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Alfredo Foni

Alfredo Foni (1911–1985), Italian right back and coach. Won 1936 Olympic gold and the 1938 World Cup with Italy (23 caps), starred for Juventus with Pietro Rava, then won two scudetti coaching Inter Milan (1953, 1954).

Alfredo Fontanini

Alfredo Fontanini is an Italian-trained systems neuroscientist, Professor and Chair of Neurobiology and Behavior at Stony Brook University, who studies how expectation shapes cortical taste processing.

Alfredo Gaspar

Alfredo Gaspar (Alfredo Gaspar de Mendonça Neto), born 1970 in Maceió, is a Brazilian federal deputy for Alagoas (PL), former state prosecutor, rapporteur of the CPMI do INSS, and Flávio Bolsonaro's 2026 vice-presidential running mate.

Alfredo Ghierra

Alfredo Ghierra (Alfredo Juan Ghierra Calcagno, 1891-1973), Uruguayan midfielder, 1924 Olympic football gold medalist and three-time Copa America winner; founding member of Defensor Sporting, distinct from the 1968-born artist of the same name.

Alfredo Gollini

Alfredo Guido Stefano Maria Gollini (1881–1957), Italian artistic gymnast of S.G. Panaro Modena; won team all-around gold (European system) at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics; not to be confused with footballer Pierluigi Gollini.

Alfredo Gutiérrez (Colombian musician)

Alfredo Gutiérrez, known as El Rebelde del Acordeón, is a Colombian accordionist, singer, and composer born in 1943 who co-founded Los Corraleros de Majagual and won the Rey Vallenato crown three times.

Alfredo H-S. Ang

Alfredo H-S. Ang (1930–2024) was a Filipino-American civil engineer who pioneered probability-based structural safety methods and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Alfredo Harp Helú

Alfredo Harp Helú, born 1944, is a Mexican financier and philanthropist who cofounded Accival, led the 1991 Banamex privatization purchase, and owns the Diablos Rojos del México baseball club.

Alfredo Huete

Alfredo Huete, also known as Alfredo R. Huete, is an environmental remote sensing scientist known for developing the SAVI and EVI vegetation indices and leading NASA's MODIS vegetation index product.

Alfredo Kirkwood

Alfredo Kirkwood is a Chilean-trained neuroscientist, professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, known for mid-1990s Nature papers giving direct experimental support for BCM theory in visual cortex.

Alfredo M. Yao

Alfredo M. Yao, born 1943, is a Filipino businessman known as the "Juice King" who founded Zest-O, Philippine Business Bank, and chairs Macay Holdings, bottler of RC Cola.

Alfredo Mantovano

Alfredo Mantovano is an Italian politician serving as Undersecretary of State at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, overseeing security, intelligence cooperation with business, and social rehabilitation programs.

Alfredo Martínez‐García

Alfredo Martínez-García, born 1982 in Spain, is a paleoceanographer and climate geochemist who leads the Organic Isotope Geochemistry group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz.

Alfredo Morelos

Alfredo Morelos (Alfredo José Morelos Aviléz), born 1996 in Colombia, is a striker at Atlético Nacional best known for scoring 100 goals in six seasons at Rangers.

Alfredo Ovando Candía

Alfredo Ovando Candía (1918–1982) was a Bolivian army general who served three times as de facto president of Bolivia, and is best known for nationalizing Gulf Oil in 1969.

Alfredo Palacios

Alfredo Palacios (1878–1965) was an Argentine lawyer, university reformer, and socialist politician who in 1904 became the first socialist deputy elected in Latin America, representing La Boca in Buenos Aires.

Alfredo Pasquarello

Alfredo Pasquarello, born 1963, is a computational physicist and full professor at EPFL in Switzerland, holding the Chair of Atomic Scale Simulation and known for first-principles studies of the silicon–silica interface.

Alfredo Pezzana

Alfredo Pezzana (1893–1986), Italian épée and sabre fencer; won team épée gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics with an undefeated Italian squad and three silvers at the 1930 Liège championships; later FIS secretary 1947–1964.

Alfredo Rota

Alfredo Rota (born 1975, Milan) is an Italian right-handed épée fencer, Olympic team gold medalist at Sydney 2000 and team bronze medalist at Beijing 2008, three-time Olympian, retired 2012 to become a fencing master.

Alfredo Saitta

Alfredo Saitta is an Italian rates and currencies trader who spent over a decade at Brevan Howard, running its AS Macro Master Fund from 2017 until it closed in 2024.

Alfredo Stroessner

Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (1912-2006), Paraguayan army general who ruled Paraguay 1954-1989 via the Colorado Party and armed forces, longest dictatorship in Latin American history, overthrown by son-in-law Andrés Rodríguez.

Alfredo Zalce

Alfredo Zalce (Alfredo Zalce Torres; 1908–2003) was a Mexican painter, muralist, and printmaker, a founder of the Taller de la Gráfica Popular and a renovator of Mexican printmaking.

Alfredo Zibechi

Alfredo Zibechi (Juan Alfredo Zibechi Rossi, 1894–1958), Uruguayan centre half for Montevideo Wanderers and Nacional; 39 caps, Copa América winner 1916, 1920, 1924, and Olympic gold at Paris 1924, playing the quarter-final against France.

Alfrēds Kalniņš

Alfrēds Kalniņš (1879–1951) was a Latvian composer, organist, and conductor, composer of Baņuta, the first performed Latvian national opera, and the most prominent Latvian master of solo song.

Alfresa Holdings

Alfresa Holdings (アルフレッサ ホールディングス株式会社) is a Japanese holding company whose core business is prescription drug wholesale; founded in 2003, it has led Japan in ethical pharmaceutical wholesaling since 2009.

ALFSG study

The ALFSG study was a prospective registry of acute liver failure run by the Acute Liver Failure Study Group across 33 sites from 1998 to 2019.

ALFUSABA study

ALFUSABA (NCT05247359), a completed cross-sectional observational study by University Rovira i Virgili profiling neuromuscular jump-landing deficits in 104 Catalan basketball players aged 12 to 14, measuring ankle stability, dynamic knee valgus, core stability, and limb symmetry.

Alfuzosin

Alfuzosin (Uroxatral, Xatral) is a quinazoline alpha-1 adrenergic antagonist for benign prostatic hyperplasia symptoms; 10 mg once-daily extended-release tablet, FDA approved 2003, no dose titration, not for hypertension.

Alfvén eigenmode

An Alfvén eigenmode (AE) is a discrete standing oscillation of the shear Alfvén wave in toroidally confined plasma, destabilized by energetic ions and able to degrade fusion confinement.

Alfvén eigenmode control

Alfvén eigenmode control is the set of techniques used to reduce Alfvén eigenmodes, plasma waves in magnetic-confinement fusion devices that degrade fast-ion confinement and fusion gain.