Al (given name)

The nickname Al is often short for Alfred, Albert, Alphonse, Allen, Allan, Alyson, Alysson, Alison, Alex, Alsha or Alexander. It may refer to:

In arts and media

  • Al Bolton (1925–2014), American television and radio meteorologist from Shreveport, Louisiana
  • Al Columbia (born 1970), American cartoonist
  • Al Green (born 1946), American R&B musician
  • Al Israel, (1935–2011), American actor
  • Al Jolson (1886–1950), American singer and actor
  • Al Kooper (born 1944 as Alan Peter Kuperschmidt), American songwriter and musician
  • Al or Alec Lazo, Cuban-American dancer
  • Al Pacino (born 1940), actor and director
  • Al Roker (born 1954), American television broadcaster
  • Al Sapienza (born 1962), actor
  • Al Stewart (born 1945), English singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959), American parody singer

In sport

Baseball

  • Al Levine (born 1968), American major league baseball pitcher
  • Al Rosen (1924–2015), American major league baseball All Star and MVP

Boxing

  • Al McCoy (boxer) (Alexander Rudolph; 1894–1966), American world champion middleweight boxer
  • Al Singer ("The Bronx Beauty"; 1909–61), American world champion lightweight boxer

Gridiron football

Other sports

  • Al Horford (born 1986), Dominican basketball player

In politics

  • Al Capone (1899–1947), prominent Chicago gangster from the 1920s
  • Al Gore, environmentalist and former Senator and Vice President of the United States
  • Al Smith, former governor of New York
  • Al Franken, former Minnesota senator
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