Here’s a list of some other
noteworthy Alberts...
ACTING ALBERTS
Albert Brooks (born 1947)
American actor, writer, comedian and director. Born
as Albert Lawrence Einstein, he later changed his
surname from Einstein to avoid confusion with the
famous scientist.
Albert Finney (born 1936)
Highly celebrated British actor. Hailed as "a second
Olivier," he has been nominated for five Academy
Awards.
Albert Martinez (born 1961)
Philippine actor and director.
Fat Albert
An obese, kindly, somewhat naïve character from
comedian Bill Cosby's stand-up comedy routines. Fat
Albert was later developed into an animated
character for Saturday morning children’s TV. His
catch phrase is “Hey, hey, hey!” Fat Albert came in
at #12 on TV Guide’s list of the 50 Greatest Cartoon
Characters of All Time.
ARCHITECT ALBERTS
Albert Kahn (1869-1942)
One of the great influencers of modern industrial
architecture and considered “the architect of the
auto industrialists.” He introduced the reinforced
concrete method of building to America. He designed
and built thousands of buildings in Detroit,
Michigan and around the world. His firm, Albert Kahn
and Associates, is still considered a world leader
in industrial plant design.
Albert Speer (1905–1981)
Called “the first architect of the Third Reich,”
Speer was tried after the war at Nuremberg and was
sentenced to 20 years. After his release, he became
a successful author, writing until his death in
London in 1981 from natural causes.
ARTSY ALBERTS
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)
German-American painter best known for his large,
overly romantic, carefully-detailed landscape
paintings of the American West.
BAD ALBERTS
Albert DeSalvo (1931-1973)
A serial killer active in Boston, Massachusetts in
the early 1960s. Although he claimed to be the
Boston Strangler there was no evidence to
substantiate his confession.
Albert Fish (1870–1936)
American serial killer and cannibal. He was also
known as “the Moon Maniac,” “the Gray Man,” “the
Werewolf of Wysteria” and “the Brooklyn Vampire.”
Working as a house painter, he drifted across the
United States and claimed to have had a murder
victim in each of the 23 states he visited. Fish has
been mentioned as one of the influences for the
character Hannibal Lector from the Thomas Harris
novels.
NOBEL ALBERTS
Albert Camus (1913–1960)
French author and philosopher. Winner of the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1957, Camus was the second
youngest-ever recipient after Rudyard Kipling.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
German-Swiss theoretical physicist is widely
regarded as the most important scientist of the 20th
century. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for
Physics. Einstein’s theoretical physics equation, E
= mc², is one of the most famous equations in the
world. In popular culture, his name has become
synonymous with great intelligence and genius.
(Albert Einstien is the most common misspelling of
his name).
Albert Schweitzer, MD (1875–1965)
Alcesian theologian, organist, medical doctor,
philosopher, missionary, and humanitarian. He
received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for founding the
Lambaréné Hospital in the west central African
nation of Gabon.
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986)
Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He was also active
in the Hungarian Resistance during World War II and
entered Hungarian politics after the war.
MAJOR LEAGUE ALBERTS
Albert Belle (born 1966 in Shreveport, LA)
Former American Major League Baseball outfielder for
the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, and
Baltimore Orioles. He was the first player to hit 50
doubles and 50 home runs in a single season.
Albert Pujols (born 1980 in Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic)
An American Major League Baseball player with the
St. Louis Cardinals and widely regarded as one of
the best offensive players in the game today. He was
the first player in Major League history to hit 30
or more home runs in each of his first five seasons.
He was also the first Major League player since Ted
Williams to reach the 100 RBI mark in each of his
first five seasons.
MUSICAL ALBERTS
Albert Castiglia
Florida-based blues guitarist and singer
Albert Collins (1932-1993)
Legendary Texas blues guitarist, singer and
musician. He had many nicknames including "The Ice
Man" and "Master of the Telecaster". A distant
relative of Lightnin' Hopkins, Collins released 14
albums between 1964 and 1995. His influence extended
to Robert Cray, Jonny Lang, John Mayer and Frank
Zappa.
Albert Cummings
Massachusetts-based blues guitarist and singer
Albert Hammond (born 1942)
Singer-songwriter, best known for his 1970s hit
records such as "It Never Rains in Southern
California", "The Free Electric Band", and "Down by
the River.”
Albert Hammond, Jr
A member of the band The Strokes. Son of
singer-songwriter Albert Hammond.
Albert King (1923–1992)
Influential American Blues guitarist and singer. One
of the "Three Kings" of the Mississippi Blues guitar
(along with B.B. King and Freddie King), he was
known as "The Velvet Bulldozer." King influenced
many later blues guitarists including Jimi Hendrix,
Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Albert Lee (born 1943)
English-American guitar player widely known as “Mr.
Telecaster.” He is also called “the guitar player's
guitar player” due to the presence of many famous
guitarists anytime he performs and his technical
wizardry.
Albert Zamora
Latino singer/songwriter/accordion player in the
style of music known as Conjunto.
Uncle Albert of Paul McCartney’s song "Uncle
Albert/Admiral Halsey”
Refers to McCartney’s uncle who was known in the
family for his familiarity with the Bible and the
bottle.
Uncle Albert
A character in the popular BBC sitcom “Only Fools
and Horses” played by the English actor Buster
Merryfield.
PLACES NAMED ALBERT
Albert Lea
A town located in southern Minnesota near the Iowa
line. The 1990 population was 18,310.
Prince Albert
The third-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada
(after Saskatoon and Regina) with a population of
just over 41,000 as of 2001. It is situated
more-or-less in the center of the province and is
called the "Gateway to the North.”
Prince Albert National Park
Saskatchewan, Canada's only national park and is
located 120 miles north of Saskatoon. It is
approximately one million acres of wilderness and
lakes covering 1,500 square miles in central
Saskatchewan.
Royal Albert Hall
A performing arts venue dedicated to England’s Queen
Victoria’s husband and consort, Prince Albert. It is
situated in London’s royal borough of Westminster,
within the area also known as Albertopolis. Albert
Hall is prominently featured in the climax of Alfred
Hitchcock's 1934 film “The Man Who Knew Too Much.”
It is also referenced in the Beatles’ song “A Day in
the Life” (“now they know how many holes it takes to
fill the Albert Hall”).
Victoria and Albert Museum
One of the world's great museums of art and design.
Located in London, England, it is named after Queen
Victoria and Prince Albert.
ROYAL ALBERTS
Albert I (1875-1934)
King of the Belgians from 1909-34. He was the nephew
and successor of Leopold II.
Albert II (born 1934)
King of the Belgians since 1993. He is the younger
son of Leopold III.
Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco (born
1958)
Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi is the only
son of Rainier III and his American wife, the film
star Grace Kelly. He has been ruler of the
Principality of Monaco since his father’s death in
2005.
Albert of Brandenburg (1490-1568)
Grand master of the Teutonic Knights from 1511-1525
and the first duke of Prussia from 1525-1568. He was
the grandson of Elector Albert Achilles of
Brandenburg.
Albert the Bear (c.1100-1170)
First margrave of Brandenburg from 1150-70. A loyal
vassal of Holy Roman Emperor Lothair II, Albert's
achievements in Christianizing and Germanizing NE
Germany were important.
Prince Albert (1819–1861)
The husband and consort of Queen Victoria of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was
the only husband of a British queen regnant to have
formally held the title of Prince Consort. His full
name and title was: His Serene Highness Prince
Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld,
Duke in Saxony.
Prince Albert in a can
The famous joke refers not to Prince Albert, consort
of Queen Victoria, but to his eldest son, Prince
Albert Edward (1841–1910) who reigned as King Edward
VII. He is the individual for whom Prince Albert
brand tobacco was named.
SMART ALBERTS
Albert Hofmann (born 1906)
Prominent Swiss scientist best known as the "father"
of LSD.
Albert Sabin (1906-1993)
Renowned American medical researcher who was the
creator of the “live” oral Polio vaccine. Jonas Salk
was the creator of the “dead” Polio vaccine.
St. Albertus Magnus (c. 1193-1280)
A scientist, philosopher, and theologian, St. Albert
the Great is the patron saint of science. He had
extraordinary genius and was proficient in every
branch of learning cultivated in his day. He
surpassed all his contemporaries, except perhaps
Roger Bacon, in the extensive knowledge of nature.
SOLDIER ALBERTS
Albert Pike (1809-1891)
Attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason. Pike is
the only Confederate military officer or figure to
be honored with a statue in Washington D.C.
Albert Sidney Johnston (1803–1862)
A career U.S. Army officer and a Confederate general
during the American Civil War. Considered by
Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be the
finest general in the Confederacy, he was killed
early in the war at the Battle of Shiloh.
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”Education is
what remains after
one has forgotten
everything
he learned in school.”
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Albert Einstein
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