Æthelstan (name)

Æthelstan was the first King of England, reigning from 924 to 939.

People
Other notable people with this masculine given name include:

Mononym

 * Æthelstan Ætheling, heir apparent to Æthelred the Unready
 * Æthelstan (bishop of Elmham), 10th-century bishop
 * Æthelstan (bishop of Hereford), 11th-century bishop
 * Æthelstan Half-King, 10th-century ealdorman
 * Æthelstan Mannessune, 10th-century landowner in the Fens
 * Æthelstan of Abingdon, 11th-century abbot
 * Æthelstan of East Anglia, 9th-century King of East Anglia
 * Æthelstan of Kent, 9th-century sub-king of Kent, son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex
 * Æthelstan of Ramsbury, 10th-century bishop
 * Æthelstan of Sussex, 8th-century South Saxon monarch
 * Æthelstan Rota, 10th-century ealdorman under King Eadwig and King Edgar
 * Guthrum the Old, 9th-century Danish King of East Anglia, who converted to Christianity and was baptised as Æthelstan after his peace with Alfred the Great

Given name

 * Athelstan Beckwith (1930–2010), Australian chemist
 * Athelstan Jasper Blaxland (1880–1963), English consultant surgeon
 * Athelstan Braxton Hicks (1854–1902), English coroner
 * Athelstan Caroe (1903–1988), English merchant
 * Athelstan Cornish-Bowden (1871–1942), South African surveyor
 * Athelstan John Cornish-Bowden (b. 1943), British biochemist
 * Athelstan Popkess (1895–1967), English police officer
 * Athelstan Rendall (1871–1948), English politician
 * Athelstan Rendall (pilot) (1914–2006), British pilot
 * Athelstan Riley (1858–1945), English composer
 * Athelstan Saw (1868–1929), Australian university administrator
 * Athelstan Spilhaus (1911–1998), South African oceanographer

Fictional characters

 * Athelstane, in Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
 * Athelstan, in Vikings
 * Athelstane King, in The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling