Lambert

French and German
"land brilliant"

Lambert Origin and Meaning

The name Lambert is a boy's name of German origin meaning "land brilliant".

Ancient saint's name used for cowardly cartoon lion.

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Lambert Rank in US Top 1000

Famous People Named Lambert

  • Saint Lambert of Maastricht7th century bishop and martyr
  • Lambert WilsonFrench actor ("The Matrix")
  • (Lambert) Adolphe Jacques QueteletBelgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician
  • LambertBishop of Ostia aka Pope Honorius II
  • LambertMargrave of Tuscany
  • Lambert of ArdresFrench chronicler
  • Lambert of CologneDutch scholastic and thomist
  • Lambert of Hersfeld (c. 1024–c. 1088)Thuringian chronicler
  • Lambert of StBertin, medieval encyclopedist
  • Lambert I and IICounts of Leuven
  • Lambert IIII, counts of Nantes
  • Lambert I and IIdukes and margraves of Spoleto
  • Lambert II of SpoletoHoly Roman Emperor
  • Lambert IICount of Lens
  • Lambert Adelot (b. 1898)Belgian field hockey player
  • Lambert Amon Tanoh (b. 1926)Ivorian politician
  • Lambert BartakAmerican organist
  • Lambert Beauduin (1873–1960)Belgian monk, founder of Chevetogne Abbey, Belgium
  • Lambert Blackwell Larking (1797–1868)English clergyman and antiquarian
  • Lambert Bos (1670–1717)Dutch scholar
  • Lambert Cadwalader (1742–1823)American merchant
  • Lambert Daneau (c.1535–c.1590)French jurist and Calvinist theologian
  • Lambert Ferri (fl. c. 1250–1300)trouvère and cleric at the monastery at Saint,Léonard, Pas,de,Calais
  • Lambert Folkers (d. 1761)Nova Scotia politician
  • Lambert Grimaldi (1420–1494)Lord of Monaco
  • Lambert Hamel (b. 1940)German actor
  • Lambert Heinrich von Babo (1818–1899)German chemist
  • Lambert Hillyer (1889–1969)American director and screenwriter
  • Lambert Hitchcock (1795–1852)American furniture manufacturer
  • Lambert Lombard (1505–1566)painter and architect from the Low Countries
  • Lambert McKenna (1870–1956)Irish scholar, editor and lexicographer
  • Lambert Meertens (b. 1944)Dutch computer scientist
  • Lambert Murphy (b. 1885)American tenor
  • Lambert Redd (1908–1986)American athlete
  • Lambert Schaus (1908–1976)Luxembourgian politician
  • LambertSigisbert Adam (1700–1759), French sculptor
  • Lambert Simnel (c. 1477–c. 1525)child pretender to the throne of England
  • Lambert Sustris (c. 1515–20–c. 1584)Dutch painter
  • Lambert van Nistelrooij (b. 1953)Dutch politician
  • Lambert of Vence (1084–1154)Bishop and saint
  • Lambert Verdonk (b. 1944)Dutch football player
  • Lambert Ward1st Baronet (1875–1956), British politician
  • Lambert WickesAmerican Continental Navy Captain

Lambert in Pop Culture

  • Lambert Strethercharacter in The Ambassadors (1903) by Henry James, 'through whose sensibilities all is slowly revealed," says, "Live all you can, it's a mistake not to"'
  • Lambert Apanoltycharacter from Australian TV show "Fergus McPhail"
  • Lambertcharacter in the Witcher franchise
  • "Lambert the Sheepish Lion" Disney animated short film

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