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Alan Bernstein
Alan Bernstein, born 1947, is a Canadian cancer and stem cell biologist known for KIT gene research and for leading the Lunenfeld Institute, CIHR, and CIFAR.
Alan Bersten
Alan Bersten (born 1994, Minnetonka, Minnesota) is an American ballroom dancer and choreographer, DWTS troupe member from Season 20, pro from Season 25, and Season 28 mirror ball champion with Hannah Brown.
Alan Billis
Alan Billis (died 2011) was an English taxi driver from Torquay, Devon, whose donated body was the first in the UK to be mummified using ancient Egyptian techniques.
Alan Bleasdale
Alan Bleasdale (born 1946, Liverpool) is the British TV dramatist behind Boys from the Blackstuff (1982), GBH (1991), and The Monocled Mutineer, known for realist, darkly comic Liverpool drama; not to be confused with other Bleasdales.
Alan Blumlein
Alan Blumlein was a British electronics engineer at EMI who invented two-channel stereo recording, contributed to Britain's 405-line television system, and died in 1942 testing H2S radar.
Alan Bond
Alan Bond (1938–2015) was an English-born Australian businessman who built Bond Corporation from a Perth signwriting shop, won the 1983 America's Cup, and was later jailed for corporate fraud.
Alan Bradstock
Alan Bradstock is an American politician and retired FBI special agent who won the 2026 Democratic primary for Pennsylvania's 14th District and faces incumbent Rep. Guy Reschenthaler.
Alan Brash
Alan R. Brash, born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1948, is a British-born pharmacologist and Vanderbilt University professor known for lipoxygenase research and for identifying allene oxide synthase as a cytochrome P450.
Alan Braxe
Alan Braxe (Alain Quême) is a French house producer and DJ, a member of Stardust and creator of the 2000 single 'Intro' with Fred Falke.
Alan Brazil
Alan Bernard Brazil (born 1959, Glasgow) is a Scottish former forward and talkSPORT Breakfast presenter since 2000; Ipswich 1981 UEFA Cup winner, 1982 World Cup Scotland player, retired at 27 through back injury.
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883–1963), British field marshal and Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1941–46, Churchill's principal military adviser in World War II; shaped Allied strategy, delayed D-Day until 1944, and left famous wartime diaries.
Alan Budikusuma
Alan Budikusuma (Wei Renfang, 魏仁芳), Indonesian badminton player born 1968 in Surabaya; won men's singles gold at badminton's 1992 Olympic debut in Barcelona, one of Indonesia's first two Olympic golds, husband of Susy Susanti.
Alan C Mix
Alan C Mix is a paleoceanographer and paleoclimatologist, a distinguished professor emeritus at Oregon State University since 1984, who won the American Geophysical Union's 2024 Maurice Ewing Medal.
Alan C. Brown
Alan C. Brown (1929–2022) was a British-born American aeronautical engineer who spent his career at Lockheed and served as program manager and chief engineer for the F-117A, the first stealth fighter.
Alan C. Sartorelli
Alan C. Sartorelli was an American cancer pharmacologist, Alfred Gilman Professor at Yale School of Medicine, and past president of the American Association for Cancer Research who died in 2015.
Alan Campbell (British politician)
Alan Campbell is a British Labour politician, MP for Tynemouth since 1997 and Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons since 2025.
Alan Carr
Alan Carr (Alan Graham Carr, born 1976, Weymouth) is an English camp comedian and presenter, host of sixteen series of Channel 4's Chatty Man (2009–2016), BAFTA and NTA winner, author of Look Who It Is! and Alanatomy, and star of Changing Ends.
Alan Carrington
Alan Carrington (1934–2013) was a British physical chemist and spectroscopist who pioneered high-resolution spectroscopy of gaseous free radicals and molecular ions, winning the Davy Medal in 1992.
Alan Chait
Alan Chait is a physician-scientist at the University of Washington who led its Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Nutrition from 1996 to 2016, studying atherosclerosis and diabetes.
Alan Chesney
Alan Chesney (Alan Malcolm Chesney, born 1949, Christchurch) is a New Zealand field hockey player who won gold in the men's tournament at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, his only Games, playing seven matches in the 1-0 final win over Australia.
Alan Chikin Chow
Alan Chikin Chow is an American actor and producer who became the most-watched YouTube Shorts creator globally. He founded Alan's Universe, a high school-set series.
Alan Clark
Alan Clark (1928–1999), British Conservative MP for Plymouth Sutton and Kensington and Chelsea, junior minister under Thatcher, military historian (The Donkeys), and diarist famous for 'economical with the actualité'.
Alan Clarke
Alan Clarke (1935–1990), British television and film director born in Seacombe, Cheshire, known for Scum, Made in Britain, The Firm, Rita Sue and Bob Too, and Elephant.
Alan Cobham
Alan Cobham is an American computer scientist who defined the complexity class P in a 1965 paper and proved Cobham's theorem on automatic sequences in 1969.
Alan Colmes
Alan Samuel Colmes (1950–2017), American liberal radio and TV host; co-host of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes (1996–2009) and host of the syndicated Alan Colmes Show; died of lymphoma at 66.
Alan Cooper (evolutionary biologist)
Alan Cooper is a New Zealand-born evolutionary biologist who pioneered ancient DNA research and produced the first complete mitochondrial genomes of an extinct species, the moa.
Alan Coren
Alan Coren (1938-2007), English humorist, editor of Punch 1978-87, Radio 4 News Quiz panellist 1975-2007, Call My Bluff captain, Times columnist, author of Golfing for Cats and the Idi Amin bulletins.
Alan Cottrell
Sir Alan Cottrell (1919–2012) was a British metallurgist and materials scientist whose dislocation theory of metal yielding and fracture turned physical metallurgy into a quantitative, predictive science.
Alan Cowey
Alan Cowey (1935–2012) was a British neuroscientist, Professor of Physiological Psychology at Oxford from 1981 to 2002, known for research on blindsight and for establishing the visual cortical area V2.
Alan Cox (actor)
Alan Cox (born 1970, London) is a British actor, son of Brian Cox; young Watson in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), RSC and National Theatre stage actor, Broadway's Translations and Frost/Nixon, and Tony Crosland in The Gang of Three. Distinct from the Cleveland radio host of the same name.