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Albert Verwey
Albert Verwey (1865–1937) was a Dutch poet, critic, and translator who co-founded De Nieuwe Gids in 1885, edited De Beweging, and taught Dutch literature at Leiden.
Albert Victor Bäcklund
Albert Victor Bäcklund (1845–1922) was a Swedish mathematician and physicist at Lund University, known for the Bäcklund transformations, which generate new solutions of differential equations, and for his 1883 surface construction.
Albert von Behaim
Albert von Behaim (c. 1180 – 1260) was a Bavarian cleric and legal expert who served four popes and enforced Frederick II's excommunication in Bavaria from 1239.
Albert von Kölliker
Albert von Kölliker (1817–1905) was a Swiss anatomist, histologist, and embryologist, professor at Würzburg from 1847, who introduced the term cytoplasm and wrote the first histology handbook.
Albert W. Tucker
Albert W. Tucker, born Albert William Tucker, was a Canadian-American mathematician at Princeton University who named the prisoner's dilemma and co-created the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions in nonlinear programming.
Albert Wang
Albert Wang (Wang Can) is a Chinese technology entrepreneur from Chongqing who co-founded the children's apparel e-commerce company PatPat in Mountain View, California, in 2014 and has been its chief executive officer since October 2014.
Albert Warner
Albert Warner (Aaron Wonsal, 1884–1967), Polish-born American film executive, co-founder of Warner Bros. with brothers Harry, Sam, and Jack; served as treasurer and head of distribution until selling his stock in 1956.
Albert Wass
Albert Wass (Wass Albert, 1908–1998), Transylvanian Hungarian forestry engineer and writer, author of Farkasverem and A funtineli boszorkány; sentenced to death in absentia by Romania's Cluj People's Tribunal in 1946; emigre in the USA from 1952; a politically contested figure.
Albert Weixlbaumer
Albert Weixlbaumer is a structural biologist who led the 2008 RF2 ribosome structure behind the 2009 Chemistry Nobel and runs a lab at the IGBMC in France.
Albert Wendt
Albert Wendt, born in Apia, Samoa, in 1939, is a Samoan novelist and poet whose 1973 first novel, Sons for the Return Home, is hailed as the first Pacific novel.
Albert Wenger
Albert Wenger is a venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures in New York, known for early investments in Etsy and Tumblr and for the book The World After Capital.
Albert Wesker
Albert Wesker is the principal recurring villain of Capcom's Resident Evil franchise, debuting in 1996 as an Umbrella double agent, gaining superhuman powers from the Prototype virus, and dying in Resident Evil 5 (2009); voted #1 franchise villain.
Albert Whitford (astronomer)
Albert Edward Whitford (1905–2002) was an American astronomer who pioneered photoelectric photometry, derived the Whitford reddening law for interstellar dust, and directed Lick Observatory from 1958 to 1968.
Albert Wiggins
Albert Wiggins (Albert Marcus Wiggins, Jr., 1935–2011), American swimmer from Pittsburgh and Ohio State; 1956 Olympic 100 m backstroke finalist, butterfly world record holder, first American with AAU titles in three strokes.
Albert Woolson
Albert Henry Woolson (1850–1956), Union drummer and bugler in the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery, was the last surviving Union Civil War veteran and last GAR member, dying in Duluth in 1956.
Albert Z. Kapikian
Albert Z. Kapikian (1930–2014) was an American virologist at NIAID who identified the first norovirus and hepatitis A virus and led the first licensed rotavirus vaccine.
Albert Zafy
Albert Zafy (1927 – October 2017) was a Malagasy thoracic surgeon and politician who defeated longtime ruler Didier Ratsiraka in 1993 to become Madagascar's first democratically elected president.
Albert Zapanta
Albert Zapanta is an American politician and retired U.S. Army general elected Mayor of Irving, Texas, in 2026, after serving on the city council from 2018.
Albert Zhang
Albert Zhang is an Indonesian-based technology entrepreneur who co-founded Traveloka in Jakarta in 2012 with Ferry Unardi and Derianto Kusuma, after working as an engineer at NetSuite.
Albert Zlotnik
Albert Zlotnik is an immunologist known for chemokine research whose 1994 discovery of lymphotactin established a new structural class, and who later showed chemokine receptors guide breast cancer metastasis.
Albert Zurner
Albert Zürner (1890-1920), German diver from Hamburg's SV Stern, won 1908 Olympic springboard gold (85.50) and 1912 platform silver (72.60), finished fourth at 1906 Athens, and died in a diving accident.
Albert-Frankenthal
Albert-Frankenthal was a German printing press manufacturer in Frankenthal, founded in 1861 by Andreas Albert, part of Koenig & Bauer from 1990 and closed in 2026.
Albert-László Barabási
Albert-László Barabási, born 1967 in Karcfalva, is a network scientist at Northeastern University known for the 1999 discovery of scale-free networks and the Barabási–Albert model.
Albert, Duke of Prussia
Albert, Duke of Prussia, also known as Albrecht, was the last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights who converted Prussia into the first Protestant duchy in 1525.
Albert, King of Saxony
Albert of Saxony (1828–1902), King of Saxony 1873–1902, Wettin Albertine line; Saxon commander in 1866 and 1870–71, first Saxon Generalfeldmarschall of the German Reich; childless, succeeded by brother George.
Alberta
Alberta is a western Canadian province created September 1, 1905, named for Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, with capital Edmonton. Key facts: 5.06 million people (2026), energy- and agriculture-driven economy, 2.3% GDP growth forecast for 2026, and Canada's highest interprovincial migration in 2023.
Alberta Balsam
Alberta Balsam is the alias of Aniek de Rooij, a Rotterdam-based electronic producer and DJ working across techno, IDM, and electro, who debuted on Dekmantel in 2021.
Alberta Ethane Gathering System
The Alberta Ethane Gathering System, an NGL pipeline owned and operated by Pembina Pipeline Corporation, transports pure ethane from extraction plants to petrochemical complexes near Joffre and Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta.
Alberta Gay
Alberta Gay, born Alberta Williams Cooper (1913–1987), was the mother of five children, including recording artists Marvin Gaye and Frankie Gaye, and witnessed Marvin's fatal 1984 shooting by his father.
Alberta Industrial Heartland
Alberta Industrial Heartland is a pre-zoned heavy industrial cluster northeast of Edmonton spanning five municipalities, Canada's largest hydrocarbon processing region with over $50 billion invested.