Algar

Algar can mean:

Places

Algar, Cádiz, a city in Andalusia, Spain
Algar, India, a settlement in Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka, India
Algar de Mesa, a municipality in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Algar de Palancia, a municipality in the comarca of Camp de Morvedre in the Valencian Community, Spain
Algar do Carvão, an ancient lava tube or volcanic vent in the center of the island of Terceira in the Azores
Bnied Al-Gar, a suburb of Kuwait City

Ben Algar, an English footballer, who currently plays for F.C. New York
Hamid Algar, a British-American Professor Emeritus of Persian Studies at the University of California
James Algar, an American film director, screenwriter, and producer
Luis Herrero-Tejedor Algar, a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament
Michael Algar, aka Olga, an English guitarist and singer and songwriter
Algar Howard, a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London
Algars Kirkis, a Soviet luger who competed during the late 1970s
Ælfgar of Selwood, or Algar, a saint venerated at a chapel in Somerset, England
Algar (thane), one of only twenty Saxon thanes in Devonshire who survived the Norman Conquest in 1066 and retained their antiquated high status as thanes under the new Norman King from whom, according to the Domesday Book he held two manors as tenant-in-chief called Chenudestane and Chenuestan (with the probable meaning 'Canute Stone'), at today's Knowstone, South Molton in North Devon.^[1] See also Brictric, son of Algar.

↑ Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen. ed.) Vol. 9, Devon, Parts 1 & 2, Phillimore Press, Chichester 1985, part 1, 52:-53: Colwin, Godric, Godwin, Odo, Aldred, Alward, Ansgot, Dunn, Alnoth, Alwin, Edwin, Ulf, Algar, Alric, Aelfric, Leofric, Saewulf, Aelfeva, Alfhild, Godiva

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