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Alan Osmond
Alan Ralph Osmond (1949–2026), American singer, songwriter and producer, eldest performing member and leader of The Osmonds; co-wrote "One Bad Apple" and "Crazy Horses", produced The Donny & Marie Show, had MS from 1987.
Alan P. Boss
Alan P. Boss, also known as Alan Boss, is an American astrophysical theorist at Carnegie who revived the gravitational instability hypothesis of giant planet formation.
Alan P. Fields
Alan P. Fields is an American cancer biologist and Professor of Cancer Biology at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, known for identifying PKCι as a human oncogene driving lung and ovarian cancers.
Alan P. Kozikowski
Alan P. Kozikowski is an American medicinal chemist known for Huperzine A, the HDAC6 inhibitor Tubastatin A, and co-developing elraglusib, now in phase 2 pancreatic cancer trials.
Alan P. Wolffe
Alan P. Wolffe (1959–2001) was a British cell biologist who established that chromatin actively participates in gene regulation, leading the Laboratory of Molecular Embryology at the NIH.
Alan Page
Alan Page, born Alan Cedric Page in 1945, is a Hall of Fame defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings who became the first NFL MVP in 1971.
Alan Pardew
Alan Scott Pardew, born 1961, is an English former footballer and manager who led West Ham, Newcastle, and Crystal Palace and lost two FA Cup finals.
Alan Parker
Alan Parker, full name Alan William Parker, was a British film director known for Bugsy Malone, Fame, and Mississippi Burning, who lived from 1944 to 2020.
Alan Parsons
Alan Parsons (born 1948) is a British audio engineer, producer, and leader of The Alan Parsons Project, known for engineering The Beatles' Abbey Road and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
Alan Partridge
Alan Partridge is a fictional British broadcaster played by Steve Coogan, created in 1991 with Armando Iannucci and Patrick Marber on BBC Radio 4's On the Hour; his vehicles include Knowing Me, Knowing You, I'm Alan Partridge, Alpha Papa, This Time, and From the Oasthouse.
Alan Partridge (2013 film)
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is a 2013 British comedy film directed by Declan Lowney, marking Steve Coogan's cinema debut as radio DJ Alan Partridge after two decades.
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013) is a British comedy film, Steve Coogan's big-screen debut as DJ Alan Partridge, directed by Declan Lowney, in which Partridge negotiates a siege at North Norfolk Digital after a corporate takeover.
Alan Paton
Alan Paton was a South African novelist and prison reformer best known for Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), a novel about racial injustice that sold millions of copies worldwide.
Alan Paton Award
The Alan Paton Award is a South African literary prize for non-fiction in English, established in 1989 by the Sunday Times and named for the author of Cry, the Beloved Country.
Alan Patricof
Alan Patricof is an American venture capitalist who founded the firm that became Apax Partners and, at age 71, Greycroft Partners, investing in Apple and AOL.
Alan Pauls
Alan Pauls, born 1959 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine novelist, essayist, and literary critic, author of El pasado (2003) and the Historia del llanto trilogy.
Alan Perlis
Alan Perlis (1922–1990) was an American computer scientist who received the first Turing Award in 1966, co-designed ALGOL, and founded Carnegie Mellon's computer science department.
Alan Peter Cayetano
Alan Peter Cayetano (born 1970) is a Filipino lawyer-politician: Taguig-Pateros congressman, senator (2007–2017 and 2022–2028), foreign secretary (2017–2018), House speaker (2019–2020), and Senate president for three weeks in 2026.
Alan Plater
Alan Plater (1935-2010), British screenwriter and playwright from Jarrow and Hull; wrote Z Cars, the Beiderbecke trilogy, A Very British Coup; architect turned full-time writer in 1961.
Alan Pownall
Alan Pownall, British singer-songwriter (born 1985, South West London), debut album True Love Stories (Mercury, 2010) with singles Chasing Time, Colourful Day, Clara; associated with Mumford & Sons flatmates but closer to Jack Johnson-style pop.
Alan Price
Alan Price is an English keyboardist who founded the Animals, whose organ work on "House of the Rising Sun" made the song a worldwide number 1 in 1964.
Alan Pritsker
Alan Pritsker (1933–2000) was an American industrial engineer and simulation researcher, a founder of computer simulation who created the GASP IV and SLAM languages and founded Pritsker & Associates.
Alan Pulido
Alan Pulido Izaguirre (born 1991, Ciudad Victoria) is a Mexican forward; Tigres and Chivas Liga MX champion, 2018 Concacaf Champions League winner, Sporting KC Designated Player 2020-2024, 5 goals in 20 Mexico caps.
Alan R. Battersby
Sir Alan Rushton Battersby (1925–2018) was a British organic chemist who mapped the biosynthesis of heme, chlorophyll, and vitamin B12, the "pigments of life", at Cambridge.
Alan R. Cohen
Alan R. Cohen is an American pediatric hematologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who led its pediatrics department from 2001 to 2013 and is known for thalassemia research.
Alan R. Davidson
Alan R. Davidson, also published as Alan Davidson, is a professor of molecular genetics at the University of Toronto whose laboratory discovered the first anti-CRISPR proteins.
Alan R. Fersht
Sir Alan R. Fersht, born in 1943, is a British chemist at Cambridge and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology who pioneered protein engineering and Φ-value analysis of protein folding.
Alan R. Kimmel
Alan R. Kimmel is an American cell biologist who leads a development section at the NIH's NIDDK, studying Dictyostelium signaling and the perilipin proteins of lipid droplets.
Alan R. Pearlman
Alan R. Pearlman (1925–2019) was an American engineer who founded ARP Instruments in 1969, whose synthesizers outsold Moog by the mid-1970s before the company's 1981 bankruptcy.
Alan R. Saltiel
Alan R. Saltiel is an American cell biologist who studies insulin signaling in obesity and type 2 diabetes, directing the UC San Diego Institute for Diabetes and Metabolic Health.