: English , Scottish
: AL-an
: Allan, Alen, Allen, Allon
The meaning of this name is not known for certain, though it possibly means either "little rock" or "handsome" in Breton Language ( Brittany ), and "harmony" in some Celtic Languages . It was introduced to England by Bretons after the Norman Conquest Of England .
Alan from the .
- Alan I, Duke Of Brittany , ''the Great''
- Alan II, Duke Of Brittany
- Alan III, Duke Of Brittany
- Alan IV, Duke Of Brittany , aka Alan Fergant ("the Younger" in Breton language)
- Alan, Abbot Of Tewkesbury
- Alan Abel , American prankster, writer, and filmmaker
- Alan Abraham , former Lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia
- Alan Alda , US actor, writer, director, science presenter
- Alan Anderson , NBA basketball player
- Alan Anton , Canadian bassist in the Cowboy Junkies
- Alan Arakawa , mayor of the county of Maui, Hawaii
- Alan Arkin , actor, twice nominated for Academy Awards
- Alan Autry , US actor, politician, NFL player
- Alan Ayckbourn , British playwright, director, Professor
- Alan Badel , English actor
- Alan Ball (screenwriter) US Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, producer
- Alan Barnes (writer) for ''Doctor Who''
- Alan Bates , CBE, knighted British Academy Award nominated actor
- Alan Bean , NASA astronaut, fourth man on the moon, artist
- Alan Beddoe , Canadian artist, war artist, and heraldist
- Alan Beith , British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament
- Alan Bennett , British author and actor
- Alan Bergman , American lyricist and songwriter for stage and film
- Alan Blinder , American economist
- Alan Blumlein , British inventor of stereo sound and 128 patents
- Alan Bollard , Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand
- Alan Bond (businessman) , Australian
- Alan Bond (rocket Developer)
- Alan Borovoy , General counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association
- Alan Braxe , French electronic musician
- Alan Bray , British historian and gay rights activist
- Alan Brinkley , Professor of History and Provost at Columbia University
- Alan Brody , American playwright and MIT Professor
- Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke , knighted British Field Marshal, World War II
- T. Alan Broughton , US poet
- Alan Brown , Formula One racing driver
- Alan Brownjohn , British poet and novelist
- Alan Budikusuma , Indonesian Olympic Gold Medallist in Badminton
- Alan Bullock , British historian
- Alan Burkehalter , US Admiral and intelligence director
- Alan Burns , Head of Computer Science, University of York
- Alan Bush , British composer and pianist
- Alan Cadman , long serving Australian member of Parliament
- Alan Cameron (classical Scholar)
- Alan Cameron (NZ Legal Scholar)
- Alan Campbell , British Labour MP
- Alan Carney , American vaudevillian, comedian and film actor
- Alan Civil , OBE, British horn player
- Alan Cobham , knighted British aviation pioneer of aerial refueling
- Alan Coleman , prolific British writer, director, and producer of television series
- Alan Colmes , American television and radio political host
- Alan Coren , British writer and satirist
- Alan Cranston , US Senator
- Alan Crosland , director of the first "talkie" movie, ''The Jazz Singer''
- Alan Cumming , Actor
- Alan Cumyn , Canadian novelist
- Alan Gordon Cunningham , knighted World War II British Army officer
- Alan Dale (singer)
- Alan Dale , actor
- Alan Davis , British writer and artist of comic books
- Alan Davidson (food Writer) , British diplomat, historian and food writer
- Alan Davies , British comedian and actor in ''Jonathan Creek''
- Alan Dawson , Jazz drummer
- Alan Dell , BBC radio broadcaster
- Alan Dershowitz , Harvard University law Professor and high profile appellate lawyer
- Alan Devine , Irish actor
- Alan Dugan , American poet, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner
- Alan Duncan , British Conservative MP
- Alan Dundes , formative academic folklorist
- Alan Dunnett , British poet
- Alan Ferguson , Liberal member of Australian Senate
- Alan Fersht , knighted British Professor of chemistry
- Alan Fletcher , Australian actor and musician
- Alan Ford , British Actor
- Alan Freed , American pioneer radio rock and roll promoter
- Alan Dean Foster , speculative fiction writer
- Alan Furst , American writer of historical spy novels
- Alan García , President of Peru, 1985-1990
- Alan Gardiner , knighted British Egyptologist
- Alan Garner , OBE, British writer
- Alan Gilbert , Australian historian and University Vice-Chancellor
- John Alan Glennon , US geographer, spelunker
- Alan B. Gold , Canadian Superior Court Chief Justice
- Alan Greenspan , Economist, former US Chairman of the Federal Reserve
- Alan Guth , MIT physicist and cosmologist
- Alan Hale (astronomer) , co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp
- Alan Hale, Sr. , American movie actor and director
- Alan Hale, Jr. , American television actor
- Alan Hamel , Canadian television host
- Alan Haselhurst , knighted British Conservative MP, member Privy Council
- Alan J. Heeger , US Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
- Alan Henderson , US NBA basketball player
- Alan Henry , British motorsports journalist
- Alan Heusaff , Breton nationalist and linguist
- Alan Hinkes , British mountaineer, summitted all 14 greater than 8000 metre]] mountains
- Alan Hollinghurst , British novelist and poet
- Alan Hood , British solar astronomy Professor
- Alan Hopgood , Australian playwright and actor
- Alan Hovhaness , American composer
- Alan Howarth , CBE, British Conservative MP
- Alan Huckle , modern day British colonial administrator
- Alan Hull , British singer-songwriter, founding member of Lindisfarne
- Alan Hurst , British Labour MP
- Alan Isaacman , US lawyer, won case in the US Supreme Court
- Alan Jerrard , winner of the Victoria Cross for courageous flying in World War I
- Alan Johnson , British Labour MP and cabinet minister
- Alan Jones (Formula 1) , Australian Formula One Champion racing driver
- Alan Kane , Canadian author
- Alan Kay , US computer scientist, winner of the Turing Award
- Alan Keen , British Labour and Co-operative Party MP
- Alan Keyes , US politician
- Alan King , American comedian and satirist
- Alan Kohler , Australian financial journalist
- Alan Ladd , American film actor
- Alan Ladd, Jr. , American movie producer of ''Star Wars'' and ''Blade Runner''
- Alan Lake , British actor
- Alan Lee , British book illustrator and Academy Award winner for Art Direction in ''Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King''
- Alan Leong , member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and once Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association
- Alan Jay Lerner Broadway lyricist and librettist
- Alan Lightman , American physicist, novelist, and essayist
- Alan Lomax , American folklorist and musicologist
- Alan Of Lynn , 15th century monk, scholastic
- Alan Macnaughton , Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, 1963 to 1966
- Alan Maitland , Canadian broadcaster
- Alan Matheson , Canadian composer, musician
- Alan McCombes , a leading member Scottish Socialist Party
- Alan Meale , British Labour MP
- Alan Menken , winner of eight Academy Awards for film music composition
- Alan Merrill , American songwriter and musician
- Alan Milburn , British Labour MP
- Alan Millar , Scots philosophy Professor
- Alan Miller , a founder of influential video game company Activision
- Alan Minter , a boxing Middleweight World Champion
- Alan Moir , Australian and New Zealand caricaturist and cartoonist
- Alan Moore , British writer and creator of famous comic books such as "Watchmen" and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"
- Alan Moorehead , OBE, Australian born journalist and writer
- Alan Moulder , British record producer
- Alan Mowbray , British and American actor
- Alan Noel Latimer Munby , British author, librarian
- Alan North , American actor
- Alan E. Nourse , Science fiction author
- Alan Oppenheimer , American voice actor and actor
- Alan Page , NFL MVP football player, lawyer, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice
- Alan J. Pakula , American film director, writer, producer
- Alan Park , Canadian comedian and political satirist
- Alan Paton , South African novelist and early foe of Apartheid
- Alan Pearlman , theatre director
- Alan Prince , US Professor of linguistics
- Alan Poul , US television producer
- Alan Rachins , American screen and voice actor and writer
- Alan Ramsey , Australian columnist
- Alan Rawsthorne , British composer
- Alan Reed , American actor and voice actor (Fred Flintstone)
- Alan Reid , Scots Liberal Democrat MP
- Alan Rickman , actor of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films
- Alan Ridout , British composer
- Alan Rough , Scots footballer, radio presenter
- Alan Rosenberg , Emmy Award winning actor and President of the Screen Actors Guild
- Alan Rubin , American horn player
- Alan Rusbridger , editor of the Grauniad
- Alan Schechter , Professor Emeritus of political science
- Alan Scholefield , South African writer
- Alan Seymour , Australian writer
- Alan Shearer Former footballer for Newcastle United and England.
- Alan Shepard , First American in space, fifth man to walk on the moon
- Alan Sillitoe , English novelist and poet
- Alan Silva , British-American free jazz double bassist and keyboard player
- Alan Silvestri , Academy Award nominated and Grammy Award winning film music composer
- Alan Simpson (politician) , British Labour MP
- Alan K. Simpson , US Senator
- Alan Smith , Former Striker converted to Midfielder for Manchester United
- Alan Smithee , a pseudonym used by film directors when control has been taken away from them
- Alan Soble , American philosopher
- Alan Sokal , American physicist
- Alan Sonfist , US artist
- Alan Splet , Academy Award for Sound Editing winner and sound designer
- Alan Stevenson , Scots lighthouse engineer
- Alan Stivell , Breton musician
- Alan Stretton , Australian Major General
- Alan Taylor , American historian
- Alan J. P. Taylor , renowned and controversial British historian
- Alan Templeton , statistical geneticist
- Alan Thicke , Canadian actor and television personality
- Alan Thompson , professional footballer for Celtic F.C.
- Alan Tonks , former Metro Toronto Chairman
- Alan Trachtenberg , Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University
- Alan Turing , British mathematician and pioneer computer scientist
- Alan Villiers , Author, adventurer, photographer and master mariner
- Alan Walker (writer On Music) , English-Canadian writer on music
- Alan Walker (academic)
- Alan Walters , knighted Professor of economics
- Alan Watkins , Welsh political columnist
- Alan Watts , philosopher, comparative religionist, writer, speaker
- Alan West , knighted British Royal Navy Admiral, First Sea Lord
- Alan Wheatley , British film and television actor
- Alan White (Yes Drummer)
- Alan White (Oasis Drummer)
- Alan Whitehead , British Labour MP
- Alan Williams , Welsh Labour MP, "Father of the House"
- Alan Wilder , British electronic musician, composer, arranger and record producer, member of Depeche Mode
- Alan Wilson , knighted British scientist
- Alan Wren , drummer for The Stone Roses
- Alan Yentob , British television executive
- Alan Young , film, television and voice actor
- Alan disambiguation page
- Alans nomadic group of Sarmatians (history)
Campbell, Mike. "Behind the Name: Alan." http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=alan .
"Alan - meanings, origins, and famous namesakes." Baby Name Network. 2005. RhinoWorks, Inc. http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=alan .
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