Geoffrey

Geoffrey is an English masculine first name, which was borrowed in Middle English period from Anglo-Norman Geoffroy, Geoffroi and in the last instance on Germanic Gaufrid ( name variant of Gautfrid, by Gaut " Goth " and frid " peace, protection" ) returns, but in the Middle Ages also was associated with Gotfrid and equated (of goda "God" and frid ) (see Geoffroy disambiguation ).

English variants: Geoff, Jeffrey, Jeff, Joffrey

Leads: Jefferson (son of Geoffrey or Jeffrey )

Bearers of the name

First name

  • Geoffrey Bayldon (* 1924), British actor
  • Geoffrey Chaucer (~ 1343-1400 ), British writer
  • Geoffrey Downes ( born 1952 ), British keyboard player
  • Geoffrey Fletcher (born 1970 ), American screenwriter and professor
  • Geoffrey de Havilland (1882-1965), British aircraft designer
  • Geoffrey Household (1900-1988), British writer
  • Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey ( 1880-1971 ), British judge at the Nuremberg war crimes trials
  • Geoffrey of Monmouth (~ 1100-1154 ), British poet of the 12th century
  • Geoffrey le Rat ( Gottfried called " the rat ", lat Gothofiedus Mus, † 1207 ), 1206 /07 Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
  • Geoffrey Rush ( b. 1951 ), Australian actor
  • Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886-1975), British physicist
  • Geoffrey Tozer (1954-2009), Australian pianist
  • Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921-1996), British chemist
  • Geoffrey Trease (1909-1998), British author
  • Geoffrey of Vinsauf ( Galfredus de Vino Salvo, fr Geoffroi de Vinsauf; . Around 1200), a rhetorician of the Middle Ages

Art figure

Geoffrey (given name) Geoff Downes Geoffrey S. Fletcher
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