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AL, Al or al may stand for:
Geography
- Alabama, a state in the United States (postal abbreviation: AL)
- Alagoas, a state in Brazil
- Albania, a country in Europe
- Allen County, Kansas, United States
- Province of Alessandria, a province of Italy in the ISO 3166-2:IT code
- AL postcode area, St Albans, England
- Arab League, a regional organization of 22 Arab states
- Al, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
Transport
- AL (automobile), a French hybrid car in 1907
- Almanor Railroad, California, United States
- Allegheny Airlines (former IATA airline designator), Arlington County, Virginia, United States
- TransAVIAexport Airlines (IATA airline designator), Minsk, Belarus
- Skyway Airlines (former IATA airline designator), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Science and technology
- -al, a suffix used in organic chemistry
- Aluminium, the chemical element represented by "Al" on the periodic table
- Allylescaline, a psychedelic drug
- Artificial life
- .al, Internet top-level domain name for Albania
- AL register, the low byte of an X86 16-bit AX register
Sports
- American League, part of Major League Baseball
- Asia League Ice Hockey
- Airtricity League, the current official name of the League of Ireland
Names
Past culture
- Al (folklore), a spirit in Persian and Armenian mythology
- Al Basti, a tormenting female night demon in Turkish folklore
- Liber AL, the central sacred text of Thelema
- Al, a given name, usually short for Albert, Alphonse, Allan, Alfred, or Alexander
Modern culture
People
Al is often short for Alfred or Albert
- Al Bedner (1898–1988), American football player
- Al Bloomingdale (born 1953), American player of Canadian football
- Al Bolton (1925–2014), American television and radio meteorologist from Shreveport, Louisiana
- Al Capone (1899–1947), prominent Chicago gangster from the 1920s
- Al Darby (born 1954), American football player
- Al Davis (boxer) (Abraham Davidoff; 1920–45), American welterweight & lightweight boxer
- Al Green (born 1946), American R&B musician
- Al Hoptowit (1915–1981), American football player
- Al Horford, Dominican basketball player
- Al Israel, American actor
- Al Jolson (1886-1950), American singer and actor
- Al Latimer (born 1957), American football player
- Al or Alec Lazo, Cuban-American dancer
- Al Levine (born 1968), American major league baseball pitcher
- Al McCoy (boxer) (Alexander Rudolph; 1894–1966), American world champion middleweight boxer
- Al Pacino (born 1940), actor and director
- Al Romano (born 1954), American football player
- Al Roker (born 1954), American television broadcaster
- Al Rosen (born 1924), American major league baseball All Star and MVP
- Al Sapienza (born 1962), actor
- Al Shook (1899–1984), American football player
- Al Singer ("The Bronx Beauty"; 1909–61), American world champion lightweight boxer
- Al Valdes, Canadian football player
- Al Witcher (born 1936), American football player
- "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959), American parody singer
Other
- A. L. was the pseudonym of the British composer Amelia Lehmann
- Al (Aladdin) or Aladdin, the main character in Aladdin media
- Al Borland, a character in the Home Improvement universe
- Al Bundy, a character in the television series Married... with Children
- Al Calavicci, a character in the television series Quantum Leap
- Al (EastEnders), a minor character in the soap opera EastEnders
- Al (Fullmetal Alchemist) or Alphonse Elric, a character in Fullmetal Alchemist media
- Al McWhiggin, a supporting villain of Toy Story 2
- American Life, an album by Madonna
- Anno Lucis, a dating system used in Freemasonry
- A L, an EP by French singer Amanda Lear
Politics
- Abraham Lincoln
- Al Gore, former vice president of the USA
- Al Smith, former governor of New York
Other uses
- Al-, Arabic prefix meaning "the" (definite article in Arabic)
- Al (Arabic: آل), meaning "family of" and distinct from the definite article Arabic: ال, used in some family names in Arabic; see Arabic names
- Alternative List, a Swiss political party
- Anno Lucis, a Masonic dating tradition
See also
- A1 (disambiguation)
- A/L or GCE Advanced Level
- Ai (disambiguation)
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