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 (born 1968), 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 (born 1955), 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 1953), 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 (born 1951), former US senator from Minnesota
• Al Gore (born 1948), environmentalist, former US Senator and former Vice President of the United States
• Al Smith (1873–1944), 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