Albion (given name)

Albion is a given name, usually masculine, from the poetical name for Britain, Albion.[1] Notable people with the name include:

* Albion (Saxon), 8th century Germanic leader of the Saxons in the time of Charlemagne
* Albion Ademi (born 1999), Finnish-Albanian footballer
* Albion Earnest Andrews, Commander of the Ceylon Defence Force (1927–1928)
* Albion Avdijaj (born 1994), Albanian footballer
* Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933), female American reformer and writer
* Albion Rajkumar Banerjee (1871–1950), Indian civil servant and administrator, Prime Minister of Kashmir from 1927 to 1929
* Albion P. Howe (1818–1897), American Civil War Union Army general
* Albion W. Knight, Jr. (1924–2012), second archbishop of the United Episcopal Church of North America
* Albion Parris (1788–1857), American politician and jurist
* Albion Woodbury Small (1854–1926), American sociologist, influential in the establishment of sociology as a valid field of academic study
* Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905), American pioneer civil rights activist, soldier, lawyer, writer, politician and diplomat

## See also

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* All pages with titles beginning with Albion
* All pages with titles containing Albion
* Albion (disambiguation)

## References

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1. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford paperback reference. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 46\. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1. OCLC 67869278. Retrieved 20 November 2024.

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