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Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008), French novelist and filmmaker, leader and theoretician of the nouveau roman at Éditions de Minuit; author of Les Gommes, La Jalousie, and Pour un nouveau roman, and screenwriter of Last Year at Marienbad.
Alain Robert
Alain Robert, the French Spider-Man (born 1962, Digoin), free solos skyscrapers worldwide with bare hands and chalk; over 250 urban ascents on 170 buildings including the Burj Khalifa, despite a disabling 1982 fall and numerous arrests.
Alain Rossman
Alain Rossman is a French-educated Silicon Valley technology executive who co-founded chipmaker C-Cube Microsystems in 1988, then founded Unwired Planet, known as the father of WAP, and Vudu.
Alain Rouet
Alain Rouet is a French theoretical physicist, the R in BRST symmetry, the framework for quantizing gauge theories, and shared the 2009 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.
Alain Rousset
Alain Rousset, born in 1951, is a French politician who has led the Regional Council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine since the region's creation in 2016 and was reelected in 2021.
Alain Souchon
Alain Souchon is a French singer-songwriter born in 1944 whose debut hit 'J'ai dix ans' launched a career of more than 10 million albums sold and ten Victoires de la musique.
Alain Tapp
Alain Tapp, born in Montreal in 1969, is a Canadian computer scientist and full professor at the Université de Montréal working in quantum information, cryptography, and machine learning fairness.
Alain Tedgui
Alain Tedgui, born 1953 in Oran, Algeria, is a French researcher in cardiovascular immunology who established the inflammatory and immune dimensions of atherosclerosis and received the Grand Prix Inserm in 2018.
Alain Townsend
Alain R. M. Townsend is an Oxford molecular immunologist, Emeritus Professor at the MRC Weatherall Institute, known for defining how cytotoxic T cells recognize viral peptide fragments presented by MHC class I.
Alain Vigneault
Alain Vigneault, born 1961 in Quebec City, is a Canadian former NHL head coach of the Canadiens, Canucks, Rangers, and Flyers; 722 wins, two Stanley Cup Final losses (2011, 2014), 2007 Jack Adams winner; retired from coaching in 2023.
Alain Wertheimer
Alain Wertheimer, born in 1948, is a French-born businessman who co-owns the luxury house Chanel with his brother Gérard and has been its global executive chairman since 2022.
Alain Werts
Alain Werts was a young French engineer at CSF who published a 1966 paper reaching conclusions similar to Kao and Hockham's on optical fiber communication.
Alain-Fabien Delon
Alain-Fabien Delon, born in 1994 in Gien, France, is a French actor and writer, the youngest son of the actor Alain Delon and model Rosalie van Breemen.
Alain-Fournier
Alain-Fournier, pen name of Henri Alban Fournier (1886–1914), French author of the single novel Le Grand Meaulnes (1913); friend of Jacques Rivière, model for Yvonne de Galais was Yvonne de Quiévrecourt; killed in 1914 near Saint-Rémy-la-Calonne.
Alaina Reed Hall
Alaina Reed Hall (Bernice Ruth Reed, 1946–2009), American actress and singer; Olivia on Sesame Street 1976–1988 and Rose Lee Holloway on NBC's 227; also Broadway Chicago, Hair, Eubie!; died of breast cancer in Santa Monica.
Alaipayuthey (அலைபாயுதே) (soundtrack)
Alaipayuthey (அலைபாயுதே) soundtrack: A.R. Rahman's Tamil album for Mani Ratnam's 2000 film, lyrics by Vairamuthu, released April 14, 2000 on Saregama; includes Endrendrum Punnagai, Pachai Nirame, Snehidhane, Mangalyam.
Alajen Vallis
Alajen Vallis is a 200 km valley (vallis) on Venus near the equator at 3.3°S, 337.1°E, IAU-approved in 2000 and named for a Talysh river deity of the southwest Caspian coast.
Alajos Kenyery
Alajos Kenyery (Kenyéry Alajos, later Kronberg), Hungarian freestyle swimmer, 1912 Stockholm Olympian who set the 400 m freestyle world record of 5:29.0 in April 1912; distinct from water polo player Alajos Keserű.
Alajos Keserű
Alajos Keserű (Keserű II, nicknamed Laló), Hungarian water polo player (1905–1965): Olympic gold 1932, silver 1928, fifth 1924, four-time European champion, 73 caps, brother of Ferenc Keserű.
Alajuela
Alajuela (Cantón de Alajuela) is the first canton of Alajuela Province, Costa Rica, in the Central Valley; founded as La Lajuela, city since 1824, seat of Juan Santamaría International Airport, nicknamed City of Mangoes.
Alajuelense
Liga Deportiva Alajuelense (LDA, Los Manudos), Costa Rican football club founded 18 June 1919 in Alajuela; two-time Concacaf Champions Cup winner (1986, 2004), three-time Copa Centroamericana champion (2023-2025), and archrival of Saprissa.
Alakazam the Great (西遊記)
Alakazam the Great (西遊記, Saiyūki) is Toei Animation's 1960 animated feature adapting Tezuka Osamu's Boku no Son Goku; released August 14, 1960, 88 minutes, it won a Venice children's film award and reached the US in 1961 via American International Pictures.
Alakh Pandey
Alakh Pandey is an Indian edtech founder and engineering-college dropout who built Physics Wallah, a Noida test-preparation company, from a YouTube channel and listed it publicly in November 2025.
Alaknanda River
Alaknanda River, Himalayan headstream of the Ganga in Uttarakhand, India, rising at the Satopanth and Bhagirathi Kharak glaciers; flows ~190–213 km through Chamoli, Rudraprayag and Pauri Garhwal, joins the Bhagirathi at Devprayag, and passes the Panch Prayag confluences.
Alakol Biosphere Reserve
Alakol Biosphere Reserve (Алакөл) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in southeastern Kazakhstan, designated in 2013 around the Alakol-Sasykkol saline and freshwater lakes, a Ramsar wetland and major Eurasian waterbird migration site.
Alakol-Sasykkol Lakes System
Alakol-Sasykkol Lakes System (Ramsar site 1892, designated 25 November 2009): a 914,663-ha wetland complex in eastern Kazakhstan's Balkhash-Alakol basin, with brackish endorheic Alakol, freshwater Tentek-fed Sasykkol, 342 bird species, and Kazakhstan's largest nesting wetland-bird reserve.
Alaköprü Dam
Alaköprü Dam (Alaköprü Barajı) is a rock-fill dam on the Dragon Creek in Anamur, Mersin Province, southern Turkey, supplying water to Northern Cyprus via an undersea pipeline since 2015.
Alaksandr Burbis
Alaksandr Burbis (Аляксандр Бурбіс), known as Ales Burbis, was a Belarusian political figure, publicist, and theater director who helped found the Belarusian Socialist Hromada and served in the first government of the Belarusian People's Republic.
Alaksandr Čarviakoŭski
Alaksandr Čarviakoŭski (Аляксандр Чарвякоў) was a Belarusian and Soviet state leader who headed the Byelorussian SSR from 1920 until 1937 and drove the Belarusization policy of the 1920s.
Alaksandr Ułasaŭ
Alaksandr Ułasaŭ (Аляксандар Уласаў) was a Belarusian publisher and politician who edited Naša Niva, co-founded the first Belarusian political party, and served as a Polish senator.