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Alberto Zangrillo
Alberto Zangrillo, born in Genoa in 1958, is an Italian cardiac anesthesiologist who directs intensive care at San Raffaele in Milan and led three New England Journal of Medicine trials.
Alberto Zorrilla
Alberto Zorrilla (Victoriano Alberto Zorrilla, 1906-1986), Argentine swimmer nicknamed Zorilla de Oro; won 400 m freestyle gold at Amsterdam 1928 in 5:01.60 OR, first South American Olympic swimming champion and Argentina's only swimming gold medalist.
Alberto Zum Felde
Alberto Zum Felde, also known by his pseudonym Aurelio del Hebrón, was a Uruguayan essayist, historian, and literary critic and a founding member of the Academia Nacional de Letras.
Albertosaurus
Albertosaurus, or Albertosaurus sarcophagus, is a 9 m tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur from Late Cretaceous Alberta, Canada, named by Osborn in 1905 after Joseph Burr Tyrrell's 1884 skull find near Drumheller.
Alberts Bels
Alberts Bels, born Jānis Cīrulis, was a Latvian writer and screenwriter whose modernist novels examined the individual under Soviet totalitarian power; he lived from 1938 to 2024.
Alberts Šmits
Alberts Šmits (born 2007, Valmiera, Latvia) is a Latvian defenseman drafted fifth overall by the New York Rangers in 2026, the highest drafted Latvian in NHL history, after playing for Jukurit (Liiga), Munchen (DEL), and Latvia at the 2026 Olympics and Worlds.
Albertsons
Albertsons Companies (ACI), a Boise, Idaho-based American grocery retailer running 22 banners including Safeway, Vons, and Jewel-Osco across 35 states; formed via the 2013 Cerberus buyout and 2015 Safeway merger; its $24.6 billion Kroger merger was blocked and abandoned in December 2024.
Albertsons Stadium
Albertsons Stadium, formerly Bronco Stadium, is Boise State University's football stadium in Boise, Idaho, hosting the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl and known for its blue turf.
Albertus
Albertus, ou l'Âme et le Péché, is an 1832 narrative poem by Théophile Gautier in which an old witch regains youth and seduces the young painter Albertus.
Albertus D. Welliver
Albertus D. "Bert" Welliver was an American mechanical engineer who served as Boeing's senior vice president of research and engineering, working on the 777 twin jet.
Albertus Magnus
Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great, c. 1200–1280), German Dominican theologian, philosopher, and natural scientist, teacher of Thomas Aquinas, founder of the Cologne studium generale, canonized 1931, Doctor of the Church, patron of natural scientists.
Albertville, AL Micro Area
Albertville, AL Micro Area (CBSA 10700) is an OMB-designated micropolitan statistical area covering Marshall County, Alabama, anchored by Albertville. Population grew from 70,832 (1990) to about 103,537 (2025); it joined the Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville combined statistical area in 2012.
ALBI score
The ALBI score (Albumin-Bilirubin grade) is an objective measure of liver function in hepatocellular carcinoma that combines serum albumin and bilirubin into a single prognostic grade, replacing subjective Child-Pugh components.
Albian (oil sands)
Albian is an oil sands surface-mining complex in the Athabasca deposit about 70 km north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, comprising the Muskeg River and Jackpine mines, owned by CNRL.
Albian Ajeti
Albian Ajeti (Albian Afrim Ajeti), Swiss striker born 1997 in Basel; FC Lugano player on loan from FC Basel since September 2026. Formerly Augsburg, West Ham, Celtic, Sturm Graz, Gaziantep; 11 Switzerland caps, 1 goal.
Albie Sachs
Albie Sachs, born Albert Louis Sachs in 1935, is a South African anti-apartheid activist and Constitutional Court judge from 1994 to 2009 who survived a 1988 bombing in Maputo.
Albie Thomas
Albie Thomas (Albert George Thomas, 1935-2013), Australian distance runner, three-time Olympian, world record holder at two and three miles in 1958, dual 1958 Empire Games medallist, and Australian mile champion 1962-65.
Albigensian Crusade
The Albigensian Crusade (1209–1229), preached by Innocent III against the Cathars of Languedoc, was led by Simon de Montfort then Louis VIII, ending with the Treaty of Meaux-Paris and Capetian annexation.
Albiglutide
Albiglutide (Eperzan, Tanzeum) is a once-weekly GLP-1 receptor agonist, a GLP-1 dimer fused to albumin, for type 2 diabetes; approved 2014, shown superior to placebo for cardiovascular events, withdrawn commercially in 2018.
Albin August van Hoonacker
Albin August van Hoonacker (1857–1933) was a Belgian Catholic priest and Old Testament scholar who taught at the Catholic University of Leuven for 38 years.
Albin Haller
Albin Haller was a French organic chemist known for his research on camphor and terpenes, and for serving as president of the Académie des sciences in 1923.
Albin Kurti
Albin Kurti (born 1975, Pristina), Kosovar politician, Prime Minister of Kosovo (2020, 2021–2025, 2026–) and leader of Vetëvendosje; former KLA political-office aide and political prisoner (15-year sentence, released 2001); his northern Kosovo policy has strained EU and US ties.
Albin Lermusiaux
Albin Lermusiaux (Albin Georges Lermusiaux, 1874-1940), French middle-distance runner and shooter of Racing Club de France; 1896 Olympic 1,500 m bronze medallist, 800 m heat winner who missed the final, and marathon leader who collapsed at 32 km.
Albin Stenroos
Albin Stenroos (Oskar Albinus Stenroos, 1889-1971), Finnish runner nicknamed Stena: 1924 Paris Olympic marathon champion in 2:41:22.6, 1912 10,000 m bronze and cross-country team silver, world records at 20 and 30 km.
Albin Vidovic
Albin Vidović (Албин Видовић), Croatian handball left wing (1943–2018), Olympic gold with Yugoslavia at Munich 1972, six Yugoslav titles and 1972 European Champions' Cup with Partizan Bjelovar; distinct from his para-athlete son Albin Vidović (1975–2026).
Albina Akhatova
Albina Akhatova (Альбина Ахатова), Russian biathlete born 1976 in Nikolsk, Vologda; five Olympic medals including 2006 relay gold, ten world championship medals, career ended by a 2009 EPO doping sanction.
Albina Mali
Albina Mali-Hočevar (Albina Mali), Slovenian Yugoslav Partisan courier, fighter, and combat medic born 1925 in Vinica; wounded three times, lost an eye at Turjak 1943, named national hero of Yugoslavia.
Albina Osipowich
Albina Osipowich (Albina Lucy Charlotte Osipowich-Van Aken, 1911-1964), American freestyle swimmer of Lithuanian descent; double gold medalist at Amsterdam 1928 in the 100 m freestyle (1:11.0 world record) and 4x100 m freestyle relay (4:47.6).
Albing
Albing is a village in St. Pantaleon-Erla, Lower Austria, site of Austria's largest Roman legionary fortress (568 x 412 m, 23.3 ha), built for Legio II Italica and abandoned for Lauriacum; a namesake hamlet lies in Bavaria.
Albinism
Albinism: inherited genetic conditions reducing melanin, causing hypopigmented skin, hair, and eyes with nystagmus and foveal hypoplasia; oculocutaneous (OCA1-8, TYR, OCA2 genes) versus ocular forms, prevalence about 1 in 17,000.