Alder (surname)

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

Alan Alder (born 1937), Australian ballet dancer
Berni Alder (born 1925), 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
Henry Alder (1874–1949), Australian rules footballer
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

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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