Alistair

Alistair
Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	English
Origin
Language(s)	Scottish Gaelic
Word/name	Alasdair

Alistair is a masculine given name. It is an Anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic Alasdair. The latter is most likely a Scottish Gaelic corruption of the Norman French Alexandre or Latin Alexandrus, which was incorporated into English as Alexander. Ultimately the name derives from the Greek Alexandros. Another, not nearly so common, Anglicisation of Alasdair is Allaster.^[1]

People

Alastair

• Al Baxter, Australian rugby union player
• Al Stewart, Scottish-Born Singer-Songwriter
• Alastair, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1914–1943), a great-grandson of Queen Victoria
• Alastair Bray, Australian footballer
• Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former director of communications
• Alastair Clarkson, head coach of Hawthorn Football Club
• Alastair Cook, English cricketer
• Alastair Fothergill, British film producer, best known for BBC nature documentaries
• Alastair Gillespie, former Canadian politician who held several cabinet positions in the 1970s
• Alastair Mackenzie, Scottish actor most famous for playing Archie MacDonald in Monarch of the Glen
• Alastair Reynolds, Welsh science fiction author
• Alastair Robinson, Anglo-American field botanist
• Alastair Sim (1900–1976), comedy actor
• Alastair Stewart, ITV News presenter

Alistair

• Alistair Abell, Canadian voice actor
• Alistair Appleton, television presenter
• Alistair Begg, American pastor, author, and speaker
• Alistair Brownlee, British triathlete and Olympic gold medalist
• Alistair Campbell, Zimbabwean cricketer
• Alistair Cooke (1908–2004), journalist and broadcaster
• Alistair Darling, British politician
• Alistair Hargreaves, South African rugby player
• Alistair MacLean (1922–1987), Scottish novelist
• Alistair McGowan, English impressionist and comedian
• Alistair McGregor, Scottish field hockey goalkeeper
• Alistair Overeem, MMA fighter
• Alistair Sinclair, computer scientist
• Alistair Taylor (1935–2004), personal assistant to the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein
• Ally MacLeod (1931–2004) Scottish footballer and national team manager
• Ally McCoist, Scottish footballer

Alister

• Alister MacKenzie (1870–1934), British golf course designer

Aleister

• Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), British occultist

Pseudonym

• Alastair, pseudonym of Baron Hans Henning Voigt, a German artist

In fiction

• Alastair, a demon on the television series Supernatural
• Alistair, a main character from the video game Dragon Age: Origins
• Alistair Leslie Graham, better known as Ali G, one of three fictional characters created and acted by Sacha Baron Cohen
• Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Brigadier of UNIT on British science fiction show Doctor Who
• Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, a character in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
• Alistair Smythe, a Spider-Man villain
• Alistair Crane, a villainous patriarch and businessman on TV's Passions
• Alistair Oh, the Uncle from the 39 Clues series

Citations

1. Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) p. 399.

References

• Hanks, P; Hardcastle, K; Hodges, F (2006) [1990]. A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.