Alvin

Alvin Harrison is an American former track and field athlete who competed in sprinting events. He won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at both the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics and a silver medal in the 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Alvin Robertson is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1984 to 1993, and for one final season in 1995–96. Robertson holds the record for the most steals per game played, averaging 2.71 steals per game for his career and is the only player to ever have a season of 300 or more steals which he accomplished in the 1985–86 season. He is also the only guard in NBA history to have recorded a quadruple-double.

Alvin Elchico is a Filipino field reporter, newscaster, broadcast journalist and television host working for ABS-CBN and DZMM. A business reporter early in his career, he was the sole journalist able to report from inside the Oakwood Premier building during the Oakwood mutiny in July 2003. He is currently a co-host of ABS-CBN's evening news program TV Patrol Weekend.

Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882 – 1966) was an early 20th-century American photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism. He became the first major photographer to emphasize the visual potential of elevated viewpoints and later made some of the first completely abstract photographs.

Alvin Ailey Jr. (1931 – 1989) was an American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT). He created AAADT and its affiliated Alvin Ailey American Dance Center (later Ailey School) as havens for nurturing Black artists and expressing the universality of the African-American experience through dance.

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A gay man, his work fused theater, modern dance, ballet, and jazz with Black vernacular, creating hope-fueled choreography that continues to spread global awareness of Black life in America. Ailey's choreographic masterpiece Revelations is recognized as one of the most popular and most performed ballets in the world.

Alvin the Treacherous is the main villain in the How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell.

Alvin was the name of the bully from the movie "ParaNorman."

Alvin Weinberg (1915-2006) was a physicist who worked for the United States during the Manhattan Project and later for peaceful fission uses. His last groundbreaking work came in the 1950s and 1960s with the development of fluid-fueled reactors before he was removed from his position as head of the Oak Ridge National Laboratories in 1973.

Alvin is a character in Telltale Games' The Walking Dead Game season 2. He is a generous, quiet, and sweet character, and is willing to sacrifice himself for others. His son is Alvin Junior, and I love the way AJ sounds.

It's the name that the famous English rock guitarist and singer Alvin Lee chose instead of his birth name Graham.

Rapper Alvin Joiner IV bears this name but is better known as his stage name Xzibit.

This was the middle name of Joey from Full House.

The name Elfwine, from which Alvin and Elvin are formed, was the name of Eomer's son in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings".

I always think of "Alvin and the Chipmunks."

A famous bearer of this name was Alvin C. York, a Christian sergeant from the hills of Tennessee who served during the Great War (WWI). This character was played by Gary Cooper in the 1941 film "Sergeant York."