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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.
People
- Archie Karas (1950-), a Greek gambler known for turning $50 into $40 million before losing it all
- Archie Brown (1938-), a British political scientist and historian
- 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
- Archie Kao, a Chinese-American actor
- Archie Panjabi, an Indian actress
- Archie Hall, a big ol' beauty. He's tall, funny looking, and rarely late.
- Fictional characters
- Archie Comics, a comic book publisher
- Archie Andrews (comics), the main character in Archie Comics
- 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 Carpenter, fictional character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Archie Goodwin (fictional detective), assistant of the fictional detective Nero Wolfe
- Archie (Pokémon), leader of Team Aqua in the Pokémon series
- Archie Simpson, a character in the Degrassi franchise
- 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
Other
- Archie's law, in petrophysics
- Archie, Missouri, a town in the United States
- Archie (meteorite), a 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
See also
- Archibald (name), similar name
References
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Hardcastle, Kate (ed.). Oxford Dictionary of Names (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 19, 400. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.
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