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Ali Coşkun
Ali Coşkun, also published as Ali Coskun, is a Turkish materials chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland since 2017.
Ali Daei (علی دایی)
Ali Daei (علی دایی), born 1969 in Ardabil, Iranian forward; first man to 100 international goals (2004), 109 goals in 149 caps for Iran; record stood until Cristiano Ronaldo passed it in 2021.
Ali Dara
Ali Dara (Ali Iqtidar Shah Dara, 1915-1981), field hockey forward who won 1936 Olympic gold for British India, captained Pakistan in 1948, and coached Pakistan to 1956 silver, 1960 gold, and 1964 silver.
Ali Dembélé
Ali Dembélé (Ali Bina Dembélé), French footballer born 2004 in Villepinte; right-back and defender for Torino, with loans at Venezia, Mantova, and Lecce; first Serie A goal April 2025.
Ali Dhinojwala
Ali Dhinojwala is a polymer scientist at the University of Akron who studies adhesion, friction, and wetting, and is known for a carbon nanotube-based synthetic gecko tape.
Ali Dia
Ali Dia, Senegalese footballer born 1965 in Dakar, signed by Southampton in 1996 after a fake George Weah phone call; played one 53-minute Premier League game against Leeds, widely called the league's worst-ever player.
Ali Dinar
Ali Dinar (علي دينار) was the last sultan of Darfur of the Keira dynasty, ruling from 1898 until killed resisting the British invasion in 1916.
Ali Eisami
Ali Eisami, also known as William Harding, was a Kanuri man from Borno enslaved around 1812 whose dictated life story became a canonical account of enslavement.
Ali El Atrash
Ali El Atrash is an Egyptian technology executive and co-founder and chief operating officer of Trella, a Cairo digital freight marketplace; he previously helped build Uber's business in Egypt.
Ali Ellebedy
Ali H. Ellebedy is an Egyptian-born viral immunologist and Leo Loeb Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, known for tracking how mRNA vaccination builds lasting antibody responses.
Ali Erdemir
Ali Erdemir is a Turkish-born tribologist and materials scientist who is Professor and Halliburton Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, known for superlubricity and near-frictionless carbon films.
Ali Ertürk
Ali Ertürk is a neuroscientist who directs the Institute for Intelligent Biotechnologies at Helmholtz Munich and is known for tissue-clearing technologies, including 3DISCO and SHANEL, that make intact organs transparent for 3D imaging.
Ali Farhadi
Ali Farhadi is a computer vision researcher, professor at the University of Washington, and former CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, known for YOLO and co-founding Xnor.ai.
Ali Farka Touré
Ali Farka Touré (Ali Ibrahim Touré, 1939–2006), Malian Songhai guitarist and singer from Niafunké, pioneer of desert blues; Grammy-winning Talking Timbuktu with Ry Cooder; farmer and mayor of Niafunke's 53 villages.
Ali Fazal (अली फ़ज़ल)
Ali Fazal (अली फ़ज़ल), born 1986 in Lucknow, is an Indian actor known as Guddu Pandit in Mirzapur and Abdul Karim in Victoria & Abdul, with Hollywood roles in Furious 7, Death on the Nile, and Kandahar.
Ali Fedotowsky
Ali Fedotowsky (Alexandra Fedotowsky, born 1984) is an American reality TV personality and journalist, contestant on Bachelor season 14, star of Bachelorette season 6 (chose Roberto Martinez), later E! News correspondent and host of NBC's 1st Look; distinct from Ali Manno blog identity.
Ali France
Ali France is an Australian Labor politician, MP for Dickson, Queensland, since 2025, when she unseated opposition leader Peter Dutton on her third candidacy; a former journalist and para-athlete and disability advocate.
Ali G
Ali G is a satirical fictional character, Alistair Leslie Graham of Staines, created and played by Sacha Baron Cohen. Born on The 11 O'Clock Show in 1998, expanded in Da Ali G Show (2000-2004) and Ali G Indahouse (2002), and revived in 2026 in the Amazon MGM mockumentary Ali G: Who Iz I?; distinguished by real hoax interviews of politicians and experts and by persistent racism controversy.
Ali G Indahouse
Ali G Indahouse is a 2002 British comedy film, Mark Mylod's feature debut, starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Ali G, who becomes an MP and foils the Chancellor's plot against the Prime Minister.
Ali G: Who Iz I?
Ali G: Who Iz I? is Sacha Baron Cohen's 2026 mockumentary comedy and feature directorial debut, a sequel to Ali G Indahouse released October 23 by Amazon MGM Studios, which drew a NewsCord cinema boycott campaign.
Ali G. Gharavi
Ali G. Gharavi is an American nephrologist and human geneticist who chairs medicine at Columbia, known for finding genes for IgA nephropathy and congenital kidney disease.
Ali Gallo
Ali Gallo is an American actress and model known for the films Unhuman (2022) and Incoming (2024) and for playing Chloe in the Netflix series Forever (2025).
Ali Ghaji
Ali Ghaji, also written Ali Ghazi, was mai of Bornu from about 1470 to 1503, who rebuilt the state after the Sayfawa were driven from Kanem.
Ali Ghodsi
Ali Ghodsi, Iranian-born Swedish computer scientist, co-founder and CEO of Databricks since 2016, co-creator of Apache Spark, UC Berkeley adjunct professor, PhD from KTH, net worth about $7.6 billion.
Ali Gomaa
Ali Gomaa is an Egyptian Shafiʿi scholar and Sufi shaykh who served as Grand Mufti of Egypt, the country's second-highest religious office, from 2003 to 2013.
Ali Gwangul
Ali Gwangul (አሊ ጓንጉል), also called Ali the Great or Ali I, was an Oromo lord of Yejju who founded the dynasty dominating Ethiopia's government during the Zemene Mesafint.
Ali H. Nayfeh
Ali H. Nayfeh (1933–2017) was a Palestinian-born aerospace engineer and University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech, known for pioneering multiple-scales perturbation methods and nonlinear dynamics.
Ali H. Sayed
Ali H. Sayed is an electrical engineer and signal processing researcher at EPFL, known for developing diffusion strategies for distributed estimation, after two decades as a UCLA professor.
Ali Haider
Ali Haider (علی حیدر, Ali Haider Multani) was a Punjabi and Seraiki Sufi poet of the Punjab, 1690 to 1785, known for his si-harfi verse.
Ali Hajimiri
Ali Hajimiri, born in Mashad, Iran, in 1972, is the Bren Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech, known for a general theory of phase noise in oscillators.