Allan (name)

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Allan is both a given name and an English and Scottish surname.

People with the given name[]

A–F[]

  • Allan (footballer, born 1991), Brazilian footballer
  • Allan (footballer, born 1997), Brazilian footballer
  • Allan Abbass (born 1962), a professor, psychiatrist, and founding Director of the Centre for Emotions and Health at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada
  • Allan Ackerman, an American magician who specializes in sleight of hand magic with playing cards
  • Allan Adair (1897–1988), a senior officer of the British Army who served in both World Wars
  • Allan Adler (1916–2002), an American silversmith
  • Allan Agar (born 1949), an English rugby league footballer and coach
  • Allan Ahlberg (born 1938), British children's book writer with his wife Janet Ahlberg as illustrator
  • Allan Alaalatoa (born 1994), an Australian rugby union player
  • Allan Alaküla (born 1968), an Estonian journalist
  • Allan Albert (1945–1994), an American director, producer, and playwright
  • Allan Alcorn (born 1948), an American pioneering engineer and computer scientist
  • Allan Alemán (born 1983), a Costa Rican professional football player
  • Allan Amato (born 1974), an American portrait photographer and film director
  • Allan Amin, an Indian action film director
  • Allan Anderson (disambiguation)
  • Allan Andrews (disambiguation)
  • Allan Antliff, an anarchist activist, art critic and author
  • Allan Arbus (1918–2013), an American actor and photographer
  • Allan Arkush (born 1948), an American film and television director
  • Allan Armitage (born 1946), a professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia, United States
  • Allan Ashbolt (1921–2005), an Australian journalist and television broadcaster
  • Allan Asher (born 1951), an Australian lawyer, consumer advocate and campaigner
  • Allan Ayala (born 1986), a track and field athlete from Guatemala
  • Allan Aynesworth (1864–1959), the stage name of British actor Edward Abbot-Anderson
  • Allan Baillie (born 1943), an Australian writer
  • Allan Baker, a notorious Australian rapist and murderer
  • Allan Bakke (born 1940), party in the landmark 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
  • Allan Baldwin (1924–2008), an Australian rules footballer
  • Allan Ball (1943–2018), an English former footballer
  • Allan Boesak (born 1946), a South African cleric, politician and anti-apartheid activist
  • Allan B. Calhamer (1931–2013), an American mail carrier who invented the board game Diplomacy
  • Allan Anthony Costly (born 1954), a Honduran former footballer
  • Allan A. Davidson (fl. 1840–1899), a lawyer and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
  • Allan de San Miguel (born 1988), Australian professional baseball player
  • Allan Dokossi (born 1999), Central African basketball player
  • Allan Donald (born 1966), a former South African cricketer
  • Allan Dwan (1885–1981), Canadian-American film director
  • Allan Mackay Findlay, British geographer

G–Z[]

  • Allan A. Goldstein (born 1949), an American film director and screenwriter
  • Allan Holdsworth (1946–2017), English guitarist and composer
  • Allan Houston (born 1971), American basketball player
  • Allan B. Hubbard (born 1947), American economic advisor to George W. Bush
  • Allan Jay (born 1931), British world champion épée & foil fencer
  • Allan Jones (cricketer) (born 1947), an English cricket umpire and a retired cricketer
  • Allan K. (born 1958), Filipino actor, comedian, and TV host
  • Allan Kimbaloula (born 1992), a Congolese international footballer
  • Allan Kozinn (born 1954), American music critic
  • Allan Kwartler (1917–1998), American sabre and foil fencer, Pan American Games and Maccabiah Games champion
  • Allan A. Lamport (1903–1999), mayor of Toronto, Canada
  • Allan Lane (1909–1973), an American film star of cowboy B-movies in the 1940s and 1950s
  • Allan B. Magruder (1775–1822), a United States Senator from Louisiana
  • Allan McCollum (born 1944), American artist
  • Allan Morris (born 1940), a former Australian politician
  • Allan A. Moss (1854–1929), mayor of Newport News, Virginia, United States
  • Allan Alfred Nunweiler (born 1930), a Canadian former politician, also known as Alf Nunweiler
  • Allan Nyom (born 1988), a Cameroonian professional footballer
  • Allan Arenfeldt Olesen (born 1982), a Danish professional football player
  • Allan Pickard (1895–1975), Canadian ice hockey administrator
  • Allan Ray (born 1984), American professional basketball player
  • Allan A. Ryan Jr. (1903–1981), an American financier and politician from New York
  • Allan A. Schoenherr (1937–2021), a Californian author, ecologist, and naturalist
  • Allan Sherman (1924–1973), an American comedy writer and singer
  • Allan "Whitey" Snyder (1914–1994), an American Hollywood make-up artist
  • Allan Sutter (1914–1988), American Marine Corps Navy Cross recipient
  • Allan A. Swenson (born 1933), an author, literary agent and master gardener
  • Allan B. Swift (1935–2018), an Emmy award-winning broadcaster and American politician
  • Lord Allan Jay Velasco (born 1977), Filipino politician
  • Allan B. Walsh (1874–1953), an American politician from New Jersey
  • Allan Arthur Willman (1909–1989), an American classical pianist, composer, music pedagog
  • Allan Zebie (born 1993), Canadian soccer player

People with the surname[]

  • Alexander Allan (disambiguation)
  • Anthony Allan (disambiguation)
  • Charlie Allan (disambiguation)
  • Davie Allan, American guitarist
  • Deborah Allen (born 1975), British judoka
  • Denis Allan (born 1944), Canadian chess master
  • Fabian Allen (born 1995), Jamaican cricketer
  • Freya Allan (born 2001), English actress
  • Gary Allan (born 1967), American country music singer and songwriter
  • George Allan (disambiguation)
  • Griselda Allan (1905–1987), British artist
  • Henry Allan (disambiguation)
  • Harry Allan (1882–1957), New Zealand botanist
  • Hugh Allan (1810–1882), Scottish-Canadian shipping magnate
  • Ian Allan (publisher) (1922–2015), British publisher
  • Jack Allan (disambiguation)
  • James Allan (disambiguation)
  • Jed Allan (1935–2019), American actor
  • Jim Allan (disambiguation)
  • Jimmy Allan (disambiguation)
  • John Allan (disambiguation)
  • Joyce Allan (1896–1966), Australian conchologist
  • Keith Allan (disambiguation)
  • Lewis Allan (1903–1986), pseudonym of American lyricist Abel Meeropol
  • Lucy Allan (disambiguation)
  • Marcus Allan (born 1986), Australian rules footballer
  • Mary Parsons Reid Allan (1917–2002), Scottish artist
  • Mea Allan (1909–1982), Scottish journalist
  • Patrick Allan, Scottish footballer
  • Peter Allan (disambiguation)
  • Philip Bertram Murray Allan (1884–1973), British writer
  • Ray Allan (born 1955), Scottish footballer
  • Robert Allan (disambiguation)
  • Rosemary Allan (1911–2008), British artist
  • Sandy Allan (born 1947), Scottish footballer
  • Thomas Allan (disambiguation)
  • William Allan (disambiguation)

Fictional characters[]

  • Allan (mascot), a former mascot of the Baltimore Ravens football team
  • Allan Thompson (comics), a fictional character from The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé
  • Allan-a-Dale, a variant spelling of Alan-a-Dale, a figure in the Robin Hood legend
  • Zack Allan, a fictional character from the television series Babylon 5
  • Allan, a fictional character from Holes (novel)

See also[]

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