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Oldest known name of the island of Great Britain. Today, it is still sometimes used poetically to refer to the island.
New Albion and Albionoria ("Albion of the North") were briefly suggested as names of Canada during the period of the Canadian Confederation.

Famous real-life people named Albion

Albion Earnest Andrews, Commander of the Ceylon Defence Force (1927–1928)
Albion Avdijaj (born 1994), Albanian footballer
Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933), female American reformer and writer, best remembered for her efforts to improve housing standards and her work on tenement reform
Albion Rajkumar Banerjee (1871–1950), Indian civil servant and administrator, Prime Minister of Kashmir from 1927 to 1929
Albion P. Howe (1818–1897), American Civil War Union Army general
Albion W. Knight, Jr. (1924–2012), second archbishop of the United Episcopal Church of North America
Albion Parris (1788–1857), American politician and jurist
Albion Woodbury Small (1854–1926), American sociologist, influential in the establishment of sociology as a valid field of academic study
Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905), American pioneer civil rights activist, soldier, lawyer, writer, politician and diplomat

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