Æthelstan (name)

Other notable people with this masculine given name include:

• Æthelstan Ætheling, heir apparent to Æthelred the Unready
• Æthelstan (bishop of Elmham), 10th-century bishop
• Æthelstan (bishop of Hereford), 11th-century bishop
• Æthelstan Half-King, 10th-century ealdorman
• Æthelstan Mannessune, 10th-century landowner in the Fens
• Æthelstan of Abingdon, 11th-century abbot
• Æthelstan of East Anglia, 9th-century King of East Anglia
• Æthelstan of Kent, 9th-century sub-king of Kent, son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex
• Æthelstan of Ramsbury, 10th-century bishop
• Æthelstan of Sussex, 8th-century South Saxon monarch
• Æthelstan Rota, 10th-century ealdorman under King Eadwig and King Edgar
• Guthrum the Old, 9th-century Danish King of East Anglia, who converted to Christianity and was baptised as Æthelstan after his peace with Alfred the Great

• Athelstan Beckwith (1930–2010), Australian chemist
• Athelstan Jasper Blaxland (1880–1963), English consultant surgeon
• Athelstan Braxton Hicks (1854–1902), English coroner
• Athelstan Caroe (1903–1988), English merchant
• Athelstan Cornish-Bowden (1871–1942), South African surveyor
• Athelstan John Cornish-Bowden (b. 1943), British biochemist
• Athelstan Popkess (1895–1967), English police officer
• Athelstan Rendall (1871–1948), English politician
• Athelstan Rendall (pilot) (1914–2006), British pilot
• Athelstan Riley (1858–1945), English composer
• Athelstan Saw (1868–1929), Australian university administrator
• Athelstan Spilhaus (1911–1998), South African oceanographer

• Athelstane, in Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
• Athelstan, in Vikings
• Athelstane King, in The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling

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