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Alice Barkan

Alice Barkan is an American molecular biologist who spent her faculty career at the University of Oregon, studying chloroplast gene expression and PPR RNA-binding proteins; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Alice Bellandi

Alice Bellandi, Italian judoka born 1998 in Brescia, -78 kg Olympic champion (Paris 2024), world champion (Budapest 2025), and European champion (Tbilisi 2026), known for her seoi-otoshi.

Alice Braga

Alice Braga (Alice Braga Moraes, born 1983) is a Brazilian actress from São Paulo, niece of Sônia Braga, known for City of God, Queen of the South, I Am Legend, and Elysium.

Alice Brock

Alice Brock, also known as Alice May Pelkey, was a restaurateur who operated several businesses in Massachusetts. Her Stockbridge restaurant inspired Arlo Guthrie's 1967 song, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree."

Alice Brown

Alice Regina Brown (born 1960, Jackson, Michigan), American sprinter; two-time Olympic 4x100m relay gold medalist (1984, 1988), 1984 Olympic 100m silver medalist, 1987 world relay champion, lead-off runner.

Alice Coachman

Alice Coachman (1923-2014), American high jumper and sprinter, won the 1948 London Olympic high jump at 1.68 m, becoming the first Black woman from any country to win Olympic gold; 25 AAU titles.

Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane (1937-2007), née McLeod, American jazz pianist, harpist, and organist; John Coltrane's final pianist, leader of Journey in Satchidananda, and Swamini Turiyasangitananda of the Sai Anantam Ashram.

Alice Comedies

The Alice Comedies (1923–1927) were Walt Disney's silent hybrid series of 56–57 one-reel shorts pairing a live-action Alice with animated Cartoonland, distributed by Margaret Winkler and introducing Julius the Cat and Peg Leg Pete.

Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier, born 1948) is the American rocker known as the godfather of shock rock; he led the original Alice Cooper band, went solo in 1975 with Welcome to My Nightmare, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.

Alice Cooper (band)

Alice Cooper: American rock band formed in Phoenix in 1964 (also the name of singer Vincent Furnier). Hits "School's Out" and Billion Dollar Babies; Rock Hall 2011; 2025 reunion album.

Alice Cooper discography

Alice Cooper discography: recordings of the band Alice Cooper (1969–1974) and singer Vincent Furnier's solo career (1975–present), spanning seven band albums, 23 solo studio albums through Road (2023), and the 2025 reunion album The Revenge of Alice Cooper.

Alice Crimmins

Alice Crimmins (born 1941) is an American woman from Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, tried twice (1968, 1971) for the 1965 deaths of her children Eddie Jr. and Missy; only a manslaughter conviction survived appeal, and she was paroled in 1977.

Alice Crowley

Alice Crowley (born 2002), nicknamed Big Al, is an American independent professional wrestler associated with Juggalo Championship Wrestling; a former IWA Mid-South, Iron Heart Pro, WrestleARTS, and JCW women's champion.

Alice Deejay

Alice Deejay is a Dutch Eurodance/trance-pop project formed in Amsterdam around 1998, fronted by Judith Pronk and produced by Danski & Delmundo with Pronti & Kalmani and DJ Jurgen; known for "Better Off Alone" (UK #2, US Hot 100 #27) and the 2000 album Who Needs Guitars Anyway?.

Alice Dixson

Alice Dixson (born 1969) is a Filipino-American actress and Binibining Pilipinas International 1986 who placed Top 15 at Miss International 1986, known for Okay Ka Fairy Ko!, Dyesebel, and First Lady.

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 Warner Bros. drama directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Robert Getchell, starring Ellen Burstyn as widowed singer-aspirant Alice Hyatt; it won Burstyn the 1975 Best Actress Oscar and spawned the CBS sitcom Alice.

Alice Dreger

Alice Dreger is an American historian of medicine and bioethicist known as a chief architect of the intersex patients' rights movement and author of Galileo's Middle Finger (2015).

Alice Englert

Alice Englert (Alice Allegra Englert), Australian actress, writer, and director born 1994 in Sydney, daughter of Jane Campion; known for Ginger & Rosa, Beautiful Creatures, Top of the Lake: China Girl, and her Sundance 2023 directing debut Bad Behaviour.

Alice Evans

Alice Evans (Alice Jane Evans, born August 2; sources differ on 1968 vs 1971) is a British-American actress known for 102 Dalmatians, Lost, and as Esther Mikaelson in The Vampire Diaries and The Originals; ex-wife of Ioan Gruffudd, in prolonged divorce litigation since 2021.

Alice Eve

Alice Eve (born 1982, London) is a British actress, daughter of Trevor Eve and Sharon Maughan, known for Starter for 10, She's Out of My League, Star Trek Into Darkness, Black Mirror, Belgravia, and Marvel's Iron Fist.

ALICE experiment

ALICE, or A Large Ion Collider Experiment, is one of the four large particle detectors at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, dedicated to heavy-ion physics and the study of quark-gluon plasma.

Alice Faye

Alice Faye (Alice Jeanne Leppert, 1915-1998), American singer-actress, queen of 20th Century-Fox musicals (Alexander's Ragtime Band, Hello Frisco, Hello), later radio partner of Phil Harris; retired at her peak in 1943.

Alice Feetham

Alice Feetham (Alice May Feetham) is a British actress, a 2014 Manchester School of Theatre graduate, known as Bernie Cavanagh in Save Me/Save Me Too and Beth in Boiling Point, with guest roles in Ludwig, Lynley, and The Death of Bunny Munro.

Alice Gast

Alice Petry Gast was an American chemical engineer known for research on complex fluids and colloids, and the first woman to lead both Lehigh University and Imperial College London.

Alice Ghostley

Alice Ghostley (Alice Margaret Ghostley, 1923-2007) was an American character actress who won the 1965 Tony Award for The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window and played Esmeralda on Bewitched and Bernice Clifton on Designing Women.

Alice Glass

Alice Glass is the stage name of Margaret Osborn, Toronto-born singer formerly of the electronic duo Crystal Castles; solo since 2014, she released Stillbirth (2015), the EP Alice Glass (2017), and the album PREY//IV (2022).

Alice Goffman

Alice Goffman is an American sociologist, daughter of theorist Erving Goffman, whose 2014 ethnography On the Run, about young Black men evading arrest in West Philadelphia, remains controversial.

Alice Guionnet

Alice Guionnet, born 1969, is a French probabilist at CNRS in Lyon who works on random matrices, large deviations, and free probability, and in 2009 became the first woman to win the Prix Loève.

Alice Haig

Alice Haig (born 1985) is an English actress from south east London, daughter of David Haig, a Globe and Glyndebourne stage performer, and Vicki Fowler in EastEnders from 2025; distinct from the Australian actress Alice Tate, formerly credited as Alice Haig.

Alice Halsey

Alice Halsey (born 2014, Los Angeles) is an American child actress who debuted as Madeline Zott in Lessons in Chemistry, played Rachel Black on Days of Our Lives (Emmy-nominated), and stars as Laura Ingalls in Netflix's Little House on the Prairie (2026).