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Albert I of Germany

Albert I of Habsburg (Albrecht I, 1255–1308), Duke of Austria and Styria from 1282 and King of the Romans 1298–1308; took the throne from Adolf of Nassau at Göllheim, recognized by Boniface VIII in 1303, murdered by nephew John Parricida.

Albert I, Prince of Monaco

Albert I, Prince of Monaco, reigned from 1889 to 1922, directed 28 oceanographic campaigns, built the Oceanographic Museum, and gave Monaco its first constitution in 1911.

Albert II of Belgium

Albert II of Belgium (born 6 June 1934), King of the Belgians 1993–2013, abdicated for health reasons in favor of son Philippe; in 2020 acknowledged artist Delphine Boël as his daughter after a court-ordered DNA test.

Albert II of Germany

Albert II of Germany (Albrecht II, 1397–1439), as Duke of Austria Albert V, was elected King of the Romans in 1438, the first of an unbroken Habsburg line.

Albert II of Magdeburg

Albert II of Magdeburg, known in German as Albrecht II von Käfernburg, was Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1205 until 1232 and began the present Gothic cathedral after the 1207 fire.

Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Albert II of Monaco (born 1958), Sovereign Prince since 6 April 2005, son of Rainier III and Grace Kelly; Amherst graduate, five-time Olympic bobsledder, IOC member, founder of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation (2006) for climate, biodiversity, and ocean protection.

Albert Immer

Albert Immer (1804–1884) was a Swiss Reformed theologian who taught New Testament exegesis and dogmatics at the University of Bern and served as its rector in 1852.

Oct 21, 2026

Albert Ireton

Albert Ireton (1879–1947), British policeman and Olympian; won tug-of-war gold with London City Police at London 1908 and also boxed heavyweight, losing his first bout to Sid Evans.

Oct 21, 2026

Albert Ivanov

Albert Ivanov (Альберт Иванович Иванов, 1931–2000), Estonian-born Soviet marathon runner; competed in the men's marathon at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics (DNF); personal best 2:21:52 (1956).

Albert J. Courey

Albert J. Courey is an American biochemist and Professor Emeritus at UCLA whose Cell papers on the transcription factor Sp1 established its glutamine-rich activation motif.

Albert J. Czaja

Albert J. Czaja is an American hepatologist and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for his work on the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune hepatitis.

Albert J. Fornace

Albert J. Fornace Jr. is an American cancer and radiation biologist who studies how cells detect DNA damage, holding a research chair at Georgetown's Lombardi Cancer Center since 2006.

Oct 15, 2026

Albert J. Myer

Albert J. Myer, also known as Albert James Myer, was an American army surgeon who founded the United States Army Signal Corps and its first national weather service.

Albert J. Stunkard

Albert J. Stunkard was an American psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania whose adoption and twin studies showed body weight is strongly inherited, reframing obesity as a biological trait.

Albert Jacka

Albert Jacka (1893-1932), Australian soldier and merchant of the 14th Battalion AIF, first Australian Victoria Cross recipient of World War I at Courtney's Post, Gallipoli, 19-20 May 1915; won the Military Cross and Bar on the Western Front and became mayor of St Kilda.

Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945), American essayist and Old Right anarchist; co-editor of the Freeman; author of Our Enemy, the State (1935), 'Isaiah's Job' and the Remnant idea, and Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943).

Albert Jeltsch

Albert Jeltsch (born 1966 in Kassel, Germany) is a German biochemist, professor at the University of Stuttgart since 2011, known for work on DNA methyltransferases.

Oct 21, 2026

Albert Johnson

Albert Johnson refers to several athletes: a British Olympic 50km race walker (1931-2011), an American 1904 Olympic weight thrower (1880-1963), a Canadian 1904 Olympic football gold medalist, and a Hall of Fame jockey (1900-1966).

Albert Johnson (criminal)

Albert Johnson (criminal) was the unidentified fugitive called the "Mad Trapper of Rat River", killed by the RCMP in February 1932 after a 48-day Arctic manhunt. Distinct from fraudster Albert Johnson Walker and DNA-exonerated Albert Johnson of California; "Albert Johnson" is believed to be an alias.

Albert Johnson Walker

Albert Johnson Walker (born 1946) is a Canadian fraudster and murderer, also known by aliases David Davis and Ronald Platt, who embezzled about CA$3.2 million, fled to England, murdered identity-theft victim Ronald Platt in 1996, and was convicted at Exeter in 1998.

Albert Joyce Riker

Albert Joyce Riker (1894–1982) was an American plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for his research on crown gall tumors and plant tissue culture.

Oct 22, 2026

Albert Kalonji

Albert Kalonji was a Congolese politician who co-founded the Mouvement National Congolais with Patrice Lumumba and proclaimed himself mulopwe, or king, of secessionist South Kasai during the Congo Crisis.

Albert Kamehameha

Albert Kamehameha (Prince Albert Edward Kauikeaouli Kaleiopapa a Kamehameha, 1858–1862), Ka Haku o Hawaiʻi, only son of King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma, proclaimed heir to the Hawaiian throne in 1859, godson of Queen Victoria, died at age four.

Albert Keller

Albert R. Keller is an American pathologist, a 1964 Harvard Medical School graduate, known for histopathological work on Hodgkin's disease and on giant lymph node hyperplasia.

Albert Kelner

Albert Kelner was an American biologist who discovered photoreactivation, the first DNA repair mechanism ever identified, in work published from Cold Spring Harbor, New York, in 1949.

Albert Kesselring

Albert Kesselring (1885–1960), German field marshal who built the Luftwaffe administration, led air fleets in 1939–41 and German forces in Italy 1943–45; convicted at Venice 1947 for the Ardeatine Caves massacre and reprisal killings, death sentence commuted, released 1952.