to several larger-bodied members of the genus Corvus—but in Europe and North America the Common Raven is normally implied...

" and "wolf", and was introduced into England around the same time as Randulf. One example where the unrelated names were confused and given to the same individual in different records is: Randolphus de Brachenberch, in about 1155; and Ranulfus de Brachinberge, in 1160–6 (both names recorded in Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England).

Variant forms and pet forms

Variant spellings of the given name Randall include: Randal, Randel, Randell, and Randle. Randal is also used as an Anglicised form of the Irish

Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

 and Scottish Gaelic Raghnall (to which it is etymologically

Etymology

Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.For languages with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during...

 unrelated). Although Randal is generally Gaelicised

Gaelicization

Gaelicization or Gaelicisation is the act or process of making something Gaelic, or gaining characteristics of the Gaels. The Gaels are an ethno-linguistic group who are traditionally viewed as having spread from Ireland to Scotland and the Isle of Man."Gaelic" as a linguistic term, refers to the...

 as Raghnall in Ireland (and sometimes Rághnall), the Irish Rannulbh more accurately represents Randulph and Randulf. A pet form of Randall is Randy

Randy

Randy is both a pet name, and a given name in the English language. It is both a masculine name and a feminine name. The masculine name was originally derived from the names Randall, Randolf, and also Andrew. The feminine name may have originated from the masculine Randy, or it may have originated...

; this name is , and is also a pet form of several other etymologically related, and unrelated names.

Use and popularity

Randall, as a modern given name, is regarded as being mainly an American

United States

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 name. In Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

, the name Randal has been associated with Lord Randal, an Anglo-Scottish border ballad

Border ballad

The English/Scottish border has a long and bloody history of conquest and reconquest, raid and counter-raid . It also has a stellar tradition of balladry, such that a whole group of songs exists that are often called "border ballads", because they were collected in that region.Border ballads, like...

, published by American Francis James Child

Francis James Child

Francis James Child was an American scholar, educator, and folklorist, best known today for his collection of folk songs known as the Child Ballads. Child was Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University, where he produced influential editions of English poetry...

 in 1882 (see Child Ballads

Child Ballads

The Child Ballads are a collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, collected by Francis James Child in the late nineteenth century...

). In parts of Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 in the 19th and early 20th century, the name Randal has been noted being used particularly by families of the surname MacDonnell (the surname was/is spelt variously). There are several notable Irish families

Irish clans

Irish clans are traditional kinship groups sharing a common surname and heritage and existing in a lineage based society prior to the 17th century.-History:...

, historically unrelated to each other, who bear (forms of) this surname. The chiefly line of one such family relocated to the Glens of Antrim

Glens of Antrim

The Glens of Antrim , known locally as simply The Glens, is a region of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It comprises nine glens , that radiate from the Antrim Plateau to the coast. The Glens are an area of outstanding natural beauty and are a major tourist attraction in north Antrim...

 from Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries, and Randal appears numerous times in their pedigree

Pedigree

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; this family descends from members

Sorley Boy MacDonnell

Somhairle Buidhe Mac Domhnaill , Scoto-Irish prince or flaith and chief, was the son of Alexander MacDonnell, lord of Islay and Kintyre , and Catherine, daughter of the Lord of Ardnamurchan...

 of the Scottish Clan Donald

Clan Donald

Clan Donald is one of the largest Scottish clans. There are numerous branches to the clan. Several of these have chiefs recognised by the Lord Lyon King of Arms; these are: Clan Macdonald of Sleat, Clan Macdonald of Clanranald, Clan MacDonell of Glengarry, Clan MacDonald of Keppoch, and Clan...

; and even today, various Anglicised forms of the Gaelic Raghnall are commonly used by members of this clan

Scottish clan

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. Randal was noted in the early 20th century as being common within the O'Donovan family as well; their name, like that of Clan Donald, originated as an Anglicised form of the etymologically unrelated Raghnall.

Since 1906, Randall has been among the top 1,000 names recorded in Social Security card applications for baby boys in the United States of America. The name was at its most popular point in 1955, when it was ranked the 53rd most popular masculine baby name. Currently, the name was ranked 749th for the year 2009. Randall currently is, and historically has been more popular in the United States than the various other forms of the name. For example, since 1995, Randal has not been among the top 1,000 names recorded in for baby boys. This name first ranked within the top 1,000 boys names in 1938, and it stayed among the top 1,000 names until 1994; the name was at its most popular point in 1958, when it was ranked 189th. According to data released by the Social Security Administration

Social Security Administration

The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits...

, the forms Randell, Randel, and Randle have never been nearly as popular (see 'popularity graphs' below). In 1990, the United States Census Bureau

United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data...

 undertook a study of the 1990 United States Census, and released a sample of data concerning the most popular names. According to this sample of 6.3 million people (who had 5,494 unique first names), Randal was ranked as the 477th most popular masculine name, and Randall was ranked 139th most popular. Neither names ranked among females in this sample.

Neither Randal or Randall ranked within the top 100 masculine (or feminine) baby names for the year 2009 in England and Wales

England and Wales

England and Wales is a jurisdiction within the United Kingdom. It consists of England and Wales, two of the four countries of the United Kingdom...

; similarly so for Scotland. In both the Republic of Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

 and Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

, neither name ranked within the top 100 masculine (or feminine) names of registered births in 2009.

Popularity graphs

Randal

Name	Life	Country of birth	Notability
Alexander Randal Mark McDonnell	born 1935		Ninth Earl of Antrim Earl of Antrim Earl of Antrim is a title that has been created twice, both times in the Peerage of Ireland and both times for members of the MacDonnell family, originally of Scottish origins. This family descends from Sorley Boy MacDonnell, who established the family in County Antrim...  (1785 creation), in the Peerage of Ireland Peerage of Ireland The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those titles of nobility created by the English and later British monarchs of Ireland in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl,... .
Randal Bays Randal Bays Randal Bays is a fiddler, guitarist and composer. The American-born Irish-style fiddle and guitar player first gained international recognition through his recordings and performances with Co. Clare fiddler Martin Hayes in the early 1990s. He began playing music at the age of eight and was...			Musician.
Randal Beresford Randal Beresford Sir Randal Beresford, 2nd Baronet was an Irish politician and baronet.He was the son of Sir Tristram Beresford, 1st Baronet and his first wife Anne Rowley, daughter of John Rowley. Beresford entered the Irish House of Commons in 1661, sitting for Coleraine until 1668...	died 1681		Second Beresford of Coleraine baronet, in the Baronetage of Ireland.
Randal E. Bryant Randal Bryant Randal E. Bryant is an American computer scientist and academic noted for his research on formally verifying digital hardware, and more recently some forms of software...			Dean Dean (education) In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both...  of School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science The School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA is a leading private school for computer science established in 1965. It has been consistently ranked among the top computer science programs over the decades. U.S... , at Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.... .
Randal Edwards Randal Edwards Randal Edwards was born in Calgary, Canada as the youngest of three children. He became an actor, finding some little fame in television series such as Smallville , Supernatural , The Best Years and Psych .-Television:...	born 1984	Canada	Actor.
Randal Forbes Elliott Randal Elliott Sir Randal Forbes Elliot, KBE, GCStJ, FRCS was a New Zealand eye surgeon and a campaigner for safety glass.-Early Life & Education:Elliott was born in Wellington into a family with a long medical history...	1922–2010	New Zealand	Noted eye surgeon and campaigner of safety glass Safety glass Safety glass is glass with additional safety features. Designs include:* Toughened glass * Laminated glass* Wire mesh glass... .
Randal Haworth Randal Haworth Randal D. Haworth, born September 19, 1961 is a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon recognized for his leading role in The Swan . Haworth is also an artist, having recently exhibited his Iconography series of paintings in both Los Angeles and Boca Raton, Florida.-Education:Haworth graduated Alpha Omega...		Randal Reid	Appeared on an American reality television show.
Randal Hill Randal Hill Randal "Thrill" Hill is a former professional American football player in the NFL who was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the first round of the 1991 NFL Draft, then later traded to the Cardinals. A 5'10", . wide receiver from the University of Miami, Hill played in 7 NFL seasons from 1991 to...	born 1969	United States of America	Professional American football American football American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...  player in the NFL.
Randal Kleiser Randal Kleiser John Randal Kleiser is an American film director and producer, perhaps best known for directing the 1978 musical film Grease.-Life and career:...	born 1946	United States of America	Film director.
Randal J. Kirk Randal J. Kirk Randal J. Kirk is the founder, chairman and chief executive of New River Pharmaceutical, and one of Virginia's wealthiest residents.-Personal life:...	born c. Circa Circa , usually abbreviated c. or ca. , means "approximately" in the English language, usually referring to a date... 1954	United States of America	Billionaire Billionaire A billionaire, in countries that use the short scale number naming system, is a person who has a net worth of at least one billion units of a given currency, usually the United States dollar, Euro, or Pound sterling. Forbes magazine updates a complete list of U.S. dollar billionaires around the...  businessman.
Randal MacDonnell Randal MacDonnell, 1st Earl of Antrim Randal MacDonnell, 1st Earl of Antrim , having been fostered in the Gaelic manner on the Scottish island of Arran by the Hamiltons, was the 4th son of Sorley Boy MacDonnell, and of Mary, daughter of Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone.He fought at first against the English government, participating...	died 1636		First Earl of Antrim Earl of Antrim Earl of Antrim is a title that has been created twice, both times in the Peerage of Ireland and both times for members of the MacDonnell family, originally of Scottish origins. This family descends from Sorley Boy MacDonnell, who established the family in County Antrim... , in the Peerage of Ireland Peerage of Ireland The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those titles of nobility created by the English and later British monarchs of Ireland in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl,... .
Randal MacDonnell	1609–1683		Second Earl of Antrim Earl of Antrim Earl of Antrim is a title that has been created twice, both times in the Peerage of Ireland and both times for members of the MacDonnell family, originally of Scottish origins. This family descends from Sorley Boy MacDonnell, who established the family in County Antrim... , and first Marquess of Antrim, in the Peerage of Ireland Peerage of Ireland The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those titles of nobility created by the English and later British monarchs of Ireland in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl,... .
Randal MacDonnell	1680–1721		Fourth Earl of Antrim Earl of Antrim Earl of Antrim is a title that has been created twice, both times in the Peerage of Ireland and both times for members of the MacDonnell family, originally of Scottish origins. This family descends from Sorley Boy MacDonnell, who established the family in County Antrim...  in the Peerage of Ireland Peerage of Ireland The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those titles of nobility created by the English and later British monarchs of Ireland in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl,... .
Randal Johnson Malone Randal Malone Randal Johnson Malone is an American actor.-Early life:Malone was born as the sole living heir to a tobacco farming empire dating back to the early 19th century, but he was more attracted to working in show business and Hollywood than managing the family industry in Kentucky...	born 1959	United States of America	Actor Actor An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity... .
Randal Robert Alexander Marlin Randal Marlin Randal Marlin, , is a Canadian philosophy professor at Carleton University in Ottawa who specializes in the study of propaganda. He was educated at Princeton University, McGill University, the University of Oxford, and the University of Toronto...			Adjunct Professor at Carleton University Carleton University Carleton University is a comprehensive university located in the capital of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. The enabling legislation is The Carleton University Act, 1952, S.O. 1952. Founded as a small college in 1942, Carleton now offers over 65 programs in a diverse range of disciplines. Carleton has... .
Randal McLelland Randal McLelland Randal Sean McLelland is an International Skeet shooter that competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics.Sean began shooting clay targets when he was 14, and he credits Steve Schultz for being the most helpful and influential person in his development and upbringing in the clay target sports...	born 1985	United States of America	American Olympic athlete United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics The United States competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. American athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games since the 1896 Summer Olympics except the 1980 Summer Olympics, which the U.S. boycotted. The United States entered the Games as the most successful nation in...  at the 2008 Summer Olympics 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events... .
Randal O'Toole Randal O'Toole Randal O'Toole is an American public policy analyst. Although O'Toole studied economics at the University of Oregon, he did not receive a degree in economics...			Cato Institute Cato Institute The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane, who remains president and CEO, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries, Inc., the largest privately held...  Senior Fellow, and author.
Randal Keith Orton Randy Orton Randal Keith "Randy" Orton is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to WWE wrestling on its SmackDown brand...	born 1980	United States of America	American professional wrestler
Randal Pinkett Randal Pinkett Randal D. Pinkett is a business consultant who in 2005 was the winner of season four of the reality television show, The Apprentice...	born 1971	United States of America	Contestant on an American reality television show.
Randal Edward Sherborne Plunkett Randal Plunkett The Hon. Randal Edward Sherborne Plunkett , was a British Conservative politician.-Background:Plunkett was the eldest son of Admiral Edward Plunkett, 16th Baron of Dunsany, and the Hon. Anne Constance, daughter of John Dutton, 2nd Baron Sherborne...	1848–1883		Member of Parliament Member of Parliament A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...  in the United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... .
Randal Arthur Henry Plunkett Randal Arthur Henry Plunkett, 19th Baron of Dunsany Randal Arthur Henry Plunkett, 19th Baron of Dunsany was an Irish peer. He was the son of the famous author and playwright Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany and Lady Beatrice Child Villiers.-Family seat:...	1906–1999		Nineteenth Baron of Dunsany, in the Peerage of Ireland Peerage of Ireland The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those titles of nobility created by the English and later British monarchs of Ireland in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl,... .
Randal Howard Paul	born 1963	United States of America	Noted American politician.
Randal Smith Randal Smith, 2nd Baron Bicester Randall Hugh Vivian Smith, 2nd Baron Bicester was an English businessman.Born in London in 1898, the eldest son of the Vivian Smith, later created 1st Baron Bicester and his wife Lady Sybil Mary McDonnell, daughter of William Randal McDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim. He was educated at Eton and...	1898–1968		Second Baron Bicester Baron Bicester Baron Bicester, of Tusmore in the County of Oxford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 29 June 1938 for the businessman Vivian Smith. the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his uncle in 1968.... , in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Peerage of the United Kingdom The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain... .
Randal Williams Randal Williams Randal Ellison Williams is an American football free agent tight end in the National Football League.Williams attended Deerfield Academy and then the University of New Hampshire...	born 1978	United States of America	Professional American football American football American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...  player in the NFL.
Randal R. Wisbey Randal R. Wisbey Randal R. Wisbey is La Sierra University’s third president. He was elected on July 1, 2007. Before coming to La Sierra University, Wisbey was the president of Columbia Union College Takoma Park, Maryland. Prior to being the president of Columbia Union College, he was the president of Canadian...			President of La Sierra University La Sierra University La Sierra University is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational university accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Adventist Accrediting Association... .
William Randal Cremer	1828–1908		Recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1903.
William Randal McDonnell	1851–1918		Sixth Earl of Antrim Earl of Antrim Earl of Antrim is a title that has been created twice, both times in the Peerage of Ireland and both times for members of the MacDonnell family, originally of Scottish origins. This family descends from Sorley Boy MacDonnell, who established the family in County Antrim...  (1785 creation), in the Peerage of Ireland Peerage of Ireland The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those titles of nobility created by the English and later British monarchs of Ireland in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl,... .

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• Randall Dale Adams
  Randall Dale Adams
  Randall Dale Adams was wrongly convicted of murdering police officer Robert W. Wood, and was subsequently sentenced to death. He served more than 12 years in prison, at one point coming within 72 hours of being put to death...
  
  , (born 1949), wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death
• Randall Amster
  Randall Amster
  Randall Amster is an author, activist, and educator in areas including peace, ecology, homelessness, and anarchism. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1966, Amster has worked as an attorney, judicial clerk, professor, and academic administrator during his professional career...
  
  , (born 1966), American, author
• Randall Azofeifa
  Randall Azofeifa
  Randall Azofeifa Corrales is a Costa Rican football midfielder who played for K.A.A. Gent in the Jupiler League. In January 2011 he was transferred to the Turkish team Gençlerbirligi at a transfer price of 1,6 million Euros....
  
  , (born 1984), Costa Rican, football (soccer) player
• Randall B. Griepp
  Randall B. Griepp
  Randall B. Griepp is an American cardiothoracic surgeon who collaborated with Norman Shumway in the development of the first successful heart transplant procedures in the U.S. He has an international reputation for his contributions to the surgical treatment of aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection...
  
  , American, cardiothoracic surgeon
• Randall B. Kester
  Randall B. Kester
  Randall B. Kester is an American attorney and former judge in the state of Oregon. He was the 69th Associate Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court, serving from 1957 to 1958...
  
  , (born 1916), American, attorney and judge
• Randall Bailey
  Randall Bailey
  Randall Bailey is an American boxer at welterweight. Nicknamed "The Knockout King", Bailey is widely considered to be one of the hardest punchers in boxing today.- Professional career :...
  
  , (born 1974), American, boxer
• Randall Bal
  Randall Bal
  Randall Bal is an American swimmer who specializes in the backstroke. He is a former world record holder in the 50-meter backstroke ....
  
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• Randall Balmer
  Randall Balmer
  Randall Herbert Balmer is an American author, professor of American religious history at Barnard College, Columbia University, an editor for Christianity Today and an Episcopal priest. He earned the Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1985...
  
  , (born 1954), American, author
• Randall Bass
  Randall Bass
  Randall Bass is an associate professor of English and assistant provost at Georgetown University, and Executive Director of Center for New Design of Learning & Scholarship .He was visiting scholar at Ball State University....
  
  , American, scholar
• Randall James Bayer
  Randall James Bayer
  Randall James Bayer is an American systematic botanist, published mostly as "R.J. Bayer", who was born in Buffalo, New York, U.S.A....
  
  ,
• Randall Batinkoff
  Randall Batinkoff
  Randall Matthew Batinkoff is an American actor.Batinkoff was born in Monticello, New York and was raised on an egg farm near Ferndale, New York...
  
  , (born 1968), American, actor
• Randall Beer
  Randall Beer
  Randall D. Beer is a professor of cognitive science, computer science, and informatics at Indiana University. He was previously at Case Western Reserve University. His primary research interest is in understanding how coordinated behavior arises from the neurodynamics of an animal's nervous...
  
  , American, scholar
• Randall Bell
  Randall Bell
  Randall Bell is an author and applied economist who specializes in real estate damages, disaster research, and strategic planning.. He works as a consultant in diminution value or stigmatized real estate...
  
  , (born 1959), American, author
• Randall Bentley
  Randall Bentley
  Robert Randall Bentley, Jr. , credited as Randall Bentley, is an American actor. He is known for the recurring character Lyle Bennet on the television series Heroes...
  
  , (born 1991), American, actor
• Randall C. Berg, Jr.
  Randall C. Berg, Jr.
  Randall Challen Berg Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia to Randall Challen Berg and Margaret Baker Berg. He spent most of his childhood in Jacksonville, FL, graduating from Robert E. Lee High School in 1967. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1971 with a...
  
  , American, Executive Director of the Florida Justice Institute
• Randall Bewley
  Randall Bewley
  Randall "Randy" Bewley was the guitarist for the Athens, Georgia band Pylon. Born in Bradenton, Florida, United States. He lived in Sarasota, Florida, Washington, DC and near Atlanta, Georgia while growing up. Bewley attended the University of Georgia art school where he met Michael Lachowski, a...
  
  , (1955–2009), guitarist
• Randall Boe
  Randall Boe
  Randall Boe was General Counsel for AOL and has been involved in many ground breaking cases regarding internet law. He was born in Ohio and grew up in Iowa City, Iowa. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and graduated in 1983 with majors in political science and economics. He...
  
  , (born 1962), General Counsel for AOL
• Randall Bone
  Randall Bone
  Randall Bone is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Recruited from South Australian National Football League club South Adelaide Football Club, Bone made his AFL debut for Adelaide in 1992, playing 12 games and kicking 13 goals...
  
  , (born 1973), Australian rules footballer
• Randall Brady
  Randall Brady
  Randall Brady is an American actor who was predominantly active on screen during the 1980s. His most recent on-screen appearance came in 1996 when he appeared on the TV serial The Secret She Carried....
  
  , American actor
• Randall Bramblett
  Randall Bramblett
  Randall Bramblett is an American musician and singer-songwriter, whose career as a solo artist, session player, and touring musician, has spanned more than three decades. He has worked with such notable performers as Gregg Allman, Bonnie Raitt, Robbie Robertson, Elvin Bishop, Steve Winwood,...
  
  , American, musician and singer-songwriter
• Randall Brenes
  Randall Brenes
  Randall Brenes Moya is a Costa Rican professional football forward who currently plays for Cartaginés in the Costa Rican Primera División.-Early career:...
  
  , (born 1983), Costa Rican, professional football (soccer) player
• Randall Burks
  Randall Burks
  Randall James Burks is a former NFL wide receiver who played for the Chicago Bears. Burks was known for his speed, described as "electrifying".-Athletic career:...
  
  , (born 1953), American, American football player
• Randall Carroll
  Randall Carroll
  Randall Carroll is an American football wide receiver. He currently attends the University of California, Los Angeles in his sophomore year.-High school career:...
  
  , (born 1991), American, American football player
• Randall Carver, (born 1946), American, actor
• Randall Cobb (disambiguation) - several people
  • Randall Cobb (American football), (born 1989), American, American football player
  • Randall "Tex" Cobb, (born 1950), American, boxer and actor
• Randall H. Cole, (1824–1875), American, Superintendent of Railways in New Jersey
• Randall Collins
  Randall Collins
  Randall Collins, Ph.D. is the Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Advisory Editors Council of the Social Evolution & History Journal. He is considered to be one of the leading non-Marxist conflict theorists in the United...
  
  , (born 1941), American, academic
• Randall Crane
  Randall Crane
  Randall Crane, Ph.D., is a Professor and Vice Chair of the UCLA School of Public Affairs, Department of Urban Planning, where he has taught since 1999. He also serves as an associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association, and is Associate Director of the UCLA Institute of...
  
  , academic
• Randall Cunningham
  Randall Cunningham
  Randall W. Cunningham is a former American football quarterback.After playing college football at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he was selected in the second round of the 1985 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles, with whom he remained through the 1995 season...
  
  , (born 1963), American, American football player
• Randall Davidson, 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth, (1848–1930), British, Anglican clergyman, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Randall Dodd
  Randall Dodd
  Randall Dodd is the founder and director for Financial Policy Forum in Washington, DC, United States, a non-profit organization that deals with regulation of financial markets....
  
  , founder and director of Financial Policy Forum
• Randall Dougherty
  Randall Dougherty
  Randall Dougherty has made contributions in widely varying areas of mathematics, including set theory,logic, real analysis, discrete mathematics, computational geometry, information theory and coding theory....
  
  , (born 1961), mathematician
• Randall Duell
  Randall Duell
  Randall Duell was an American architect and art director. Duell attended the University of Southern California School of Architecture and graduated in 1925...
  
  , (1903–1992), American, architect and art director
• Randall Duk Kim
  Randall Duk Kim
  Randall Duk Kim is a Korean-American stage, television and film actor. Kim was also the artistic director and mainstay lead actor at the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin, which he founded with Anne Occhiogrosso and Charles Bright...
  
  , (born 1943), American, actor
• Randall Edwards (disambiguation) - several people
  • Randall Edwards (actress)
    Randall Edwards (actress)
    Randall Edwards is an American television actress. She may be best known for her role on Ryan's Hope as Delia Reid Ryan Ryan Coleridge .-Biography:...
    
    , (born 1955), American, actor
  • Randall Edwards (politician)
    Randall Edwards (politician)
    Randall Edwards is an American politician who most recently served as the state treasurer of the state of Oregon. A Democrat, Edwards was elected as treasurer in 2000, and reelected in 2004, after serving two terms in the Oregon Legislative Assembly...
    
    , (born 1961), American, politician
• Randall Einhorn
  Randall Einhorn
  Randall Einhorn is an American television director and cinematographer. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.Einhorn is best known for his work on The Office . He also directed The Accountants, a ten-part webisode spinoff of The Office which appeared online between the second and third seasons...
  
  , (born 1963), American, television director and cinematographer
• Randall Faye
  Randall Faye
  Randall Faye was an American screenwriter, film producer and director. He wrote for 64 films between 1926 and 1947.He was died in Orange County, California.-Selected filmography:* Upstream...
  
  , (1892–1948), American, screenwriter, film producer and director
• Randall Craig Fleischer
  Randall Craig Fleischer
  Randall Craig Fleischer is an American conductor. He is the current Music Director of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Anchorage Symphony, and Youngstown Symphony orchestras .-External links:*...
  
  , American, conductor
• Randall Fontes
  Randall Fontes
  Randall G. Fontes is an American psychology professional known particularly for his research in the fields of parapsychology and psychophysics...
  
  , (born 1945), American, psychology professional
• Randall Forsberg
  Randall Forsberg
  Dr. Randall Caroline Forsberg led a lifetime of research and advocacy on ways to reduce the risk of war, minimize the burden of military spending, and promote democratic institutions. Her career started at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in 1968. In 1974 she moved to...
  
  , (1943–2007), American, anti-war activist
• Randall M. Fort
  Randall M. Fort
  Randall M. Fort is currently Director of Programs Security, Cyberdomain Team, Raytheon Corporation. He was formerly the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research in the United States Department of State from November 2006 through January 2009, as part of the Bush...
  
  , (born 1956), American, member of the Intelligence and Research in the United States Department
• Randall Frakes
  Randall Frakes
  Randall Frakes is a film and science fiction writer primarily known for his work with long-time friends, Bill Wisher, and James Cameron on The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day....
  
  , author
• Randall Franks
  Randall Franks
  Randall Franks is an award-winning bluegrass singer and musician who plays fiddle, mandolin, guitar and mountain dulcimer. He was recognized by the International Bluegrass Music Museum in 2010 as a Bluegrass Legend; inducted into the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004; and was designated...
  
  , singer and musician
• Randall Garrett
  Randall Garrett
  Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s...
  
  , (1927–1987), American, author
• Randall Garrison
  Randall Garrison
  Randall C. Garrison is a Canadian politician and Member of Parliament in the 41st Parliament. He was elected to the House of Commons in the 2011 federal election. He represents the electoral district of Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca and is a member of the New Democratic Party...
  
  , Canadian politician
• Randall Gay
  Randall Gay
  Randall "Blue" Jerome Gay, Jr. is an American football cornerback who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent in 2004. He played college football at Louisiana State...
  
  , (born 1982), American, American football player
• Randall George Lewis MacAlister
  Randall George Lewis MacAlister
  The Very Reverend Randal George Leslie MacAlister was an eminent Anglican priest in the last quarter of the 20th century and the early part of the 21st. He was born on 31 December 1941 and educated at The Royal School, Armagh and Trinity College, Dublin...
  
  , Anglican priest
• Randall L. Gibson
  Randall L. Gibson
  -External links:*...
  
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• Randall Giles
  Randall Giles
  Randall Giles was an American music composer, Episcopal Church missionary, and ethnographer.He was born in Oregon City, Oregon in 1950. His first studies in composition were with Mark DeVoto at Reed College, after which he took his undergraduate degree at the University of York while studying with...
  
  , (1950–2010), American, music composer
• Randall Godfrey
  Randall Godfrey
  Randall Euralentris Godfrey is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. Godfrey played college football at the University of Georgia, where he majored in housing and consumer economics. He also played High School Football at Lowndes High School in Valdosta Georgia...
  
  , (born 1973), American, American football player
• Randall Goff
  Randall Goff
  Randall Goff is a former water polo player from Australia, who competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1976. He finished in 11th and 7th position with the Australian National Men's Team.-References:...
  
  ,
• Randall Gregory Holcombe, American, academic
• Randall Hall
  Randall Hall
  Randall Burgess Hall is a saxophonist, composer, and improviser. Classically trained with the likes of Claude Delange, Hall has become one of the leading performers and composers for avant-garde music for saxophone...
  
  , musician
• Randall S. Harmon
  Randall S. Harmon
  Randall S. "Front Porch" Harmon was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Harmon was born in North Vernon, Indiana and he graduated from North Vernon High School. Harmon also took extension courses in law and tool engineering...
  
  , (1903–1982), American, politician
• Randall G. Hassell
  Randall G. Hassell
  Randall G. Hassell is the Chief Instructor for the American Shotokan Karate Alliance , Senior Editor of Tamashii Press, President of the American JKA Karate Association , and a Founding Fellow of the International Karate Society ....
  
  , karate instructor
• Randall Hodgkinson
  Randall Hodgkinson
  Randall Hodgkinson is an American pianist. He won the International American Music Competition which was sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the Rockefeller Foundation...
  
  , American, musician
• Randall Hunley
  Randall Hunley
  Randall Hunley is a Southern Gospel musician. He was pianist for The Kingdom Heirs and The McKameys .-References:...
  
  , American, musician
• Randall Hyde
  Randall Hyde
  Randall Hyde is best known as the author of , a popular book on assembly language programming. He created the Lisa assembler in the late 1970s and developed the High Level Assembly language....
  
  , (born 1956), American, author
• Randall D. Isaac, physics research scientist
• Randall Jahnson
  Randall Jahnson
  Randall Jahnson is an American writer, director and producer. His works include Dudes, The Doors, The Mask of Zorro, Sunset Strip, and episodes of the HBO TV series Tales from the Crypt. Jahnson also directed music videos for Stan Ridgway, Henry Rollins, Black Flag, and Minutemen. In the 1987, he...
  
  , American, writer, director, and producer
• Randall Jarrell
  Randall Jarrell
  Randall Jarrell was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist. He was the 11th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a role which now holds the title of US Poet Laureate.-Life:Jarrell was a native of Nashville, Tennessee...
  
  , (1914–1965), American, author
• Randall Kempner, (born 1969), American, Texan, economic development expert
• Randall Kenan
  Randall Kenan
  Randall Kenan is an American author of fiction and nonfiction. Raised in a rural community in North Carolina, Kenan has focused his fiction on what it means to be black and gay in the southern United States. Among his books is the collection of short stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was...
  
  , (born 1963), American, author
• Randall Kennedy (disambiguation) - several people
  • Randall Kennedy
    Randall Kennedy
    Randall L. Kennedy is an American Law professor and author at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law and focuses his research on the intersection of racial conflict and legal institutions in American life...
    
    , (born 1954), American, academic and author
  • Randall C. Kennedy
    Randall C. Kennedy
    Randall C Kennedy is director of research and cofounder of Competitive Systems Analysis, an IT consulting company. He was a former systems analyst for Giga Information Group. Kennedy was a contributor for InfoWorld, focusing on Windows, Microsoft and other topics, but was dismissed on February 21,...
    
    , computer specialist
• Randall Kleck
  Randall Kleck
  Randall Kleck is an American martial artist and three time world champion. In a martial arts career spanning over 40 years he has been a student, competitor, judge, instructor, and author.-Martial arts competition:...
  
  , American, martial artist
• Randall Kroszner
  Randall Kroszner
  Randall S. Kroszner, Ph.D. is a former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States. He took office on March 1, 2006 to fill an unexpired term, and stepped down on January 21, 2009. Now Kroszner is Norman R...
  
  , (born 1962), member of the Federal Reserve
• Randall Luthi
  Randall Luthi
  Randall B. Luthi is an attorney and rancher from Freedom, in northwestern Lincoln County in western Wyoming, who served as a Republican in the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1995—2007. He was the Speaker for his last two-year term, 2005—2007. Prior to 2005, he had been the House...
  
  , (born 1955), American, attorney
• Randall Maggs
  Randall Maggs
  Randall Maggs is a Canadian poet and former professor of English Literature at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College of Memorial University, in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. He is one of the organizers and now artistic director of the March Hare, the largest literary festival in Atlantic Canada.-Early...
  
  , Canadian, poet
• Randall Mann
  Randall Mann
  Randall Mann is an American poet.He was born in Provo, Utah in 1972, the only son to Olympic Track and Field medalist, Ralph Mann. He is the author of Breakfast with Thom Gunn , Complaint in the Garden , winner of the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry, and co-author of the textbook Writing Poems...
  
  , American, poet
• Randall McDaniel
  Randall McDaniel
  Randall McDaniel is a former offensive guard in the National Football League. On January 31, 2009 he was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame...
  
  , (born 1964), American, professional American football player
• Randall Miller
  Randall Miller
  Randall Miller is an American film director. He has directed numerous films from 1992 to 2008. His 2008 film Bottle Shock was self-distributed...
  
  , American, film director
• Randall Munroe
  Randall Munroe
  Randall Patrick Munroe is an American webcomic author and former NASA roboticist as well as a programmer, best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd...
  
  , (born 1984), American, webcomic author
• Randall Nieman
  Randall Nieman
  Randall Nieman is a musician and entrepreneur. In addition to being a guitarist and percussionist in several bands, he has played a variety of exotic instruments, including the theremin.Neiman departed the post-rock band Windy & Carl to form Füxa in 1995...
  
  , musician
• Randall C. O'Reilly
  Randall C. O'Reilly
  Randall C. O'Reilly is a professor of psychologyat the University of Colorado at Boulder.-Education:Randall O'Reilly obtained his M.S. at Carnegie Mellon University in 1992. He went on to get a Ph.D...
  
  , (born 1967), academic
• Randall Packer
  Randall Packer
  -Biography:Packer studied music composition with Mel Powell and Richard Felciano at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of California, Berkeley. He pursued post-graduate study in computer music in Paris, where he was a composer in residence at IRCAM under Pierre Boulez...
  
  , (born 1953), American, contemporary multimedia artist
• Randall Park
  Randall Park
  Randall Park is an American comedian, writer, and actor.Park was born and raised in Los Angeles, California in the U.S., to Korean parents. Park graduated from Hamilton High School's Humanities Magnet Program...
  
  , American, comedian and actor
• Randall Parrish
  Randall Parrish
  Randall Parrish was an American author of dime novels, including Wolves of the Sea .-Early life:Parrish was born in the city of Kewanee, the only son of Rufus Parker and Frances Adeline...
  
  , (1858–1923), American, author
• Randall Pearce
  Randall Pearce
  Randall Pearce is a social researcher from Sydney, Australia. He was born in Ontario, Canada, and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto and a Masters in Public Administration from the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.Pearce led party communications for...
  
  , Canadian-born Australian, social researcher
• Randall Pinkston
  Randall Pinkston
  Randall Pinkston has been a correspondent for CBS News since December, 1990. After a stint as a White House Correspondent in CBS's Washington Bureau, Pinkston became a general assignment reporter, contributing to CBS broadcasts, including CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CBS News Sunday Morning...
  
  , (born 1950), correspondent for CBS News
• Randall Poffo, (born 1952), better known as Randy Savage
  Randy Savage
  Randall Mario Poffo , better known by his ring name "Macho Man" Randy Savage, was an American professional wrestler, best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling .Savage held twenty championships during his professional wrestling career and was a...
  
  , American, professional wrestler
• Randall Ray Rader
  Randall Ray Rader
  Randall R. Rader is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.-Early life, education, and career:...
  
  , (born 1949), American, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Randall Robinson
  Randall Robinson
  Randall Robinson is an African-American lawyer, author and activist, noted as the founder of TransAfrica. He is known particularly for his impassioned opposition to South African apartheid, and for his advocacy on behalf of Haitian immigrants and Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.-Early...
  
  , (born 1941), American, lawyer, author, and activist
• Randall Robinson (cinematographer)
  Randall Robinson (cinematographer)
  Randall Robinson is an American cinematographer. He is a former president of the Society of Operating Cameramen and the founding publisher and editor of the Operating Cameraman Magazine...
  
  , (born 1946), American, cinematographer
• Randall Rothenberg
  Randall Rothenberg
  Randall Rothenberg is the president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the trade association for interactive marketing in the U.S.He received an undergraduate degree in classics from Princeton University....
  
  , business executive
• Randall Row
  Randall Row
  Rándall Row Arias is a former Costa Rican footballer who played most of his career with Deportivo Saprissa, during the 1990s....
  
  , (born 1971), Costa Rican, footballer
• Randall Schmidt
  Randall Schmidt
  Randall Mark Schmidt was a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force.Schmidt was appointed to conduct an inquiry into FBI reports that detainees at Guantanamo Bay were being subjected to inhumane interrogation....
  
  , American, Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force
• Randall Schweller
  Randall Schweller
  Randall L. Schweller is Full Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University, where he has taught since 1994.He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1993 and served as an Olin Fellow at Harvard University in 1993-94...
  
  , American, academic
• Randall Silvis
  Randall Silvis
  Randall Silvis is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and teacher.-Life:He was educated at Clarion University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania...
  
  , American, author
• Randall Simon
  Randall Simon
  Randall Carlito Simon is a professional baseball first baseman. He has played all or part of eight seasons in Major League Baseball and one in Nippon Professional Baseball between 1997 and 2006. Simon's debut season came with the Atlanta Braves in 1997, for whom he played until 1999...
  
  , (born 1975), professional baseball player
• Randall Smith (disambiguation) - several people
  • Randall Smith
    Randall Smith
    Randall Smith is an electroacoustic music composer born March 8, 1960 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and currently living in Toronto.-Recordings:* Sondes * L'oreille voit...
    
    , (born 1960), Canadian, musician
  • Randall Smith (journalist), American, journalist
  • Randall Lee Smith
    Randall Lee Smith
    Randall Lee Smith was a convicted murderer from Pearisburg, Virginia. He pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of Robert Mountford Jr. and Laura Susan Ramsay, who were killed while hiking the Appalachian Trail, in May 1981...
    
    , (died 2008), American, convicted murderer
• Randall W. Spetman
  Randall W. Spetman
  Randall W. "Randy" Spetman is the athletic director for the Florida State Seminoles athletic program at Florida State University, having served in this role since 2008. Spetman has also been the director of athletics at Utah State University and the United States Air Force Academy...
  
  , (born 1953), American, athletic director at Florida State University
• Randall J. Stephens
  Randall J. Stephens
  Randall J. Stephens is a noted author, editor, and historian of American religion.-Career:Stephens is the editor of the Journal of Southern Religion, for Florida State University, and of Historically Speaking from the Johns Hopkins University Press, for Boston University...
  
  , author
• Randall L. Stephenson
  Randall L. Stephenson
  Randall L. Stephenson is an American business executive.Stephenson replaced Edward E. Whitacre, Jr. as chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T Inc. in 2007. He was senior executive vice president and chief financial officer of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, which he joined in 1982. He...
  
  , (born 1960), American, business executive
• Randall S. Street
  Randall S. Street
  Randall S. Street was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...
  
  , (1780–1841), American, lawyer and politician
• Randall J. Strossen
  Randall J. Strossen
  Dr. Randall J. Strossen is the founder and president of IronMind Enterprises, Inc. and the editor-in-chief and publisher of MILO journal. He wrote a monthly column called "IronMind" in IRONMAN magazine for over 12 years, starting in 1988 and has authored several books on strength training...
  
  , (born 1951), strength training writer
• Randall Stout
  Randall Stout
  -Early life and education:Born and raised in Tennessee, Stout has a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Tennessee and a Master of Architecture from Rice University.-Career:...
  
  , American, architect
• Randall Svane
  Randall Svane
  Randall Svane is an American composer, born in 1955. His works have been played by the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Borromeo String Quartet, the Colonial Symphony, Schola Cantorum on Hudson, and in the Musikfest at Gut Bötersheim...
  
  , (born 1955), American, composer
• Randall Swingler
  Randall Swingler
  Randall Swingler MM was an English poet, writing extensively in the 1930s in the communist interest.His was a prosperous middle class Anglican family near Nottingham, with an industrial background in the Midlands. He was educated at Winchester College, and New College, Oxford...
  
  , (1909–1967), English, poet, also awarded the Military Medal in the Second World War
• Randall T. Ruble
  Randall T. Ruble
  Dr. Randall T. Ruble is an American academic and from 26 October 2006 to 2010 was the president of Erskine College.-Personal life:He was born in Augusta County, Virginia, was educated in the public schools of Rockbridge County, Virginia, and graduated from high school in Collingdale,...
  
  , American, academic
• Randall T. Shepard
  Randall T. Shepard
  Randall Terry Shepard is the Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court.-Biography:Randall Terry Shepard was born in Lafayette in 1946. Shepard is a seventh generation Hoosier. He is an Eagle Scout and has received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award...
  
  , (born 1946), Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
• Randall Terry
  Randall Terry
  Randall Almira Terry is an American pro-life activist and candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in 2012. Terry founded the pro-life organization Operation Rescue. The group became particularly prominent beginning in 1987 for blockading the entrances to abortion clinics;...
  
  , (born 1959), American, pro-life activist
• Randall L. Tobias
  Randall L. Tobias
  Randall L. Tobias is a former chief executive officer of Eli Lilly and Company who became the first United States Director of Foreign Assistance, and served concurrently as the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development , with the rank of Ambassador...
  
  , (born 1942), American, business executive
• Randall Thompson (disambiguation) - several people
  • Randall Thompson
    Randall Thompson
    Randall Thompson was an American composer, particularly noted for his choral works.-Career:He attended Harvard University, became assistant professor of music and choir director at Wellesley College, and received a doctorate in music from the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music...
    
    , (1899–1984), American, composer
  • Randall Thompson (boxer)
    Randall Thompson (boxer)
    Randall Thompson is a retired boxer from Canada, who competed in the middleweight Randall Thompson (born June 14, 1964 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a retired boxer from Canada, who competed in the middleweight Randall Thompson (born June 14, 1964 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a retired boxer from...
    
    
• Randall Tolson
  Randall Tolson
  Randall Tolson was a clockmaker who lived in Cold Spring Harbor, New York for most of his adult life. In 1932, he was brought to trial for the murder of his brother but was later acquitted. Details surrounding the later parts of his life are less resolved, but it is known that he began to make...
  
  , (1912–1954), American, clockmaker
• Randall Wallace
  Randall Wallace
  Randall Wallace is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and songwriter who came to prominence by writing the screenplay for the 1995 film Braveheart. His work on the film earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay and a Writers Guild of America award for Best...
  
  , (born 1949), American, screenwriter, director, producer
• Randall Weber
  Randall Weber
  Randall Weber is a retired ice hockey centre. He moved to Nottingham in the early 1980s and made his debut for the Nottingham Panthers at the age of seventeen in 1985...
  
  , (born 1968), Canadian, ice hockey player
• Randall Wells
  Randall Wells
  Albert Randall Wells was an English architect who worked principally in the Arts and Crafts style.He was the son of an architect, Arthur Wells of Hastings...
  
  , (1877–1942), English, architect
• Randall Winston, television producer and director
• Randall Woodfield
  Randall Woodfield
  Randall Brent "Randy" Woodfield is an American serial killer who was dubbed The I-5 Killer or The I-5 Bandit by law enforcement due to the crimes he allegedly committed along the Interstate 5 corridor running through Washington, Oregon, and California. Before his capture, the I-5 Killer was...
  
  , (born 1950), American, serial killer dubbed The I-5 Killer or The I-5 Bandit
• Randall Woolf
  Randall Woolf
  Randall Woolf is an American composer known for his diverse contemporary works, and in particular for his works based on children's literature and collaborative work with youth organizations. He studied composition privately with David Del Tredici and Joseph Maneri, and at Harvard, where he earned...
  
  , American, composer
• Randall Zindler
  Randall Zindler
  -Personal History:Upon graduating from Minnesota State University after doing a bachelors in Geography; Randall Zindler has held positions in Food for the Hungry International and Gate Gourmet.He completed his MBA from Lancaster University Management School in 1999...
  
  , American, business executive
• Randall Zisk
  Randall Zisk
  Randall "Randy" Zisk is an American television director and producer.As both a director and producer, he has worked most substantially on the television series Monk and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman...
  
  , American, television director and producer
• Randall Zwinge, American stage magician and scientific skeptic

Randell

Name	Life	Country of birth	Notability
Randell Kirsch Randell Kirsch Randell Kirsch is an American singer/songwriter and musician.Kirsch received his first guitar lesson in 1962, performed publicly for the first time in 1963 at the Fresno County Fair, won the Wolters Elementary School talent show in 1966 with his band The Scorchers with Jeff Bryon and Perry Hodge,...			Musician.
Randell Stansfield Randell Stansfield Randell Stansfield is a former military officer of the United States.-Life:His Masters studies were at Michigan State and at Webster University and his Bachelor of Science Degree was from Columbia College...			Officer in the United States Army United States Army The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services... .