Albion (given name)

Last updated March 07, 2019

Albion is a given name, usually masculine, which may refer to:

A given name is a part of a person's personal name. It identifies a specific person, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group who have a common surname. The term given name refers to the fact that the name usually is bestowed upon a person, normally to a child by his or her parents at or close to the time of birth. A Christian name, a first name which historically was given at baptism, is now also typically given by the parents at birth.

Albion Earnest Andrews, Commander of the Ceylon Defence Force (1927–1928)
Albion Avdijaj (born 1994), Albanian footballer
Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933), female American reformer and writer
Albion Rajkumar Banerjee (1871–1950), Indian civil servant and administrator, Prime Minister of Kashmir from 1927 to 1929
Albion P. Howe (1818–1897), American Civil War Union Army general
Albion W. Knight, Jr. (1924–2012), second archbishop of the United Episcopal Church of North America
Albion Parris (1788–1857), American politician and jurist
Albion Woodbury Small (1854–1926), American sociologist, influential in the establishment of sociology as a valid field of academic study
Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905), American pioneer civil rights activist, soldier, lawyer, writer, politician and diplomat

Colonel Albion Earnest Andrews, OBE was the 6th Commander of the Ceylon Defence Force. He was appointed on 9 February 1927 until 14 December 1928. He was succeeded by the acting G. B. Stevens.

Albion Qaush Avdijaj is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Swiss club Grasshopper.

Albion Fellows Bacon was an American social reformer and writer from Evansville, Indiana. As Indiana's foremost "municipal housekeeper," a Progressive Era term for women who applied their domestic skills to social problems plaguing their communities, Bacon had a range of reform interests. She is best remembered for her efforts to improve housing standards and her work on tenement reform. A recognized expert in the field of housing reform, Bacon was persistent in her efforts to secure passage of legislative proposals for the issue, which resulted in passage of housing legislation in Indiana in 1909, 1913, and 1917. Bacon earned a national reputation as a social reformer that resulted in her appointment to the President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership and served on its standards and objectives committee.

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