Rann Kennedy (1772 – 2 January 1851) was an English schoolteacher, church minister and poet, acquainted with many notable literary people of the day.
He gave up his school work about 1836 on inheriting from his cousin, John Kennedy, a small property called the Fox Hollies, near Birmingham, where he lived until his death.
1837), was ordained in 1838, became first secretary of the National Society for the Promotion of Education, was from 1848 to 1878 H.M. inspector of schools, and was vicar of Barnwood, Gloucestershire, from 1878 until his death.
His literary attainments were high, his knowledge of the English poets singularly wide, and he came into personal relations with many eminent men of letters, including, besides Coleridge and Washington Irving, William Wordsworth, James Montgomery, Henry Francis Cary, Charles Kemble and Sarah Siddons.
"The Reign of Youth", with a rendering into pindarics by Richard Claverhouse Jebb, the verses on Princess Charlotte, an address to Edmund Kean, and an unfinished poem, "Haughmond Hill", in the style of Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, were published by Benjamin Hall Kennedy in his Between Whiles; 2nd edition, 1882.