Algernon (name)
Algernon is a given male name which derives from the Norman-French sobriquet Aux Gernons, meaning "with moustaches".People
- Algernon Ashton, English composer
- Algernon Badger, American Union officer
- Algernon Sydney Biddle, American lawyer and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Algernon Blackwood, English writer
- Algernon Bligh, English cricket player
- Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk, English journalist
- Algernon Boyle, English naval officer
- Algernon Buford, American president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad
- Algernon Butler, American judge
- Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex, English nobleman
- Algernon Chester-Master, English cricket player
- Algernon Collings, English cricket player
- Algernon Coote, 6th Earl of Mountrath, Irish politician
- 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 Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, English diplomat
- Algernon Charles Gifford, New Zealand astronomer
- Algernon Gissing, English writer
- Algernon Graves, English art provenance documenter
- Algernon Greville, several people with this name
- Algernon Heneage, English naval officer
- Algernon Herbert, English antiquary
- Algernon de Horsey, English naval officer
- 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 Methuen, 1st Baronet, English publisher and founder of Methuen & Co.
- Algernon Moreing, English politician
- Algernon Paddock, American politician
- Joseph Algernon Pearce Canadian astrophysicist
- Algernon Percy, several people with this name
- Algernon J. Pollock, American evangelist of the Plymouth Brethren and writer
- Algernon Rainbow, New Zealand accountant and local politician
- Algernon Seymour, 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 St Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset, English nobility
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, English writer and inventor of the roundel form in poetry
- Algernon Talmage, English Impressionist painter
- Algernon Thomas, New Zealand geologist and biologist
- Algernon Tollemache, English politician
- Algernon Tudor-Craig, English Army officer
- Algernon West, English politician
- Algernon Willis, English naval officer
- Algernon Yelverton, 6th Viscount Avonmore, Irish nobility
- David Algernon Bayley, Musician
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 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
- 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 in the video game, Bully 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.
