Albion (given name)

Albion is a given name, usually masculine, from the poetical name for Britain, Albion. 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

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