title: ALF
text: # ALF
  
  Alf or ALF may refer to:
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  * ALF (TV series), American sitcom
  * ALF: The Animated Series, 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, from the BBC's Till Death Us Do Part
  * Alf Mason, character in American animated television series Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates
  * Alf Mushpie, in the comic strip Bloom County
  * Alf Roberts, from the British television program Coronation Street
  * Alf Stewart, from the Australian television program Home and Away
  * Alf Tupper, in the comic Victor
  * Alf Wit, in the comic The Beano
  * Sir Alf, in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 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, a 1964 American animated short film
  
  ## People
  
  * Alf (name), given name, nickname or surname, including a list of people with the name
  * Adam Le Fondre, English footballer whose nickname is ALF or Alfie due to his initials
  
  ## Places
  
  * Alf, Rhineland-Palatinate, a local municipality in Zell, Germany
  * Alf (river) or Alfbach, a tributary of the Moselle River in Germany
  
  ## Companies and organizations
  
  * ALF Products, former personal-computer products manufacturer
  * Afar Liberation Front, an Ethiopian political party of the Afar people
  * Africa Leadership Forum, a Nigerian organization
  * American LaFrance, a former emergency and vocational vehicle manufacturer
  * American Legacy Foundation, the former name of the modern-day Truth Initiative
  * American Liver Foundation, an American organization for liver health and disease prevention
  * American Lighthouse Foundation, 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, 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
  * Alf, one of the álfar
  
  ## Technology
  
  * alf, ISO-639-3 code for the Alege language
  * ALF (proof assistant), dependently typed programming language/theorem prover
  * Action Language for Foundational UML
  * Advanced Library Format, an ASIC databook
  * Algebraic Logic Functional programming language
  * Algorithms for Lattice Fermions, a Quantum Monte Carlo package
  * Application layer framing
  * Application Lifecycle Framework, integration framework for ALM tools
  * Atomic line filter, an advanced optical filter
  
  ## Transportation
  
  * ALF, vehicle license plate prefix for Hildesheim (district), Germany
  * ALF, IATA airport code for Alta Airport, 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
  