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Ali Reza Pahlavi (born 1966)
Alireza Pahlavi (1966-2011), youngest son of Iran's last shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Empress Farah, was second in line to the throne, studied ancient Iranian studies (Princeton, Columbia, Harvard), and died by suicide in Boston in 2011.
Ali Rıza Pasha
Ali Rıza Pasha (علي رضا پاشا) was an Ottoman field marshal and statesman who served as grand vizier from October 1919 to March 1920 under Sultan Vahdeddin.
Ali Rowhani-Rahbar
Ali Rowhani-Rahbar is an Iranian-born American epidemiologist at the University of Washington who studies firearm injury prevention and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
Ali Sadikin
Ali Sadikin, known affectionately as Bang Ali, was an Indonesian naval officer who served as Governor of Jakarta from 1966 to 1977, transforming the city.
Ali Salem al-Beidh (علي سالم البيض)
Ali Salem al-Beidh (علي سالم البيض), born 1939, Yemeni Socialist Party secretary-general who co-signed the 1990 Yemeni unity agreement, served as Vice President 1990-1994, led the 1994 southern secession, and later backed the Southern Movement.
Ali Sardar Jafri
Ali Sardar Jafri (علی سردار جعفری) was an Indian Urdu poet, critic, and filmmaker, a leading figure of the Progressive Writers' Movement who won the Jnanpith Award in 1997.
Ali Sastroamidjojo
Ali Sastroamidjojo was an Indonesian politician and diplomat who served two terms as Prime Minister of Indonesia, from 1953 to 1955 and 1956 to 1957.
Ali Sethi (علی عزیز سیٹھی)
Ali Sethi (علی عزیز سیٹھی), born 1984 in Lahore, is a Pakistani-American singer, songwriter, and author trained in Hindustani classical and ghazal music, known for the 2022 global hit Pasoori, the Nicolás Jaar collaboration Intiha, and the 2025 album Love Language.
Ali Shaath (علي شعث)
Ali Shaath (علي شعث), born 1958 in Khan Younis, is a Palestinian civil engineer and former PA deputy minister who since 14 January 2026 chairs the 15-member National Committee for the Administration of Gaza.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Ali Shaheed Muhammad (born 1970, Brooklyn) is a DJ, producer, and composer: DJ/co-producer of A Tribe Called Quest, member of The Ummah and Lucy Pearl, co-writer of D'Angelo's "Brown Sugar," and, with Adrian Younge, composer of Luke Cage and co-founder of the Jazz Is Dead label.
Ali Shariati
Ali Shariati (علی شریعتی, 1933–1977) was an Iranian sociologist and revolutionary Muslim intellectual, Sorbonne-trained, whose "red Shiism" blended Shi'ite theology with Marxist ideas and helped shape the ideology of the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Ali Shilatifard
Ali Shilatifard is an American cancer biologist who chairs Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at Northwestern University, studying how transcription goes wrong in leukemia and other cancers.
Ali Siddiq
Ali Siddiq is a Houston-based stand-up comedian and storyteller who served six years in Texas prison for drug trafficking and turned that life into the four-part YouTube series The Domino Effect, an independent path that led to a 2026 NAACP Image Award.
Ali Skovbye
Ali Skovbye (Alissa Skovbye, born 2002, Vancouver) is a Canadian actress known as Young Tully in Netflix's Firefly Lane (2021-2023) and for Breakthrough, The Corruption of Divine Providence, and Whistle.
Ali Soilih
Ali Soilih (Ali Soilih M'Tsashiwa) was a Comorian politician who led a radical revolutionary government as president of the Comoros from 3 January 1976 until his overthrow in May 1978.
Ali Sorena
Ali Sorena (علی سورنا), born Ali Khoddami, is an Iranian rapper, songwriter, and poet whose socially and politically charged lyrics made him a leading figure of Iran's underground rap.
Ali Soufan (علي سوفان)
Ali Soufan, also known as Ali H. Soufan, is a Lebanese American former FBI special agent who investigated al-Qaeda, interrogated key detainees after 9/11, and wrote The Black Banners.
Ali Stroker
Ali Stroker, full name Alyson Mackenzie Stroker, is an American actress and singer who in 2019 became the first wheelchair user to win a Tony Award.
Ali Tamaseb
Ali Tamaseb is a venture capital investor, a General Partner at the Silicon Valley deep-tech firm DCVC, and the author of Super Founders, a 2021 data study of billion-dollar startups.
Ali Taziev
Ali Taziev (Magas, Akhmed Yevloev), Ingush militant, former police officer who led the Ingush Jamaat and Caucasus Emirate forces; captured by the FSB in 2010 and serving three life sentences.
Ali Torkamani
Ali Torkamani is an American geneticist who is Professor at The Scripps Research Institute and Director of Genome Informatics at the Scripps Research Translational Institute, known for high-definition medicine.
Ali Truwit
Ali Truwit (Alexandra Truwit), American S10 Paralympic swimmer; lost her left leg in a May 2023 shark attack off Turks and Caicos after Yale graduation, then won 400 m freestyle and 100 m backstroke S10 silver at Paris 2024.
Ali Velshi
Ali Velshi, Kenyan-born Canadian-raised broadcast journalist, host of Velshi and Chief Correspondent at MSNBC/MS NOW; former CNN chief business correspondent and Al Jazeera America anchor, named chief data reporter in 2026.
Ali Wentworth
Ali Wentworth (Alexandra Elliott Wentworth, born 1965) is an American actress, comedian, author, and producer of In Living Color, Head Case, and Nightcap, married to George Stephanopoulos.
Ali Wong
Ali Wong (Alexandra Dawn Wong, born 1982, San Francisco) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning American comedian, actress, writer, and producer, known for four Netflix stand-up specials including Baby Cobra and Single Lady, for co-writing and starring in Always Be My Maybe, and for winning Best Actress in a Limited Series awards for Netflix's Beef.
Ali Y. Koç
Ali Y. Koç, also known as Ali Koç, is a Turkish businessman who is Vice Chair of Koç Holding and was president of Fenerbahçe from 2018 to 2025.
Ali Yazdani
Ali Yazdani is an Iranian-American condensed matter physicist at Princeton University who uses high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy to visualize electronic wavefunctions in topological and correlated quantum materials, and won the 2023 Buckley Prize.
Ali Yusuf Kenadid
Ali Yusuf Kenadid was a Somali sultan who ruled the Hobyo Sultanate under Italian protection until his submission to Italian disarmament and exile in 1924.
Ali Zafar (علی ظفر)
Ali Zafar (علی ظفر), Pakistani singer-songwriter, actor and painter from Lahore; Huqa Pani (2003) with Channo, Bollywood debut Tere Bin Laden (2010), Teefa in Trouble (2018), Coke Studio pioneer, 2018 Meesha Shafi defamation case.
Ali Zafar vs. Meesha Shafi
Ali Zafar vs. Meesha Shafi: Pakistani defamation litigation begun after Shafi's April 2018 sexual harassment tweet; Lahore sessions court awarded Zafar Rs5 million damages in March 2026, under LHC appeal.