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Alec Jeffreys
Alec Jeffreys (born 1950, Oxford) is the British geneticist at the University of Leicester who invented DNA fingerprinting on 10 September 1984, founded forensic DNA, and later studied recombination hotspots; knighted 1994, Lasker Award 2005.
Alec John Such
Alec John Such (Alexander John Such, 1951-2022) was the American founding bassist of Bon Jovi, 1983-1994, who recruited Tico Torres and Richie Sambora, played on the band's first five albums, and rejoined for the 2018 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
Alec M. Wodtke
Alec M. Wodtke (born 1959) is an American physical chemist who studies how molecules exchange energy with metal surfaces, directing research at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen.
Alec Mapa
Alec Mapa (Alejandro Mapa), American actor, comedian, and writer born 1965 in San Francisco; Broadway M. Butterfly Song Liling replacement, Ugly Betty's Suzuki St. Pierre, Desperate Housewives, Half & Half, Showtime special Baby Daddy, GLAAD Davidson Valentini Award.
Alec Monopoly
Alec Monopoly (Alec Andon) is an American street artist famous for painting the Monopoly Man, Rich Uncle Pennybags; New York-born, LA-based since 2006, shown at Art Basel Miami and MOCA Bangkok, with auction results up to US$193,500.
Alec Musser
Alec Musser (Alexander Barrett Musser, 1973–2024), American actor and fitness model who won I Wanna Be a Soap Star, played Del Henry on All My Children, and appeared in Grown Ups; died by suicide at 50 in Del Mar, California.
Alec N. Wildenstein
Alec N. Wildenstein (1940-2008), French art dealer of the Wildenstein & Co. family and owner of Ecurie Wildenstein racehorses; known for his divorce from Jocelyne and the 2005 Ascot Gold Cup win with Westerner.
Alec Newman
Alec Newman is a Scottish actor born in 1974. He is known for playing Paul Atreides in Frank Herbert's Dune and for his voice acting in Cyberpunk 2077.
Alec Price
Alec Price is the ring name of Alec Parnell, an American high-flying professional wrestler from Boston, Massachusetts, who wrestles for AEW and Ring of Honor.
Alec Radford
Alec Radford, born 1993, is an American machine learning researcher who was lead author of OpenAI's GPT paper and first author of the CLIP and Whisper papers.
Alec Soth
Alec Soth, born 1969, is an American photographer based in Minneapolis, known for lyrical large-format portraits and landscapes and for his 2004 book Sleeping by the Mississippi.
Alec Stewart
Alec Stewart, also known as Alec James Stewart, is an English former cricketer who played for England from 1990 to 2003. He was the highest Test run-scorer of the 1990s with 6,407 runs.
Alec Trevelyan
Alec Trevelyan, also known as 006 or Janus, is the fictional villain of GoldenEye (1995) and GoldenEye 007 (1997), a rogue MI6 agent played by Sean Bean who fakes his death and seeks revenge for the Lienz Cossack betrayal.
ALECT2 amyloidosis
ALECT2 amyloidosis (leukocyte chemotactic factor 2 amyloidosis) is an acquired systemic amyloidosis, third most common renal amyloidosis, affecting mainly Hispanic patients' kidneys and liver with heart sparing, slow GFR decline, and no specific treatment.
Alecta
Alecta is a mutual Swedish occupational pension company headquartered in Stockholm that insures collectively agreed ITP pensions, managing over SEK 1.4 trillion for about 2.8 million private and 37,000 corporate customers.
Alectinib
Alectinib (Alecensa) is an oral ALK and RET tyrosine kinase inhibitor for ALK-positive NSCLC, first approved in Japan in 2014; superior to crizotinib in ALEX and FDA-approved for adjuvant use in 2024.
Alecto (ληκτώ)
Alecto (Ἀληκτώ, Latin Alecto/Allecto), one of the three Erinyes or Furies of Greek and Roman myth with Tisiphone and Megaera; name from Greek alektos, "unceasing"; featured in Aeneid Book 7.
Alector
Alector is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in South San Francisco, California, founded in 2013, that develops therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and frontotemporal dementia.
Alectoris
Alectoris is a genus of seven partridge species in the pheasant family, spread across the Palearctic; the chukar, its best-known member, is a widely introduced game bird.
Aled Edwards
Aled Edwards is a Canadian biochemist at the University of Toronto who founded and leads the Structural Genomics Consortium, which places all its research in the public domain.
Aled Jones
Aled Jones (born 1970) is a Welsh singer and broadcaster, a boy soprano famous for "Walking in the Air" (1985, UK No. 5), later a baritone with over 40 albums and 10 million sales, host of Songs of Praise and Classic FM's weekday morning show.
Aledade
Aledade is a Bethesda, Maryland-based value-based care company founded in 2014 by Farzad Mostashari, operating what it calls the largest network of independent primary care practices in the United States.
Aleem Dar (علیم ڈار)
Aleem Dar (علیم ڈار), born 1968, is a Pakistani former cricket umpire and first-class cricketer; record 448 internationals and 145 Tests umpired, three-time ICC Umpire of the Year (2009-2011), retired 2025.
Aleen Bailey
Aleen Bailey (Aleen May Bailey), Jamaican sprinter born 1980, Olympic 4x100m relay gold medallist at Athens 2004 and World Championship relay gold, silver, and bronze medallist; retired 2017.
Aleen Cust
Aleen Cust (1868-1937), Irish-born veterinary surgeon; enrolled in Edinburgh as Arno Custance in 1895, refused RCVS exams, practiced in Roscommon, and became the first woman MRCVS in December 1922.
Aleena
Aleena is a Saudi womenswear and lifestyle online brand based in Riyadh, founded by Ghaida Alatiwy under TGC, known for premium on-demand day and evening wear shown in Paris in 2026.
Alefacept
Alefacept (Amevive) is an LFA-3/IgG1 fusion protein that binds CD2 to deplete memory T cells; first US-approved psoriasis biologic (2003), 15 mg IM weekly for 12 weeks, later discontinued by its manufacturer.
Aleglitazar
Aleglitazar: Roche's dual PPARα/γ agonist (C24H23NO5S) for type 2 diabetes; improved HbA1c and lipids but AleCardio phase III (7,226 patients) stopped July 2013 for futility and renal, bleeding, heart-failure signals.
Aleida Assmann
Aleida Assmann (born 1947) is a German professor of English and literary studies, emerita at Konstanz, who developed the theory of cultural memory with her husband Jan Assmann.
Aleida Guevara
Aleida Guevara March, eldest daughter of Che Guevara and Aleida March, is a Cuban pediatrician, Communist Party member, and ICAP representative who defends Cuba's government and manages her father's image legacy.