Alf or ALF may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''ALF'' (TV series), American sitcom ** '' ALF: The Animated Series'', based on the TV series ** ''

ALF Tales ''ALF Tales'' is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series that aired on NBC from September 10, 1988, to December 9, 1989. The show is a spin-off of '' ALF: The Animated Series'' that featured characters from that series playing various ch ...

'', based on the TV series * ''ALF'' (video game), released by Sega in 1989 * ''Alf'' (album), a 1984 album by Alison Moyet

Fictional characters

ALF (character) Gordon Shumway, also known as "ALF", is the protagonist and title character of the American television series '' ALF'', and its animated spin-offs, '' ALF: The Animated Series'', and ''ALF Tales''. ALF also starred in the poorly received televisi ...

, the title character of the American sitcom *

Alf Garnett Alfred Edward Garnett is a fictional character from the British sitcom '' Till Death Us Do Part'' and its follow-on and spin-off series '' Till Death...'' and '' In Sickness and in Health''. He also appeared in the chat show ''The Thoughts of Ch ...

, from the BBC's ''Till Death Us Do Part'' * Alf Thompson, a character in BBC's stop motion named ''

Postman Pat ''Postman Pat'' is a British stop motion animated television series, animated children's television series first produced by Woodland Animations. The series follows the adventures of Pat Clifton, a Mail carrier, postman who works for the Royal ...

'' * Alf Mason, character in American animated television series ''

Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates ''Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates'' (known in international markets as ''20th Century Fox's Peter'' ''Pan & the Pirates'') is an American animated television series based on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan that aired on Fox Kids from September 8, 1990, to ...

'' * Alf Mushpie, in the comic strip ''Bloom County'' *

Alf Roberts Alfred Sidney "Alf" Roberts, OBE is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'', played by Bryan Mosley. He ran a grocery shop at No. 15 and was involved in local politics, including two spells as mayor of W ...

, from the British television program ''Coronation Street'' *

Alf Stewart Alfred James "Alf" Stewart is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Home and Away'', played by Ray Meagher. Alf was created as one of the show's eighteen original characters. Meagher auditioned for the role of Tom Fletcher, befo ...

, from the Australian television program ''Home and Away'' *

Alf Tupper ''Alf Tupper'' is the protagonist of a British comic strip, ''The Tough of the Track'' (or ''Alf Tupper: The Tough of the Track''), created by Bill Blaine (probably a pseudonym for William Blaine, head of DC Thomson comics), written by Gilbert La ...

, in the comic ''Victor'' *

Alf Wit ''The Beano'' is a British anthology comic magazine created by Scottish publishing company DC Thomson. ''The Beano'' has featured comedic strips, adventure strips, and prose stories. Prose stories were, however, phased out in 1955 and adventur ...

, in the comic ''The Beano'' * Sir Alf, in the film ''

Monty Python and the Holy Grail ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' is a 1975 British comedy film based on the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) and ...

'', eaten by the Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh * 'Unlucky' Alf, in the BBC's ''The Fast Show'' * One of the title characters in ''

Alf, Bill and Fred ''Alf, Bill and Fred'' is a 1964 short animated film directed by Bob Godfrey and written by Stan Hayward. Summary The plot and the moral are both very simple. The three titular multi-species characters are friends who like to bounce a lot. Bill ...

'', a 1964 American animated short film

People

Alf (name) Alf is a given name, nickname (also Alfie) and surname. The male name Alf or Alv is derived from ''álf'', the Old Norse for "Álfar, elf". It is also the Hypocorism, shortened form of various Spanish names with ''álf'' as their first part, nota ...

, given name, nickname or surname, including a list of people with the name *

Adam Le Fondre Glenville Adam James Le Fondre (born 2 December 1986) is an English professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), striker for Northern Premier League club F.C. United of Manchester, FC United of Man ...

, English footballer whose nickname is ALF or Alfie due to his initials

Places

Alf, Rhineland-Palatinate Alf is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Zell, whose seat is ...

, a local municipality in Zell, Germany *

Alf (river) The Alf is a small river in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, a left tributary of the Moselle. It rises in the Eifel, near Darscheid, east of Daun, Germany, Daun. The Alf flows south through Mehren, Vulkaneifel, Mehren, Gillenfeld and Bausendorf, whe ...

or Alfbach, a tributary of the Moselle River in Germany

Companies and organizations

ALF Products ALF Products Inc., or ALF (named after an assembly language instruction for "rotate the A register Left Four bits"), was a Colorado company primarily known for its computer-controlled music synthesizers and floppy disk supplies and duplicators. His ...

, former personal-computer products manufacturer * Afar Liberation Front, an Ethiopian political party of the Afar people * Africa Leadership Forum, a Nigerian organization *

American LaFrance American LaFrance (ALF) was an American vehicle manufacturer which focused primarily on the production of fire engines, ladder trucks, and emergency apparatus such as ambulance and rescue vehicles. Originally located in Elmira, New York, the fi ...

, a former emergency and vocational vehicle manufacturer * American Legacy Foundation, the former name of the modern-day Truth Initiative *

American Liver Foundation The American Liver Foundation (ALF) is a non-profit organization that promotes liver health and disease prevention. The mission of the ALF is to facilitate, advocate and promote education, support and research for the prevention, treatment, and ...

, an American organization for liver health and disease prevention *

American Lighthouse Foundation The American Lighthouse Foundation (ALF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1994 with a primary mission of lighthouse preservation. ALF's main office and storefront are headquartered in Rockland, Maine, and the organization currently ...

, an American organization *

Animal Liberation Front The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is a Far-left politics, far-left international, Leaderless resistance, leaderless, decentralized movement that emerged in Britain in the 1970s, evolving from the Bands of Mercy. It operates without a formal lead ...

, a name used by animal liberationists *

Arab Liberation Front Arab Liberation Front (ALF; ''Jabhet Al-Tahrir Al-'Arabiyah'') is a minor Palestinian political party, previously controlled by the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, which it founded in 1969 as its Palestinian military wing. It was based out of Iraq and tr ...

, a Palestinian group

Health

* ALF (psychology), a group therapy model *

Acute liver failure Acute liver failure is the appearance of severe complications rapidly after the first signs (such as jaundice) of liver disease, and indicates that the liver has sustained severe damage (loss of function of 80–90% of liver cells). The complicati ...

Assisted living facility An assisted living residence or assisted living facility (ALF) is a housing facility for people with disabilities or for adults who cannot or who choose not to live independently. The term is popular in the United States. Still, the setting is ...

, facility providing assistance to aged, infirm, or disabled adults

Mythology

* Alf, the son of Alrik, of

Yngvi and Alf Yngvi and Alf, according to legend, were two Swedish kings of the House of Yngling. Some versions indicate they were brothers or other close relations. They killed each other. History According to ''Ynglingatal'', '' Historia Norwegiae'' and '' ...

* Alf, the son of Sigar, of

Alf and Alfhild According to the ''Gesta Danorum'', Alfhild, daughter of the Geatish king Siward, was a shieldmaiden who had her own fleet of longships with crews of young female pirates and raided along the coasts of the Baltic Sea. As a young princess, Alfh ...

* Alf, one of the

álfar An elf (: elves) is a type of humanoid supernatural being in Germanic folklore. Elves appear especially in North Germanic mythology, being mentioned in the Icelandic ''Poetic Edda'' and the ''Prose Edda''. In medieval Germanic-speaking ...

Technology

* alf, ISO-639-3 code for the

Alege language Alege is a Bendi languages, Bendi language of Nigeria. Further reading * Obikudo, Ebitare F. and Bosco C. Okolo-Obi. "The Vowel System of Àlégē." ''Arusha Working Papers in African Linguistics'', 4(1): 3-20. References

Bendi langua ...

* ALF (proof assistant), dependently typed programming language/theorem prover * Action Language for Foundational UML * Advanced Library Format, an ASIC databook *

Algebraic Logic Functional programming language Algebraic Logic Functional (ALF) programming language combines functional and logic programming techniques. Its foundation is Horn clause logic with equality, which consists of predicates and Horn clauses for logic programming, and functions an ...

* Algorithms for Lattice Fermions, a

Quantum Monte Carlo Quantum Monte Carlo encompasses a large family of computational methods whose common aim is the study of complex quantum systems. One of the major goals of these approaches is to provide a reliable solution (or an accurate approximation) of the ...

package * Application layer framing *

Application Lifecycle Framework Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) was an Eclipse Foundation project to develop an open framework for system integration and interoperability for application lifecycle management tools. The project failed to gain the support of significant ven ...

, integration framework for ALM tools *

Atomic line filter An atomic line filter (ALF) is a more effective optical band-pass filter used in the physical sciences for filtering electromagnetic radiation with precision, accuracy, and minimal signal strength loss. Atomic line filters work via the absorption ...

, an advanced optical filter

Transportation

* ALF, vehicle license plate prefix for

Hildesheim (district) Hildesheim is a district (''Landkreis'') in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Hanover, Peine, Wolfenbüttel, Goslar, Northeim, Holzminden and Hameln-Pyrmont. History In 1885 the Prussian ...

, Germany * ALF, IATA airport code for

Alta Airport Alta Airport (; ; ; ) is an international airport in the city of Alta in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The airport is located at Elvebakken, east of the city center. It has a single, runway numbered 11/29, which lies on the s ...

, Norway * ALF, National Rail code for

Alfreton railway station Alfreton railway station serves the town of Alfreton in Derbyshire, England. The station is on the Erewash Valley Line north of Nottingham and south of Chesterfield. Alfreton is a penalty fare station when travelling on East Midlands Railwa ...

, UK * ''Alf'' (barque), a barque wrecked on Haisboro Sands in 1909

Other uses

* '' Atlas linguistique de la France'', a dialect atlas published between 1902 and 1910