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Albert Rust
Albert Rust (Albert Marcel Henri Rust), born 1953 in Mulhouse, French goalkeeper; Olympic gold 1984 and Euro 1984 winner with France, one senior cap at the 1986 World Cup, 455 games for Sochaux.
Albert S. Baldwin
Albert S. Baldwin is an American cancer biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose laboratory studies the transcription factor NF-κB and its role in cancer.
Albert S. Ruddy
Albert S. Ruddy (Albert Stotland Ruddy, 1930–2024), Canadian-American producer of The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby, two-time Best Picture Oscar winner, co-creator of Hogan's Heroes and Walker, Texas Ranger.
Albert Sabin
Albert Bruce Sabin, born Abram Saperstejn in Białystok in 1906, was an American virologist who developed the live oral polio vaccine and received the National Medal of Science in 1970.
Albert Salmi
Albert Salmi (1927, Brooklyn – 1990, Spokane), Finnish-American character actor; original Broadway Bus Stop Bo Decker, Smerdyakov in The Brothers Karamazov, Daniel Boone and Petrocelli regular; died in a murder-suicide.
Albert Sambi Lokonga
Albert Sambi Lokonga, full name Albert-Mboyo Sambi Lokonga, is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Bundesliga club Hamburger SV, joining from Arsenal in 2025.
Albert Sauveur
Albert Sauveur (1863–1939) was a Belgian-born American metallurgist, called the founder of the modern science of metallurgy, who pioneered steel microscopy and taught at Harvard for over thirty-five years.
Albert Schatz (microbiologist)
Albert Israel Schatz (1920–2005) was an American microbiologist who discovered streptomycin at Rutgers in 1943, won legal recognition as co-discoverer in 1950, but was excluded from the 1952 Nobel Prize given to Selman Waksman.
Albert Schömig
Albert Schömig, born 1946, is a German cardiologist who led the ISAR trials of antiplatelet therapy after coronary stenting and held the Chair of Internal Medicine at the Technical University of Munich from 1992 to 2012.
Albert Schwarz
Albert Schwarz, born 1934, is a Soviet-born American mathematician and theoretical physicist at UC Davis who built the first topological quantum field theories and conjectured the Chern–Simons and Jones polynomial link.
Albert Schwegler
Albert Schwegler (1819–1857) was a German Protestant theologian, philosopher, and ancient historian, counted after Ferdinand Christian Baur as a leading representative of the Tübingen School.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) was an Alsatian Lutheran theologian, medical doctor, and organist who founded a hospital at Lambaréné in Gabon in 1913 and won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.
Albert Scott Crossfield
Albert Scott Crossfield, known as Scott Crossfield, was an American test pilot who first flew faster than Mach 2 in 1953 and made the initial flights of the X-15.
Albert Seguin
Albert Séguin (1891–1948), French artistic gymnast from Lyon, won the 1924 Paris Olympics side horse vault with a perfect 10.000, the first known perfect score in Olympic gymnastics, plus silver in rope climbing and the team event.
Albert Serra
Albert Serra (Banyoles, 1975), Catalan filmmaker and Andergraun Films founder, makes experimental digital films with non-professional actors; Honor of the Knights, Pacifiction, Tardes de soledad.
Albert Sézary
Albert Sézary (1880–1956) was a French dermatologist and syphilologist, head of dermatology at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, who described Sézary syndrome, the leukemic form of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, in 1938.
Albert Sidney Johnston
Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862), Confederate full general commanding the western armies; served Texas, the United States, and the Confederacy; killed at Shiloh, April 6, 1862, the highest-ranking officer killed in the Civil War.
Albert Sjoerdsma
Albert Sjoerdsma, also known as A Sjoerdsma (1924–2014), was an American clinical pharmacologist known as the Father of Clinical Pharmacology, who developed the antihypertensive alpha-methyldopa.
Albert Sorel
Albert Sorel (1842–1906) was a French historian and career diplomat, born at Honfleur, considered a pioneer of diplomatic history and elected to the Académie française in 1894.
Albert Speer
Albert Speer was a German architect and Nazi politician who served as Adolf Hitler's chief architect and, from 1942, as Armaments Minister using millions of forced laborers.
Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer
Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975), called Jack Spencer, British peer and Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire 1952-1967; Life Guards officer, inheritor of the debt-burdened Althorp estate, grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Albert Starr
Albert Starr (1926–2024) was an American cardiovascular surgeon who, with engineer Lowell Edwards, developed and implanted the first successful artificial heart valve in Portland, Oregon, in 1960.
Albert Steffen
Albert Steffen (1884–1963) was a Swiss poet, novelist, and playwright who edited the weekly Das Goetheanum for 42 years and chaired the General Anthroposophical Society from 1925 until his death.
Albert Stevens
Albert Stevens (1887–1966), known as CAL-1, was an American house painter secretly injected with plutonium in 1945 in a Manhattan Project experiment at the University of California Hospital, San Francisco.
Albert Stöckl
Albert Stöckl (1823–1895) was a German Catholic priest and philosopher, a leading champion of Neo-Scholasticism whose textbooks made Eichstätt a center of the scholastic revival.
Albert Stolow
Albert Stolow is a Canadian physical chemist who developed time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy for studying ultrafast molecular dynamics, and is Canada Research Chair in Molecular Photonics at the University of Ottawa.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893–1986) was a Hungarian biochemist who isolated vitamin C from paprika, won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and discovered the muscle proteins actin and myosin.
Albert Taillandier
Albert Philippe Taillandier (1879–1945), French amateur track sprint cyclist, sometimes listed as Georges Taillandier; won the men's sprint gold at the 1900 Paris Olympics and the 1900 Grand Prix de Paris for amateurs.
Albert Thomas Price
Albert Thomas Price (1903–1978) was a British geophysicist who developed methods for separating geomagnetic variations into external and internal parts and modeling induction in the Earth.
Albert Vandeweghe
Albert Joseph "Al" Vande Weghe (1916-2002), American backstroke swimmer, won 1936 Olympic silver in the 100 m backstroke, set six world records, first under one minute for 100 yards, introduced the backstroke flip turn.