# 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 (1859–1937), English composer
* Algernon Sydney Biddle (1847–1891), American lawyer and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
* Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951), English writer
* Algernon Blair (1873–1952), American construction contractor
* Algernon Bligh (1888–1952), English cricket player
* Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk (1830–1908), English journalist
* Algernon Boyle (1871–1949), English naval officer
* Algernon "Algie" Brown (born 1991), American football player
* Algernon Buford (1826–1911), American president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad
* Algernon Burnaby (1868–1938), English landowner and soldier
* Algernon Butler (1905–1978), American judge
* Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex (1670–1710), English nobleman
* Algernon Capell, 8th Earl of Essex (1884–1966), British aristocrat and actor
* Algernon Chester-Master (1851–1897), English cricket player
* Algernon Collings (1853–1945), English cricket player
* Algernon J. Cooper (born 1944), American politician and lawyer
* Algernon Coote, 6th Earl of Mountrath (1689–1744), Irish politician
* Algernon Coote, 11th Baronet (1817–1899), Irish cricketer and clergyman
* 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 Findlay (1892–1956), Australian cricketer
* Algernon Fuller (1885–1970), British Army officer and inventor
* Algernon Charles Gifford (1861–1948), New Zealand astronomer
* Algernon Sidney Gilbert (1789–1834), American merchant and Latter-day Saint
* Algernon Gissing (1860–1937), English writer
* Algernon Gordon-Lennox (1847–1921), British Army officer
* Algernon Graves (1845–1922), English art provenance documenter
* Algernon Sidney Gray (1814–1878), American attorney and politician
* Algernon Greville (disambiguation), several people with this name
* Algernon Griffiths (1847–1899), English cricketer
* Algernon Hartridge (1831–1876), cotton merchant and Confederate Army officer
* Algernon Haskett-Smith (1856–1887), English cricketer and barrister
* Algernon Heber-Percy (born 1944), British landowner, farmer and public official
* Algernon Heneage (1833–1915), English naval officer
* Algernon Herbert (1792–1855), English antiquary
* Algernon Charles Holland (1919–2001), British businessman
* Algernon de Horsey (1827–1922), English naval officer
* Algernon B. Jackson (1878–1942), American physician and writer
* 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 May (died 1704), English politician
* Algernon Methuen, 1st Baronet (born Algernon Stedman; 1856–1924), English publisher and founder of Methuen & Co.
* Algernon Moreing (1889–1974), English politician
* Algernon Newton (1880–1968), British landscape artist
* Algernon Oldham (died 1916), Archdeacon of Ludlow
* Algernon Willoughby Osborne (died 1915), British judicial officer
* Algernon Paddock (1830–1897), American politician
* Algernon Percy (disambiguation), several people with this name
* Algernon J. Pollock (1864–1957), American evangelist of the Plymouth Brethren and writer
* Algernon Pynegar (1883–1948), English footballer
* Algernon Ransome (1883–1969), British Army officer
* Algernon Rainbow (1885–1969), New Zealand accountant and local politician
* Algernon Winter Rose (1885–1918), English architect
* Algernon Edward Sartoris (1877–1928), American diplomat
* 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 Smith (1842–1876), United States Army officer
* Algernon S. Speer, (1818–1857), American farmer and politician
* Algernon Stanley Smith (1890–1978), British missionary
* Algernon St Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset (formerly Seymour; 1813–1894), English nobility
* Algernon Sydney Sullivan (1826–1887), American lawyer
* Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), English writer and inventor of the roundel form in poetry
* Algernon Talmage (1871–1939), English Impressionist painter
* Algernon Temple-Gore-Langton, 5th Earl Temple of Stowe (1871–1940), English soldier, diplomat, and politician
* Algernon Thelwall (1795–1863), English Anglican clergyman
* Algernon Thomas (1857–1937), New Zealand geologist and biologist
* Algernon Tollemache (1805–1892), English politician
* Algernon Tudor-Craig (1873–1943), English Army officer
* Algernon Turnor (1845–1921), British civil servant
* Algernon Walker-Heneage-Vivian (1871–1952), British Royal Navy officer
* Algernon Ward (1869–1947), English Anglican priest and author
* Algernon Wells (1885–1946), British track and field athlete
* Algernon West (1832–1921), English politician
* Algernon Whiting (1861–1931), English cricketer and tea planter
* Algernon Wilkinson (1894–1967), English footballer
* Algernon Willis (1889–1976), English naval officer
* Algernon Yau (born 1959), Hong Kong government official
* Algernon Yelverton, 6th Viscount Avonmore (1866–1910), Irish nobility

### Surname

* Carl-Fredrik Algernon (1925–1987), 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 (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
* Algernon Papadopoulos, a schoolboy (a nerd) 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. (Krieger's actual name is Algernop, but this is likely a change to get through customs)
* Aljernon Half-Dream, a character in the video game Shadowrun Returns and its sequels
* Col. Algernon Mustard, a character in Clue Master Detective