Algernon (name)
Algernon is a masculine given name which derives from the Norman-French sobriquet Aux Gernons, meaning "with moustaches".
People
Given name
- Algernon Ashton, English composer
- Algernon Sydney Biddle, American lawyer and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Algernon Blackwood, English writer
- Algernon Blair, American construction contractor
- Algernon Bligh, English cricket player
- Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk, English journalist
- Algernon Boyle, English naval officer
- Algernon "Algie" Brown, American football player
- Algernon Buford, American president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad
- Algernon Burnaby, English landowner and soldier
- Algernon Butler, American judge
- Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex, English nobleman
- Algernon Capell, 8th Earl of Essex, British aristocrat and actor
- Algernon Chester-Master, English cricket player
- Algernon Collings, English cricket player
- Algernon J. Cooper, American politician and lawyer
- Algernon Coote, 6th Earl of Mountrath, Irish politician
- Algernon Coote, 11th Baronet, Irish cricketer and clergyman
- Algernon de Courcy Lyons, Welsh photographer and writer
- Algernon Crapsey, American Episcopal priest
- Algernon "Alge" Crumpler, American football tight end
- Algernon Egerton, English politician
- Algernon Findlay, Australian cricketer
- Algernon Fuller, British Army officer and inventor
- Algernon Charles Gifford, New Zealand astronomer
- Algernon Sidney Gilbert, American merchant and Latter-day Saint
- Algernon Gissing, English writer
- Algernon Gordon-Lennox, British Army officer
- Algernon Graves, English art provenance documenter
- Algernon Sidney Gray, American attorney and politician
- Algernon Greville (disambiguation), several people with this name
- Algernon Griffiths, English cricketer
- Sir Algernon Guinness, 3rd Baronet, British racing driver
- Algernon Hartridge, cotton merchant and Confederate Army officer
- Algernon Haskett-Smith, English cricketer and barrister
- Algernon Heber-Percy, British landowner, farmer and public official
- Algernon Heneage, English naval officer
- Algernon Herbert, English antiquary
- Algernon Charles Holland, British businessman
- Algernon de Horsey, English naval officer
- Algernon B. Jackson, American physician and writer
- Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, English politician
- Algernon Kingscote, English tennis player
- Algernon Langhorne, English naval officer
- Algernon Lee, American educator
- Algernon Lushington, English cricket player
- Algernon Lyons, English naval officer
- Algernon Markham, English Anglican bishop
- Algernon Marsham, English cricket player
- Algernon Maudslay, English sailor and Olympic gold medal winner
- Algernon May, English politician
- Algernon Methuen, 1st Baronet, English publisher and founder of Methuen & Co.
- Algernon Moreing, English politician
- Algernon Newton, British landscape artist
- Algernon Oldham, Archdeacon of Ludlow
- Algernon Willoughby Osborne, British judicial officer
- Algernon Paddock, American politician
- Algernon Percy (disambiguation), several people with this name
- Algernon J. Pollock, American evangelist of the Plymouth Brethren and writer
- Algernon Pynegar, English footballer
- Algernon Ransome, British Army officer
- Algernon Rainbow, New Zealand accountant and local politician
- Algernon Winter Rose, English architect
- Algernon Edward Sartoris, American diplomat
- Algernon Seymour (disambiguation), several people with this name
- Algernon Sidney, English politician and opponent of King Charles II of England
- Algernon Skeffington, 12th Viscount Massereene, Ulster Unionist member of the Senate of Northern Ireland
- Algernon Smith, United States Army officer
- Algernon S. Speer,, American farmer and politician
- Algernon Stanley Smith, British missionary
- Algernon St Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset, English nobility
- Algernon Sydney Sullivan, American lawyer
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, English writer and inventor of the roundel form in poetry
- Algernon Talmage, English Impressionist painter
- Algernon Temple-Gore-Langton, 5th Earl Temple of Stowe, English soldier, diplomat, and politician
- Algernon Thelwall, English Anglican clergyman
- Algernon Thomas, New Zealand geologist and biologist
- Algernon Tollemache, English politician
- Algernon Tudor-Craig, English Army officer
- Algernon Turnor, British civil servant
- Algernon Walker-Heneage-Vivian, British Royal Navy officer
- Algernon Ward, English Anglican priest and author
- Algernon Wells, British track and field athlete
- Algernon West, English politician
- Algernon Whiting, English cricketer and tea planter
- Algernon Wilkinson, English footballer
- Algernon Willis, English naval officer
- Algernon R. Wood, American politician from Virginia
- Algernon Yau, Hong Kong government official
- Algernon Yelverton, 6th Viscount Avonmore, Irish nobility
Surname
- Carl-Fredrik Algernon, Swedish Navy officer
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 in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again
- Algernon Durban, a character in General Hospital
- Lt. Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne, a character in the 1963 comedy film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World by Stanley Kramer
- Algernon 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
- Algernon Papadopoulos, a schoolboy in the video game, Bully made by Rockstar Games
- Algernon Wasp, a character in the video game Red Dead Redemption 2 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
- A fictional character in Archer is called Doctor Algernon Krieger.
- Aljernon Half-Dream, a character in the video game Shadowrun Returns and its sequels
- Col. Algernon Mustard, a character in ''Clue Master Detective''