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.

# 957 in the US

Lambert Rank in US Top 1000

Famous People Named Lambert

  • Saint Lambert of Maastricht
    7th century bishop and martyr
  • Lambert Wilson
    French actor ("The Matrix")
  • (Lambert) Adolphe Jacques Quetelet
    Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician
  • Lambert
    Bishop of Ostia aka Pope Honorius II
  • Lambert
    Margrave of Tuscany
  • Lambert of Ardres
    French chronicler
  • Lambert of Cologne
    Dutch scholastic and thomist
  • Lambert of Hersfeld (c. 1024–c. 1088)
    Thuringian chronicler
  • Lambert of St
    Bertin, medieval encyclopedist
  • Lambert I and II
    Counts of Leuven
  • Lambert I
    III, counts of Nantes
  • Lambert I and II
    dukes and margraves of Spoleto
  • Lambert II of Spoleto
    Holy Roman Emperor
  • Lambert II
    Count of Lens
  • Lambert Adelot (b. 1898)
    Belgian field hockey player
  • Lambert Amon Tanoh (b. 1926)
    Ivorian politician
  • Lambert Bartak
    American 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
  • Lambert
    Sigisbert 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 Ward
    1st Baronet (1875–1956), British politician
  • Lambert Wickes
    American Continental Navy Captain

Lambert in Pop Culture

  • Lambert Strether
    character 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 Apanolty
    character from Australian TV show "Fergus McPhail"
  • Lambert
    character in the Witcher franchise
  • "Lambert the Sheepish Lion
    " Disney animated short film