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Alana Blanchard
Alana Blanchard, Hawaiian professional surfer born 1990 in Princeville, Kauai; Championship Tour competitor 2009–2019, Bethany Hamilton's friend in the 2003 shark attack, Rip Curl athlete until 2020, later influencer and Alana Blanchard Foundation founder.
Alana Cruise
Alana Cruise (Beth Ann Flynn, 1981–2025) was an American adult film performer and cam model active 2014–2023 under the earlier name Savannah Fyre, known for BDSM and girl/girl work, who died in Las Vegas of cancer.
Alana de la Garza
Alana De La Garza (born 1976) is an American actress known as ADA Connie Rubirosa on Law & Order (2006–2010, 85 episodes) and Law & Order: LA, and as FBI Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille on CBS's FBI since 2019.
Alana Haim
Alana Haim (born 1991, Los Angeles) is an American musician and actress, youngest member of the band Haim with sisters Este and Danielle, and star of Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (2021), later The Mastermind, One Battle After Another, and The Drama.
Alana Palmedo
Alana Palmedo is Managing Partner at Paradigm, the crypto-focused venture firm she joined at its founding, where she co-leads investing and research with Matt Huang and serves on the CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee.
Alana Springsteen
Alana Springsteen (born 2000, Virginia Beach, Virginia) is an American country singer-songwriter, not related to Bruce Springsteen, whose debut album TWENTY SOMETHING (2023) yielded the GOLD-certified "goodbye looks good on you"; her sophomore album I HOPE THIS HELPS arrived in 2026.
Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart (born Alana Kaye Collins, 1945) is an American actress, former Ford model, and author, ex-wife of George Hamilton and Rod Stewart, who filmed the Emmy-nominated Farrah's Story and leads the Farrah Fawcett Foundation.
Åland
Åland (Ahvenanmaa) is an autonomous, demilitarised, Swedish-speaking archipelago region of Finland, placed under Finnish sovereignty by the League of Nations in 1921 with guaranteed self-government, demilitarisation since 1856, capital Mariehamn, population about 30,800.
Åland Islands dispute
The Åland Islands dispute (Ålandsfrågan) was the 1917–1921 sovereignty conflict between Finland and Sweden, settled by the League of Nations on 24 June 1921: Finland kept sovereignty with autonomy, Swedish-language guarantees, and 1856 demilitarisation confirmed.
Åland Islands eye disease
Åland Islands eye disease (AIED, Forsius-Eriksson syndrome) is a rare X-linked recessive retinal disorder caused by CACNA1F mutations, with fundus hypopigmentation, nystagmus, myopia, protan defect, and night blindness, but no optic nerve misrouting.
Alane
Alane (aluminum hydride, AlH3) is a metastable hydride of aluminum first synthesized in 1947, one of the densest hydrogen storage materials known and a solid rocket propellant additive.
Alang Ship Breaking Yard
The Alang Ship Breaking Yard, part of the Alang-Sosiya complex, is a ship recycling yard at Alang in Gujarat, India, handling about 98 percent of India's ship recycling.
Alani Bankhead
Alani Bankhead is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Montana in 2026, and a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and former federal supervisory special agent.
Alania
Alania, also called Alanyston, was a medieval kingdom of the Iranian-speaking Alans, ancestors of the Ossetians, in the northern Caucasus from the 9th to the 13th centuries.
Alanic language
Alanic (ISO 639-3 xln) is the extinct Northeastern Iranian language of the Alans, ancestor of modern Ossetic, attested by one funerary inscription, Tzetzes's two verses, and about thirty 1275 glosses.
Alanine
Alanine, also known as alpha-alanine, is a nonessential proteinogenic amino acid encoded by four GC-starting codons and used in alanine scanning to probe protein function.
Alanine dehydrogenase
Alanine dehydrogenase (AlaDH, EC 1.4.1.1, L-alanine dehydrogenase) is a microbial NAD-dependent enzyme reversibly converting L-alanine to pyruvate and ammonia, central to alanine metabolism, sporulation, and industrial L-alanine synthesis.
Alanine metabolism
Alanine metabolism: interconversion of L-alanine and pyruvate by GPT/GPT2 (ALT) transaminases, and the glucose-alanine cycle carrying muscle nitrogen and three-carbon units to hepatic gluconeogenesis; distinct from beta-alanine metabolism (KEGG map00410).
Alanine scanning
Alanine scanning is a mutagenesis method that systematically substitutes alanine for residues in a protein to identify side chains contributing to binding or stability, introduced by Cunningham and Wells in 1989.
Alanine transaminase
Alanine transaminase (ALT, formerly SGPT/GPT) is a pyridoxal-phosphate-dependent enzyme, concentrated in liver, that transaminates alanine to pyruvate; serum ALT is the primary marker of hepatocellular injury, not liver function.
Alanine--tRNA ligase, helical bundle domain
Helical bundle domain of alanyl-tRNA synthetase (AlaRS), a class II aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase; also called the ATL domain. It binds the tRNA(Ala) acceptor stem and recognizes the G3:U70 wobble pair, the 'second genetic code' identity element.
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer-songwriter born 1974 in Ottawa; her 1995 album Jagged Little Pill sold over 33 million copies, won five Grammys including Album of the Year, and made her the youngest Album of the Year winner until Taylor Swift.
Alanis Morissette discography
The Alanis Morissette discography catalogs the albums of Canadian-American singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, whose 1995 breakthrough Jagged Little Pill sold over 28 million copies and won five Grammys.
Alankara
Alankara (Sanskrit अलङ्कार, "ornament, embellishment") is a figure of speech in Sanskrit poetics, divided into sound-based figures like alliteration and meaning-based figures like simile and metaphor; Alaṅkāraśāstra is the classical discipline that catalogs them.
Alankara Shastra
Alankara Shastra (अलङ्कारशास्त्र) is the classical Sanskrit discipline of poetics, named for the alankaras, or figures of speech; founded by Bhāmaha and Daṇḍin around the 6th or 7th century, it divides figures into shabdalankaras and arthalankaras.
Alankarasarvasva
Alankarasarvasva (अलङ्कारसर्वस्वम्) is a Sanskrit treatise on poetics by the Kashmiri theorist Rājānaka Ruyyaka, devoted wholly to classifying figures of speech in the twelfth century.
Alanna Schepartz
Alanna Schepartz, born 1962, is an American chemical biologist at UC Berkeley who designs miniature proteins and β-peptides; at Yale she became its first tenured woman chemist and a Sterling Professor.
Alanna Ubach
Alanna Ubach (Alanna Noel Ubach, born 1975) is an American character actress from Downey, California, known as Josie on Beakman's World, Serena in Legally Blonde, Mamá Imelda in Coco, Suze in Euphoria, and Susan Bennett in Ted.
Alannah Currie
Alannah Currie, full name Alannah Joy Currie, is a New Zealand-born musician and artist best known as percussionist, saxophonist, and lyricist for the 1980s pop group Thompson Twins.
Alannah Myles
Alannah Myles (born 1958, Toronto; née Byles) is a Canadian rock singer whose 1989 debut and hit "Black Velvet" won the 1990 Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and made her the first female Diamond-certified artist in Canada.