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Alan H. Kadish
Alan H. Kadish is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist who led the 2004 DEFINITE defibrillator trial and has been president of Touro University and New York Medical College since May 2011.
Alan H. Windle
Alan H. Windle, born 1942, is a materials scientist and Emeritus Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge, known for direct spinning of carbon nanotube fibers.
Alan Hale (astronomer)
Alan Hale (1958–2026) was an American astronomer best known as co-discoverer, with Thomas Bopp, of Comet Hale-Bopp, one of the most widely observed comets of the 20th century.
Alan Hale Jr.
Alan Hale Jr. (born Alan Hale MacKahan Jr., 1921–1990) was an American character actor, son of actor Alan Hale Sr., best known as Skipper Jonas Grumby on Gilligan's Island (1964–67) and co-owner of the Lobster Barrel restaurant.
Alan Hale Sr.
Alan Hale Sr. (Rufus Edward Mackahan, 1892–1950) was an American character actor and director, Errol Flynn's frequent sidekick, who played Little John in Robin Hood (1922), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950), father of Alan Hale Jr.
Alan Hall
Alan Hall (1952–2015) was a British cell biologist who pioneered the study of Rho GTPases, showing how these molecular switches control cell shape, migration, and division.
Alan Hall Jobe
Alan Hall Jobe is an American neonatal-perinatal physician-scientist and emeritus professor at Cincinnati Children's whose work on surfactant therapy and antenatal corticosteroids earned the American Pediatric Society's 2024 John Howland Award.
Alan Hamel
Alan Hamel (born 1936, Toronto) is a Canadian TV host and producer, co-host of CBC's Razzle Dazzle, host of Anniversary Game and CTV's The Alan Hamel Show (1976–80), and Suzanne Somers' husband.
Alan Hansen
Alan Hansen (born 1955), Scottish centre-back, Liverpool 1977-1991, 620 games, eight league titles, three European Cups; BBC Match of the Day pundit 1992-2014, famous for 'you can't win anything with kids'; MBE 2024.
Alan Hastings
Alan Hastings is a theoretical ecologist at the University of California, Davis, known for work on spatial population dynamics, extinction risk, and transient phenomena in ecology.
Alan Haynie
Alan Haynie is an American natural-resource economist at NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center, known for economic models of fisher behavior and a 2012 PECASE award.
Alan Helffrich
Alan Boone Helffrich (1900-1994), American half-miler and Penn State graduate, won 1924 Olympic 4x400m relay gold in world-record 3:16.0 and was the only American to beat Paavo Nurmi in 1925.
Alan Hinnebusch
Alan Hinnebusch is an American molecular geneticist and NIH Distinguished Investigator at NICHD, known for discovering the kinase GCN2 and how GCN4 translation is controlled in yeast.
Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914–1998) was a British physiologist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for work with Andrew Huxley on the ionic mechanisms of nerve impulses.
Alan Hoffman (mathematician)
Alan Hoffman (1924–2021) was an American mathematician and computer scientist who spent 41 years at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, pioneering linear programming and spectral graph theory.
Alan Horwich
Alan Horwich (born 1948) is a British clinical oncologist, Professor of Radiotherapy at the Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital from 1986 to 2013.
Alan Howard (hedge fund manager)
Alan Howard is a British hedge fund manager who co-founded Brevan Howard in London in 2002 and built it into Europe's largest global macro firm.
Alan Hutton
Alan Hutton, born 1984 in Glasgow, is a Scottish former right-back who played for Rangers, Tottenham Hotspur, and Aston Villa, won the 2008 League Cup, earned 50 Scotland caps, retired in 2020, and is now a pundit.
Alan I. Faden
Alan I. Faden is an American neurologist whose research shaped the modern understanding of traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, with two neuroprotective strategies advanced to clinical trials.
Alan I. Taub
Alan I. Taub is an American materials scientist and engineer, a National Academy of Engineering member who retired as General Motors vice president of Global R&D in 2012.
Alan J Korman
Alan J Korman is an American immuno-oncology researcher who directed preclinical development of the checkpoint inhibitors ipilimumab and nivolumab, winning the 2025 William B. Coley Award.
Alan J. Heeger
Alan J. Heeger, born 1936 in Sioux City, Iowa, is an American chemist and physicist at UC Santa Barbara who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for conductive polymers.
Alan J. Jamieson
Alan J. Jamieson is a Scottish deep-sea biologist and professor at the University of Western Australia, known for baited landers and recording the deepest fish, a snailfish at 8,336 m in 2022.
Alan J. Kaufman
Alan J. Kaufman is an American isotope geochemist and geobiologist, a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland known for establishing Precambrian chemostratigraphy and work on snowball Earth glaciations.
Alan J. Kingsman
Alan J. Kingsman is a molecular biologist at the University of Oxford known for work on the yeast retrotransposon Ty and for co-founding the gene therapy company Oxford BioMedica.
Alan J. Pakula
Alan J. Pakula (1928–1998), American director and producer of To Kill a Mockingbird and the paranoia trilogy Klute, The Parallax View, and All the President's Men, shot by Gordon Willis.
Alan Jackson
Alan Jackson (Alan Eugene Jackson, born 1958) is an American country singer from Newnan, Georgia with more than 25 Billboard number-one country singles and over 60 million albums sold.
Alan Jackson (lawyer)
Alan Jay Jackson, Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer and former LA County prosecutor (Major Crimes Division) who won the Phil Spector murder conviction, ran for DA in 2012, and later defended Harvey Weinstein, Karen Read, and Nick Reiner.
Alan Jasanoff
Alan Jasanoff is a neuroscientist at MIT, where he is the Eugene McDermott Professor and develops molecular MRI probes that image dopamine and other brain signaling directly.
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986), American lyricist and librettist of Lerner and Loewe, wrote My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Camelot, and Gigi, winning Oscars for An American in Paris and Gigi.