Algernon (name)

Algernon is a given male name which derives from the Norman-French soubriquet Aux Gernons, meaning "with moustaches". It is first heard of in reference to William de Percy, 1st Baron Percy, a Knight from Percy-en-Auge, who accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066, and ancestor of the Dukes, and Earls of Northumberland, many of whom bore the name. It was also used as a nickname for Eustace II, Count of Boulogne.

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

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