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Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson (born 1950) is a British Labour politician, MP for Hull West and Hessle 1997-2017, former Communication Workers Union general secretary, and secretary of state in five departments including Home Secretary 2009-10.
Alan Jones (racing driver)
Alan Jones (born 1946, Melbourne) is an Australian racing driver, 1980 Formula One World Champion with Williams, the team's first title, and Australia's second F1 champion after Jack Brabham; 12 wins in 116 Grands Prix, distinct from the Australian radio broadcaster of the same name.
Alan Jouban
Alan Jouban, "Brahma" (born 1982, Lafayette, Louisiana), retired American UFC welterweight, 17-7 pro record, 11 KO wins; UFC 2014-2020, 8-5 in the Octagon; also a fashion model, commentator, and MMA H.E.A.T. podcast co-host.
Alan K. Burnett
Alan K. Burnett, born 1946, is a British haematologist who pioneered autologous bone marrow transplantation in acute myeloid leukemia and led the UK's national AML trials program.
Alan Kay
Alan Curtis Kay, born 1940 in Springfield, Massachusetts, is an American computer scientist who created Smalltalk at Xerox PARC, coined the term object-oriented programming, and won the 2003 Turing Award.
Alan Keyes
Alan Keyes (Alan Lee Keyes) is an American diplomat, conservative commentator, and perennial candidate who ran for president in 1996 and 2000 and for the Senate three times.
Alan Khugayev
Alan Khugayev (Алан Анатольевич Хугаев) is a Russian Greco-Roman wrestler, born 1989 in Vladikavkaz, who won the light-heavyweight (84 kg) gold medal for Russia at the 2012 London Olympic Games.
Alan King
Alan King, born Irwin Alan Kniberg (1927-2004), American stand-up comedian and actor famous for angry cigar-wielding monologues on suburbia, Ed Sullivan Show guest, 1972 Oscars host, Casino and Rush Hour 2 actor.
Alan Kogut
Alan J. Kogut is an American cosmologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center whose COBE analyses showed the cosmic microwave background is Gaussian, supporting inflation.
Alan Kruizenga
Alan Kruizenga is an American materials and corrosion scientist who established how alloys degrade in hot molten salts, won a 2017 PECASE, and now leads molten-salt chemistry at Kairos Power.
Alan Kulwicki
Alan Kulwicki (1954–1993), American NASCAR driver and owner-driver, 1992 Winston Cup champion beating Bill Elliott by 10 points via the most-laps bonus; creator of the Polish Victory Lap; died in a 1993 plane crash near Bristol.
Alan L. Balch
Alan L. Balch is an American inorganic chemist who spent his career at the University of California, Davis, known for structural characterization of fullerenes and luminescent gold(I) complexes.
Alan L. Bisno
Alan L. Bisno was an American infectious-disease physician-researcher and international authority on streptococcal infections, best known for New England Journal of Medicine reviews on acute pharyngitis and skin infections.
Alan L. Hillman
Alan L. Hillman is an American physician and health economist at the University of Pennsylvania known for NEJM papers on HMO incentives and industry-sponsored research bias.
Alan L. McWhorter
Alan Louis McWhorter (1930–2018) was an American electrical engineer known for the McWhorter model of 1/f noise and for leading MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Solid State Division.
Alan L. Schwartz
Alan L. Schwartz is an American physician-scientist, Alumni Endowed Professor of Pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis, known for work on receptor-mediated endocytosis and protein degradation.
Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd (1913–1964), American film star of the 1940s and 1950s, aka Alan Walbridge Ladd; famous for This Gun for Hire, The Blue Dahlia, and Shane; father of producer Alan Ladd Jr.
Alan Ladd Jr.
Alan Ladd Jr. (1937-2022), nicknamed Laddie, American film executive and producer; Fox president who greenlit Star Wars, founded the Ladd Company, ran MGM/UA, and won the Best Picture Oscar for Braveheart.
Alan Lake
Alan Lake (1940–1984), English RADA-trained character actor and third husband of Diana Dors; played Jack Daniels in Slade In Flame and John Merrick in The Sweeney. Distinct from the Australian film editor Alan Lake (1934–2017).
Alan Lancaster
Alan Lancaster (1949-2021), English bassist and vocalist, founding member of Status Quo (Scorpions 1962, named Status Quo 1967), left in 1985 after opening Live Aid, later the Party Boys and the Bombers in Australia, Frantic Four reunions 2013-14.
Alan Lascelles
Sir Alan Lascelles, known as Tommy Lascelles, was a British courtier who served four monarchs and was principal private secretary to George VI from 1943 to 1952.
Alan Lawley
Alan Lawley was a British-born powder metallurgist and Drexel University professor who led its powder metallurgy program and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
Alan Lee (voice actor)
Alan Lee (born 1996, Red Bluff, California) is a Korean-American Los Angeles voice actor, also credited as Allen Lee, known for Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat 1, Makoto Edamura in Great Pretender, Ollie Chen in The Ghost and Molly McGee, and Mystery Saja in KPop Demon Hunters; distinct from the Tolkien illustrator Alan Lee.
Alan Lescano
Alan Hernán Lescano (born 2001) is an Argentine midfielder from Gimnasia and Argentinos Juniors who joined Vasco da Gama in September 2026 for about US$7 million, known for versatility, long-range shooting, and free kicks.
Alan Levinovitz
Alan Levinovitz (born 1981) is an American scholar of religion at James Madison University who studies Chinese religions and wrote The Gluten Lie (2015) and Natural (2020).
Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman (born 1948) is an American physicist, essayist, and novelist who spent thirteen years in astrophysics research at Harvard before becoming a writer, best known for Einstein's Dreams (1993).
Alan Lindsay Mackay
Alan Lindsay Mackay (1926–2025) was a British crystallographer who spent his career at Birkbeck College, London, and predicted extended structures with inherent fivefold symmetry that were later observed experimentally as quasicrystals.
Alan Lloyd
Alan Lloyd, also known as Alan M. Lloyd, is an American plant molecular biologist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for work on plant cell fate and pigments.
Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax (1915-2002), American folklorist and ethnomusicologist; Library of Congress field recorder from 1933; first recorded Lead Belly and Muddy Waters; creator of Cantometrics, Choreometrics, Parlametrics, and the Global Jukebox.
Alan Longmuir
Alan Longmuir (1948–2018), Scottish bassist and founding member of the Bay City Rollers, formed the band with brother Derek in Edinburgh, left in 1976, rejoined in 1978, and died aged 70.