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Alfred Chalk
Alfred Ernest Chalk (1874–1954), English amateur footballer, right-half for Upton Park FC; won gold in men's football for Great Britain at the 1900 Paris Olympics, beating France 4–0. Distinct from fencer Alfred Chalke.
Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton
Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton (1886–1959) was a British physical chemist, professor of chemical technology at Imperial College London from 1936 to 1952, knighted for combustion and fuel research.
Alfred Collins (American football)
Alfred Collins (born 2001, Bastrop, Texas) is a 49ers defensive tackle, 43rd overall pick in 2025, a two-time All-Big 12 and AP Second-Team All-American from Texas; tore a patellar tendon in 2026.
Alfred D. Hershey
Alfred D. Hershey, also known as Alfred Hershey, was an American geneticist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about virus replication and structure.
Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) was a French Romantic poet and playwright known for Les Nuits and Lorenzaccio, and elected to the Académie française in 1852.
Alfred Döblin
Alfred Döblin (also Linke Poot), 1878–1957, German physician and Expressionist modernist writer; author of the montage novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929); exiled 1933, converted to Catholicism 1941, died in Emmendingen.
Alfred Döblin Prize
The Alfred Döblin Prize (Alfred-Döblin-Preis) is a German literary prize for an unpublished, still unfinished prose manuscript, endowed by Günter Grass and awarded every two years in Berlin.
Alfred Dreyfus
Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), French Jewish artillery captain, wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 and deported to Devil's Island; the Dreyfus Affair divided France until his 1906 exoneration by the Cour de cassation.
Alfred E. Buxton
Alfred E. Buxton is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directs clinical electrophysiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and led the MUSTT trial, which shaped defibrillator selection.
Alfred E. Emerson
Alfred E. Emerson (1896–1976) was an American entomologist and ecologist who was the world's leading authority on termites and a professor of zoology at the University of Chicago from 1929 to 1962.
Alfred E. Mann
Alfred E. Mann (1925–2016) was an American physicist, inventor, and philanthropist who founded more than a dozen biomedical companies, including MiniMed, maker of insulin pumps.
Alfred E. Neuman
Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed "What, me worry?" mascot of Mad magazine, first on its cover in December 1956 via Norman Mingo, with pre-Mad roots in 1890s advertising and a 1965 copyright lawsuit.
Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner
The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner (Al Smith Dinner) is an annual white-tie New York charity gala founded in 1945 honoring the 1928 Catholic presidential nominee, famous for election-year presidential roast speeches and multimillion-dollar Catholic charity fundraising.
Alfred Eckhard Zimmern
Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (1879–1957) was a British classical scholar and political scientist who became the world's first professor of international relations, at Aberystwyth in 1919, and a leading liberal internationalist.
Alfred Edersheim
Alfred Edersheim (1825–1889) was a Vienna-born Jewish convert to Christianity and biblical scholar, best known for The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (1883).
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898–1995) was a German-born American photojournalist, one of four original LIFE magazine staff photographers, best known for his 1945 photograph V-J Day in Times Square.
Alfred Engelsen
Alfred Bertran Engelsen (1893–1966), Norwegian diver and gymnast from Bergen; 1912 Stockholm Olympic gold in free system team gymnastics, round-one exit in plain high diving, and eight Norwegian diving titles.
Alfred Enoch
Alfred Enoch (born 1988, London) is a British-Brazilian actor, Dean Thomas in the Harry Potter films and Wes Gibbins in How to Get Away with Murder, also a Shakespeare stage actor and RSC Henry V.
Alfred Errera
Alfred Errera (1886–1960) was a Belgian mathematician at the Université libre de Bruxelles, best known for the Errera graph, a counterexample to Kempe's four color proof.
Alfred Eugen Ritter
Alfred Eugen Ritter (1885–1952) was a Swabian master confectioner who, with his wife Clara, founded the chocolate factory in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt in 1912 that became Ritter Sport.
Alfred Ewing
Sir James Alfred Ewing (1855–1935) was a Scottish physicist and engineer who coined the term hysteresis and founded and led Room 40, the British naval codebreaking unit of the First World War.
Alfred F. Michael
Alfred F. Michael (1928–2022) was an American pediatric nephrologist at the University of Minnesota known for applying immunologic methods to kidney disease and building a leading pediatric kidney program.
Alfred F. Noels
Alfred F. Noels is a chemist at the University of Liège, Belgium, whose group's 1992 ruthenium-catalyzed ring-opening metathesis polymerization is cited in the Nobel Committee's 2005 chemistry prize background.
Alfred Fabian Hess
Alfred Fabian Hess (1875–1933) was an American pediatrician in New York City who showed that cod liver oil and sunlight cure rickets, and that pasteurization destroys milk's protection against infantile scurvy.
Alfred Felber
Alfred Eugène Felber (1886–1967), Swiss rower of Société Nautique de Genève, specialist in coxed pairs; bronze at Antwerp 1920 with Candeveau and Piaget, Olympic gold at Paris 1924 with Lachapelle, plus three European titles.
Alfreð Finnbogason
Alfreð Finnbogason, born 1989, Icelandic striker; Eredivisie top scorer with Heerenveen, FC Augsburg's record Bundesliga scorer (37 goals), 73 Iceland caps; retired 2024, now Rosenborg sporting director.
Alfred Firmin Loisy
Alfred Firmin Loisy (1857–1940) was a French Catholic priest and biblical scholar credited as the founder of Catholic Modernism, excommunicated in 1908 under Pope Pius X.
Alfred Fitch
Alfred Lord "Al" Fitch (1912–1981), American 400-meter runner and USC Trojan; won 1936 Berlin Olympic silver in the 4x400 m relay anchoring the US team behind Great Britain; not Horatio Fitch of 1924.
Alfred Flatow
Alfred Flatow (1869-1942), German Jewish gymnast from Gdańsk, won three gold and one silver medal in gymnastics at the 1896 Athens Olympics; cousin of Gustav Flatow; died of starvation in Theresienstadt.
Alfred Ford
Alfred Ford, known as Ambarish Das, is an American great-grandson of Henry Ford and a leading patron of ISKCON, chairman and principal donor of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium in Mayapur, India.