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Alan Sargeson
Alan Sargeson (1930–2008) was an Australian inorganic chemist, Professor at the Australian National University, known for cobalt complex stereochemistry and his discovery of cage complexes encapsulating metal ions.
Alan Schoolcraft
Alan Schoolcraft is an American attorney and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 44, serving from 1981 to 1993 and again since 2025.
Alan Scott
Alan Scott, DC Comics' original Green Lantern (1940, created by Martin Nodell and Bill Finger), is a magic-based Justice Society founder powered by the Starheart, with a wood weakness, distinct from the Green Lantern Corps.
Alan Seabaugh
Alan Seabaugh is a Republican politician and attorney from Shreveport, Louisiana, who served 14 years in the Louisiana House before winning a State Senate seat in 2023.
Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer, born 1970 in Newcastle upon Tyne, is an English former center-forward who holds the Premier League goals record with 260 for Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United.
Alan Shepard
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was an American NASA astronaut and naval officer, the first American in space aboard Freedom 7 in 1961 and commander of Apollo 14 in 1971.
Alan Sherman Michaels
Alan Sherman Michaels was an American chemical engineer whose work on permselective polymeric membranes at MIT and his company Amicon helped found the modern membrane-separation industry.
Alan Shugart
Alan Shugart, also known as Al Shugart, was an American engineer and executive who co-founded Shugart Associates and Seagate Technology, turning floppy and small hard disk drives into mass-produced products.
Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) was a British writer from Nottingham whose first two books, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, defined the postwar working-class novel.
Alan Silvestri
Alan Silvestri, full name Alan Anthony Silvestri, is an American composer of film and television scores, known for Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, and four Avengers films.
Alan Simpson (American politician)
Alan K. Simpson (1931–2025), Republican U.S. senator from Cody, Wyoming, 1979–1997, Senate Republican whip 1985–1994; author of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli immigration act, co-sponsor of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, and co-chair of the 2010 Simpson-Bowles deficit commission.
Alan Smith (footballer, born 1962)
Alan Martin Smith, born 1962, is an English former footballer who played as a center-forward for Arsenal and Leicester City, and is now a Sky Sports commentator.
Alan Smith (footballer, born 1980)
Alan Smith is an English former footballer who played for Leeds United and Manchester United, winning the 2007 Premier League title, and later became a director at a Florida soccer academy.
Alan Smithee
Alan Smithee (Allen Smithee) is the official DGA pseudonym used by film directors to disown films whose final cut they lost control of, first used on Death of a Gunfighter (1968) and retired in 2000 after Burn Hollywood Burn.
Alan Solomon
Alan Solomon, born in 1933, is an American physician-scientist and University of Tennessee professor emeritus known for nearly five decades of research on Bence Jones proteins and AL amyloidosis.
Alan Somers
Alan Somers (Alan Brounell Somers, born 1941, Indianapolis) is an American distance swimmer: 1959 Pan Am 1500 m freestyle gold medalist, 1960 Rome Olympian (400 m 5th, 1500 m 7th), 4x200 freestyle relay world record holder (8:17.0), later a neurologist.
Alan Song (宋安澜) (Dr. Song)
Alan Song (宋安澜) is a Chinese venture capitalist who joined the founding team of SoftBank China Venture Capital (SBCVC) in 2000 and is now its Managing Partner.
Alan Stein
Alan Stein is a British child psychiatrist and Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, known for Lancet series on refugee and perinatal mental health.
Alan Stillman
Alan Stillman is an American restaurateur who founded TGI Fridays in New York in 1965, turning a corner bar into the country's first famous singles bar, and later founded the Smith & Wollensky steakhouse group.
Alan Sugar
Alan Sugar, Baron Sugar, is a British electronics entrepreneur and television personality who founded Amstrad in 1968, chaired Tottenham Hotspur, became a Labour life peer in 2009, and fronts The Apprentice.
Alan Taylor (director)
Alan Taylor (born 1965) is an American film and television director from San Francisco, an Emmy winner for The Sopranos and director of Game of Thrones episodes, Thor: The Dark World, Terminator Genisys, and The Many Saints of Newark.
Alan Thicke
Alan Thicke (Alan Willis Jeffrey), Canadian actor, composer, and talk-show host (1947–2016); played Dr. Jason Seaver on ABC's Growing Pains (1985–1992) and wrote themes for Diff'rent Strokes and Wheel of Fortune.
Alan Thompson (neurologist)
Alan J. Thompson (born 1955) is a neurologist at the UCL Institute of Neurology known for multiple sclerosis research, the McDonald criteria, and the MS Severity Score.
Alan Tita
Alan T. Tita is an obstetrician and perinatal epidemiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham whose CHAP trial changed treatment of hypertension in pregnancy.
Alan Titchmarsh
Alan Titchmarsh, CBE VMH DL, British gardener, broadcaster and author; Kew-trained, presenter of Gardeners' World, Ground Force and ITV's Love Your Garden; RHS Vice President and Victoria Medal of Honour recipient.
Alan Trammell
Alan Trammell, Detroit Tigers shortstop 1977-1996, 1984 World Series MVP, 2,365 hits, four Gold Gloves, Hall of Fame class of 2018 via Modern Baseball Era Committee after 40.9% BBWAA peak.
Alan Tsagaev
Alan Tsagaev (Алан Константинов Цагаев), Bulgarian heavyweight weightlifter born 1977 in Vladikavkaz; Sydney 2000 Olympic silver at 105 kg (422.5 kg), 237.5 kg clean and jerk world record, 2004 stanozolol ban.
Alan Tudyk
Alan Tudyk (born 1971) is an American actor from Plano, Texas, known as Wash in Firefly, K-2SO in Rogue One and Andor, Sonny in I, Robot, King Candy in Wreck-It Ralph, and the lead of Resident Alien; 2026 Disney Legend.
Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing (1912–1954) was a British mathematician and cryptanalyst whose 1936 paper founded theoretical computer science, whose Bombe broke the Enigma cipher, and who proposed the Turing test.
Alan Turing Institute
The Alan Turing Institute is the United Kingdom's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, headquartered at the British Library in London and founded in 2015.