Archie


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Archie is a masculine given name, a diminutive of Archibald.[1] It may refer to:

People

Given name or nickname

  • Archie Alexander (1888–1958), African-American mathematician, engineer and governor of the US Virgin Islands
  • Archie Bleyer (1909–1989), American bandleader, music arranger, and record executive
  • Archie Bradley (baseball) (born 1992), American baseball player
  • Archie Bradley (boxer) (1897–1969), Australian boxer and rugby league player
  • Archie Brown (born 1938), British political scientist and historian
  • Archie Butterley, Australian fugitive who was shot dead in 1993
  • Archie Campbell (disambiguation)
  • Archie Carr (1909–1987), American herpetologist and a pioneer in sea turtle conservation
  • Archie Christie (1889–1962), British businessman and military officer, first husband of mystery writer Agatha Christie
  • Archie Clement (1846–1866), pro-Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War and later bank robber
  • Archie Clement (footballer) (1901–1984), English footballer
  • Archie Cochrane (1909–1988), Scottish doctor
  • Archibald Cox Jr. (1912–2004), American lawyer, law professor, US Solicitor General and a special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal
  • Archie Donahue (1917–2007), American Marine officer, flying ace and Navy Cross recipient
  • Archie Gemmill (born 1947), Scottish former footballer
  • Archie Green (1917–2009), American folklorist and labor rights activist
  • Archie Griffin (born 1954), American former footballer running back
  • Archie Jewell (1888–1917), English sailor who survived the sinking of the Titanic
  • Archie Kao (born 1969), Chinese-American actor
  • Archie Karas (born 1950), Greek gambler Anargyros Karabourniotis, known for turning $50 into $40 million before losing it all
  • Archibald "Archie" Leach, birth name of English-born American actor Cary Grant (1904–1986)
  • Archie League (1907–1986), generally considered the first air traffic controller
  • Archie Macpherson (born 1937), Scottish sports broadcaster
  • Archie Manners (born 1993), British magician, comedian, and television presenter
  • Archie Manning (born 1949), American former National Football League quarterback, father of Peyton and Eli Manning
  • Archie Mayo (1891–1968), American film director, screenwriter, and actor
  • Archie McLean (footballer) (1894–1971), Scottish footballer known for his contributions to the Brazilian game
  • Archie Miller (disambiguation)
  • Archie Moore (1916–1998), American world champion boxer, born Archibald Lee Wright
  • Archie Mountbatten-Windsor (born 2019), son of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex; 7th in line to the British throne
  • Archie Norman (born 1954), British businessman and politician
  • Archie Panjabi (born 1972), Indian actress
  • Archie Renaux (born 1997), English actor and model
  • Archie Shepp (born 1937), American jazz saxophonist
  • Archie Smith (disambiguation)
  • Archie Thompson (born 1978), Australian footballer

Ring name

  • Mixed Martial Archie, the professional wrestling persona of Robert Evans (wrestler) (born 1983)

Fictional characters

  • Archie Andrews, the main character in Archie Comics
  • Archie Andrews (puppet), ventriloquist Peter Brough's dummy
  • Archie Bunker, in the television sitcoms All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place
  • Archie Kennedy, in the Hornblower television series
  • Archie Carpenter, in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
  • Archie Cullen, the male counterpart of Alice Cullen in the Twilight novel Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined
  • Archie Goodwin (character), assistant of the fictional detective Nero Wolfe
  • Archie Johnson, in the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  • Archie Mitchell, in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
  • Archibald Archie Morris, in the medical drama series ER
  • Archie Ryan, an alias of Lincoln Burrows, from the television show Prison Break
  • Archie "Snake" Simpson, in the Degrassi franchise
  • Archie (Pokémon), leader of Team Aqua in the Pokémon series
  • Archie, a title character of archy and mehitabel, a serialized work of fiction by Don Marquis
  • Archie, a turtle-like creature in The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
  • Archie (short for Archimedes), a flying ship in the Watchmen series
  • Archie, in the CBeebies TV show Balamory
  • Robot Archie, in Lion comics

References

  1. ^ Gillett, Francesca (8 May 2019). "The meaning behind Archie and Harrison". BBC. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
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