" The Abbot " was a nickname of RZA from the Wu Tang Clan.

He was made Abbot of Saint Martin's at Tours in 796, where he remained until his death.

From 796 until his death he was Abbot of the great monastery of St. Martin of Tours where he founded a library by obtaining copies of books from libraries in his native England.

Ealdred ( or Aldred ; died 11 September 1069 ) was Abbot of Tavistock, Bishop of Worcester, and Archbishop of York in Anglo-Saxon England.

After becoming a monk at the monastery at Winchester, he was appointed Abbot of Tavistock Abbey in around 1027.

Another relative was Wilstan or Wulfstan, who under Ealdred's influence became Abbot of Gloucester.

The last Abbot was Cardinal David Beaton, who in 1522 succeeded his uncle James to become Archbishop of St Andrews.

The Abbey, which was the richest in Scotland, is most famous for its association with the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, believed to have been drafted by Abbot Bernard, who was the Chancellor of Scotland under King Robert I.

251 – 356 ), also known as Saint Anthony, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes, Abba Antonius ( Ἀββᾶς Ἀντώνιος ), and Father of All Monks, was a Christian saint from Egypt, a prominent leader among the Desert Fathers.

These followers, he says, are Constantinus, who succeeded Benedict as Abbot of Monte Cassino ; Valentinianus ; Simplicius ; and Honoratus, who was abbot of Subiaco when St Gregory wrote his Dialogues.

The Benedictine Confederation, which was established in 1883 by Pope Leo XIII in his brief Summum semper, is the international governing body of the order, headed by the Abbot Primate.

The episode was often depicted ; notably, in the The Meeting of St Anthony Abbot and St Paul the Hermit by Stefano di Giovanni called " Sassetta ", of two episodic depictions in a single panel of the hermit Anthony's travel to greet the hermit Paul, one is his encounter along the pathway with the demonic figure of a centaur in a wood.

Prince Louis was sent to Bordeaux with an escort of 500 knights, as well as Abbot Suger, Theobald II, Count of Champagne and Count Ralph.

Her conduct was repeatedly criticized by Church elders ( particularly Bernard of Clairvaux and Abbot Suger ) as indecorous.

Ezra Abbot ( April 28, 1819, Jackson, Maine – March 21, 1884, Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American biblical scholar.

Abbot was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1861.

Abbot was son or grandson ( it is not clear which ) of Sir Thomas Abbot of Easington, East Yorkshire and his mother ( or grandmother ) was of the ancient house of Pickering.

Abbot was a lay theologian and scholar of critical ability.

Abbot died in his 44th year and was buried in Charlecote church where his monument describes his defence of Charlecote.

Abbot has been confused with others of the same name and has been described as a clergyman, which he never was.

Blessed Pope Victor III ( c. 1026 – 16 September 1087 ), born Daufer ( Dauphar ), Latinised Dauferius, was Pope as the successor of Pope Gregory VII from 24 May 1086, yet his pontificate is far less impressive in history than his time as Desiderius, the great Abbot of Monte Cassino.

St. Laurence O ' Toole, born in 1128, became Abbot of Glendalough and was well known for his sanctity and hospitality.

Aldhelm () ( c. 639 – 25 May 709 ), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, Latin poet and scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature, was born before the middle of the 7th century.

* Joel Abbot, ( 1793 – 1855 ), born in Westford, noted naval officer

* Russ Abbot ( born 1947 ) ( birth name Russell A. Roberts ), musician, comedian and actor.

He was born at Grenoble of a legal family, and, like his elder brother, the well-known political writer, abbé de Mably, took holy orders ( 1733 – 1740 ) at Saint-Sulpice in Paris and became Abbot of Mureau.

He was born in Newton Abbot, England, the son of a solicitor.

* February 2-George Abbot, Puritan writer ( born c. 1603 )

Some sources do argue that Tommaso Aniello, was born in Amalfi, where he was a friend of another unique character, Abbot Pirone, so named because he improperly used his habit to escape justice but who was in reality a bandit who would kill for a fee, and who would have been Tommaso's collaborator during the Neapolitan uprising.

* Charles S. Abbot ( born 1945 ), American admiral

Charles Greely Abbot was born in Wilton, New Hampshire.

Abbott was born in London in 1808, the son of Edward Abbott, an oilman and Italian warehouseman descended from George Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury.

Richardson was born in Newton Abbot, Devon, England and lived in a house near Denbury.

Hayman was born in Wolborough near Newton Abbot, Devon, the eldest of nine children.

* Robert Hayman, poet, and governor of Newfoundland, born in Wolborough ( now part of Newton Abbot ) in 1575.

The legend said that Emperor Otto had conquered this island, while William was born, so the Emperor became his patron and he was educated as a monk and made his clerical career at Cluny Abbey during the reform of Abbot Majolus who continued the reform of his predecessor Odo and supported reforms connected with papal politics under influence of the Ottonic Emperors.

Saint Marcouf ( also called Marculf, Marcoul or Marcou ), Abbot of Nantus in the Cotentin, is a saint born in the Saxon colony of Bayeux in Normandy around 500 AD and who is best known for the healing of scrofula.

Flowers was born at 160 Abbot Road, Poplar in London's East End on 22 December 1905, the son of a bricklayer.

* Russ Abbot ( born 1947 ), British comedian

Abbot Augustyn, or Abbot Augustyn Kordecki real name: Klemens Kordecki Ślepowron Coat of Arms ( born November 16, 1603 in Iwanowice near Kalisz-died March 20, 1673 in Wieruszów, Poland ) was a prior of the Jasna Góra Monastery, Poland.

Abbot was born on November 24, 1870, in St. Island, Georgia ( although some sources state Savannah, Georgia ) from former slave parents.

Russ Abbot ( born Russell Allan Roberts on 18 September 1947 ) is an English musician, comedian and actor who first came to public notice during the 1970s as the singer and drummer with British comedy showband the Black Abbots, later forging a prominent solo career as a television comedian with his own weekly show on British television.

He was born in Milton Abbot, Devonshire, England, the son of William Martin, and came to Canada in 1910, settling in Calgary.