Alder (surname)

Alder or Alders is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Alan Alder (1937–2019), Australian ballet dancer
Alison Alder (born 1958), Australian screenprinter
Berni Alder (1925–2020), German-born American physicist
Christian Alder (born 1978), German football player
Christopher Alder (1960–1998), British soldier who died in police custody; Death of Christopher Alder
Daniel Alders, American politician
Danny Alder (born before 2007), Australian actor
Don Alder (born before 1985), Canadian guitarist
Douglas D. Alder (1932–2023), American historian and academic administrator
Esther Alder (born 1958), Swiss politician
Fred Alder (1889–1960), Australian football player
Guillermo Alder (born 1971), Argentine cross-country skier
Henry Alder (1874–1949), Australian football player
Inés Alder (born 1970), Argentine cross-country skier
Janine Alder (born 1995), Swiss ice hockey player
Jim Alder (born 1940), British distance runner
John C. Alder (born 1944), English musician better known as "Twink"
Jonathan Alder (1773–1849), American pioneer
Joshua Alder (1792–1867), British zoologist and malacologist
Kurt Alder (1902–58), German chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Alder (crater), a lunar crater named after Kurt
- Diels–Alder reaction, a chemical reaction named after Otto Diels and Kurt
Mike Alder (born before 2004), Australian mathematician and writer
Ray Alder (born 1967), American singer, Fates Warning
Roger Alder (born before 2005), British chemist
Thomas Alder (1932–68), German actor
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984), English portrait painter and mystic
Viviana Alder (born 1957), Argentine researcher

Other people named Alder

George Alder Blumer (1857–1940), British-born American physician, mental hospital administrator and journal editor
Rhondda Alder Kelly (1926–2014), Australian beauty queen
William Alder Strange (1813–74), English headmaster and author
Charles Romley Alder Wright (1844–94), English chemist and physicist

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