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Aladin (अलादीन) (film)
Aladin (अलादीन) is a 2009 Hindi fantasy film directed by Sujoy Ghosh, adapting the Aladdin tale with Amitabh Bachchan as genie Genius, Riteish Deshmukh, Sanjay Dutt, and Jacqueline Fernandez in her debut; released 30 October 2009 to poor reviews.
Aladin El-Mafaalani
Aladin El-Mafaalani, born 1978 in Datteln, is a German sociologist who works on migration, education, and social inequality and became known with his 2018 book Das Integrationsparadox.
Aladin Sky Atlas
Aladin Sky Atlas is an interactive sky atlas developed at the Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center in France in 1999, letting users view surveys and overlay astronomical catalogs.
Aladji Bamba
Aladji Bamba, French defensive midfielder born 2006 in Blois; Monaco academy product, Gambardella Cup 2023 and Maurice Revello Tournament 2025 winner, signed by Newcastle United in July 2026 for €41.5m.
Alâeddin Arabî Efendi
Alâeddin Arabî Efendi was an early Ottoman scholar from Aleppo who served as şeyhülislam under Sultan Bayezid II from 1495 until his death in 1496.
Alaeddin Mosque, Konya
The Alaeddin Mosque (Alâeddin Camii) is the principal congregational mosque of Konya, Turkey, on Alâeddin Tepesi, rebuilt in 1220 and holding the tombs of eight Seljuk sultans.
Alaeddin Pasha
Alaeddin Pasha (Alâeddin Paşa), traditionally the first vizier of the Ottoman state under Orhan Bey and credited with the yaya and müsellem corps with Çandarlı Kara Halil; distinct from Alâeddin Bey, Osman Gazi's son.
Alagille syndrome
Alagille syndrome (ALGS), also called arteriohepatic dysplasia, is a rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder, usually from JAG1 mutations, causing bile duct loss, heart defects, and distinctive facial features.
Alagiyavanna Mukaveti
Alagiyavanna Mukaveti (අලගියවන්න මුකවෙටි; also Alagiyavanna Mohottala, c. 1552 – c. 1625) was a Sinhala court poet, the last of the classical poets, who converted to Catholicism and wrote the first Christian poem in Sinhala.
Alagoas
Alagoas is a state in northeastern Brazil, capital Maceió; 27,830.662 km², 102 municipalities, 3,127,683 people (2022 census), sugarcane-based economy, 248 km coastline, and rising but below-average education and social indicators.
Alahan
Alahan (阿剌罕, 1233–1281) was a Yuan dynasty general of the Jalair Mongol tribe who served Kublai in the conquest of Southern Song China, dying in 1281 while an expedition against Japan was being mounted.
Alai
Alai (阿来) is a Tibetan-born Chinese-language novelist, born in 1959 in Sichuan, whose debut novel The Dust Settles won China's Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000.
Alai Osai
Alai Osai (அலை ஓசை) is a Tamil social novel by Kalki that follows families through India's independence struggle, partition, and Gandhi's assassination, winning the 1956 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Alai Payuthey (அலைபாயுதே)
Alai Payuthey (அலைபாயுதே, Alaipayuthey), 2000 Tamil romantic drama by Mani Ratnam starring R. Madhavan and Shalini, music by A. R. Rahman; remade in Hindi as Saathiya (2002).
Alai tanka
The Alai tanka (علائی تنکہ) is the silver tanka struck by Sultan Alauddin Khalji of Delhi (reigned 1296 to 1316) as part of his coinage and market reforms.
Alaia Bay
Alaia Bay is an artificial surfing lagoon in Sion, in the Swiss canton of Valais, opened in 2021 as the first commercial, surf-focused wave pool in mainland Europe.
Alaid
Alaid is the highest and northernmost volcano of the Kuril Islands, a basaltic stratovolcano forming uninhabited Atlasova Island off southern Kamchatka, with its last confirmed eruption in 2022.
Alaigal Oivathillai (அலைகள் ஓய்வதில்லை)
Alaigal Oivathillai (அலைகள் ஓய்வதில்லை) is a 1981 Tamil film directed by Bharathiraja, with music by Ilaiyaraaja, that marked the debuts of Karthik and Radha and ran over 200 days.
Alain (philosopher)
Alain, pen name of Émile-Auguste Chartier (1868–1951), French philosopher, journalist, and teacher of khâgne at Lycée Henri-IV; author of 3,498 Propos, Mars ou la guerre jugée, and a radical philosophy of judgment and pacifism.
Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect, born 1947, is a French experimental physicist at the Institut d'Optique whose 1980s Bell inequality tests with entangled photons earned a share of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou (born 1937, Morocco) is a French philosopher, author of Being and Event (1988) and Logics of Worlds, who identifies ontology with ZFC set theory and theorizes radical change through the event, fidelity, the subject, and four truth procedures: politics, art, science, and love.
Alain Baxter
Alain Baxter, born 1973 in Edinburgh, is a British alpine slalom skier nicknamed The Highlander. He won 2002 Salt Lake City slalom bronze, the first British Olympic snow medal, later stripped over a Vicks inhaler methamphetamine test.
Alain Bernard
Alain Bernard (born 1983, Aubagne) is a French freestyle sprint swimmer, double Olympic champion: 100 m freestyle gold at Beijing 2008 and 4x100 m relay gold at London 2012; multiple 100 m and 50 m world record holder.
Alain C. Enthoven
Alain C. Enthoven, born 1930, is an American economist, emeritus professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, known as the father of managed competition in health care.
Alain Carpentier
Alain Carpentier, born 1933 in Toulouse, is a French cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered mitral valve repair, developed tissue heart valves, and invented the Carmat artificial heart.
Alain Chamfort
Alain Chamfort, born Alain Le Govic in Paris in 1949, is a French singer-songwriter known for the Serge Gainsbourg songs "Manureva" (1979) and "Bambou", and for the album L'Impermanence (2024).
Alain Chédotal
Alain Chédotal, born 1967, is a French developmental neuroscientist at Inserm and the Institut de la Vision in Paris, elected to the Académie des sciences in 2017.
Alain Combes
Alain Combes, born 1966, is a French professor of intensive care medicine at Sorbonne Université who heads the medical ICU at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris and led the EOLIA trial of ECMO.
Alain Connes
Alain Connes, born in 1947 in Draguignan, France, is a French mathematician who won the 1982 Fields Medal for operator algebras and founded non-commutative geometry.
Alain de Benoist
Alain de Benoist, French political thinker and leading figure of the Nouvelle Droite (New Right), founded around GRECE in 1968; known for ethnopluralism, metapolitics, pagan European identity, and anticapitalist, anti-American critique.