Aylmer

The name of a singing, parasitic monster in the 1988 horror-comedy, Brain Damage.

Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761 – 1842) was a British botanist, one of the first fellows of the Linnean Society. He is best known for his work 'A description of the genus Pinus', issued in several parts 1803–1824, a sumptuously illustrated folio volume detailing all of the conifers then known.

Colonel Aylmer Cameron, VC, CB (1833 – 1909), was a British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Commander Sir Aylmer Firebrace, CBE, KPM (1886 – 1972) was a British Royal Navy officer and fire chief. As a Royal Navy officer, he saw active service in World War I and participated in the Battle of Jutland. Following the war, he joined the London Fire Brigade and rose to become its Commander. With the creation of the National Fire Service, he became the first and only person to head firefighting across the whole of Great Britain.

Aylmer Buesst (1883 – 1970) was an Australian conductor, teacher and scholar, who spent his career in the United Kingdom. He was mainly associated with opera and vocal music. He also wrote a work on the leitmotifs in Richard Wagner's operas, and he was an authority on heraldry.

Aylmer is the name of the main character in the short story "The Birthmark" (also given as "The Birth-Mark"), by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published in 1843.

This is a town (now part of the city of Gatineau) in Quebec. It's a suburb of Ottawa.

Aylmer Maude and his wife Louise were famous for translating their friend Leo Tolstoy's works. Aylmer also wrote Tolstoy's biography in 1908 and 1910.