Archie
Appearance
Archie is a given name, almost exclusively masculine and a diminutive of Archibald.[1] It may refer to:
People
[edit]Given name or nickname
[edit]- Archie Alexander (1888–1958), African-American mathematician, engineer, and governor of the US Virgin Islands
- Archie Barnes (born 2006), English actor
- Archie Blake (mathematician) (born 1906, date of death unknown), American mathematician
- 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 Briden (1897–1974), Canadian ice hockey player
- Archie Brown (historian) (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 special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal
- Archie Davis (born 1998), British middle-distance runner
- Archie Donahue (1917–2007), American Marine officer, flying ace and Navy Cross recipient
- Archie Gemmill (born 1947), Scottish footballer
- Archie Goodburn (born 2001), Scottish swimmer
- Archie Goodwin (disambiguation)
- Archie Green (1917–2009), American folklorist and labor rights activist
- Archie Griffin (born 1954), American 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 National Football League quarterback, father of Peyton and Eli Manning
- Archie Mayo (1891–1968), American film director, screenwriter, and actor
- Archie McCafferty, Scottish-born Australian serial killer
- Archie P. McDonald (1935–2012), American Texan historian
- Archie McLean (footballer) (1894–1971), Scottish footballer known for his contributions to the Brazilian game
- Archie McPherson (footballer) (1909 – 1969), Scottish footballer who played as an inside left or left half
- Archie Miller (disambiguation)
- Archie Moore (1916–1998), American world champion boxer, born Archibald Lee Wright
- Archie Norman (born 1954), British businessman and politician
- Archie Panjabi (born 1972), English actress
- Archie Renaux (born 1997), English actor and model
- Archie Roach (1956–2022), Australian singer
- Archie Shepp (born 1937), American jazz saxophonist
- Archie Sin (born 1998), Hong Kong singer and actor
- Archie Smith (disambiguation)
- Prince Archie of Sussex (born 2019), British royal
- Archie Thompson (born 1978), Australian footballer
Animals
[edit]- Archie Warhol, pet dachshund of Andy Warhol and Jed Johnson
Fictional characters
[edit]- Archie, also known as the Arch-Illager, the main antagonist of Minecraft Dungeons
- 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
- Archibald Holden Buster "Archie" Williams, protagonist in Archie's Final Project
- 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
- 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 (TV series), British television drama series about the life of Cary Grant
- Archie, a turtle-like creature in The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
- Archie, in the CBeebies TV show Balamory
- Archie, a cute, anthropomorphised, talking chameleon in the CBeebies TV show Everything's Rosie
- Archie (played by Anjli Mohindra), a character from The Lazarus Project
- Archy, a title character of archy and mehitabel, a serialized work of fiction by Don Marquis
- Robot Archie, in Lion comics
References
[edit]- ^ Gillett, Francesca (8 May 2019). "The meaning behind Archie and Harrison". BBC. Retrieved 9 May 2019.