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Alberto Laiseca
Alberto Laiseca (1941–2016) was an Argentine novelist, poet, and essayist, creator of realismo delirante, whose novel Los sorias (1998) is called the longest in Argentine literature.
Alberto Lleras Camargo
Alberto Lleras Camargo was a Colombian journalist and politician who served twice as president of Colombia and was the first Secretary General of the Organization of American States.
Alberto Lovell
Alberto Lovell, nicknamed "El Negro", was an Argentine heavyweight boxer who won the Olympic gold medal at the 1932 Los Angeles Games and later held the South American heavyweight title.
Alberto Luini
Alberto Luini is an Italian cell biologist and Research Director at the CNR Institute of Protein Biochemistry in Naples, known for experimental work supporting the cisternal maturation model of Golgi transport.
Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born Canadian essayist and translator, author of A History of Reading, who read to Borges and directed Argentina's National Library.
Alberto Mantovani
Alberto Mantovani, born 1948 in Milan, is an Italian immunologist, emeritus professor at Humanitas University, who coined tumor-associated macrophages, framed cancer-related inflammation, and cloned pentraxin PTX3.
Alberto Maria Genovese
Alberto Maria Genovese, born 1977, is an Italian internet entrepreneur from Naples who founded the comparison site Facile.it and co-founded the digital insurer Prima Assicurazioni.
Alberto Martini
Alberto Martini is an Italian pediatric rheumatologist, emeritus professor of pediatrics at the University of Genoa, who founded the PRINTO trial network and led research on juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia, pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian novelist and journalist (1907–1990) whose novels, from Gli indifferenti (1929) to La noia (1960), were widely translated and filmed.
Alberto Moreno
Alberto Moreno (Alberto Moreno Pérez), Spanish left-back born 1992 in Seville; Sevilla, Liverpool (141 apps, 2019 Champions League), Villarreal, Como 1907, and Real Mallorca; three Spain caps.
Alberto Morpurgo
Alberto F. Morpurgo is a condensed-matter experimentalist and full professor of physics at the University of Geneva since 2008, working on 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, born in Los Peares, Orense, in 1961, is a Spanish politician who has led the People's Party, Spain's main opposition party, since 2022.
Alberto Pellegrino
Alberto Pellegrino (1930–1996), Italian épée and foil fencer, won Olympic team épée gold at Melbourne 1956 and Rome 1960 plus two team silvers, and three world épée team titles (1955, 1957, 1958).
Alberto Puello
Alberto "La Avispa" Puello, Dominican southpaw boxer born 1994, former WBA and WBC super lightweight (140 lb) champion, first Dominican 140-pound world titlist, 25-1 with 11 KOs, facing Dalton Smith for the WBC belt in October 2026.
Alberto R. Kornblihtt
Alberto R. Kornblihtt is an Argentine molecular biologist, born in Buenos Aires in 1954, known for showing that alternative splicing is coupled to transcription and chromatin.
Alberto Rimini
Alberto Rimini is an Italian physicist best known as the "R" of the GRW model, the 1986 spontaneous-collapse theory of quantum measurement he proposed with Gian Carlo Ghirardi and Tullio Weber.
Alberto Rivera (activist)
Alberto Magno Rivera Romero (1935-1997), Spanish-born US anti-Catholic activist, source of Jack Chick's Vatican conspiracy comics; his Jesuit-priest claims were exposed as fraud by Cornerstone, Christianity Today, and the Christian Research Institute.
Alberto Rosende
Alberto Rosende, born 1993 in Miami, is an American actor known as Simon Lewis in Shadowhunters (2016-2019) and firefighter Blake Gallo in Chicago Fire (2019-2024); of Colombian and Cuban descent, NYU Tisch graduate.
Alberto Salazar
Alberto Salazar (Alberto Bauday Salazar, born 1958, Havana) is an American former marathoner who won New York three times and Boston 1982, then coached the Nike Oregon Project until a 2019 USADA doping ban.
Alberto Salleo
Alberto Salleo is a materials scientist at Stanford University known for research on charge transport in organic semiconductors and neuromorphic devices; he became SLAC's deputy director in 2025.
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, born in Milan in 1947, is an Italian-American engineer and computer scientist at UC Berkeley, a founder of electronic design automation who co-founded Cadence and Synopsys.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873–1932) was a Brazilian aviation pioneer who flew balloons, dirigibles, and airplanes in Paris, setting the first officially certified aviation records in 1906.
Alberto Stefani
Alberto Stefani is an Italian politician of Lega who has served as President of Veneto, after nearly eight years as a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies.
Alberto Tomba
Alberto Tomba, "Tomba la Bomba" (born 1966, Bologna area), Italian alpine skier; three Olympic golds in slalom/giant slalom, 50 World Cup wins, 88 podiums, Overall World Cup 1995.
Alberto Tonelli
Alberto Tonelli (1850–1920) was an Italian mathematician who worked in analysis, number theory, and topology, holding the calculus chair at Palermo and then Rome, where he was long rector.
Alberto Valdes Ramos
Alberto Valdés Ramos (1919–2013), Mexican army colonel and show jumper; won team jumping gold on Chihuahua at London 1948, Mexico's first Olympic gold, and 1951 Pan-American bronze; father of Olympian Alberto Valdés Lacarra.
Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas (Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chávez, 1896–1982), Peruvian-born American pin-up illustrator of the Varga Girls and Vargas Girls, worked for Esquire during World War II and later Playboy, using watercolor and airbrush.
Alberto Vázquez
Alberto Vázquez (Alberto Vázquez Gurrola), born in Guaymas, Sonora in 1940, is a Mexican singer and actor whose bolero ranchero and ballad recordings sold in the millions over six decades.
Alberto Winkler
Alberto Winkler (1932–1981), Italian rower from Castelbello-Ciardes, South Tyrol; Canottieri Moto Guzzi club member; won coxed fours gold at Melbourne 1956 and European eights titles 1957–58.
Alberto Zanchetti
Alberto Zanchetti (1926–2018) was an Italian physician-scientist at the University of Milan who led landmark hypertension trials, including the Syst-Eur trial, and edited the Journal of Hypertension.