# Marmaduke (given name)

Marmaduke is a masculine given name. A historical reference is found an American genealogy book where the author, Isaac Newton Earle, references his relative named Marmaduke: "The name Marmaduke is from the Anglo-Saxon and means 'a mighty noble'." Also, the author highlights that it is a very unusual name. In England the name is mentioned as being used in Yorkshire, but of probable Gaelic origin. As an Irish name, Marmaduke is interpreted as: Máel Máedóc, meaning "follower of Saint Máedóc".

## People with the given name

* Marmaduke Alington (1671–1749), British lawyer and Member of Parliament
* Marmaduke Barton (1865–1938), English pianist, composer and teacher
* Sir Marmaduke Beckwith (1687–c. 1780), 3rd baronet and County Clerk of Richmond County, Virginia
* Marmaduke Bethell (1876–1955), New Zealand local politician and community leader
* Marmaduke Constable (disambiguation)
* Marmaduke Cradock (1660–1716), English painter of birds and other animals
* Marmaduke H. Dent (1849–1909), American soldier, lawyer, politician and judge
* Marmaduke Dixon (mountaineer) (1862–1918), New Zealand farmer and mountaineer
* Marmaduke Dixon (settler) (1828–1895), New Zealand farmer and local politician
* Marmaduke Dove (died c. 1866), American politician
* Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness (1883–1940), British shipping magnate
* Marmaduke Grove (1878–1954), Chilean Air Force officer, politician and member of the Government Junta of the Socialist Republic of Chile in 1932
* Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley (1923–2006), Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC
* Marmaduke Langdale, 1st Baron Langdale of Holme (c. 1598–1661), English landowner and Royalist military commander during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
* Marmaduke Alexander Lawson (1840–1896), British botanist
* Marmaduke Lloyd (1585–c. 1651), Welsh lawyer, judge and landowner
* Marmaduke Lumley (died 1450), English Lord High Treasurer, Catholic Bishop of Carlisle and Bishop of Lincoln
* Marmaduke Matthews (1837–1913), English-Canadian painter
* Marmaduke Middleton (died 1593), English Anglican bishop
* Marmaduke Norfleet (1700–1774), plantation owner, justice of the peace and state legislator in colonial North Carolina
* Marmaduke Overend (c. 1730–1790), Welsh music theorist and organist
* Pat Pattle (1914–1941), South African Royal Air Force flying ace
* Marmaduke Pickthall (1875–1936), English Islamic scholar
* Marmaduke Swaim Robins (1827–1905), American teacher, lawyer and politician
* Marmaduke Roydon (1583–1646), English merchant-adventurer, colonial planter and Royalist officer in the First English Civil War
* Marmaduke Sheild (1858–1922), British surgeon
* Marmaduke Stone (1748–1834), English Jesuit priest
* Marmaduke Thweng, 1st Baron Thweng (fl. 1295–1314, English knight and captain during the Wars of Scottish Independence
* Marmaduke Tunstall (1743–1790), English ornithologist and collector
* Marmaduke Tyrwhitt (1533/4–1600), English Member of Parliament
* Marmaduke Van Swearingen, a white name once thought to be Native American war chief Blue Jacket (c. 1743–1810)
* Marmaduke Watson, 17th century English stage actor
* M. A. Wetherell (1883–1939), British–South African actor, screenwriter, producer, film director, big-game hunter and hoaxster
* Marmaduke Williams (1774–1850), U.S. congressman from North Carolina
* Marmaduke Wyvill (disambiguation)