Albin (given name)
Albin is a masculine Polish, Scandinavian, German, French, Albanian, and Slovenian given name, from the Roman cognate Albinus, derived from the Latin albus, meaning "white" or "bright". This name may also be a last name. In Estonia, France, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Sweden, March 1 is Albin's name day. There are variant spellings, including Albinas, a male given name in Lithuania; Aubin, a French masculine given name; and Albina, an Ancient Roman, Albanian, Czech, Galician, Italian, Polish, Slovak, and Slovenian feminine given name. Albin is uncommon as a surname.
Notable people with the given name Albin include:
- Albin Alex, Indian-American engineer
- Albin of Brechin, Scottish bishop
- Albin Boija, Swedish ice hockey player
- Albín Brunovský, Slovak painter, graphic artist, lithographer, illustrator and pedagogue
- Albin Dunajewski, Polish political activist and Bishop of Kraków
- Albin Ebondo, French footballer
- Albin Egger-Lienz, Austrian painter
- Albin Ekdal, Swedish footballer
- Albin Eser, German jurist and an ad litem judge
- Albin Granlund, Finnish footballer
- Albin Grau, German artist, architect and occultist, and the producer and production designer for F.W. Murnau's film Nosferatu
- Albin Gutman, Slovenian general
- Albin Haller, French chemist
- Albin Julius, Austrian martial music and industrial artist
- Albin Killat, German diver
- Albin Kitzinger, German footballer
- Albin Köbis, German sailor
- Albin Kurti, Prime Minister of Kosovo
- Albin Lermusiaux, French Olympic shooter
- Albin Polasek, Czech-American sculptor and educator
- Albin Provosty, American politician
- Albin W. Norblad, American judge
- Albin Nyamoya, Prime Minister of Burundi
- Albin Roussin, French admiral and statesman
- Albin F. Schoepf, Polish-born American military officer
- Albin Schram Czech collector of autograph letters by shapers of world history
- Albin Starc, Croatian World War II pilot
- Albin Stenroos, Finnish Olympic winner of the marathon race
- Albin Ström, Swedish socialist politician
- Albin Sandqvist, Swedish electronic and dance pop singer known by the mononym Albin, a member of the Swedish pop band Star Pilots
- Albin Tingwall, Swedish singer
- Albin Vidović, Croatian Olympic handballer
- Albin Zollinger, Swiss writer