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Aleksey Petrov
Aleksey Petrov (Алексей Александрович Петров), Russian weightlifter born 1974 in Volgograd; 1996 Olympic gold and 2000 bronze in middle-heavyweight, 1994 world champion, five senior world records.
Aleksey Prokurorov
Aleksey Prokurorov (Алексей Прокуроров) was a Soviet and Russian cross-country skier who won Olympic 30 km gold at Calgary in 1988 and the world title in 1997.
Aleksey Russkikh
Aleksey Russkikh (Алексей Русских) is a Russian politician of the Communist Party who has been Governor of Ulyanovsk Oblast since 2021, after serving as a State Duma deputy and senator.
Aleksey Shumakov
Aleksey Vasilyevich Shumakov (Алексей Васильевич Шумаков), born 1948 in Pochyot, Krasnoyarsk Kray, Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler, 1976 Montreal Olympic light-flyweight (48 kg) gold medalist, 1977 world and 1976 European champion.
Aleksey Spiridonov
Aleksey Sergeyevich Spiridonov (Алексей Сергеевич Спиридонов), Soviet hammer thrower (1951-1998), 1976 Olympic silver medalist, 1974 European champion, and one-time world record holder at 76.66 m.
Aleksey Surkov
Aleksey Surkov (Алексей Сурков; 1899–1983) was a Soviet poet, journalist, and first secretary of the Union of Writers of the USSR from 1953 to 1959.
Aleksey Svirin
Aleksey Svirin (Алексей Свирин), born 1978 in Moscow, is a Russian rower who won gold in the men's quadruple sculls at the 2004 Athens Olympics and later led Russia's rowing federation.
Aleksey Taranov
Aleksey Taranov (Алексей Андреевич Таранов), Soviet 800m runner born 1946; ran lead-off on the USSR quartet whose 7:17.8 indoor 4x800m relay at the 1971 European Indoors in Sofia was a world record and remains the European record.
Aleksey Teksler
Aleksey Teksler is a Russian politician serving as Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast, known for meetings with deputy prime ministers on economic development, ecology, and emissions reduction.
Aleksey Tishchenko
Aleksey Tishchenko (Алексей Викторович Тищенко), Russian amateur boxer born 1984 in Omsk; two-time Olympic champion, featherweight Athens 2004 and lightweight Beijing 2008, plus 2005 world and 2006 European titles.
Aleksey Ulanov
Aleksey Ulanov (Алексей Николаевич Уланов), born 1947 in Moscow, Soviet pair skater; 1972 Sapporo Olympic pairs champion with Irina Rodnina, four-time World and European champion, later partnered and married Lyudmila Smirnova.
Aleksey Urmanov
Aleksey Urmanov (Алексей Евгеньевич Урманов), born 1973 in Leningrad, is a Russian figure skater and coach, 1994 Lillehammer Olympic men's singles champion, 1993 world bronze medalist, and later coach of Mikhail Shaidorov.
Aleksey Vakhonin
Aleksey Vakhonin (Алексей Иванович Вахонин, 1935-1993), Soviet bantamweight weightlifter; 1964 Tokyo Olympic champion with a 357.5 kg world-record total; three-time world and European champion; barred from the 1968 Olympics.
Aleksey Voropayev
Aleksey Voropayev (Алексей Николаевич Воропаев, 1973–2006), Russian artistic gymnast, two-time Olympic team champion (1992 Unified Team, 1996 Russia), 1991 world team and 1992 parallel bars world champion, 1996 European horizontal bar champion.
Aleksey Yagudin
Aleksey Yagudin (Алексей Константинович Ягудин), Russian figure skater born 1980 in St. Petersburg; 2002 Olympic men's singles gold medalist, four-time World Champion, three-time European Champion; retired 2003 from hip injury.
Aleksey Yekimov
Aleksey Yekimov, born in 1945 in Leningrad, is a Soviet-born physicist who shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering quantum dots in 1981.
Aleksey Yermolov
Aleksey Yermolov (Алексей Петрович Ермолов, 1777 to 1861) was a Russian general, a hero of the 1812 war against Napoleon and commander in the Caucasus from 1816 to 1827.
Aleksey Zhitnik
Aleksey Zhitnik (Алексей Житник, Oleksiy Zhytnyk), Ukrainian ice hockey defenseman born 1972 in Kyiv; 1992 Olympic gold with the Unified Team, 1998 silver with Russia, 1,085 NHL games with the Kings, Sabres, Islanders, Flyers, and Thrashers.
Aleksis Kivi
Aleksis Kivi, born Alexis Stenvall (1834–1872), was a Finnish author regarded as the founder of Finnish-language literature; his novel Seven Brothers (1870) is considered the first significant Finnish-language novel.
Aleksota Mons
Aleksota Mons was an IAU-approved Venus mountain name (1997), 250 km across at 9S 308.5E, named for a Lithuanian love goddess; the name was dropped in December 2025 when topography showed no mons exists there.
Alele Museum & Public Library
Alele Museum & Public Library in Uliga, Majuro is the national museum, only public library, and national archives of the Marshall Islands, holding stick charts, the deBrum collection, nuclear-test records, and about 21,351 artefacts.
Alemán
Alemán, born Érick Raúl Alemán Ramírez in 1990, is a Mexican rapper from Cabo San Lucas known for collaborations with Snoop Dogg and Peso Pluma.
Alemanni
The Alemanni (Alamanni), first named in 213 CE under Caracalla, were a loose Germanic grouping of petty kings on the upper Rhine-Danube who settled the abandoned Agri Decumates, fought Rome until Clovis's victory at Tolbiac c.496, and gave their name to Alemannic dialects.
Alemannia aachen
Alemannia Aachen (Aachener TSV Alemannia 1900 e.V.), German sports club founded by 18 schoolboys in December 1900; black-yellow football team in the 3. Liga, Bundesliga 1967-70 and 2006/07, DFB-Pokal finalists 1953 and 2004, UEFA Cup 2004/05, largest club in Aachen.
Alemannic German
Alemannic German (Alemannisch) is a group of Upper German dialects spoken in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Vorarlberg, Alsace, and south-western Germany, divided into Swabian, Low, Central, High, and Highest Alemannic.
Alembic
An alembic (الأنبيق) is a distillation apparatus whose domed head condenses vapor into a receiver, used by alchemists, apothecaries, and perfumers into the 19th century.
Alembic Chemical Works (pharmaceutical company)
Alembic Chemical Works was a chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturer founded in Baroda, India, in 1907 by T. K. Gajjar, Kotibhaskar, and B. D. Amin, whose pharmaceutical business became Alembic Pharmaceuticals in 2010.
Alemdar Mustafa Pasha
Alemdar Mustafa Pasha (علمدار مصطفى پاشا), also known as Bayraktar, was an Ottoman provincial notable of Ruschuk who became grand vizier in 1808 after marching on Istanbul.
Alemeda
Alemeda (Rahema Alameda, born 1999, Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian-Sudanese alternative pop-rock singer signed to Top Dawg Entertainment, viral for "Gonna Bleach My Eyebrows" (2021), with EPs FK IT and But What The Hell Do I Know.
Alemgosar Amusement Park
Alemgosar (Älemgoşar, "Rainbow") is an amusement park opened in 2015 in the Avaza National Tourist Zone, Turkmenistan, with over 10 hectares, 15-plus rides, an aquapark, bowling, and arcade facilities.