Algernon (name)
Algernon is a given male name which derives from the Norman-French sobriquet Aux Gernons, meaning "with moustaches".
People
- Algernon Ashton (1859–1937), English composer
- Algernon Badger (1839–1905), American Union officer
- Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951), English writer
- Algernon Bligh (1888–1952), English cricket player
- Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk (1830–1908), English journalist
- Algernon Boyle (1871–1949), English naval officer
- Algernon Buford (1826–1911), American president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad
- Algernon Butler (1905–1978), American judge
- Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex (1670–1710), English nobleman
- Algernon Chester-Master (1851–1897), English cricket player
- Algernon Collings (1853—1945), English cricket player
- Algernon Coote, 6th Earl of Mountrath (1689–1744), Irish politician
- Algernon de Courcy Lyons (1922–1993), Welsh photographer and writer
- Algernon Crapsey (1847–1927), American Episcopal priest
- Algernon "Alge" Crumpler (born 1977), American football tight end
- Algernon Egerton (former: Algernon Leveson-Gower, 1825–1891), English politician
- Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1837–1916), English diplomat
- Algernon Charles Gifford (1861–1948), New Zealand astronomer
- Algernon Gissing (1860–1937), English writer
- Algernon Graves (1845–1922), English art provenance documenter
- Algernon Greville (disambiguation), several people with this name
- Algernon Heneage (1833–1915), English naval officer
- Algernon Herbert (1792–1855), English antiquary
- Algernon de Horsey (1827–1922), English naval officer
- Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore (1852–1930), English politician
- Algernon Kingscote (1888–1964), English tennis player
- Algernon Langhorne (1882–1945), English naval officer
- Algernon Lee (1873–1954), American educator
- Algernon Lushington (1847–1930), English cricket player
- Algernon Lyons (1833–1908), English naval officer
- Algernon Markham (1869–1949), English Anglican bishop
- Algernon Marsham (1919–2004), English cricket player
- Algernon Maudslay (1873–1948), English sailor and Olympic gold medal winner
- Algernon Methuen, 1st Baronet (born: Algernon Stedman, 1856–1924), English publisher and founder of Methuen & Co.
- Algernon Moreing (1889–1974), English politician
- Algernon Paddock (1830–1897), American politician
- Joseph Algernon Pearce (1893–1988) Canadian astrophysicist
- Algernon Percy (disambiguation), several people with this name
- Algernon J. Pollock (1864–1957), American evangelist of the Plymouth Brethren and writer
- Algernon Rainbow (1885–1969), New Zealand accountant and local politician
- Algernon Seymour (disambiguation), several people with this name
- Algernon Sidney (1623–1683), English politician and opponent of King Charles II of England
- Algernon Skeffington, 12th Viscount Massereene (1873–1952), Ulster Unionist member of the Senate of Northern Ireland
- Algernon St Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset (former: Seymour, 14th Duke of Somerset, 1813–1894), English nobility
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), English writer and inventor of the roundel form in poetry
- Algernon Talmage (1871–1939), English Impressionist painter
- Algernon Thomas (1857–1937), New Zealand geologist and biologist
- Algernon Tollemache (1805–1892), English politician
- Algernon Tudor-Craig (1873–1943), English Army officer
- Algernon West (1832–1921), English politician
- Algernon Willis (1889–1976), English naval officer
- Algernon Yelverton, 6th Viscount Avonmore (1866–1910), Irish nobility
Fictional characters
- Algernon, a laboratory mouse in the short story and subsequent novel Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Algernon "Algy" or Q Algy, the character Q (James Bond) in the film Never Say Never Again
- Algernon Durban, List of General Hospital characters
- Lt. Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne, a character in the 1963 comedy film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World by Stanley Kramer
- Algernon (Algy) Lacey, a character and cousin of the main hero Biggles, in the series by W. E. Johns
- Algernon Moncrieff, a character in the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being Earnest
- Algernon "Algy" Timberlane and his wife Martha, main characters of the novel Greybeard by Brian Aldiss
- Algernon, a rogue who visits WindClan every summer with his band, a character in Erin Hunter's novel Tallstar's Revenge
- Sir Algernon, an explorer of the world who crashed his flying machine into the Alton Towers Hotel and decided to make home at the Alton Towers Resort
- Algernon, a schoolboy (a nerd) in the video game, Bully (video game) made by Rockstar Games
- Dr. Algernon C. Edwards, a surgeon in the Cinemax television series The Knick
- Algernon, the name of Detective Jake Peralta's desk mouse in Brooklyn Nine-Nine
See also
- United States v. Algernon Blair, Inc, a 1973 American lawsuit regarding its breach of contract with a subcontractor
- Plies (rapper), born Algernod Washington
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