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Alessio Ciulli
Alessio Ciulli, Italian chemical biologist, Chair of Chemical and Structural Biology at the University of Dundee and Director of its Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation; founding figure of targeted protein degradation, first PROTAC ternary complex structure, Amphista co-founder, FRS 2025.
Alessio Dionisi
Alessio Dionisi (born 1980 in Abbadia San Salvatore) is an Italian football manager and former defender, head coach of Watford since 2026 and winner of the 2020-21 Serie B title with Empoli.
Alessio Fasano
Alessio Fasano is an Italian-born pediatric gastroenterologist and immunologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for discovering zonulin and showing celiac disease is common in the United States.
Alessio Figalli
Alessio Figalli, born in Rome in 1984, is an Italian mathematician at ETH Zürich who works on optimal transport and partial differential equations, winning the Fields Medal in 2018.
Alessio Furlanetto
Alessio Furlanetto (born 2002, Motta di Livenza) is an Italian goalkeeper for SS Lazio, number 55, contracted to 2028; loanee at Renate and Fermana, 2 Serie A appearances in 2025/26, ACL surgery July 2026.
Alessio Milivojevic
Alessio Milivojevic (born Nov. 20, 2005) is an American college football quarterback, No. 11 for the Michigan State Spartans from Naperville, Illinois; 2026 team captain who started the final four games of 2025 and won Big Ten Freshman of the Week.
Alessio Romagnoli
Alessio Romagnoli, Italian centre-back born 1995 in Anzio; Roma academy product, AC Milan captain from 2018/19, Lazio 2022-2026, Italy international, joined Al-Sadd in September 2026.
Alessio Sartori
Alessio Sartori (born 1976, Terracina) is an Italian rower, 2000 Olympic quadruple sculls champion, with 2004 bronze and 2012 silver in the double sculls, plus three world quad titles.
Alesso
Alesso (Alessandro Renato Rodolfo Lindblad, born 1991, Stockholm) is a Swedish progressive-house DJ and producer mentored by Sebastian Ingrosso, known for "Heroes (We Could Be)", "Under Control", the 2015 debut album Forever, a 2014 Grammy nomination, and his label Body Hi.
Alesta Therapeutics
Alesta Therapeutics was a Leiden, Netherlands-based biotechnology company developing oral small-molecule therapies for rare diseases, best known for ALE1, an investigational oral treatment for hypophosphatasia.
Alestorm
Alestorm is a Scottish pirate metal band from Perth, formed as Battleheart in 2004, led by Christopher Bowes, known for albums Captain Morgan's Revenge (2008) through The Thunderfist Chronicles (2025).
Ålesund
Ålesund, Norwegian coastal town in Møre og Romsdal, largest city between Bergen and Trondheim. Rebuilt in Art Nouveau style after the 23 January 1904 fire that left 10,000 of 12,000 residents homeless; major fishing, cruise, and maritime port.
Alesya Turova
Alesya Turova (Alesia Turava), Belarusian runner born 1979, twice broke the women's 3000m steeplechase world record in 2002 (9:21.72, 9:16.51) and won the 2006 European title, World Cup, and World Athletics Final.
Aleta A. Trauger
Aleta A. Trauger, born Aleta Arthur Trauger in 1945, is a United States district judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
Aletai Diqu
Aletai Diqu (阿勒泰地区, Altay Prefecture) is Xinjiang's northernmost prefecture, bordering Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia; seat Altay City, 1 city plus 6 counties, 648,173 residents (2020), GDP 484.21 billion yuan (2025), famed as 'China's Snow Capital'.
Aletheia (λήθεια)
Aletheia (ἀλήθεια) is the Ancient Greek word for truth, literally "un-concealment" from a- plus lēthē. Covers Homeric usage, Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, John's Gospel, and Heidegger's disputed reading of truth as unconcealment.
Aletsch Glacier
Aletsch Glacier (Aletschgletscher), Switzerland's largest and longest Alpine glacier at 22.6 km and 83 km², a UNESCO World Heritage site retreating since 1860 and projected to lose most of its volume by 2100.
Aletta van Manen
Aletta van Manen (born 1958, Wageningen) is a retired Dutch field hockey defender, club HGC Wassenaar, who won Olympic gold at Los Angeles 1984 and bronze at Seoul 1988 with the Netherlands women's team.
Alette Sijbring
Alette Sijbring (Alette Hilde Sijbring, born 1982, Zierikzee) is a Dutch water polo centre back who won gold with the Netherlands at Beijing 2008, beating the United States 9-8 in the final, then became a gastroenterologist at UMC Utrecht.
Aleurites
Aleurites is a two-species Euphorbiaceae tree genus of tropical Asia to the western Pacific, best known as the candlenut, Aleurites moluccanus, an oilseed and traditional-use tree with toxic raw seeds; tung oil trees formerly placed here now belong to Vernicia.
Aleurites moluccanus
Aleurites moluccanus, the candlenut tree (kukui, kemiri, 石栗), is an Euphorbiaceae tree native from tropical Asia to the western Pacific, grown for oil-rich seeds used as food, medicine, candles, and biodiesel; invasive in Pacific islands.
Aleurocanthus woglumi
Aleurocanthus woglumi, the citrus blackfly, is a polyphagous whitefly from south-east Asia, a major citrus pest with over 300 hosts, controlled by Encarsia perplexa and Amitus hesperidum parasitoids.
Aleutian Airways
Aleutian Airways is an Alaskan regional airline based in Anchorage, operated by Sterling Airways, that began scheduled service between Anchorage and Unalaska in 2022 and now flies Saab 2000 and ATR-600 aircraft to eight Alaska destinations.
Aleutian Basin
Aleutian Basin: deep-water (>3,000 m) oceanic basin of the Bering Sea north of the Aleutian Islands, about the size of Texas, with 2–9 km of Cenozoic sediment over Cretaceous oceanic crust; origin debated between Eocene plate capture and backarc spreading.
Aleutian Islands
Aleutian Islands: volcanic island arc separating the North Pacific from the Bering Sea, homeland of the Unangax̂ (Aleut) people, with 52 volcanoes, great megathrust earthquakes, Russian fur-colonization history, and the World War II Attu and Kiska campaign.
Aleutian Islands campaign
The Aleutian Islands campaign (3 June 1942 – August 1943) was the WWII fight in which Japan attacked Dutch Harbor and occupied Attu and Kiska, the only North American soil seized, before U.S. forces retook Attu in May 1943 and found Kiska evacuated.
Aleutian Low
The Aleutian Low is a semi-permanent low-pressure center over the North Pacific near the Aleutian Islands, strongest in winter, displaced northward and almost nonexistent in summer.
Aleutian Ridge
Aleutian Ridge: mostly submerged cordillera of the Aleutian arc, Alaska, carrying the Aleutian Islands on a pedestal above the Aleutian Trench; Pacific plate subducts beneath North America at 55-90 mm/yr.
Aleutian subduction zone
The Aleutian subduction zone is the 3,000-km boundary where the Pacific plate subducts beneath North America along the Aleutian trench, source of the great 1964 Alaska earthquake.
Aleutian Trench
The Aleutian Trench is a deep-ocean trench in the North Pacific where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the North American Plate along the Aleutian island arc.