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Alan Crane

Alan Crane is a biotechnology investor and company builder who has been an entrepreneur partner at Polaris Partners since 2002, leading Momenta Pharmaceuticals as CEO.

Alan MacGregor Cranston (1914–2000), California Democratic U.S. senator 1969–1993 and Senate Democratic Whip 1977–1991, arms-control leader, Japanese American redress sponsor, Desert Protection Act author, reprimanded in the Keating Five scandal.

Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming, Scottish stage and screen actor; Olivier winner for Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Eli Gold on The Good Wife, Emmy-winning host of The Traitors US, memoirist and cabaret performer.

Alan Cunningham

Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham (1887-1983), British general; conquered Italian East Africa in 1941, briefly commanded the Eighth Army during Operation Crusader, and was the last High Commissioner for Palestine, 1945-1948.

Alan D López

Alan D. Lopez is an Australian epidemiologist and University of Melbourne professor who co-founded the Global Burden of Disease Study and won the 2018 Gairdner Global Health Award.

Alan D. Cherrington

Alan D. Cherrington is a Vanderbilt University physiologist known for research on glucagon and hepatic glucose production and for proposing the glucagonocentric view of diabetes.

Alan D. D'Andrea

Alan D. D'Andrea, also known as Alan David D'Andrea, is an American physician-scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute known for work on the Fanconi anemia DNA repair pathway and BRCA genes.

Alan D. Frankel

Alan D. Frankel is an American structural biologist and virologist, Recall Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF, known for studies of HIV Tat and Rev proteins.

Alan D. Grossman

Alan D. Grossman is the Praecis Professor of Biology at MIT, a molecular microbiologist known for work on bacterial DNA replication and mobile genetic elements in Bacillus subtilis.

Alan D. Irvine

Alan D. Irvine, also published as Alan Irvine, is an Irish consultant dermatologist at Children's Health Ireland and St James's Hospital, Dublin, and professor of dermatology at Trinity College Dublin.

Sep 27, 2026

Alan D. Lourie

Alan D. Lourie is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit since 1990, appointed by President George H. W. Bush.

Alan D. Schreiber

Alan D. Schreiber was an American physician-scientist in hematology and immunology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on Fcγ receptors and for founding three pharmaceutical companies.

Alan Dale

Alan Hugh Dale (born 1947, Dunedin) is a New Zealand actor, Jim Robinson in Neighbours, then US TV authority figures: Caleb Nichol in The O.C., Bradford Meade in Ugly Betty, Charles Widmore in Lost, Joseph Anders in Dynasty. Distinct from the singer Alan Dale (1925–2002).

Alan Davies

Alan Davies, English stand-up comedian, actor and writer from Loughton, Essex; star of Jonathan Creek (1997) and permanent panellist on QI since 2003; began stand-up in 1988, Time Out Best Young Comic 1991.

Alan Davis

Alan Davis (born 1956) is an English comic book artist and writer from Corby, England, known for Captain Britain, Excalibur, The Uncanny X-Men, and the Eisner Award-winning JLA: The Nail.

Alan Dean Foster

Alan Dean Foster (born 1946, New York City) is an American science fiction and fantasy author of over 100 books, creator of the Humanx Commonwealth and Pip & Flinx series, ghost-writer of the first Star Wars novelization, and author of Alien, The Thing, and Transformers movie novelizations.

Alan Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz (born 1938), American criminal defense lawyer and Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School. Known for appellate defenses of Claus von Bulow and O.J. Simpson, the Epstein 2008 plea deal, Trump's 2020 impeachment defense, and a failed $300 million CNN defamation suit.

Alan Dressler

Alan Dressler is an observational astronomer at the Carnegie Institution's Observatories, known for the morphology–density relation, identifying the Great Attractor, and election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996.

Oct 22, 2026

Alan Duff

Alan Duff (born 1950) is a New Zealand novelist and columnist of Māori descent, best known for the 1990 novel Once Were Warriors and its acclaimed 1994 film adaptation.

Alan Duncan

Sir Alan Duncan, British Conservative MP for Rutland and Melton 1992-2019, minister at DFID (2010-2014), Special Envoy to Yemen, and FCO Minister for Europe and the Americas until resigning in July 2019 rather than serve under Boris Johnson.

Alan Dzagoev (Алан Елизбарович Дзагоев)

Alan Dzagoev (Алан Елизбарович Дзагоев, born 1990) is a Russian former central midfielder, CSKA Moscow star 2008-2022 (397 games, 77 goals, 3 titles) and joint leading scorer at Euro 2012; retired 2023, now CSKA academy scout.

Alan E H Emery

Alan E H Emery, also known as Alan Emery, is a British physician and human geneticist known for research on the muscular dystrophies and for Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.

Alan E. Gelfand

Alan E. Gelfand, born 1945, is an American statistician whose 1990 paper brought the Gibbs sampler into mainstream Bayesian practice; he was James B. Duke Professor at Duke University.

Alan E. Mast

Alan E. Mast is an American pathologist and transfusion medicine researcher who received the 1998 PECASE award and leads research at Versiti Blood Research Institute in Milwaukee.

Sep 27, 2026

Alan E. Norris

Alan E. Norris, also known as Alan Eugene Norris, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2001.

Alan E. Rubin

Alan E. Rubin is an American meteoriticist and cosmochemist at UCLA who studies chondrules and shock effects in chondrites; the mineral rubinite and asteroid 6227 Alanrubin are named after him.

Alan E. Willner

Alan E. Willner is an American electrical engineer at the University of Southern California known for multiplexing many data streams onto twisted light beams, reaching terabit free-space transmission rates.

Alan Eagleson

Alan Eagleson, born Robert Eagleson in 1933, was a Canadian lawyer, the first prominent NHL player agent, founding executive director of the NHLPA, and convicted of fraud in 1998.

Alan Engelman

Alan Engelman is an American virologist and Professor of Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, known for defining the mechanism of HIV-1 DNA integration and structural studies of the retroviral intasome.