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Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Alfred-Wegener-Institut, AWI) is a German institute in Bremerhaven that coordinates German polar research, founded in 1980.
Alfred Werner
Alfred Werner (1866–1919) was a Swiss chemist who founded coordination chemistry, winning the 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry as the first Swiss laureate in that field.
Alfred Wittinghofer
Alfred Wittinghofer, born 1943 in Goch, is a German biochemist known for determining the 3D structures of small GTP-binding proteins, above all Ras and Ran.
Alfred Worden
Alfred Merrill Worden, also known as Al Worden, was an American Air Force officer and NASA astronaut who orbited the Moon alone on Apollo 15 in 1971.
Alfred Y. Cho
Alfred Y. Cho, born in Beijing in 1937, is an American materials scientist at Bell Labs widely called the father of molecular beam epitaxy, which he developed into a production tool.
Alfred Young (mathematician)
Alfred Young (1873–1940) was a British mathematician and Anglican clergyman, rector of Birdbrook, Essex, who created the Young diagrams and tableaux central to representation theory, physics, and chemistry.
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844–1900), also Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; British naval officer, declined the Greek throne in 1862, and reigned over the German duchy from 1893.
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874–1899), only son of Duke Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia; heir to the duchy who died at Meran before succeeding.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), Victorian England's most popular poet and longest-serving Poet Laureate from 1850; wrote In Memoriam A.H.H., The Charge of the Light Brigade, and Idylls of the King; first British writer ennobled as a peer.
Alfreda Frances Bikowsky
Alfreda Frances Bikowsky, also known as Alfreda Bikowsky, is a former CIA counterterrorism officer who led Alec Station.
Alfreda Johnson Webb
Alfreda Johnson Webb (1923–1992) was an American veterinarian who, with Jane Hinton, was one of the first two Black women to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.
AlfredM. Prince
Alfred M. Prince (1928–2011) was an American virologist at the New York Blood Center who developed the hepatitis B screening assay and the solvent-detergent method for sterilizing blood products.
Alfredo 2
Alfredo 2, also written Alfredo II, is the 2025 sequel album by rapper Freddie Gibbs and producer The Alchemist to their 2020 Grammy-nominated Alfredo; 14 tracks, guests Anderson .Paak, Larry June, JID, UK Hip Hop and R&B No. 1.
Alfredo Astiz
Alfredo Ignacio Astiz (born 1951), Argentine Navy officer of GT 3.3.2 at ESMA who infiltrated the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo as "Gustavo Niño"; convicted of crimes against humanity in Argentina, France, and Italy.
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno was an Ecuadorian liberal politician, jurist, and novelist who served as President of Ecuador from 1916 to 1920 and again as interim president in 1931 and 1932.
Alfredo Beltrán Leyva
Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, known as El Mochomo, is a Mexican drug trafficker who led the Beltrán Leyva Organization and was sentenced to life in a US prison in 2017.
Alfredo Berruti
Alfredo Berruti is an Italian medical oncologist, full professor at the University of Brescia and chief of medical oncology at Spedali Civili Hospital, known for adrenocortical carcinoma research.
Alfredo Bosi
Alfredo Bosi (1936–2021) was a Brazilian literary critic, essayist, and professor of Brazilian literature at the University of São Paulo, and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Alfredo Bowman
Alfredo Darrington Bowman, aka Dr. Sebi (1933–2016), Honduran-born self-educated herbalist of Garifuna descent who created the African Bio-Mineral Balance alkaline diet, was acquitted in a 1988 New York unlicensed-medicine trial, and died in Honduran police custody; no scientific evidence supports his cure claims.
Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Alfredo Bryce Echenique (1939–2026) was a Peruvian novelist and chronicler, best known for Un mundo para Julius (1970), and a leading figure of Latin America's post-boom generation.
Alfredo Capelli
Alfredo Capelli (1855–1910) was an Italian mathematician who held the algebra chair at the University of Naples and is known for the Capelli identity and the Rouché–Capelli theorem.
Alfredo Casella
Alfredo Casella (1883–1947), Italian composer, pianist, conductor, and critic born in Turin and trained in Paris under Fauré, led the generazione dell'ottanta in modernizing Italian instrumental music; known for Italia, La Giara, Partita, Sinfonia, and Missa solemnis pro pace.
Alfredo Chavero
Alfredo Chavero (1841–1906) was a Mexican lawyer, playwright, poet, historian, and archaeologist who wrote the first volume of the national history México a través de los siglos.
Alfredo Cristiani
Alfredo Cristiani Burkard, born 1947, Salvadoran businessman and first ARENA president (1989-1994) who negotiated the 1992 Chapultepec peace accords ending El Salvador's civil war; since 2024 on trial over the 1989 UCA Jesuit massacre.
Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay
Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay (1843–1899), was a Brazilian military engineer, politician, historian, and novelist born in Rio de Janeiro, best known for the regionalist novel Inocência (1872).
Alfredo Di Stéfano
Alfredo Di Stéfano (La Saeta Rubia, 1926–2014), Argentine-Spanish forward for River Plate, Millonarios, Real Madrid, and Espanyol; won five consecutive European Cups 1956–60, eight Ligas, two Ballons d'Or and the unique 1989 Super Ballon d'Or.
Alfredo Dinale
Alfredo Dinale (1900–1976), Italian cyclist: 1924 Paris Olympic gold in 4,000 m team pursuit, two 1929 Giro d'Italia stage wins, six-day track victories at Dortmund, Frankfurt, and Paris, later a Campagnolo instructor.
Alfredo Espino
Alfredo Espino, in full Edgardo Alfredo Espino Najarro, was a Salvadoran lyric poet (1900–1928) whose single posthumous book, Jícaras tristes, became required reading in Salvadoran schools.
Alfredo Falcone
Alfredo Falcone, born in 1959 in New Jersey and based in Pisa, is an Italian medical oncologist known for developing FOLFOXIRI, a triplet chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer.
Alfredo Ferrari
Alfredo Ferrari, known as Alfredino or Dino, was the first son of Enzo Ferrari, a trained engineer who proposed the V6 engine later named in his honor.