Algernon

I'm surprised no one here has mentioned the band Algernon Cadwallader in relation to this name.

There was a boy named Algernon Kehoe in Encyclopedia Brown, he was a great marbles player. Also, this was the first Encyclopedia Brown story I had read, so the name kind of stuck with me.

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I don't know whether this would be categorized under A famous bearer or under usage of the name.

Algernon Charles Swinburne was a famous Victorian era British poet, who devised a form of verse called a roundel.

Algernon is the name of a character in the Oscar Wilde play "The Importance of Being Earnest", called Algy.

There is a story (which also had a movie based on it named CHARLIE) called FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON, Algernon being a lab rat.