Alder (surname)

Alder 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 footballer
• Christopher Alder (1960–98), British former soldier who died in police custody; see Death of Christopher Alder
• Danny Alder (born before 2007), Australian actor
• Don Alder (born before 1985), Canadian fingerstyle guitarist
• Douglas D. Alder (born 1932), American historian and academic administrator
• Esther Alder (born 1958), Swiss politician
• Fred Alder (1889–1960), Australian rules footballer
• Guillermo Alder (born 1971), Argentine cross-country skier
• Henry Alder (1874–1949), Australian rules footballer
• Inés Alder (born 1970), Argentine retired cross-country skier
• Janine Alder (born 1995), Swiss ice hockey goaltender
• Jim Alder (born 1940), British distance runner who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics
• 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, co-winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • Alder (crater), a lunar crater named after Kurt Alder
  • Diels–Alder reaction, a chemical reaction named after Otto Diels and Kurt Alder
• Mike Alder (born before 2004), Australian mathematician and writer
• Ray Alder (born 1967), American singer with the band Fates Warning
• Roger Alder (born before 2005), British organic 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

See also

• Alford & Alder, a British former automotive engineering company
• Gregory Scott Aldering (born 1960), American astronomer
• Alda (name)
• Alders (disambiguation)
• Allder (disambiguation)