Archie

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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.

Contents 1 People 2 Other 3 See also 4 References

[edit] People

• 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 Andrews (comics), the main character in Archie Comics
• 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.

[edit] Other

• 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

[edit] See also

• Archibald, similar name

[edit] References

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