AL, Al, Ål or al may stand for:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

* Al (''Aladdin'') or Aladdin, the main character in Disney's ''Aladdin'' media * Al (''EastEnders''), a minor character in the British soap opera * Al (''Fullmetal Alchemist'') or Alphonse Elric, a character in the manga/anime * Al Borland, a character in the ''Home Improvement'' universe *

Al Bundy Al Bundy is a fictional character and the protagonist of the American television series '' Married... with Children''. Played by Ed O'Neill, Bundy is a misanthropic, working-class father of two who is portrayed as a somewhat tragicomedic figur ...

, a character in the television series ''Married... with Children'' * Al Calavicci, a character in the television series ''Quantum Leap'' * Al McWhiggin, a supporting villain of ''Toy Story 2'' * Al, or Aldebaran, a character in ''Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World'' media

Music

* '' A L'', an EP by French singer Amanda Lear * '' American Life'', an album by Madonna

Calendar

Anno Lucis Anno Lucis (“in the Year of Light”) is a dating system used in Masonic ceremonial or commemorative proceedings, which is equivalent to the Gregorian year plus 4000. It is similar to '' Anno Mundi''. Description For example, a date Anno Dom ...

, a dating system used in Freemasonry

Mythology and religion

* Al (folklore), a spirit in Persian and Armenian mythology * Al Basty, a tormenting female night demon in Turkish folklore * '' Liber AL'', the central sacred text of Thelema

Organisations

Government, military and political

* Arab League, a regional organisation of 22 Arab states * Alternative List, a Swiss political party *

Armia Ludowa People's Army (Polish: ''Armia Ludowa'' , abbriv.: AL) was a communist Soviet-backed partisan force set up by the communist Polish Workers' Party ('PR) during World War II. It was created on the order of the Polish State National Council on 1 J ...

, the Soviet-backed Polish army in World War II, in contrast to the Western-backed Armia Krajowa (AK) *

Assembleia Legislativa (disambiguation) Assembleia Legislativa may refer to: ; Brazil * Legislative Assembly of Amazonas (Assembleia Legislativa do Estado do Amazonas) * Legislative Assembly of São Paulo (Assembleia Legislativa do Estado de São Paulo) ; China * Legislative Assembly o ...

Awami League In Urdu language, Awami is the adjectival form for ''Awam Awam ( ur, ) is the Urdu language word for common people or general public. In the early 20th century, the word was extensively used in the Indian subcontinent to refer to the general po ...

, a political party in Bangladesh * , Indonesian for "Naval Force", common initialism associated with the

Indonesian Navy The Indonesian Navy ( id, Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Laut, , Indonesian National Military-Naval Force, TNI-AL) is the naval branch of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. It was founded on 10 September 1945 and has a role to patrol In ...

Sports bodies

American League The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the American League (AL), is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league ...

, part of Major League Baseball *

Asia League Ice Hockey Asia League Ice Hockey ( ja, アジアリーグアイスホッケー; ko, 아시아리그 아이스하키) or ALIH (AL) is an association which operates a professional ice hockey league based in East Asia, with teams from Japan, South Korea, and ...

Airtricity League The League of Ireland ( ga, Sraith na hÉireann), together with the Football Association of Ireland, is one of the two main governing bodies responsible for organising association football in the Republic of Ireland. The term was originally use ...

, the current official name of the League of Ireland

People and anthroponymy

Al (given name) The nickname Al is often short for Alfred, Albert, Alphonse, Alphons, Allen, Allan, Alan, Alyson, Alysson, Allyson, Alistair, Alister, Alex, Alexander, Alvin, Alyssa, Alisha, Aldrin, Alden, Aldo, Aldwin, Ali Alwin or Aloysius. People n ...

, list of people named ''Al'' * A. L., pseudonym of the British composer

Amelia Lehmann Amelia Lehmann (''née'' Chambers) (3 February 1838 – 1 April 1903) was a British and composer and arranger of art songs and popular ballads, many of which she published under the pseudonym "A. L.". She was also considered a gifted singer and w ...

Al- ( ar, ٱلْـ), also Romanized as ''el-'', ''il-,'' and ''l-'' as pronounced in some varieties of Arabic, is the definite article in the Arabic language: a particle (''ḥarf'') whose function is to render the noun on which it is prefixed def ...

( ar, ال, links=no), Arabic prefix meaning "the" (definite article in Arabic), used in many family names * Al ( ar, آل, links=no) (sometimes rendered as "Aal"), meaning "family of" (and distinct from the definite article ar, ال, links=no), used in some family names by important dynasties in Arabic; see

Arabic names Arabic language names have historically been based on a long naming system. Many people from the Arabic-speaking and also Muslim countries have not had given/middle/ family names but rather a chain of names. This system remains in use throughout ...

Places

Americas

Alabama (We dare defend our rights) , anthem = " Alabama" , image_map = Alabama in United States.svg , seat = Montgomery , LargestCity = Huntsville , LargestCounty = Baldwin County , LargestMetro = Greater Birmingham , area_total_km2 = 135,7 ...

, a state of the United States (postal abbreviation: AL) *

Alagoas Alagoas (, ) is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region. It borders: Pernambuco (N and NW); Sergipe (S); Bahia (SW); and the Atlantic Ocean (E). Its capital is the city of Maceió. ...

, a state of Brazil *

Allen County, Kansas Allen County (county code AL) is a county located in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Kansas. It is 504 square miles, or 322,560 acres in size. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,526. Its county seat and most populous city ...

, US (county code: AL)

Asia

Al, Iran Al ( fa, ال, also Romanized as Āl) is a village in Kardeh Rural District, in the Central District of Mashhad County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is ...

Al, Yenişehir Al is a village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging f ...

, Turkey

Europe

Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic The Adriatic Sea () is a body of water separating the ...

Province of Alessandria The Province of Alessandria ( it, Provincia di Alessandria; pms, Provincia ëd Lissandria; in Piedmontese of Alessandria: ''Provinsa ëd Lissändria'') is an Italian province, with a population of some 425,000, which forms the southeastern part o ...

, a province of Italy in the ISO 3166-2:IT code *

AL postcode area The AL postcode area, also known as the St Albans postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of ten postcode districts in England, within five post towns. These cover central Hertfordshire, including St Albans, Har ...

, St Albans, UK * Ål, a municipality in Norway

Science and technology

-al In chemistry, the suffix In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation o ...

, a suffix used in organic chemistry *

Aluminium Aluminium (aluminum in AmE, American and CanE, Canadian English) is a chemical element with the Symbol (chemistry), symbol Al and atomic number 13. Aluminium has a density lower than those of other common metals, at approximately o ...

, symbol Al, a chemical element * Allylescaline, a psychedelic drug *

Artificial life Artificial life (often abbreviated ALife or A-Life) is a field of study wherein researchers examine systems related to natural life, its processes, and its evolution, through the use of simulations with computer models, robotics, and biochemist ...

.al .al is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Albania. It is administered by the Electronic and Postal Communications Authority of Albania (AKEP). AKEP recommends that .al domain registrations be performed with one of the AKEP ...

, Internet top-level domain name for Albania * AL register, the low byte of an X86 16-bit AX register * A_L, a measure of inductance in a

magnetic core A magnetic core is a piece of magnetic material with a high magnetic permeability used to confine and guide magnetic fields in electrical, electromechanical and magnetic devices such as electromagnets, transformers, electric motors, generators, ...

Transport

* AL (automobile), a French hybrid car in 1907 * AL, reporting mark of Almanor Railroad, California, US * AL, IATA airline designator of: ** TransAVIAexport Airlines, Minsk, Belarus ** The now defunct

Allegheny Airlines Allegheny Airlines was a regional airline that operated out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1952 to 1979 with routes primarily located in the eastern U.S. It was the forerunner of USAir that was subsequently renamed US Airways, which itself ...

, Virginia, US ** The now defunct Skyway Airlines, Wisconsin, US