Alaric
Alaric is a Germanic name.
Alaric may also refer to:
In history:
- Alaric I, king of Visigoths/Barbarian general in the Roman army. Sacked Rome in 410
- Alaric II, king of the Visigoths (485–507)
- Alaric, a legendary ruler of the Swedes (Germanic tribe)
In fiction:
- Alaric Pendlebury-Davenport, Duke of Dunstable, a character in a number of P. G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle novels
- Alaric the Mad, a master dwarven rune smith in the Warhammer Fantasy realm
- Alaric Darconville, title character of Alexander Theroux's novel Darconville's Cat
- Alaric Deschain, Roland Deschain's grandfather in Stephen King's series The Dark Tower (series)
- Alaric Morgan, 7th Duke of Corwyn in the fictional universe of the Deryni novels of Katherine Kurtz
- Alaric Saltzman, History teacher at Mystic Falls High School in The Vampire Diaries
- Alaric Tudor, one of the clerks in Anthony Trollope's novel The Three Clerks
- Alaric Vas, a supporting character and mother of protagonist Fabian Vas in the novel The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
- Alaric, a traveling minstrel in the book Born to Exile by Phyllis Eisenstein
- Sir Alaric, Keeper of the King's Records in the children's book The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss
In other uses:
- HMS Alaric (P441) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy.
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