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Archie is an English and Scottish masculine given name. It is a short form of the given name Archibald. It developed as an independent given name in the 19th century and has become more popular in the 21st century.[1] Archie can be represented in Scottish Gaelic as Eairdsidh and Eirdsidh.
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- Archie Karas (1950-), a Greek gambler known for turning $50 into $40 million before losing it all
- Archie Macpherson, Scottish sports broadcaster
- Archie Thompson, Australian footballer
- Archie Manning, former National Football League quarterback, father of Peyton and Eli Manning
- Archie McLean, an association football player known for his contributions to the Brazilian game
- Fictional characters
- Archy and mehitabel, a serialized work of fiction by Don Marquis
- Archie Andrews (puppet), ventriloquist Peter Brough's dummy
- Archie Bunker, a television sitcom character
- Archie Mitchell, fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
- Archie Comics, a comic book publisher
- Archie Goodwin (fictional detective), assistant of the fictional detective Nero Wolfe
- Archie (Pokémon), leader of Team Aqua in the Pokémon series
- Archie (The Land Before Time), a turtle-like creature in The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
- Archie Ryan, pseudonym of Lincoln Burrows, a fictional character from the television show Prison Break
- Archie (Archimedes), a flying ship seen in the Watchmen series
- Robot Archie, a character in Lion comics
- Archie, the Chocolate Labrador, my Auntie's dog.
- Archie's law, in petrophysics
- Archie, Missouri, a town in the United States
- Archie, meteorite fall (witnessed meteorite), which fell in Missouri, United States in 1932
- Archie (squid), an 8 metre long giant squid preserved in the Natural History Museum in London
- Archie search engine, a search engine for FTP sites
- Archie (Linux), a version of Arch Linux
- a slang term for anti-aircraft fire used by the British Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force
- Archy, a computer user interface
- Archie Humanoid Robot, A Human like robot, developed in Technical University of Vienna
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