Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1715–1783) was an English landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English 18th-century artists to be accorded his due" and "England's greatest gardener".
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) was an English bishop and scholar who served as a translator of the Authorised (King James) Version of the Holy Bible. He attended the First Westminster Committee, which translated the Book of Genesis to the First Book of Chronicles.
― Anonymous User 6/16/2017
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I think the name Lancelot sounds so cool and handsome! :D.
― Anonymous User 10/12/2015
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Sir Lancelot is Shadow the Hedgehog's alternate reality doppelgänger from the world of Camelot in the video game 'Sonic and the Black Knight'.
― Anonymous User 8/27/2015
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Good name for a cat... Feel sorry for anyone named thisLance is fine but Lancelot is pretenious and preppy!
― Anonymous User 9/5/2014
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Lancelot Blondeel (1498-1561)was a Netherlandish painter.
― Anonymous User 9/20/2011
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Before a competition last year my teacher was reading out the names of people in the other teams. One of these people was called Lancelot. When she read out his name the entire class burst out laughing. Somehow I think that's going to be the reaction of most people when modern day Lancelot's tell them their names.
― Anonymous User 5/1/2011
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You have got to be kidding me. This name sounds pretentious and ridiculous, and it is forever attached to King Arthur. And imagine all of the immature and vulgar jokes. Please, save yourself some embarrassment and choose something else!
Much like Guinevere. I'm surprised his lover's name gets a pass from people and Lancelot with the convenient and mainstream nickname of Lance, does not.
― Anonymous User 11/26/2008
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There was a Victorian illustrator named Lancelot Speed (1860-1931), as well as a director of some silent films. Interestingly enough, he illustrated some Arthurian subject matter, too.
In Marion Zimmer Bradley's novel "The Mists of Avalon" it is said that king Arthur's cousin is named Lancelet by the Saxons, and that it means "elf arrow".
In director Antione Fuqua's 2004 film "King Arthur", the character of Lancelot was portrayed by Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd (pronounced Yo-an Griffith). Ioan was born on October 6th, 1973, to parents Gillian and Peter Gruffudd, in Cardiff, Wales.
In a Precious Moments Baby Names book that I recently bought, "Lancelot" is listed as being French, and meaning "Attendant". The ancient spelling is "Launcelot".