Geoffrey

Geoffrey [ ˈdʒɛfri ] ( listen ^{? / I} ) is an English male first name , which was borrowed in Middle English from Anglo- Norman Geoffroy, Geoffroi and in the end in Germanic Gaufrid (name variant of Gautfrid , from gaut "Gote" and frid "Friede, Schutz" ) goes back, but was already associated and equated with Gotfrid (from goda "God" and frid ) in the Middle Ages (see Geoffroy explanation of terms ). Geoff , Jeffrey , Jeff , Joffrey and Galfred exist as variants . A derivation of "Geoffrey" is Jefferson (son of Geoffrey or Jeffrey).

Name bearer

First name

• Geoffrey Bayldon (1924-2017), British actor
• Geoffrey Chaucer (≈1343–1400), British writer
• Geoffrey Downes (* 1952), British keyboard player
• Geoffrey Duke (1923-2015), British motorcycle racer
• Geoffrey Fletcher (* 1970), American screenwriter and professor
• Geoffrey de Havilland (1882-1965), British aircraft designer
• Geoffrey Household (1900–1988), British writer
• Geoffrey Hurst (* 1941), English football player
• Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey (1880–1971), British judge in the Nuremberg war crimes trials
• Geoffrey Lower (born 1963), American actor
• Geoffrey of Monmouth (≈1100–1154), British poet of the 12th century
• Geoffrey Parker (military historian) (* 1943)
• Geoffrey le Rat (Gottfried called "the rat", Latin Gothofiedus Mus; † 1207), 1206/07 Grand Master of the Order of St. John
• Geoffrey Rush (born 1951), Australian actor
• Geoffrey Wayne Tate, known as Geoff Tate (* 1959), American singer with the band Queensrÿche
• 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), rhetorician of the Middle Ages

Fictional character

• Geoffrey, the butler from the US sitcom The Prince of Bel-Air
• Geoffrey Baratheon from the US TV series Game of Thrones

geography

• Geoffrey Bay , Bay on the Wilkesland coast, Antarctica
• Geoffrey Hills , group of hills in Enderbyland, Antarctica

Web links

Wiktionary: Geoffrey  - explanations of meanings, origins of words, synonyms, translations