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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is an American dine-in theater chain founded in 1997 in Austin, Texas by Tim and Karrie League, known for in-seat food service, strict no-talking rules, and repertory programming; acquired by Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2024.
Alamo Scouts
The Alamo Scouts, formally the U.S. Sixth Army Special Reconnaissance Unit, was a World War II unit created by General Walter Krueger that ran over 100 missions behind Japanese lines without a casualty.
Alamodome
The Alamodome is a city-owned domed stadium in downtown San Antonio, Texas, opened in 1993, hosting the Alamo Bowl, UTSA football, and five NCAA Final Fours.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Alamogordo, New Mexico: Otero County seat founded in 1898 as a railroad town by Charles Eddy; about 31,000 residents, adjacent to Holloman AFB, near White Sands National Park.
Alamos Gold Inc.
Alamos Gold Inc. is a Canadian intermediate gold producer headquartered in Toronto, listed as AGI, with mines in Ontario and Mexico producing 545,400 ounces of gold in 2025.
Alamouti space-time block code
The Alamouti space-time block code is a two-antenna transmit diversity scheme giving single-antenna receivers diversity equal to two-antenna reception, described by S.M. Alamouti in 1998.
Alamut Castle
Alamut Castle (الموت), also called Hassan Sabbah Castle, is a ruined mountain fortress in Iran's Alborz Mountains that served as the center of the Nizari Ismaʿili state from 1090 to 1256.
Alan
Alan, also known as Alan Dawa Dolma, is a Chinese singer of Tibetan ethnicity who debuted in Japan in 2007 and returned to China in 2011.
Alan Aderem
Alan Aderem is a South African-born biologist in Seattle known for innate immunity, Toll-like receptors, and systems vaccinology; he co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology in 2000 and led it until 2011.
Alan Alda
Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo, 1936) is an American actor, director, and science-communication advocate, famous as Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H (1972–1983), later Arnold Vinick on The West Wing, with six Emmys and an Oscar nomination for The Aviator.
Alan and Marilyn Bergman
Alan and Marilyn Bergman, American husband-and-wife lyricists (married 1958), wrote "The Way We Were," "The Windmills of Your Mind," and Yentl's score, winning three Oscars, two Grammys, and four Emmys; Marilyn later led ASCAP.
Alan Arkin
Alan Wolf Arkin (1934–2023), American character actor; Oscar winner for Little Miss Sunshine, nominated for The Russians Are Coming and Argo; Second City and Tarriers alumnus, Tony winner for Enter Laughing, final major role in The Kominsky Method.
Alan Ashworth
Alan Ashworth is a British molecular biologist who helped discover the BRCA2 gene in 1995 and has led the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center since 2015.
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Alán Aspuru-Guzik is a theoretical and computational chemist at the University of Toronto, known for the variational quantum eigensolver and for co-founding Zapata AI and Kebotix.
Alan Attie
Alan D. Attie is an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for a 1986 Science paper on lipoprotein mutations in pigs and for mouse-genetic screens of diabetes-susceptibility genes.
Alan Auerbach
Alan J. Auerbach is an American public-finance economist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for the Auerbach–Kotlikoff life-cycle model, generational accounting, and the fiscal gap.
Alan Autry
Alan Autry (Carlos Alan Autry, born 1952) is an American actor, former Green Bay Packers quarterback, and Republican mayor of Fresno, California, 2001–2009, best known as Bubba Skinner on In the Heat of the Night.
Alan B. Johnson
Alan B. Johnson, also known as Alan Bond Johnson, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Wyoming since 1985.
Alan B. Krueger
Alan B. Krueger, also known as Alan Krueger, was an American labor economist at Princeton University whose minimum-wage research reshaped the field; he died in 2019 at 58.
Alan B. Rickinson
Alan B. Rickinson is a virologist and Emeritus Professor of Cancer Studies at the University of Birmingham, known for his work on the biology and immunology of Epstein–Barr virus.
Alan B. Sachs
Alan B. Sachs is an American molecular biologist and physician-scientist whose yeast genetics showed how the poly(A)-binding protein controls translation initiation, the basis of the closed-loop mRNA model.
Alan Baker (mathematician)
Alan Baker (1939–2018) was a British number theorist and Professor of Pure Mathematics at Cambridge, awarded the 1970 Fields Medal for the theorem on linear forms in logarithms that carries his name.
Alan Ball (screenwriter)
Alan Erwin Ball (born 1957) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer, Oscar winner for American Beauty and creator of HBO's Six Feet Under and True Blood.
Alan Ball Jr.
Alan Ball Jr. (1945-2007), English midfielder, youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning team; Everton league champion 1970 in the 'Holy Trinity' midfield, record transfers to Everton and Arsenal, 72 England caps, later manager of Portsmouth, Southampton, and Manchester City.
Alan Barinholtz
Alan Barinholtz (born 1951) is an American attorney and actor, also known as Judge Alan Rosen of Jury Duty. A Chicago personal-injury lawyer of about 40 years and father of Ike and Jon Barinholtz, he won the 2023 Freevee role via audition tape.
Alan Bates
Alan Bates: chiefly Sir Alan Arthur Bates (1934–2003), English stage and film actor of Look Back in Anger, Butley, Zorba the Greek and Women in Love; also the subpostmaster knighted in 2024 for exposing the Post Office Horizon scandal, and a Monckton Chambers barrister.
Alan Bates (subpostmaster)
Alan Bates, British former subpostmaster of Llandudno, founder of the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance and lead claimant in Bates v Post Office, the group litigation exposing the Horizon IT scandal.
Alan Bean
Alan LaVern Bean was an American NASA astronaut, the fourth person to walk on the Moon on Apollo 12 in 1969, and the only moonwalker to become a painter.
Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934, Leeds) is an English playwright, actor, and diarist of Beyond the Fringe fame, known for Talking Heads, The Madness of George III, The History Boys, and The Lady in the Van.
Alan Berg
Alan Berg (January 1934 to June 18, 1984) was a Denver KOA talk-radio host, a former Chicago lawyer famed for confrontational on-air style, murdered in his driveway by members of the neo-Nazi group The Order; two of its members received 150-year sentences for civil rights violations.