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Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue) is a 2000 Moroccan drama film directed by Nabil Ayouch about street children in Casablanca.

Ali-A

Ali-A (Alastair Aiken, born 1993) is a British YouTube gaming creator who began in 2006, held Guinness records for his Call of Duty channel, and pivoted to Fortnite, running multiple channels, uTure, and Team Atomic.

Ali-ahum

Ali-ahum, formerly written Alāhum, was an Old Assyrian merchant who lived and traded at Kanesh (modern Kültepe) during the 19th century BC, lending silver and trading tin and textiles.

Ali-Shir Nava'i

Ali-Shir Nava'i, also known as Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, was a Timurid statesman, poet, and patron of the arts who served Sultan Husayn Bayqara of Herat from 1469 to 1501.

Ali-Tigin

Ali-Tigin (علی‌تگین) was a Qarakhanid ruler who captured Bukhara in 1020, opposed Mahmud of Ghazna, defeated the Ghaznavids at Dabusiyya in 1032, and founded an independent state at Kutlug Ordu.

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf) is Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1974 West German melodrama about Emmi, a 60-year-old Munich cleaning woman, and Ali, a younger Moroccan guest worker, shot in 14 days, modeled on Sirk's All That Heaven Allows.

Alia Atkinson

Alia Shanee Atkinson, born 1988, Jamaican breaststroke swimmer; five-time Olympian (2004-2020), four-time short-course world champion, and former 50m and 100m SCM breaststroke world record holder; retired 2022.

Alia Atreides

Alia Atreides is a Dune novel character, Paul Atreides' pre-born sister, born 10191 AG with ancestral memory after Jessica's Water of Life. She killed Baron Harkonnen as a child, ruled as regent, and died possessed in Children of Dune.

Alia Bhatt (आलिया भट्ट)

Alia Bhatt (आलिया भट्ट), born 1993 in Mumbai, is an Indian actress, producer, and entrepreneur; daughter of Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan, debut Student of the Year (2012), National Award for Gangubai Kathiawadi, Hollywood debut Heart of Stone (2023).

Alia Bhatt filmography

Alia Bhatt filmography: screen credits of the British-Indian actress (born 1993), from Sangharsh (1999) and Student of the Year (2012) to Gangubai Kathiawadi, Darlings, Heart of Stone, and Alpha, with awards and box office.

Alia bint Mohammed

Alia bint Mohammed (علياء بنت محمد) is an Omani royal of the Al Busaidi clan who married Oman's first crown prince, Theyazin bin Haitham Al Said, in 2025.

Alia Moses

Alia Moses, born in 1962 in Eagle Pass, Texas, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Texas since 2002.

Alia Shawkat

Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat, born 1989) is an Iraqi-American actress known as Maeby Fünke on Arrested Development and Dory Sief on Search Party, also a painter and writer of Duck Butter.

Alia Toukan

Alia Toukan (علياء بهاء الدين طوقان), Queen Alia of Jordan, third wife of King Hussein; born 1948 in Cairo, Hunter College graduate, Royal Jordanian public relations official; died February 9, 1977 in a helicopter crash; namesake of Queen Alia International Airport and Jordanian welfare funds.

Aliacensis (lunar crater)

Aliacensis is an 80-km Nectarian-age impact crater in the Moon's southern highlands at 30.6S, 5.1E, named for French geographer Pierre d'Ailly, IAU-approved 1935, degraded by ejecta from neighboring Werner.

Aliağa LNG Terminal

The EgeGaz Aliağa LNG Terminal is an onshore LNG import and regasification terminal on Türkiye's Aegean coast at Aliağa, north of İzmir, operational since 2006.

Aliagha Shikhlinski

Aliagha Shikhlinski (Əliağa Şıxlinski) was an Azerbaijani artillery officer who became a lieutenant general in the Russian Imperial Army and later deputy war minister of Azerbaijan.

Aliaksandr Bahdanovich

Aliaksandr Bahdanovich (Aleksandr Bogdanovich), Belarusian sprint canoeist born 1982, Olympic C2 1000 m champion with brother Andrei at Beijing 2008 and silver medalist at London 2012; later Belarus ice hockey federation chairman.

Aliaksandr Kurlovich

Aliaksandr Kurlovich (Аляксандр Курловіч, Aleksandr Kurlovich, 1961–2018) was a Belarusian weightlifter who won consecutive Olympic super-heavyweight golds in 1988 and 1992 and set 12 world records.

Aliaksandr Masiaikou

Aliaksandr Masiaikou (Aleksandr Maseykov, Александр Масейков), Belarusian sprint canoeist born 1971 in Mogilev; 1992 Olympic C-2 500 m gold for the Unified Team with Douhalionok; Olympian 1992-2000.

Aliaksandr Miadved

Aliaksandr Miadved (Аляксандр Васілевіч Мядзведзь), also Aleksandr Medved, Soviet-Belarusian freestyle wrestler, 1937-2024; three straight Olympic golds 1964-1972 and seven world titles, 10 combined, later surpassed by Karelin.

Aliaksandr Papou

Aliaksandr Papou (Aleksandr Popov, Аляксандр Папоў), Belarusian biathlete born 1965 in Tobolsk; four Winter Olympics 1988-1998, relay gold 1988 for USSR, relay silver 1992, 10 World Championship medals, later Belarus head coach.

Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka

Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka is a Belarusian-born electrochemist who has been Professor of Physics of Energy Conversion and Storage at the Technical University of Munich since 2020.

Aliaksei Abalmasau

Aliaksei Abalmasau, born in 1980 in Barysaw, Belarus, is a Belarusian sprint kayaker who won the men's K4 1000 m gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Aliana Lohan

Aliana Lohan, known as Ali Lohan, is an American singer, Lindsay Lohan's younger sister, who released the Christmas album Lohan Holiday in 2006 and had singles in Netflix films.

Alias (comics)

Alias (2001–2004) is Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos's 28-issue Marvel MAX comic, the imprint's first title, introducing private investigator Jessica Jones and later inspiring Netflix's Marvel's Jessica Jones.

Alias (TV series)

Alias is an American spy drama created by J.J. Abrams, airing on ABC 2001–2006 in five seasons. Jennifer Garner stars as double agent Sydney Bristow infiltrating SD-6, a criminal organization posing as a CIA branch.

Alias analysis

Alias analysis, also called pointer analysis, is a class of compiler techniques that determine whether two pointers can point to the same memory object, enabling optimizations like dead store elimination.

Alias Grace

Alias Grace is Margaret Atwood's 1996 historical novel, her ninth, retelling the 1843 Grace Marks murder case in Canada West; Giller Prize winner, Booker shortlistee, adapted by Sarah Polley into a 2017 Netflix miniseries.

Alias Grace (miniseries)

Alias Grace (2017) is a six-part Netflix/CBC miniseries adapted by Sarah Polley from Margaret Atwood's 1996 novel, directed by Mary Harron and starring Sarah Gadon as Irish servant Grace Marks, convicted of the 1843 Kinnear murders.