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Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 1
Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 1 (CBS, 1955-56): 39 half-hour anthology episodes hosted by Hitchcock, opening with "Revenge" and closing with "Momentum"; he directed four, including "Breakdown."
Alfred Horn
Alfred Horn (1918–2001) was an American mathematician who spent his career at UCLA and whose 1951 paper identified Horn clauses, the foundation of the programming language Prolog.
Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz
Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1787–1862) was an Austrian field marshal best known for suppressing the 1848 revolutions in Prague and Vienna and leading the campaign in Hungary.
Alfred Ian Lee
Alfred Ian Lee is an American physician-scientist in hematology at Yale School of Medicine, a professor and fellowship program director known for research on thrombosis, platelet disorders, and diagnostic reasoning.
Alfred Irving Hallowell
Alfred Irving Hallowell (1892–1974) was an American cultural anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania, a founder of psychological anthropology known for his fieldwork among the Ojibwa of Berens River, Manitoba.
Alfred J. Crosby
Alfred J. Crosby is an American polymer scientist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for Geckskin, a gecko-inspired adhesive able to hold 700 pounds on glass.
Alfred J. Eggers
Alfred J. Eggers (1922–2006) was an American aeronautical engineer at NACA and NASA Ames, known for the 1953 blunt-body theory of reentry heating and waverider concepts.
Alfred J. Hendron Jr.
Alfred J. Hendron Jr., known as Skip Hendron, is an American geotechnical engineer and University of Illinois professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1983.
Alfred J. Lewy
Alfred J. Lewy is an American physician-scientist in psychiatry who spent his career at Oregon Health & Science University studying the human circadian clock, showing that light suppresses melatonin.
Alfred J. Lotka
Alfred J. Lotka (1880–1949) was an American mathematician and statistician who helped found mathematical ecology through the Lotka–Volterra predator–prey equations and mathematical demography through stable population theory.
Alfred Jewel
The Alfred Jewel is a late 9th-century gold, cloisonné enamel and rock crystal ornament inscribed AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN, found in 1693 at North Petherton, Somerset, and held in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; it is probably an aestel, a manuscript pointer linked to King Alfred the Great.
Alfred Jodl
Alfred Jodl (1890-1946), German general and chief of the OKW Operations Staff, signed Germany's 1945 Reims surrender, was convicted on all four Nuremberg counts, and hanged October 16, 1946.
Alfred Johansson (football manager)
Alfred Johansson (Erik Alfred Johansson, born 1990, Enköping, Sweden) is a Swedish football manager, Motherwell's 31st manager since June 2026 and former Rosenborg head coach (2024-2026).
Alfred Johnsen
Alfred Johnsen, full name Frederik Alfred Johnsen (1887–1930), was a Danish electrical engineer who co-discovered the Johnsen-Rahbek effect in 1917 and built telegraph, telephone, and relay devices on it.
Alfred Jost
Alfred Jost (1916–1991) was a French endocrinologist who discovered anti-Müllerian hormone through fetal rabbit experiments showing maleness is imposed by the testis, and later taught at the Collège de France.
Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée
Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée (1838–1912) was a French philosopher known for his doctrine of idées-forces, the idea that every conscious idea is also a motive force.
Alfred K. Cheung
Alfred K. Cheung is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist at the University of Utah, known for the SPRINT trial and the KDIGO 2021 blood pressure guideline.
Alfred Kan-Ngam Arthur
Alfred Kan-Ngam Arthur is an Indian National Congress politician from Manipur, elected to the Lok Sabha from Outer Manipur in 2024 after serving as an MLA.
Alfred Kastler
Alfred Kastler was a French physicist at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris who won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physics for optical methods of studying atomic resonances.
Alfred Kazin
Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) was an American literary critic, memoirist, and editor who came of age in the 1930s, known for On Native Grounds and memoirs of Brooklyn.
Alfred Kempe
Sir Alfred Bray Kempe was a British barrister and mathematician best known for a false 1879 proof of the four-color theorem whose ideas still shape graph coloring.
Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Charles Kinsey, American biologist and Indiana University zoology professor, founded sex research on 18,000 interviews; his 1948 and 1953 Kinsey Reports and the Kinsey Scale shaped sexology despite sampling criticisms.
Alfred Kohn
Alfred Kohn (1867–1959) was a Czech histologist who headed the Institute of Histology at the German University in Prague and first established the parathyroids as an independent endocrine organ.
Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (1879–1950), Polish-American count and independent scholar, founder of general semantics; author of Manhood of Humanity (1921) and Science and Sanity (1933); coined 'the map is not the territory'.
Alfred Krupp
Alfred Krupp (1812–1887) was a German steel manufacturer who built the Krupp works in Essen into a global steel and armaments maker, earning the nickname "Cannon King".
Alfred Kubin
Alfred Kubin (Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin, 1877–1959), Austrian draftsman, illustrator and writer of the fantastic novel Die andere Seite (The Other Side); pen-and-ink Symbolist graphic artist, Blaue Reiter external member, lived reclusively at Zwickledt from 1906.
Alfred Kuchevsky
Alfred Kuchevsky (Альфред Кучевский, 1931–2000) was a Soviet ice hockey defenseman who spent his career with Krylya Sovetov Moscow and won Olympic gold in 1956.
Alfred Kühn
Alfred Kühn (1885–1968) was a German zoologist and geneticist who built the first experimentally traced reaction chain from gene to phenotype, working on the flour moth Ephestia kühniella.
Alfred L. George
Alfred L. George Jr. is an American pharmacologist, chair of Pharmacology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for research on inherited ion channel disorders called channelopathies.
Alfred L. Goldberg
Alfred L. Goldberg, known as Fred Goldberg, was an American cell biologist and biochemist at Harvard Medical School who discovered and named the proteasome and died in 2023.