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Alferminogene tadenovec
Alferminogene tadenovec (Generx, Ad5FGF-4, AGT-MI) is an unapproved adenovirus serotype 5 gene therapy expressing FGF-4 for refractory angina; AGENT-3/4 failed on placebo response, later phase 3 trials incomplete.
Alfie (1966 film)
Alfie (1966), Lewis Gilbert's British comedy-drama starring Michael Caine as Cockney womanizer Alfie Elkins, from Bill Naughton's play. Cannes Special Jury Prize winner, five Oscar nominations, Golden Globe winner, famous abortion scene and direct-to-camera monologues.
Alfie (2004 film)
Alfie (2004) is Charles Shyer's remake of the 1966 Michael Caine film, starring Jude Law as a womanizing Manhattan limo driver. Written by Elaine Pope and Shyer for Paramount, it grossed about $35 million worldwide and earned a 48% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Alfie (Lily Allen song)
Alfie is a 2006 Lily Allen song from Alright, Still, co-written with Greg Kurstin, teasing her brother Alfie Allen over smoking weed and joblessness; it peaked at number 15 on the UK Singles Chart in March 2007.
Alfie Allen
Alfie Evan Allen (born 1986, London) is an English actor, son of Keith Allen and brother of Lily Allen, best known as Theon Greyjoy in all eight seasons of Game of Thrones, with a 2019 Emmy nomination and a Tony-nominated Broadway debut in Hangmen.
Alfie Bass
Alfie Bass (Abraham Basalinksy, died 1987) was an English character comic known for Private 'Excused Boots' Bisley in The Army Game and Bootsie and Snudge, and for Till Death Us Do Part and Are You Being Served?. Not the Manchester band Alfie or the play Alfie.
Alfie Boe
Alfie Boe (Alfred Giovanni Roncalli Boe, born 1973) is an English tenor discovered while a car mechanic, a Tony Honor winner for Broadway's La Bohème, best known as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables and for chart-topping Ball & Boe albums with Michael Ball.
Alfie Davis
Alfie Davis, "The Axe Man" (born 1992, Enfield, London), English lightweight MMA fighter and former WAKO kickboxer; 20-7-1 record, 2025 PFL lightweight tournament champion, later lost PFL title fight to Usman Nurmagomedov.
Alfie Deyes
Alfie Deyes (Alfred Sidney Deyes, born 1993) is an English YouTuber, author and entrepreneur behind PointlessBlog, the Pointless Book series, and later Future Self Shop and Coffee.
Alfie Dorrington
Alfie Dorrington (born 2005, Enfield) is an English centre-back at Tottenham Hotspur; loan spells at Aberdeen, winning the 2025 Scottish Cup, and Salford City; England youth international to Under-19 level.
Alfie Evans case
Alfie Evans case: 2017–2018 UK legal dispute over withdrawing life support from a 23-month-old Liverpool boy with an undiagnosed degenerative neurological condition; courts ruled for Alder Hey hospital over parents Tom Evans and Kate James, who sought treatment in Rome; Alfie died 28 April 2018.
Alfie Granger-Howell
Alfie Granger-Howell is a British electronic music producer and one half of the London house duo Dusky with Nick Harriman, known for "Flo Jam" and the Beatport number ones "Careless" and "Yoohoo".
Alfie Hewett
Alfie Hewett (born 1997, Cantley, Norfolk) is a British wheelchair tennis player, world No. 1 in singles, with nine Grand Slam singles and 21 doubles titles, a 2024 career Grand Slam, and Paralympic gold in doubles with Gordon Reid.
Alfie Lloyd
Alfie David Lloyd (born 2003, Yeovil) is an English forward for Queens Park Rangers in the Championship; ex-Yeovil, loans at Eastleigh, Leyton Orient, and Lincoln City; new QPR contract January 2025.
Alfie Manthorpe
Alfie Manthorpe (born 1999) is a British distance runner for Hallamshire Harriers; 2021 England 10K champion, GB cross country and 10,000m Cup representative, with bests of 27:40 10km and 2:11:31 marathon.
Alfie Mawson
Alfie Mawson is an English retired footballer, a center-back for Swansea City, Fulham, Barnsley, and Wycombe Wanderers who retired in 2023 at 29 after a knee injury.
Alfie McNally
Alfie Shane McNally (born 2004, London) is an English goalkeeper developed at Fulham after joining from Brentford in 2017; professional in 2022, Fulham contract to 2028, on season-long loan at York City in League Two from July 2026.
Alfie Moon
Alfie Moon is a fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Shane Richie since 2002 and known for his romance with Kat Slater.
Alfie Solomons
Alfie Solomons, also Alfie Solomon, is the fictional Camden Town Jewish gang leader in Peaky Blinders, played by Tom Hardy from series 2 (2014), loosely based on a real gangster who was Darby Sabini's enforcer.
Alfie Tempest
Alfie Tempest is a British child actor from Peterborough, England, known for Young Lucius in Gladiator II, Irvin Garfield in Death by Lightning, Sammy Hurley in Masters of the Air, and his debut in Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio.
Alfie Williams
Alfie Williams (born 2011) is an English child actor from Tyneside, breakout star of 28 Years Later (2025) as Spike, reprised in The Bone Temple (2026); Independent Talent and Gersh represented.
Alfimeprase
Alfimeprase, a recombinant truncated fibrolase from Southern copperhead venom, is a direct-acting fibrinolytic metalloprotease developed by Amgen and Nuvelo; phase III NAPA-2 and SONOMA-2 trials failed, and development was discontinued in 2008.
Alfisols
Alfisols are a soil order in USDA Soil Taxonomy: moderately leached soils with a clay-enriched subsurface and base saturation of 35% or greater, mostly in temperate regions.
Alfons Dorfner
Alfons Dorfner (1911–1982), Austrian canoe sprint paddler with UKRV Schnecke Linz; won K2 1,000 m gold with Adi Kainz at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in 4:03.8, fourth in folding kayak doubles, 1936 Duisburg European K4 bronze.
Alfons Gorbach
Alfons Gorbach was an Austrian People's Party politician who served as Chancellor of Austria from 1961 to 1964 and later narrowly lost the 1965 presidential election.
Alfons Julen
Alfons Julen (1899–1988), Swiss skier from Zermatt, won gold in the military ski patrol at the 1924 Chamonix Winter Olympics with his brother Anton; competed again at St. Moritz 1928.
Alfons Maria Jakob
Alfons Maria Jakob (1884–1931) was a German neurologist and neuropathologist in Hamburg who defined Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, wrote the standard anatomy of the cerebellum, and trained students from around the world.
Alfons van Blaaderen
Alfons van Blaaderen (born 1963) is a Dutch physicist, professor at Utrecht University since 1999, known for pioneering research on colloidal particles and their self-assembly into structured materials.
Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas
Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas, real surname Čipkus (1919–2015), was a Lithuanian émigré poet, translator, and literary critic who left Lithuania in 1944 and is regarded as one of the most prominent modern Lithuanian poets.
Alfonsina Storni
Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938) was an Argentine poet and journalist, born in Switzerland, whose defiant, feminist verse made her a pioneer of female eroticism in Spanish-language poetry alongside Gabriela Mistral.