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Alan Evans
Alan Evans, also known as Alan C. Evans, is a neuroimaging scientist at McGill University's Montreal Neurological Institute, known for brain mapping and leading the BigBrain ultrahigh-resolution brain model.
Alan F. Hofmann
Alan F. Hofmann (1931–2021) was an American gastrointestinal physiologist and professor of medicine at UC San Diego, best known for showing that chenodeoxycholic acid dissolves cholesterol gallstones.
Alan F. Horwitz
Alan F. Horwitz, known as Rick, is a cell biologist known for discovering the integrin family of adhesion receptors and for pioneering work on how cells migrate.
Alan F. List
Alan F. List is an American hematologic oncologist whose clinical research established lenalidomide as the standard of care for myelodysplastic syndromes with chromosome 5q deletion.
Alan Feld
Alan Feld is a venture capital investor who founded Vintage Investment Partners in Herzliya, Israel, in 2002 and built it to about $4 billion under management.
Alan Ferguson (director)
Alan Ferguson, American music video director for Janelle Monae, Solange, Beyonce, Jon Batiste; husband of Solange; Howard University start; Grammy for "Freedom"; directed Monae's 2013 and 2023 videos; distinct from the Irish UK company director and the mining executive of the same name.
Alan Finkelstein
Alan Finkelstein is a biophysicist and Professor Emeritus at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine whose measurements of water movement through lipid membranes supported the existence of water channels.
Alan Fletcher
Alan Gerard Fletcher (1931–2006) was a British graphic designer, born in Nairobi, who co-founded Fletcher/Forbes/Gill and Pentagram and designed the Reuters and V&A logos, later writing The Art of Looking Sideways.
Alan Ford
Alan Robert Ford (1923–2008), American swimmer from the Panama Canal Zone and Yale; broke Johnny Weissmuller's 100-yard freestyle record, first under 50 seconds, and took 100 m freestyle silver at the 1948 London Olympics.
Alan Ford (actor)
Alan Ford (born 23 February 1938, London) is an English character actor known for Brick Top in Guy Ritchie's Snatch and for narrating Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; also The Long Good Friday, EastEnders, and the Hitchhiker's Guide radio Roosta.
Alan Fowler (physicist)
Alan Fowler (1928–2024) was an American physicist at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, known for the 1966 experiment that first demonstrated two-dimensional electrons at semiconductor interfaces.
Alan Frederick Cowman
Alan Frederick Cowman, born 1954, is an Australian parasitologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne who studies the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Alan Freed
Alan Freed (1921-1965), American disc jockey, popularized "rock 'n' roll" on Cleveland's WJW and New York's WINS, staged the 1952 Moondog Coronation Ball, and fell in the 1959 payola scandal.
Alan Furst
Alan Furst (born 1941) is an American novelist, master of historical espionage fiction set in Europe 1933–1945, from Night Soldiers (1988) onward; also known as a writer of 'historical espionage' novels.
Alan G. Barbour
Alan G. Barbour is a physician and microbiologist who is a Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine, known for first cultivating the Lyme disease spirochete in 1981 and for work on relapsing fever.
Alan G. Porter
Alan G. Porter is a molecular biologist known for 1970s Nature papers on picornavirus and influenza RNA, and later apoptosis research at the National University of Singapore.
Alan G. Weeds
Alan G. Weeds is a biochemist who worked for nearly forty years at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge on myosin chemistry and actin filament regulation.
Alan Garber
Alan M. Garber (born 1955) is an American economist-physician and 31st president of Harvard University, appointed August 2, 2024 after more than 12 years as provost; he led Harvard through its federal funding fight with the Trump administration.
Alan García
Alan García Pérez (1949–2019), Peruvian APRA leader and president 1985–1990 and 2006–2011; debt crisis and hyperinflation in his first term, growth and Bagua unrest in his second, suicide in the Odebrecht case.
Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner
Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner (1742–1809) was a Royal Navy admiral who fought at Quiberon Bay, the Saintes, and the battle of the First of June.
Alan Garen
Alan Garen (1926–2022) was an American molecular biologist and geneticist who spent most of his career at Yale University and is known for identifying the stop codons that terminate protein synthesis.
Alan Garnett Davenport
Alan Garnett Davenport (1932–2009) was a Canadian civil engineer regarded as the founder of modern wind engineering and founder of the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory.
Alan Graham Apley
Alan Graham Apley (1914–1996) was a British orthopedic surgeon known for the Apley grind and scratch tests, for Apley's System of Orthopaedics and Fractures, and for the Pyrford FRCS course.
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson (born 1958, Bronx) is a Democratic former U.S. Representative from Orlando-area Florida districts (2009-2011, 2013-2017), IDT Corporation co-founder, 'Die Quickly' 2009 speechmaker, and unsuccessful 2016 Senate and later House primary candidate.
Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan was an American economist who chaired the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006, presiding over the Great Moderation before the 2008 crisis reshaped his reputation.
Alan Guth
Alan Guth is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist at MIT, best known for proposing cosmic inflation in 1981, explaining the universe's uniformity and density.
Alan Guttmacher (physician-scientist)
Alan Edward Guttmacher is an American physician-scientist in medical genetics who served as acting director of the National Human Genome Research Institute and director of the NICHD until 2015.
Alan H. DeCherney
Alan H. DeCherney, also known as Alan Hersh DeCherney, is an American reproductive endocrinologist at NIH who pioneered laparoscopic ectopic pregnancy surgery and edited Fertility and Sterility for 15 years.
Alan H. Epstein
Alan H. Epstein is an American aeronautical engineer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999, who directed MIT's Gas Turbine Laboratory and conceived the millimeter-scale MEMS microengine.
Alan H. Gnauck
Alan H. Gnauck is an American optical communications researcher at Nokia Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.