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Alan Turing law
Alan Turing law: informal name for section 166 of the UK Policing and Crime Act 2017, which pardoned about 49,000 deceased men convicted of abolished same-sex offences; living men apply via the Home Office disregard process.
Alan V. Oppenheim
Alan V. Oppenheim is an American electrical engineer at MIT who helped found digital signal processing, offering its first MIT course and coauthoring its landmark 1975 textbook.
Alan Valentine
Alan Chester Valentine (1901–1980), American academic and rugby player, won rugby gold for the United States at the 1924 Paris Olympics, was president of the University of Rochester from 1935, and first head of Truman's Economic Stabilization Agency.
Alan Vega
Alan Vega (Boruch Alan Bermowitz, 1938-2016), American vocalist and visual artist, frontman of the electronic proto-punk duo Suicide with Martin Rev, pioneer of the self-described "punk music mass", and creator of neon light sculptures and posthumous albums It, Mutator, and Insurrection.
Alan Voorhees
Alan Voorhees (1922–2005) was an American transportation engineer and city planner who developed the gravity model of urban travel forecasting, key to the Interstate highway system.
Alan W. Cramb
Alan W. Cramb is a Scottish-born metallurgist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he served as President from 2015 to 2021.
Alan W. Pense
Alan W. Pense was an American metallurgical engineer at Lehigh University known for welding research and failure analysis of steel bridges, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993.
Alan W. Weimer
Alan W. Weimer is a chemical engineer at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for Particle ALD and for solar thermochemical cycles that split water and carbon dioxide.
Alan Wake
Alan Wake is a 2010 psychological action thriller by Remedy Entertainment, released on Xbox 360 and later PC, in which horror writer Alan Wake searches Bright Falls for his missing wife using light-based combat; it spawned Alan Wake 2 (2023).
Alan Wake II
Alan Wake II (Alan Wake 2) is Remedy Entertainment's 2023 survival horror sequel, starring Saga Anderson and Alan Wake, released October 27, 2023 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, Metacritic 89.
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Alan Wake's American Nightmare is a 2012 standalone spin-off of Alan Wake by Remedy Entertainment, released on Xbox Live Arcade and PC, in which Alan Wake fights his evil double Mr. Scratch in Arizona inside a Night Springs episode, with a Story Mode and Fight Till Dawn arcade mode.
Alan Walker
Alan Walker (born 1997) is a British-born Norwegian EDM producer and DJ from Bergen, known for the masked hoodie persona and the 2015 hit Faded, over 100 billion streams, the album Different World, and the World of Walker transmedia universe.
Alan Walker (psychologist)
Alan Walker (1938–2017) was a British-born paleoanthropologist and Penn State professor who described the Turkana Boy skeleton, the most complete early human skeleton found, and discovered the Black Skull.
Alan Walsh (physicist)
Sir Alan Walsh (1916–1998) was a British-born Australian physicist who invented atomic absorption spectroscopy at CSIRO in Melbourne in 1952, described as the twentieth century's most significant advance in chemical analysis.
Alan Wanzenberg
Alan Wanzenberg is an American architect and interior designer based in New York, known for rigorously detailed residential work and his influential 1980s design partnership with Jed Johnson.
Alan Watts
Alan Watts (1915–1973), British-born American writer and lecturer, popularized Zen Buddhism and Taoism in the West through The Way of Zen (1957), KPFA radio broadcasts, and counterculture lectures; he was a former Episcopal priest who never called himself a Buddhist.
Alan Waxman
Alan Waxman is an American investor who co-founded the investment firm Sixth Street in 2009 after leaving Goldman Sachs, and serves as its chief executive officer.
Alan White (Oasis drummer)
Alan White, English drummer, Oasis timekeeper 1995-2004 (not the Yes drummer of the same name); brother of Steve White; played on Morning Glory and Be Here Now; used Hot Rods on Wonderwall; asked to leave in 2004.
Alan White (Yes drummer)
Alan White (1949-2022), English rock drummer, Yes's drummer from 1972 until his death, formerly John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band drummer on Imagine and Instant Karma, and player on All Things Must Pass; Rock Hall inductee 2017.
Alan Wilder
Alan Charles Wilder (born 1959, Hammersmith, London) is an English keyboardist and producer, Depeche Mode member 1982-1995, and creator of the experimental electronic project Recoil since 1986.
Alan William Cramb
Alan William Cramb is a Scottish-born metallurgist and university administrator who served as president of Illinois Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2021, known for research on steel casting.
Alan Williams
Alan Frank Williams (1893-1984), American civil engineer and Cornell graduate, won Olympic gold in rugby union with the USA at Paris 1924, playing no. 8 against Romania; distinct from other Olympians named Alan Williams.
Alan Wilson (musician)
Alan 'Blind Owl' Wilson (1943–1970), American blues musician, co-founder and co-lead singer of Canned Heat; wrote 'On the Road Again' and 'Going Up the Country', helped Son House relearn his songs, died at 27 in Topanga Canyon.
Alan Wilson (South Carolina politician)
Alan Wilson is an American Republican politician who has served as Attorney General of South Carolina since 2011 and is the 2026 Republican nominee for governor.
Alan Winde
Alan Winde (born 1965) is a South African politician who has served as Premier of the Western Cape since 2019, after roles in provincial politics from 1999.
Alan Woodworth Johnson
Alan Woodworth Johnson (1917–1982) was a British organic chemist who held chairs at Nottingham and Sussex, worked on vitamin B12, tropolones, and actinomycins, and won the Davy Medal in 1980.
Alan Yang
Alan Yang (楊維榕, born 1983) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director, co-creator of Master of None, 2016 Emmy winner for "Parents," director of Tigertail, and EP of Little America and Loot.
Alan Young
Alan Young (Angus Young, 1919-2016) was an English-born, Canadian-raised comedy actor, Emmy winner for The Alan Young Show, star of Mister Ed as Wilbur Post, and Disney voice of Scrooge McDuck.
Alan Yuille
Alan Yuille is a computer vision and cognitive science researcher, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins since 2016, known for DeepLab and Bayesian models of vision.
Alana Blahoski
Alana Olga Blahoski (born 1974, Saint Paul, Minnesota) is an American former ice hockey forward, Providence College alumna, and 1998 Nagano Olympic gold medalist with Team USA, later a national-team and SDHL coach.