Alison
Alison is a female and male given name in Anglo-Saxon , which rarely occurs as a family name .
origin
Originally, the name is adopted into English French diminutive of the first name Alice ( Old French Adaliz , Aliz ), which in turn the French form of the German first name Adelheid is. In the English-speaking world, it is first recorded in Scotland in the 12th century , where it was primarily widespread.
meaning
of noble disposition , of noble nature (from adal , see Adelheid )
Name days
Alison shares the following name days with Alice :
- 16.12.
- 09.01.
- 06/11
variants
Name bearer
- Alison Arngrim (born 1962), American actress
- Alison Bai (* 1990), Australian tennis player
- Alison Bales (* 1985), American basketball player
- Alison Balsom (* 1978), British trumpeter
- Alison Bechdel (* 1960), American comic artist and author
- Alison Becker (born 1977), American actress
- Alison Branfield (* around 1945), New Zealand badminton player
- Alison Brown (* 1962), American banjo player and guitarist
- Alison Browner (born 1957), Irish mezzo-soprano
- Alison Cerutti (* 1985), Brazilian beach volleyball player
- Alison Croggon (* 1962), Australian writer and theater critic
- Alison Daysmith (* 1945), Canadian badminton player
- Alison Des Forges (1942–2009), American historian and human rights activist
- Alison Doody (born 1966), Irish actress
- Alison Eastwood (* 1972), American actress, director and photo model
- Alison Elliott (* 1970), American actress
- Alison Fanelli (born 1979), American actress
- Alison Fulton (* around 1960), Scottish badminton player
- Alison Gold (* 2002), American pop singer
- Alison Goldfrapp (* 1966), British musician
- Alison Hagley (* 1961), British opera singer
- Alison Hargreaves (1962-1995), Scottish extreme mountaineer
- Alison Harris (politician) (* 1965), Scottish politician
- Alison Harris (actress) , British actress
- Alison Humby (* 1972), English badminton player
- Allison Iraheta (* 1992), American pop rock singer
- Alison Jackson (* 1970), British photographer and video artist
- Alison King (born 1973), British actress and model
- Alison Knowles (* 1933), American artist of the Fluxus movement
- Alison Korn (* 1970), Canadian rower
- Alison Krauss (* 1971), American singer, fiddle player and music producer
- Alison Lapper (* 1965), English artist
- Alison Lohman (* 1979), American actress
- Alison Lurie (* 1926), American writer and literary scholar
- Alison Mosshart (* 1978), American musician
- Alison Moyet (born 1961), British singer
- Alison Mowbray (* Derby), British rower
- Alison "Ali" Mueller , American actress and film producer
- Alison Powers (* 1979), former American cyclist and alpine skier
- Alison Pill (born 1985), Canadian actress
- Alison Routledge (* 1960), New Zealand actress
- Alison Shanks (* 1982), former New Zealand cyclist
- Alison Smithson (1928–1993), British architect
- Alison Spedding (* 1962), British anthropologist and author
- Alison Sudol (* 1984), American singer and pianist
- Alison Sydor , OBC (* 1966), former Canadian cyclist
- Alison Sweeney (born 1976), American actress
- Alison Tierney (born before 1976), British nursing theorist, professor and editor-in-chief
- Alison Uttley (1884–1976), British writer
- Alison Van Uytvanck (* 1994), Belgian tennis player
- Alison Williamson (* 1971), British archer
Male
- William Alison Anders (* 1933), US Air Force officer and astronaut
stage name
- Natalie Alison (* 1978), Austrian actress
family name
- Archibald Alison (author) (1757–1839) Scottish priest, philosopher, and essayist
- Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet (1792–1867), Scottish lawyer, civil servant and historian
- Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet (1826–1907), British general
- Archibald Alison, 3rd Baronet (1862–1921), British nobleman
- Archibald Alison, 4th Baronet (1888–1967), British nobleman
- Charles Alison (1810–1872), British diplomat
- Charles Hugh Alison (1882–1952), British golf architect
- Diezani Alison-Madueke (* 1960), Nigerian politician
- Dorothy Alison (1925–1992), Australian theater, film and television actress
- James Alison (born 1959), British Roman Catholic theologian, priest and author
- John Alison (1861–1952), Scottish mathematician
- Penny Alison (* 1983), South African sailor
- as an acronym :
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See also
- Alison Records , record label
- Alison & Peter W. Klein collection , private art collection in Eberdingen-Nussdorf
- Alison Ice Stream
- Allison
- Ellison
Web links
Wiktionary: Alison - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Well-known Scottish first names on A in wild Scotland , indications of origin
- Acronyms for ALISON