Alf or ALF may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''ALF'' (TV series), American sitcom ** '' ALF: The Animated Series'', based on the TV series ** '' ALF Tales'', based on the TV series * ''ALF'' (video game), released by Sega in 1989 * ''Alf'' (album), a 1984 album by Alison Moyet

Fictional characters

* ALF (character), the title character of the American sitcom *

Alf Garnett Alfred Edward "Alf" Garnett is a fictional character from the British sitcom '' Till Death Us Do Part'' and its follow-on and spin-off series '' Till Death...'' and ''In Sickness and in Health''. He also appeared in the chat show ''The Thoughts ...

, from the BBC's ''Till Death Us Do Part'' * Alf Thompson, a character in BBC's stop motion named '' Postman Pat'' * Alf Mason, character in American animated television series ''

Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates ''Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates'' (known in international markets as ''20th Century Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates'') is an American animated television series based on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan that aired on Fox Kids from September 8, 1990, to S ...

'' * Alf Mushpie, in the comic strip ''Bloom County'' * Alf Roberts, from the British television program ''Coronation Street'' *

Alf Stewart Alfred James "Alf" Stewart is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Home and Away'', played by Ray Meagher. Alf was created as one of the show's eighteen original characters. Meagher originally auditioned for the role of Tom Fle ...

, from the Australian television program ''Home and Away'' *

Alf Tupper ''Alf Tupper'' is the protagonist of a British comic strip, ''The Tough of the Track'' (or ''Alf Tupper: The Tough of the Track''), created by Bill Blaine (probably a pseudonym for William Blaine, head of DC Thomson comics), written by Gilbert L ...

, in the comic ''Victor'' *

Alf Wit Over the years ''The Beano'' has had many different strips, ranging from comic strips to adventure strips to prose stories. Prose stories were the first to go, being phased out in 1955. Adventure strips were phased out in 1975, with the last on ...

, in the comic ''The Beano'' * Sir Alf, in the film ''

Monty Python and the Holy Grail ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' is a 1975 British comedy film satirizing the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) an ...

'', eaten by the Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh * 'Unlucky' Alf, in the BBC's ''The Fast Show'' * One of the title characters in ''

Alf, Bill and Fred ''Alf, Bill and Fred'' is a 1964 short animated film directed by Bob Godfrey and written by Stan Hayward. Summary The plot and the moral are both very simple. The three titular multi-species characters are friends who like to bounce a lot. Bill ...

'', a 1964 American animated short film

People

Alf (name) Alf is a given name, nickname (also Alfie) and surname. The male name Alf or Alv is derived from ''álf'', the Old Norse for "elf". It is also the shortened form of various Mexican names with ''álf'' as their first part, notably Alfred, Álva ...

, given name, nickname or surname, including a list of people with the name *

Adam Le Fondre Glenville Adam James Le Fondre (born 2 December 1986), known as Adam Le Fondre, is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Sydney FC in the A-League. He previously played for his hometown club Stockport County as well a ...

, English footballer whose nickname is ALF or Alfie due to his initials

Places

Alf, Rhineland-Palatinate Alf is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Zell, whose seat is i ...

, a local municipality in Zell, Germany *

Alf (river) The Alf is a small river in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, a left tributary of the Moselle. It rises in the Eifel, near Darscheid, east of Daun. The Alf flows south through Mehren, Gillenfeld and Bausendorf, where it turns east to flow into the ...

or Alfbach, a tributary of the Moselle River in Germany

Companies and organizations

ALF Products ALF Products Inc., or ALF (named after an assembly language instruction for "rotate the A register Left Four bits"), was a Colorado company primarily known for its computer-controlled music synthesizers and floppy disk supplies and duplicators. His ...

, former personal-computer products manufacturer *

Afar Liberation Front The Afar Liberation Front (abbreviated ALF) is an Afar political party and former militant group in Ethiopia. It fought the communist Derg government and the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 1975 to 1991. After the Ethiopian Civil ...

, an Ethiopian political party of the Afar people * Africa Leadership Forum, a Nigerian organization *

American LaFrance American LaFrance (ALF) was an American vehicle manufacturer which focused primarily on the production of fire engines, fire aerials, and emergency apparatus such as ambulance and rescue vehicles. Originally located in Elmira, New York, the fin ...

, a former emergency and vocational vehicle manufacturer *

American Legacy Foundation Truth Initiative (formerly the American Legacy Foundation or Legacy) is a Nonprofit organization, nonprofit tobacco control organization "dedicated to achieving a culture where all youth and young adults reject tobacco." It was established in Mar ...

, the former name of the modern-day Truth Initiative * American Liver Foundation, an American organization for liver health and disease prevention *

American Lighthouse Foundation The American Lighthouse Foundation (ALF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1994 with a primary mission of lighthouse preservation. ALF's main office and storefront are headquartered in Rockland, Maine, and the organization currentl ...

, an American organization * Animal Liberation Front, a name used by animal liberationists * Arab Liberation Front, a Palestinian group

Health

* ALF (psychology), a group therapy model * Acute liver failure *

Assisted living facility An assisted living residence or assisted living facility (ALF) is a housing facility for people with disabilities or for adults who cannot or who choose not to live independently. The term is popular in the United States, but the setting is si ...

, facility providing assistance to aged, infirm, or disabled adults

Mythology

* Alf, the son of Alrik, of Yngvi and Alf * Alf, the son of Sigar, of

Alf and Alfhild According to the ''Gesta Danorum'', Alfhild, daughter of the Geatish king Siward, was a shieldmaiden who had her own fleet of longships with crews of young female pirates and raided along the coasts of the Baltic Sea. As a young princess, Alfhi ...

* Alf, one of the álfar

Technology

* alf, ISO-639-3 code for the Alege language *

ALF (proof assistant) ALF ("Another logical framework") is a structure editor for monomorphic Martin-Löf type theory developed at Chalmers University. It is a predecessor of the Alfa, Agda, Cayenne and Coq proof assistants and dependently typed programming languag ...

, dependently typed programming language/theorem prover * Action Language for Foundational UML * Advanced Library Format, an ASIC databook *

Algebraic Logic Functional programming language Algebraic Logic Functional programming language, also known as ALF, is a programming language which combines functional and logic programming techniques. Its foundation is Horn clause logic with equality which consists of predicates and Horn cla ...

* Algorithms for Lattice Fermions, a

Quantum Monte Carlo Quantum Monte Carlo encompasses a large family of computational methods whose common aim is the study of complex quantum systems. One of the major goals of these approaches is to provide a reliable solution (or an accurate approximation) of the ...

package * Application layer framing *

Application Lifecycle Framework Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) was an Eclipse Foundation project to develop an open framework for system integration and interoperability for application lifecycle management tools. The project failed to gain the support of significant ven ...

, integration framework for ALM tools *

Atomic line filter An atomic line filter (ALF) is a more effective optical band-pass filter used in the physical sciences for filtering electromagnetic radiation with precision, accuracy, and minimal signal strength loss. Atomic line filters work via the absorption ...

, an advanced optical filter

Transportation

* ALF, vehicle license plate prefix for

Hildesheim (district) Hildesheim is a district (''Landkreis'') in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Hanover, Peine, Wolfenbüttel, Goslar, Northeim, Holzminden and Hamelin-Pyrmont. History In 1885 the Prussian gov ...

, Germany * ALF, IATA airport code for

Alta Airport Alta Airport ( no, Alta lufthavn; ) is an international airport serving Alta, a town and municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The airport is located at Elvebakken, east of the city center. It has a single, runway numbered 11/29, ...

, Norway * ALF, National Rail code for Alfreton railway station, UK * ''Alf'' (barque), a barque wrecked on Haisboro Sands in 1909

Other uses

* '' Atlas linguistique de la France'', a dialect atlas published between 1902 and 1910