Humphrey
family name
Humphrey is both a masculine given name and a surname. Earlier forms of the name include Hunfrid and Hunfrith.
Notable people with the name include:
People with the given name
Medieval period
Ordered chronologically
Hunfrid of Prüm (Saint Humphrey, died 871), Benedictine bishop, abbot, saint
Humphrey de Vieilles (died c. 1050), lord of Beaumont-le-Roger
Humphrey of Hauteville (c. 1010–1057), Count of Apulia
Humphrey de Bohun (disambiguation), various people who lived from the 11th to 14th centuries
Humphrey of Toron (disambiguation), four 12th-century nobles
Humphrey de Bassingbourne (fl. 1206), English justice
Humphrey of Montfort (died 1284), nobleman of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Humphrey de Cherlton (fl. 1354–1357), Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Humphrey Stafford (disambiguation), various English nobles
Humphrey, 2nd Earl of Buckingham (1381–1399), English peer and member of the House of Lords
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390–1447)
Modern era
Humphrey Atkins (1922–1996), British politician and a member of the Conservative Party
Humphrey Barclay (1941–), British television comedy producer.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Humphrey” is family name. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Humphrey, family and name, not as a finished interpretation.
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The phrase “family name” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21491252. The first chronological checks are 1050, 1010, 1057 and 1206.
A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Humphrey” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.