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Alan Lucas
Alan Lucas (1946–2026) was a British pediatrician and nutrition scientist who led the MRC Childhood Nutrition Research Centre in London and showed that infant nutrition programs lifelong disease risk.
Alan Luther
Alan Harold Luther is an American condensed-matter physicist whose 1974 exact solution of the one-dimensional electron gas with Victor Emery earned the two the 2001 Oliver E. Buckley Prize.
Alan M. Fogelman
Alan M. Fogelman, full name Alan Marcus Fogelman, is an American cardiologist at UCLA who led its Department of Medicine for over 27 years and developed apoA-I mimetic peptides.
Alan M. Gewirtz
Alan M. Gewirtz (1949–2010) was an American hematologist who pioneered antisense and RNA-targeted therapeutics for leukemia, first at Temple University and then at the University of Pennsylvania.
Alan M. Jette
Alan M. Jette is an American physical therapist and public health researcher known for the AM-PAC function measures and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.
Alan M. Lambowitz
Alan M. Lambowitz is an American molecular biologist and geneticist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for research on group II introns and reverse transcriptases.
Alan M. Lovelace
Alan M. Lovelace was an American organic chemist and science administrator who led Air Force materials research and was NASA Deputy Administrator from 1976 to 1981.
Alan M. McGregor
Alan M. McGregor, also known as Alan McGregor, is a British endocrinologist who showed how carbimazole alters the autoimmune response in Graves' disease and was Professor of Medicine at King's College London.
Alan M. Taylor
Alan M. Taylor, born 1964, is a British-American economist at Columbia University known for work on capital mobility and financial crises, and a Bank of England MPC member since 2024.
Alan M. Title
Alan M. Title (1938–2026) was an American solar physicist who led development of major solar instruments, including TRACE, SOHO/MDI, and SDO's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, at Lockheed Martin in Palo Alto.
Alan M. Weiner
Alan M. Weiner is an American molecular biologist known for work on RNA processing and intron evolution, and an emeritus professor at the University of Washington.
Alan M. Zaslavsky
Alan M. Zaslavsky is an American statistician who is a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School and helped develop the CAHPS patient surveys.
Alan MacDiarmid
Alan MacDiarmid (Alan G. MacDiarmid) was a New Zealand-born chemist who spent most of his career at the University of Pennsylvania and shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Alan MacMasters hoax
The Alan MacMasters hoax was a Wikipedia prank, begun in 2012 by British university students, that falsely credited a fictional Scottish inventor, Alan MacMasters, with inventing the electric toaster in Edinburgh in 1893; exposed in July 2022.
Alan Magee
Alan Eugene Magee was an American staff sergeant and ball turret gunner who survived falling roughly 20,000 feet without a parachute from his B-17 over Saint-Nazaire in 1943.
Alan Mamedi
Alan Mamedi (born 1984) is a Swedish entrepreneur of Kurdish origin who co-founded Truecaller in Stockholm in 2009 and led it as chief executive until January 2025.
Alan Manning
Alan Manning is a labor economist and Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, best known as a leading proponent of monopsony, employer wage-setting power, in labor markets.
Alan McIntyre
Alan Lionel McIntyre (born 1949, Wanganui) is a New Zealand field hockey player, Olympian #239, who won gold at Montreal 1976, New Zealand's only Olympic hockey medal, after placing seventh at Mexico City 1968.
Alan Menken
Alan Menken (born 1949) is an American composer, eight-time Oscar winner and 16th EGOT recipient, known for Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin and Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors and Newsies.
Alan Miller (video game designer)
Alan Miller is an American video game designer and businessman, best known as a co-founder of Activision in 1979, the first independent third-party game developer, and later founder of Accolade.
Alan Moore
Alan Moore, also known as Curt Vile, is a British comics writer born in 1953 in Northampton, England, best known for Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Alan Morgan
Alan Conger Morgan (1909-1984), American sailor and aviation executive; won 1932 Olympic gold in the 8 metre class as crew on Owen Churchill's Angelita; later Northrop vice-president.
Alan Mulally
Alan Mulally (born 1945) is an American aerospace engineer and corporate executive who led Boeing Commercial Airplanes, then served as Ford's president and CEO from 2006 to 2014.
Alan Mwamba
Alan Isaac Mwamba (born 2006) is an English footballer at Charlton Athletic in the EFL Championship, an academy graduate and substitute listed as defender or midfielder by different data providers.
Alan N. Schechter
Alan N. Schechter is an American physician-scientist at NIH who joined in 1965, known for sickle cell disease research, fetal hemoglobin therapies, and hydroxyurea trials.
Alan Napier
Alan Napier (Alan William Napier-Clavering, 1903–1988), English character actor and Neville Chamberlain's cousin; RADA-trained, Hollywood from 1939, best known as Alfred Pennyworth in all 120 episodes of the 1966–68 Batman TV series.
Alan Needleman
Alan Needleman is an American solid-mechanics researcher known for computational modeling of ductile fracture of metals, interface crack growth, and discrete dislocation plasticity; he taught at Brown University and Texas A&M University.
Alan Neville Gent
Alan Neville Gent (1927–2012) was a British-born polymer scientist who spent 50 years at the University of Akron and was the foremost expert on rubber fracture mechanics.
Alan Noble
Alan Henry Noble (1885-1952), English field hockey left-half; won gold with England at the 1908 London Olympics, beating Ireland 8-1 in the final; six England caps, all 1908; later a banker in Australia.
Alan Oppenheimer
Alan Oppenheimer (born April 23, 1930) is an American actor and voice artist, the voice of Skeletor, Man-at-Arms, and Cringer in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Ming in Flash Gordon, Vanity Smurf, and Falkor in The NeverEnding Story, distinct from the physicist Oppenheimers.