Archibald is a masculine given name, composed of the Germanic elements '' erchan'' (with an original meaning of "genuine" or "precious") and ''
bald
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'' meaning "bold".
Medieval forms include
Old High German
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and
Anglo-Saxon
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.
Erkanbald,
bishop of Strasbourg
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(d. 991) was also rendered in
Old French
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. There is also a secondary association of its first element with the Greek prefix ''
archi-
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'' meaning "chief, master", to
Norman England
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in the high medieval period.
The form ''Archibald'' became particularly popular among Scottish nobility in the later medieval to early modern periods, whence usage as a surname is derived by the 18th century, found especially in
Scotland
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and later
Nova Scotia
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.
Given name
English diminutives or
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s include ''
Arch
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, Archy,
Archie
Archie is a masculine given name, a diminutive of Archibald. It may refer to:
People Given name or nickname
*Archie Alexander (1888–1958), African-American mathematician, engineer and governor of the US Virgin Islands
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, and
Baldie (nickname) Baldy or Baldie is a nickname for:
* Brian Baldinger (born 1959), American football player and broadcaster
* Mark Baldwin (baseball) (1863–1929), American professional baseball player
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''.
Variants include French ''Archambault, Archaimbaud, Archenbaud, Archimbaud'',
Italian '' Archimboldo, Arcimbaldo, Arcimboldo'', Portuguese '' Arquibaldo, Arquimbaldo'' and Spanish ''Archibaldo, Archivaldo''.
Archibald is used as the anglicization of the (unrelated) Gaelic given name '' Gille Easbuig'' (also anglicized as '' Gillespie'').
The given name Archibald was comparatively popular in the United States in the late 19th century, peaking at rank 290 in 1890, but it rapidly fell out of fashion in the early 20th century, falling below rank 1,000 in popularity during the 1920s.US statistics cited after behindthename.com /ref>
Arabic
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)
* () - (
Belarusian
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* Something of, or related to Belarus
* Belarusians, people from Belarus, or of Belarusian descent
* A citizen of Belarus, see Demographics of Belarus
* Belarusian language
* Belarusian culture
* Belarusian cuisine
* Byelor ...
)
* () - (
Bengali
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*something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia
* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
* Bengali language, the language they speak
** Bengali alphabet, the ...
Simplified Chinese
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Mathematics
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* Simplification of algebraic expressions ...
)
* () - (
Traditional Chinese
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Hebrew
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)
* () - (
Hindi
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)
* () - (
Japanese
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* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
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** Japanese diaspor ...
)
* () - (
Kannada
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)
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Kazakh
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*Kazakhs, an ethnic group
*Kazakh language
*The Kazakh Khanate
* Kazakh cuisine
* Qazakh Rayon, Azerbaijan
*Qazax, Azerbaijan
*Kazakh Uyezd, administrative dis ...
)
* () - (
Korean
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People and culture
* Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula
* Korean cuisine
* Korean culture
* Korean language
**Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl
**Korean dialects and the Jeju language
** ...
)
* () - (
Kyrgyz Kyrgyz, Kirghiz or Kyrgyzstani may refer to:
* Someone or something related to Kyrgyzstan
*Kyrgyz people
* Kyrgyz national games
*Kyrgyz language
*Kyrgyz culture
*Kyrgyz cuisine
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)
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Latin
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)
* - (
Lithuanian
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* Lithuanians
* Lithuanian language
* The country of Lithuania
* Grand Duchy of Lithuania
* Culture of Lithuania
* Lithuanian cuisine
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)
* () - (
Malayalam
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)
* () - (
Marathi
Marathi may refer to:
*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people
*Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece
See also
*
* ...
Nepali
Nepali or Nepalese may refer to :
Concerning Nepal
* Anything of, from, or related to Nepal
* Nepali people, citizens of Nepal
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)
* - (
Pashto
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Punjabi
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* Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan
* Punjabi language
* Punjabi people
* Punjabi dialects and languages
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Serbian
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* Serbian language
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See also
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*
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Telugu
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* Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India
*Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India
* Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language
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)
* () - (
Ukrainian
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* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
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* Som ...
Archibald I, Lord of Douglas
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Life
The earliest attestation of his existence is in a charter of confirmation dated prior to 1198. This charter of Jocelin, ...
(ca. 1198–1238)
*
Archibald (bishop of Moray)
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His origins are not known, but he was almost certainly the Archibald who was Dean of Moray in the years before 1253.
In that year he was conse ...
(died 1298)
*
Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas
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Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas
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(1370–1424), also Duke of Touraine
*
Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas
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Life
Douglas was the son of Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas and Margaret Stewart, eldest daughter of ...
(1390–1439)
*
Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray
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Archibald Montgomerie (disambiguation) Archibald Montgomerie may refer to:
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* Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton (1812–1861), British Conservative politician
* Archiba ...
,
Archibald Napier (disambiguation) Archibald Napier may refer to:
* Sir Archibald Napier (landowner) (1534–1608), Scottish landowner and official, master of the Scottish mint and Laird of Merchiston
* Archibald Napier, 1st Lord Napier (c. 1576–1645)
* Archibald Napier, 2nd Lord ...
Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus
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(1490–1557)
*
Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll
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Sir Archibald Napier
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Early life
He was eldest son of Alexander Napier, sixth of Merchiston, who was killed at the battle ...
(1534–1608), Scottish landowner and official, master of the Scottish mint and Laird of Merchiston
*
Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus
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(1556–1588) (also 5th Earl of Morton)
*
Archibald Campbell, 7th Earl of Argyll
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His nick ...
(c. 1575–1638), Scottish politician and military leader
*
Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll
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(1607–1661)
*
Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Ormond
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(1609–1655)
*
Archibald Primrose, Lord Carrington
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(1616–1679), Scottish lawyer, judge, and cavalier
*
Lord Archibald Hamilton
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(1673–1754), Scottish politician
*
Archibald Cameron of Locheil
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(1707–1753), leader in the Jacobite uprising
*
Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton
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(1726–1796), Scottish general, and Member of Parliament (MP)
*
Archibald Douglas-Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton
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Background and education
Hamilton was the second son of the 5th Duke of Hamilton, by his third wife, Ann ...
(1740–1819), Scottish peer and politician
* Archibald McBryde (1766–1816), Scottish born US Congressman
*
Lord Archibald Hamilton (1769–1827)
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Born in 1769 to Lady Harriet Stewart, and her husband, Lord Archibald Douglas-Hamilton, Hamilton matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 23 April 1788. He re ...
, son of the above, MP for Lanarkshire.
* Archibald Murphey (1777–1832), North Carolina politician
Modern
*
Archibald Butt
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(1865-1912), American journalist, United States Army officer, presidential adviser and Titanic sinking victim
* Archibald Cecil Chappelow (1886–1976), British fine art consultant
*
Archibald Hamilton (1790–1815)
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Namesake
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, officer in the United States Navy
*
Archibald McLean (judge)
Chief Justice The Hon. Archibald McLean (April 5, 1791 – October 24, 1865) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Upper Canada.
Early life
McLean was born at St. Andrews in the Lunenburg District in 1791, the son of Lt.-Col. The Hon. ...
(1791–1865), Upper Canadian judge
* John Archibald Campbell (1811–1889), American lawyer
* Archibald McLelan (1824–1890), colonial Nova Scotian shipbuilder and politician
*
Sir Archibald Geikie
Sir Archibald Geikie (28 December 183510 November 1924) was a Scottish geologist and writer.
Early life
Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835, the eldest son of Isabella Thom and her husband James Stuart Geikie, a musician and music critic. T ...
(1835 - 1924), Scottish geologist
*
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
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(1847–1929), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during 1894/5
* Archibald Grimké (1849–1930), American intellectual, journalist, and diplomat
*
Archibald Gracie IV
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Archibald Lampman
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Archibald Boyd-Carpenter
Major Sir Archibald Boyd Boyd-Carpenter (26 March 1873 – 27 May 1937) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Career
The fourth son of William Boyd-Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon and Canon of Westminster, Archibald Boyd-Carpenter was ed ...
(1873–1937), British politician
*
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
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(1883–1950), commander in the British Army
*
Archibald Hill
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Sir Archibald Dickson, 1st Baronet
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Naval career
He was born around 1739 the son of Archibald Dickson. He initially entered the merchant navy in 1752. He moved to the Royal Navy in 1755 and p ...
(died 1803), Royal Navy officer
*Archibald Alexander Leach (1904–1986, stage name
Cary Grant
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), American actor
*
John Archibald Wheeler
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(1911–2008), American theoretical physicist
*
Archibald Cox
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(1912–2004), U.S. Solicitor General
* Archibald Hall (1924–2002), Scottish serial killer
* Archibald Gemmill (b. 1947) Scottish Football Player (Hero of Mendoza, Argentina 1978)
*
Archie Manning
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(b. 1949), former National Football League player and father of Peyton Manning and Eli Manning
*
Archie Thompson
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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
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Archie Andrews (comics)
Archibald "Archie" Andrews, created in 1941 by publisher John L. Goldwater and artist Bob Montana in collaboration with writer Vic Bloom,
, the namesake character from Archie Comics
* Archibald Asparagus, a character from the Christian video series, ''VeggieTales''
*
Archie Bunker
Archie is a masculine given name, a diminutive of Archibald. It may refer to:
People Given name or nickname
*Archie Alexander (1888–1958), African-American mathematician, engineer and governor of the US Virgin Islands
* Archie Blake (mathemati ...
, a character in the sitcom ''All in the Family''
*Archibald Craven, uncle and adoptive father of the protagonist, Mary Lennox, in ''
The Secret Garden
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''.
*Archie Chapman, guy from the Verdicts.
* Archie Goodwin, a character in
Rex Stout
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's mysteries.
* Archibald Grosvenor, a character in the
Gilbert and Sullivan
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opera ''
Patience
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''
*
Captain Haddock
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, a character in Hergé's ''The Adventures of Tintin''.
*'' Archibald the Koala'', animated children's television series
* Archibald "Archie" Mitchell, a character from the television soap opera '' EastEnders''
* Arcimboldo, a DC Comics character
* Archie, a character played by
Mark Strong
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in Guy's Ritchie movie RocknRolla, Rock'N'Rolla
* Archie Wong, a character on Waterloo Road (TV series), Waterloo Road played by Christopher Chung.
* Archibald Archibaldovich, pirate and maitre d'hotel Griboyedev, minor comic character in The Master and Margarita
* Archibald Witwicky, the character from Transformers who discovered Megatron in his National Arctic Circle Expedition
* Archibald MacGregor, a supporting character seen in a few mission in the well-known game by Rockstar Games, Red Dead Redemption II.
* Archibald Yronwood, a minor character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series
Surname
''Archibald'' is a modern Anglo-Saxon surname, derived from the given name.
In Renaissance Italy
''Arcimboldo'' or ''Arcimboldi'' was used as a surname in Renaissance Italy--see Arcimboldi
In Nova Scotia, Canada
It becomes frequent in
Nova Scotia
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Most of the population are native En ...
by the later 18th century. Early bearers of the name associated with Nova Scotia include:
*David Archibald (politician) (1717–1795), represented Truro Township
**Samuel Archibald (politician, born 1742) (1742–1780), son of David Archibald
***Samuel George William Archibald (1777–1846), politician, son of Samuel Archibald
****Charles Dickson Archibald (1802–1868), Truro businessman, son of Samuel George William Archibald
****Sir Edward Mortimer Archibald (1810–1884), diplomat, son of Samuel George
*****Edith Archibald (1854–1936), suffragist and author, daughter of Sir Edward Mortimer
*Matthew Archibald (1745–1820), politician, son of Samuel
**Alexander Lackie Archibald (1788–1859), politician son of Matthew Archibald
*Thomas Dickson Archibald (1813 – 1890), Onslow, Nova Scotia-native, politician
*Adams George Archibald (1814 – 1892), Truro, Nova Scotia-native, politician
*Cyril Archibald (1837–1914), South Stormont, Ontario-native, politician
*Donald Archibald (1840–1908), Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia-native, politician
*Raymond Clare Archibald (1875–1955), Nova Scotia-native, Canadian-American mathematician and historian of mathematics
*Edgar Archibald (1885–1968), Yarmouth, Nova Scotia-native, agricultural scientist
*George W. Archibald (b. 1946), New Glasgow, Nova Scotia-native, American ornithologist
In other places
The surname becomes more widespread in the English-speaking world in general during the 19th century:
;Canada
*Edward Archibald (athlete) (1884–1965), Canadian pole vaulter
*Frank C. Archibald (Newfoundland politician) (1887–1972), Harbour Grace, Newfoundland native, politician
*Harry Archibald (1910–1965), Wynot, Saskatchewan native, politician
*Nancy Archibald (1911–1996), Montreal native, fencer
*Joan Archibald (1913–2002), Montreal native, fencer
*Jim Archibald (b. 1961), Craik, Saskatchewan native, ice hockey player
*Dave Archibald (b. 1969), Chilliwack, British Columbia native, ice hockey player
;United States
*Ben Archibald (b. 1978), American player of gridiron football
*George D. Archibald (1820– ?), Washington County, Pennsylvania-native, theologian
*James Archibald (1912–2006), Houlton, Maine native, judge
*Joey Archibald (1914–1998), Providence, Rhode Island-native, boxer
*Lynn Archibald (1944–1997), American college basketball head coach
*Nate Archibald (b. 1948), South Bronx native, basketball player
*Nolan D. Archibald (b.1943), CEO of Black and Decker
* Robin Tenney, Robin Tenney Archibald (born 1958), American tennis player
;Australia
* Frank Archibald (died 1975), Aboriginal Australian elder in whose honour the Frank Archibald Memorial Lecture Series was named
*Jules François Archibald (1856–1919), Australian journalist and publisher
*William Archibald (politician) (1850–1926), South Australian politician
;New Zealand
* Anna Archibald (b. 1959), alpine skier and Olympian
* Jeff Archibald (b. 1952), Auckland native, field hockey player
;United Kingdom
In the UK, Archibald is mostly found as a Scottish surname.
*Adam Archibald (1879–1957), Leith native, Victoria Cross recipient
*Adrian Archibald (b. 1969), Ballymoney native, motorcycle racer
*Alan Archibald (b. 1977), Glasgow native, football player
*Bobby Archibald (1894–1966), Strathaven, South Lanarkshire native, association footballer
*George Archibald, 1st Baron Archibald (1898–1975), British politician
*George Christopher Archibald (1926–1996), British economist, son of Baron Archibald
*Jimmy Archibald (1892–1975), Falkirk native, association footballer
*Jordan Archibald (1897–1946), Glasgow native, British Wrestling Champion 2012-2013
*Joseph Archibald (died 2014), Saint Kittitian-born British Virgin Islands lawyer and judge
*Liliana Leah Archibald (1928–2014), English insurance broker
*Marion Archibald (1936–2016), Scottish numismatist
*Nicholas Archibald (b. 1975), Scottish cricketer
*Phyllis Archibald (1880–1947), English sculptor
*Robert Archibald (1980–2020), Paisley, Renfrewshire native, basketball player
*Sandy Archibald (1897–1946), Aberdour native, association footballer
*Steve Archibald (b. 1956), Glasgow native, association footballer and manager
Fictional characters with the surname
*Nate Archibald (Gossip Girl), a main character on the TV series ''Gossip Girl''
*Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald, a character in Fate/Zero
See also
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References
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