Al (given name)
The nickname Al is often short for Alfred, Albert, Alphonse, Alphons, Allen, Allan, Alan, Alyson, Alysson, Allyson, Alistair, Alister, Alex, Alexander, Alvin, Alyssa, Alisha, Aldrin, Alden, Aldo, Aldwin, Ali or Alwin. People named Al include:
Art, entertainment, and media
- Al Bowlly (1898-1941), South African-British singer and guitarist
- Al Caiola (1920–2016), American guitarist, composer, arranger
- Al Cartwright (1917–2015), American sportswriter
- Al Casey (rock guitarist) (1936–2006), American guitarist
- Al Columbia (born 1970), American cartoonist
- Al Green (born 1946), American R&B musician
- Al Israel, (1935–2011), American actor
- Al Jarreau (1940–2017), American singer
- Al Jean (born 1961), American screenwriter and television producer
- Al Johnson (musician) (1948–2013), American singer, arranger, producer
- Al Jolson (1886–1950), American singer and actor
- Al Kooper (born 1944 as Alan Peter Kuperschmidt), American songwriter and musician
- Al or Alec Lazo, Cuban-American dancer
- Al Murray, English stand-up comedian
- Al Pacino (born 1940), actor and director
- Al Roker (born 1954), American television broadcaster
- Al Sapienza (born 1962), actor
- Al Sharpton (born 1954), American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, talk show host and politician
- Al Stewart (born 1945), English singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician
- "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959), American parody singer
Sports
Baseball
- Al Levine (born 1968), American major league baseball pitcher
- Al Rosen (1924–2015), American major league baseball All Star and MVPa
- Al Silvera (1935–2002), American major league baseball player
- Al Kaline (1934–2020), American major league baseball player
Boxing
- Al McCoy (boxer) (Alexander Rudolph; 1894–1966), American world champion middleweight boxer
- Al Singer ("The Bronx Beauty"; 1909–61), American world champion lightweight boxer
- Al Haymon, American boxing promoter
Gridiron football
- Al Bedner (1898–1988), American football player
- Al Bloomingdale (born 1953), American player of Canadian football
- Al Darby (born 1954), American football player
- Al Davis (1929–2011), American football coach and executive
- Al Hoptowit (1915–1981), American football player
- Al Latimer (born 1957), American football player
- Al Romano (born 1954), American football player
- Al Shook (1899–1984), American football player
- Al Valdes, Canadian football player
- Al Witcher (born 1936), American football player
Other sports
- Al Green (basketball) (born 1953), American-Australian basketball player
- Al Green (wrestler) (1955–2013), American professional wrestler
- Al Horford (born 1986), Dominican basketball player
Politics
- Al Capone (1899–1947), prominent Chicago gangster from the 1920s
- Al Franken, former Minnesota senator
- Al Gore, environmentalist and former Senator and Vice President of the United States
- Al Smith, former governor of New York
Fictional characters
- Al Bundy, a character in the television series Married... with Children
- Al Powell, a police Sergeant from Die Hard
- Al Da Flaga, a fictional character in the anime Gundam SEED
- Al Dillon, a character in the 1987 film Predator
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