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Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton, born Zurich 1969, is a Swiss-born British writer of 'philosophy of everyday life' books (Essays in Love, The Consolations of Philosophy) and founder of The School of Life in London, 2008.
Alain de Cadenet
Alain de Cadenet (1945–2022), 'de Cad', British privateer racing driver, constructor and TV presenter; third overall at Le Mans 1976 in a Lola T380, built the Gordon Murray-designed Duckhams LM, won Monza and Silverstone WSC rounds in 1980, later hosted Victory by Design.
Alain de Weck
Alain L. de Weck (1928–2013) was a Swiss immunologist and allergologist who identified penicillin allergy's main antigenic determinant and led Bern's allergy institute from 1961 to 1993.
Alain Delon
Alain Delon (1935–2024), French actor and producer, star of Plein soleil, Le Samouraï, The Leopard, and Mr. Klein; César winner 1985, Palme d'Honneur 2019, icon of impassive screen cool.
Alain Ducasse
Alain Ducasse (born 1956, Landes, France) is a French chef and restaurateur, first to hold three Michelin stars at three restaurants simultaneously, founder of the Ducasse Paris group of 33 restaurants, École Ducasse, and Manufactures, and creator of Naturalness cuisine.
Alain El-Hajj
Alain El-Hajj is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Paymob in 2015 and serves as its Chief Operating Officer, building payments infrastructure across the MENA region.
Alain Fischer
Alain Fischer, born in Paris in 1949, is a French pediatric immunologist who pioneered gene therapy for severe combined immunodeficiency and led France's Covid-19 vaccine strategy.
Alain Ghysen
Alain Ghysen (born 1945, in Uccle, Belgium) is a Belgian developmental neurobiologist known for genetic analysis of neuronal connections in Drosophila and the zebrafish lateral line.
Alain Goossens
Alain Goossens, born 1971, is a Belgian plant molecular biologist, senior full professor at Ghent University and VIB group leader known for research on jasmonate signaling and plant specialized metabolites.
Alain Israël
Alain Israël is a French molecular biologist at the Institut Pasteur and CNRS, known for work on how the transcription factor NF-κB is built and switched on.
Alain Jacquier
Alain Jacquier is a French molecular biologist who worked at CNRS and Institut Pasteur in Paris, known for defining group II intron splicing and discovering cryptic unstable transcripts.
Alain Johannes
Alain Johannes (born 1962, Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean-American guitarist, producer, and songwriter, co-founder of Eleven, collaborator with Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures, Chris Cornell, and Mark Lanegan, and solo artist behind Spark and Hum.
Alain Karma
Alain Karma is a physicist and materials scientist, Distinguished Professor of Physics at Northeastern University since 1988, known for phase-field modeling of alloy solidification and the helical crack-front instability.
Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou, born in 1966 and raised in Pointe-Noire, Congo, is a French novelist who won the Prix Renaudot for Mémoires de porc-épic and twice reached the International Booker shortlist.
Alain Marty
Alain Marty is a cellular neuroscientist at Université Paris Cité known for single-channel recordings of calcium-activated potassium channels, for helping perfect the patch-clamp technique in Göttingen, and for studying cerebellar GABAergic synapses.
Alain Merieux
Alain Mérieux is a French industrialist who founded the diagnostics company bioMérieux near Lyon in 1963, took majority control in 1974, and chairs the family holding Institut Mérieux.
Alain Mimoun
Alain Mimoun (Ali Mimoun Ould Kacha), 1921-2013, Algerian-born French distance runner; 1956 Olympic marathon champion and three-time Olympic silver medallist behind Emil Zátopek.
Alain Mosconi
Alain Mosconi (born 1949, Puteaux), French freestyle swimmer for CN Marseille; 1968 Olympic 400 m freestyle bronze medalist; 1967 world record holder in 400 m (4:09.2) and 800 m freestyle (8:46.8); three Olympian, 52 French titles.
Alain Moussi
Alain Moussi (born 1981, Libreville, Gabon) is a Canadian actor, stuntman, and martial artist; Kickboxer reboot star as Kurt Sloane, stunt double for Henry Cavill and Hugh Jackman, K2 Martial Arts owner.
Alain Ngalani
Alain Ngalani ("The Panther", Pierre Alain Ngalani), Cameroonian-born Hong Kong heavyweight, four-time kickboxing/Muay Thai world champion and ONE Championship veteran (2013–2021) known for spinning-kick knockouts, including an 11-second heavyweight-record KO of Hideki Sekine; MMA record 4-6-0, 2 NC.
Alain Nicolas
Alain Nicolas is a French molecular biologist, a CNRS scientist since 1978 and group leader at Institut Curie in Paris, known for identifying the first meiotic recombination initiation site in yeast.
Alain Orsoni
Alain Orsoni (1954–2026), Corsican nationalist, FLNC founding member and canal habituel leader, MPA founder, AC Ajaccio president; not Gazélec; shot dead 12 January 2026 at his mother's funeral in Vero.
Alain Pérez
Alain Pérez is a Cuban bassist, singer, arranger, and bandleader born in 1977, known for a decade with Paco de Lucía and his Grammy-nominated album Bingo.
Alain Perrelet
Alain Perrelet, born in 1940, is a Swiss cell biologist and histologist, professor at the University of Geneva, known for showing that proinsulin matures into insulin in secretory vesicles.
Alain Poher
Alain Poher (1909-1996), French centrist and MRP Christian democrat, President of the Senate 1968-1992, twice interim President of the Republic (1969, 1974), 1969 presidential runner-up, and president of the European Parliamentary Assembly 1966-1969.
Alain Prochiantz
Alain Prochiantz, born in 1948, is a French neurobiologist known for discovering transfer of homeoprotein transcription factors between cells and for leading the Collège de France.
Alain Prost
Alain Prost, French Formula 1 driver (born 1955), four-time world champion (1985, 1986, 1989, 1993) with 51 wins in 202 Grands Prix; nicknamed The Professor, famous for the Senna rivalry and Prost Grand Prix team.
Alain Puisieux
Alain Puisieux is a French cancer researcher known for work on EMT, Twist proteins, and cellular pliancy; he became chairman of Institut Curie in Paris in 2024.
Alain Ravaud
Alain Ravaud is a French medical oncologist, professor at the University of Bordeaux and head of medical oncology at Hôpital Saint-André, best known for the S-TRAC sunitinib trial.
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais (1922-2014), French director of Nuit et Brouillard, Hiroshima mon amour, and Last Year at Marienbad; Left Bank filmmaker whose 18 features center on memory, time, and collaboration with writers.