Albin
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Places
- Albin, WyomingAlbin, WyomingAlbin is a town in Laramie County, Wyoming, United States. It is part of the Cheyenne, Wyoming Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 120 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Albin is located about ENE of Cheyenne....
, USA - Albin Township, Brown County, Minnesota, USA
- Albin, VirginiaAlbin, VirginiaAlbin is an unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia, USA. Albin lies to the northwest of Winchester on North Frederick Pike ....
, USA
People
Given name- Albin (given name)Albin (given name)Albin is a masculine Polish, Scandinavian, and Slovenian given name, from the Roman cognate Albinus, derived from the Latin albus, meaning "white" or "bright". In Estonia, France, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Sweden March 1 is Albin's Name day...
, origin of the name and people with the first name "Albin" - Albin of BrechinAlbin of BrechinAlbin was a 13th-century prelate of the Kingdom of Scotland. A university graduate, Albin is known for his ecclesiastical career in the diocese of Brechin, centred on Angus in east-central Scotland....
(died 1269), Scottish bishop - Albín BrunovskýAlbín BrunovskýAlbín Brunovský was a Slovak painter, graphic artist, lithographer, illustrator and pedagogue, considered one of the greatest Slovak painters of the 20th century....
, Slovak painter, graphic artist, lithographer, illustrator and pedagogue
Surname
- Adolf AlbinAdolf Albinright|thumb|Adolf AlbinAdolf Albin was a Romanian chess player, especially known for the countergambit that bears his name, and for the first chess book written in Romanian.- Life :...
, a Romanian chess player - Alexandre Rousselin de Saint-AlbinAlexandre Rousselin de Saint-AlbinAlexander Charles Omer Rousselin de Corbeau, comte de Saint Albin was a French politician.-Biography:Born in Paris, of an aristocratic family from the Dauphiné, Rousselin de Saint-Albin was educated at the Collège d'Harcourt...
(1773–1847), French politician - Eleazar AlbinEleazar AlbinEleazar Albin was an English naturalist and watercolourist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects , A Natural History of Birds and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects...
(1680–1742), English naturalist - Juan Angel AlbínJuan Angel AlbínJuan Ángel Albín Leites is an Uruguayan footballer who plays for RCD Espanyol in the Spanish first division, mainly as an attacking midfielder.-Football career:...
(born 1986), football midfielder from Uruguay - Peter S. AlbinPeter S. AlbinPeter S. Albin was an American economist who wrote and taught primarily in New York City. Among other contributions, he was known for applying cellular automata in the social sciences.- Career :Peter S...
(1934–2008), American economist
Other
- Albin CountergambitAlbin CountergambitThe Albin Countergambit is a chess opening that begins with the moves:and the usual continuation is:The opening is an uncommon defense to the Queen's Gambit. In exchange for the gambit pawn, Black has a central wedge at d4 and gets some chances for an attack...
, a chess opening - Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens, founded in 1961, located in Winter Park, Florida, USA
- Albin VegaAlbin VegaThe Albin Vega was a brand of yacht designed in 1965 and put into production in 1966 after extensive sea trials. Production ended in 1979 with almost 3400 hulls built...
, a brand of yacht designed in Sweden - Per Albin LinePer Albin LineThe Skåne Line , popularly known as the Per Albin Line after then-Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, was a 500 kilometer long line of light fortifications erected during World War II around the coast of southern Sweden to protect the country from a possible German or Soviet invasion...
, folkloric name of a 500 kilometer long line of light fortifications erected during World War II around the coast of southern Sweden - Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, the intended given name of Albin Gustaf Tarzan Hallin
- Albin, a character in La Cage aux Folles (play)La Cage aux Folles (play)La Cage aux Folles is a 1973 French farce by Jean Poiret centering on confusion that ensues when Laurent, the son of a Saint Tropez night club owner and his gay lover, brings his fiancée's ultraconservative parents for dinner. The original French production premiered at the Théâtre du...
and its derivative works