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Ali ibn Muqallad

Ali ibn Muqallad (علي بن مقلد), titled Sadid al-Mulk, was the first Banu Munqidh emir of Shayzar, taking the fortress from its Byzantine garrison under safe-conduct in 1081.

Ali ibn Ridwan

Ali ibn Ridwan (علي بن رضوان) was an Egyptian physician, astrologer, and prolific author who rose to head of the physicians of Fatimid Egypt in the eleventh century.

Ali ibn Sa'id al-Razi

Ali ibn Sa'id al-Razi (علي بن سعيد الرازي), known as 'Alyak, was a hadith memorizer who settled in Egypt around 250 AH and died there in 299 AH.

Ali ibn Sahl al-Nasa'i

Ali ibn Sahl al-Nasa'i (علي بن سهل بن المغيرة أبو الحسن النسائي) was a hadith scholar whose nisba derives from Nasa, a town in Khurasan.

Sep 24, 2026

Ali ibn Said of Zanzibar

Ali ibn Said (علي بن سعيد), a son of Sayyid Sa'id bin Sultan, was Sultan of Zanzibar from 1890 to 1893, accepting a British protectorate in 1890.

Ali ibn Salih al-Hamdani

Ali ibn Salih al-Hamdani (علي بن صالح الهمداني) was a Kufan hadith transmitter and Quran reciter, twin brother of Hasan ibn Salih, dying in 151 or 154 AH.

Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami

Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (علي بن طاهر السلمي) was a Damascene jurist and philologist who wrote the Kitab al-Jihad, the earliest surviving Muslim call to jihad against the crusaders.

Ali ibn Yahya al-Armani

Ali ibn Yahya al-Armani (علي بن يحيى الأرمني) was an Abbasid general and governor who served in Egypt and the Syrian frontier and died fighting the Byzantines in 863.

Ali ibn Yusuf

Ali ibn Yusuf (علي بن يوسف) was an Almoravid emir who ruled the Maghreb and al-Andalus from 1106 to 1143, succeeding his father Yusuf ibn Tashfin.

Ali ibn Zayd ibn Jud'an

Ali ibn Zayd ibn Jud'an (علي بن زيد بن جدعان) was a blind hadith transmitter and jurist of Quraysh based in Basra, who died between 127 and 131 AH.

Ali II Bey

Ali II Bey (علي باي الثاني) was a ruler of the Husainid dynasty of Tunis from 1759 to 1782, regarded as the second founder of the house.

Sep 21, 2026

Ali J. Marian is a physician-scientist in cardiovascular genetics, Professor and Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Genetics at UTHealth Houston, known for research on hereditary cardiomyopathies.

Sep 21, 2026

Ali Javan

Ali Javan (1926–2016) was an Iranian-American physicist who co-invented the helium-neon gas laser at Bell Labs in 1960, the first laser to produce a continuous beam of light.

Sep 20, 2026

Ali Javey

Ali Javey is an electrical engineer and materials scientist who holds the Lam Research Distinguished Chair in Semiconductor Processing at UC Berkeley, known for wearable sweat sensors.

Ali Jehangir Siddiqui (علي جھانگير صديقي)

Ali Jehangir Siddiqui (علي جھانگير صديقي), Pakistani banker and investor, son of Jahangir Siddiqui; Special Assistant to the PM (2017), Pakistan's ambassador to the US May–Dec 2018, and honorary ambassador-at-large for investment from June 2019.

Ali Karaki (علي كركي)

Ali Karaki (علي كركي), born 1967, Hezbollah Southern Front commander and Jihad Council member; survived a September 23, 2024 Israeli strike in Beirut's Dahieh, then killed September 27, 2024 alongside Nasrallah; US-sanctioned 2019; succeeded by Haytham Ali Tabatabai.

Ali Kemal (علی کمال)

Ali Kemal (علی کمال), born Ali Rıza (1867 or 1869–1922), Ottoman journalist, İkdam and Peyam editor, liberal politician, and briefly interior minister under Damat Ferid Pasha; lynched in İzmit in 1922 and great-grandfather of Boris Johnson.

Sep 20, 2026

Ali Khademhosseini

Ali Khademhosseini (علی خادم‌حسینی) is a bioengineer working in biomaterials and tissue engineering, known for the GelMA hydrogel and for leading the Terasaki Institute in Los Angeles.

Ali Khamenei

Ali Khamenei was an Iranian Shia cleric who served as Iran's second Supreme Leader from 1989 until his death in 2026, commanding the armed forces, judiciary, and state media.

Ali Khan (American cricketer)

Ali Khan (Mohammad Ahsan Ali Khan, born 1990, Attock, Pakistan) is a Pakistani-born American fast-medium bowler for the USA; ODI best 7/32 vs Jersey, first American with an IPL contract (KKR, 2020).

Oct 22, 2026

Ali Khodja

Ali Khodja (علي خوجة) was Dey of Algiers from September 1817 to March 1818, ruling only six months but enacting major political and military reforms in the Regency.

Ali Khoynezhad

Ali Khoynezhad, MD, PhD, FACS, Iranian-American cardiothoracic and aortic surgeon; led aortic surgery at Cedars-Sinai and MemorialCare Long Beach, TEVAR researcher, and CMO of Avicenna MD since 2023.

Ali Kiba

Ali Kiba (Ali Saleh Kiba, born 1986, Iringa), Tanzanian singer-songwriter nicknamed King Kiba of Bongo Flava; best-selling debut Cinderella, MTV EMA Best African Act 2016, Sony Music signee, Kings Music and Crown FM founder.

Ali Kony

Ali Kony (Ali Mohammed Lalobo), son of LRA leader Joseph Kony, is a sanctioned former Lord's Resistance Army deputy (UN CFi.010, listed 23 August 2016) who defected in 2021 and returned to Uganda in July 2023.

Sep 19, 2026

Ali Kosh

Ali Kosh (ʿAlīkoš) is a small Neolithic tell on the Deh Luran plain in Khuzestan, southwestern Iran, occupied about 7500–6500 BC and known for early agriculture and herding.

Ali Krieger

Ali Krieger, born 1984, is a retired American soccer defender, 108-cap USWNT player, two-time World Cup champion (2015, 2019), 2008 UEFA Champions League winner with FFC Frankfurt, and 2023 NWSL champion captain of Gotham FC.

Ali Landry

Ali Germaine Landry (born 1973) is an American actress and Miss USA 1996 winner, also Miss Photogenic, famous as the Doritos Girl in the 1998 Super Bowl XXXII commercial; known for Rita Lefleur on UPN's Eve and Belle Parish.

Ali Larter

Ali Larter (born 1976), American actress and former model from Cherry Hill, New Jersey; known for Varsity Blues, Final Destination, Legally Blonde, Heroes, Claire Redfield in Resident Evil, and Angela Norris in Landman.

Ali Liebert

Ali Liebert (Alison Dyan Liebert, born 1981) is a Canadian actress, director, and producer from Vancouver, known for Betty McRae in Bomb Girls (Canadian Screen Award, Leo Award) and directing Hallmark's first queer-led film, The Holiday Sitter.