Marmaduke (disambiguation)

Marmaduke is a boy's name of Irish and Gaelic origin, and has been variously interpreted as meaning "follower of Saint Maedoc"^[1] or as "leader of the seas". It may also refer to:

People

Surname

• John S. Marmaduke, Confederate general
• Meredith Miles Marmaduke, eighth governor of Missouri
• Thomas Marmaduke, English sailor

Given name

• Marmaduke Barton (1865–1938), English pianist
• Marmaduke Constable, 15th-century English soldier
• Marmaduke Davenport, pseudonym for British confidence trickster Alexander Day
• Marmaduke Grove, (his name erroneously spelled Marmaduque; 1878-1954). Chilean Air Force officer and political figure
• Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley, chairman of the BBC.
• Marmaduke Langdale, High Sheriff of Yorkshire
• Marmaduke Lumley, 15th-century English priest
• Marmaduke Pattle, RAF flying ace
• Marmaduke Pickthall, Islamic scholar
• Marmaduke Tunstall, English ornithologist
• Marmaduke Tweng, 13/14th century, English knight and captain during the Wars of Scottish Independence
• Marmaduke Williams, U.S. congressman from North Carolina
• Marmaduke Wyvill, several, including:
  • Marmaduke Wyvill (chess player), English chess master

Nickname

• John Dawson, known as "Marmaduke", American country-rock musician
• John Smoltz, known as "Smoltzie" and "Marmaduke", American baseball pitcher

Places

United States

• Marmaduke, Arkansas

Entertainment

• Marmaduke, a syndicated comic strip and the Great Dane, which is the title character
  • Marmaduke (film), a 2010 film based on the comic strip
• Marmaduke Brooker, a character from the TV series Carpoolers, played by T. J. Miller
• Marmaduke Duke, Scottish rock duo
• Marmaduke "Chuffy" Chuffnell, 5th Baron Chuffnell, a fictional character in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves novels
• Marmaduke, a fictional character in the Demon Princes series by Jack Vance
• Marmaduke (Duke) Rosenly, full name of collie dog character in The Space Gypsy Adventures

References

1. Marmaduke at thinkbabynames.com