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Algar, Cádiz Algar is a city in the province of Cádiz, Spain. According to the 2005 census, the city has 1,644 inhabitants. Algar is in the White Towns of Andalusia to an altitude of 212 meters. Demographics Monuments *Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María d ...
, a city in Andalusia, Spain * Algar, India, a settlement in
Uttara Kannada district Uttara Kannada is a district in the Indian state of Karnataka. Uttara Kannada District is a major coastal district of Karnataka, and currently holding the title of the largest district in Karnataka. It is bordered by the state of Goa and Belag ...
, Karnataka, India *
Algar de Mesa Algar de Mesa is a municipality located in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2004 census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of ...
, a municipality in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain *
Algar de Palancia Algar de Palancia is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality in the Comarques of the Valencian Community, ''comarca'' of Camp de Morvedre in the Valencia (autonomous community), Valencian Community, Spain. References

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, a municipality in the comarca of Camp de Morvedre in the Valencian Community, Spain *
El Algar El Algar is a district of the Spanish municipality Cartagena. It is located in the east of Cartagena and has an area of 26.659 km2. It shares borders with Lentiscar at its north, San Félix at its east, La Unión municipality at its south east, E ...
, a district of the Spanish municipality Cartagena * Algar do Carvão, an ancient lava tube or volcanic vent in the center of the island of Terceira in the Azores *
Bnied Al-Gar Bneid Al-Gar ( ar, بنيد القار, Bneid il-Gār) is an area of Kuwait City; it is located in Al Asimah Governorate in Kuwait covering an area of approximately 1,320,220 squared metres. Etymology The word "Gar" in Arabic means Tar Tar ...
, a suburb of Kuwait City *
Algar Court Algar may refer to: Places * Algar, Cádiz, a city in Andalusia, Spain * Algar, India, a settlement in Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka, India *Algar de Mesa, a municipality in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain *Algar de Pala ...
, an alleyway in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong


People

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Ben Algar Benjamin Christopher Algar (born 3 December 1989) is an English footballer who plays as a left back for Frickley Athletic. Career England Algar started his career as a winger or striker and came through the youth systems of Sheffield Unite ...
, an English footballer, who currently plays for F.C. New York *
Hamid Algar Hamid Algar (born 1940) is a British-American Professor Emeritus of Persian studies at the Faculty of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He writes on Persian and Arabic literature and contemporary history of Iran, Turkey, the ...
, a British-American Professor Emeritus of Persian Studies at the University of California *
James Algar James Algar (June 11, 1912 – February 26, 1998) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked at Walt Disney Productions for 43 years and received the Disney Legends award in 1998. He was born in Modesto, California ...
, an American film director, screenwriter, and producer *
Luis Herrero-Tejedor Algar Luis Francisco Herrero-Tejedor Algar (born 4 October 1955 in Castellón de la Plana) is a Spanish politician and former Member of the European Parliament with the People's Party, part of the European People's Party. He sat on the European Parlia ...
, a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament *
Michael Algar Michael "Olga" Algar (born 21 September 1959 in Marsden, Tyne and Wear, Marsden, South Shields, England) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who fronts the band Toy Dolls. Mainly a lead/rhythm guitarist, Olga is also a songwriter and r ...
, aka Olga, an English guitarist and singer and songwriter *
Niamh Algar Niamh Algar (born June 28, 1992) is an Irish actress. She is known for winning Best Actress in a Leading Role - TV Drama at the 2020 IFTA Film & Drama Awards for her performance in '' The Virtues''. Other roles include ''MotherFatherSon'', '' ...
, Irish actor *
Ralph Algar Ralph Algar was an English politician who was MP for Colchester in October 1383, April 1384, 1385, 1386, and September 1388. He was an alderman, bailiff, and tax collector A tax collector (also called a taxman) is a person who collects unpaid ...
, MP *
Algar Howard Sir Algar Henry Stafford Howard (7 August 1880 – 14 February 1970) was a senior British Army officer and long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He served as the Garter Principal King of Arms from 1944 to 1950 before re ...
, a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London * Algars Kirkis, a Soviet luger who competed during the late 1970s *
Ælfgar of Selwood Ælfgar (''Algar''), according to 16th-century antiquarian John Leland, was a saint venerated at a chapel in the forest of Selwood, three miles from Mells (near Frome), Somerset.Blair, "Handlist", p. 503 Leland wrote that at the chapel "be buryed ...
, or Algar, a saint venerated at a chapel in Somerset, England *
Algar (thane) Algar was an Anglo-Saxon personal name, frequently mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1068. it is impossible to determine whether the many mentions of the name in that record refer to a single person or to several people of the same name. Some menti ...
, one of twenty Saxon thanes in Devonshire who survived the Norman Conquest in 1066


Companies

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Algar Telecom Algar Telecom is a Brazilian telecommunications company present in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, and in the Federal District as well. The company is t ...
, a Brazilian telecommunications company


See also

* Algar-Flynn-Oyamada reaction, a chemical reaction whereby a chalcone undergoes an oxidative cyclization to form a flavonol *
Ælfgar (disambiguation) Ælfgar is an Anglo-Saxon masculine personal name, from ''ælf'' "elf" and ''gar'' "spear", that may refer to: * Ælfgar of Lichfield (died c. 947), bishop of Lichfield * Ælfgar of Elmham (died 1021), bishop of Elmham *Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia (1 ...
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