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Alice Hathaway Roosevelt

Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861-1884), first wife of Theodore Roosevelt and mother of Alice Lee Roosevelt; married 1880, died of Bright's disease two days after childbirth, the same day Roosevelt's mother died.

Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman (born 1952), American novelist, author of Practical Magic, The Dovekeepers, and The Marriage of Opposites, known for magical realism, women-centered fiction, and the Anne Frank novel When We Flew Away.

Alice Huang

Alice S. Huang (黄诗厚) is a Chinese-American virologist known for discovering and purifying defective interfering viral particles, who served as president of the American Society for Microbiology and the AAAS.

Alice in Borderland (今際の国のアリス)

Alice in Borderland (Imawa no Kuni no Alice) is a 2010-2016 survival manga by Haro Aso, 18 volumes, set in an alternate deadly-game Tokyo; basis for Netflix's most-watched Japanese live-action series.

Alice in Borderland (今際の国のアリス) (TV series)

Alice in Borderland (今際の国のアリス) is a Netflix Japanese survival thriller adapted from Haro Aso's manga, directed by Shinsuke Sato, starring Kento Yamazaki and Tao Tsuchiya; three seasons (2020, 2022, 2025), ending with an original Joker-card story.

Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains: Seattle rock band formed 1987 (Cantrell, Kinney, Staley, Starr), one of grunge's Big Four; Dirt and Facelift multi-platinum, harmonized vocals, DuVall-led revival since 2009.

Alice in Chains (album)

Alice in Chains (1995), unofficially Tripod or the Dog Album, is the Seattle band's third studio album on Columbia, its last with Layne Staley; it topped the Billboard 200 and was certified 2x Platinum.

Alice in Chains discography

Alice in Chains discography: six studio albums (Facelift 1990 to Rainier Fog 2018), EPs Sap and Jar of Flies, Dirt the five-million-selling bestseller, plus Music Bank, MTV Unplugged, and compilations.

Alice in the Cities

Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Städten) is Wim Wenders's 1974 black-and-white West German road movie, first of his Road Trilogy, starring Rüdiger Vogler and Yella Rottländer as a journalist and a girl searching the Ruhr for her grandmother.

Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)

Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 Disney animated musical fantasy film adapted from Lewis Carroll's books and directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wilfred Jackson.

Alice in Wonderland (1976 film)

Alice in Wonderland (1976), also called An X-Rated Musical Fantasy, is a Bud Townsend adult musical comedy produced by Bill Osco, starring Kristine DeBell, with songs by Bucky Searles; a top-grossing 1976 adult film released in R, X, and cut versions.

Alice in Wonderland (1999 film)

Alice in Wonderland (1999) is a Hallmark/NBC fantasy TV film directed by Nick Willing, starring Tina Majorino with Ben Kingsley, Whoopi Goldberg, and Martin Short; it won four 1999 Primetime Emmys and used 875 FrameStore digital effects.

Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)

Alice in Wonderland (2010) is Tim Burton's Disney live-action/CG fantasy, written by Linda Woolverton, starring Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp; it grossed $1.025 billion worldwide and won two Academy Awards.

Alice in Wonderland (Алиса в стране чудес) (2025 film)

Alice in Wonderland (Алиса в стране чудес) is a 2025 Russian musical fantasy film directed by Yuri Khmelnitsky, based on the 1976 Soviet audio play with songs by Vladimir Vysotsky.

Alice in Wonderland syndrome

Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS, Todd's syndrome), named by John Todd in 1955, is a perceptual disorder causing distortions of body size, object size, and time, mostly linked to migraine, infections, and epilepsy.

Alice Jones

Alice Jones (Alice Frolich-Jones), Australian alpine skier born 1976 in Timmsvale, NSW; FIS code 45053. Competed at Salt Lake City 2002 Olympics: downhill 27th, Super G DNF, combined 12th; missed Nagano 1998 through injury; retired after 2002. Distinct from the American swimmer and British sprinter of the same name.

Alice Keppel

Alice Keppel (Alice Frederica Edmonstone, 1868–1947), British society hostess and long-time mistress of King Edward VII from 1898 to 1910; great-grandmother of Queen Camilla.

Alice Kettle

Alice Kettle, British textile artist and Emeritus Professor of Textile Arts at Manchester School of Art, known for monumental figurative machine embroidery and the Thread Bearing Witness migration project.

Alice Krige

Alice Maud Krige, born 1954 in Upington, South Africa, is an actress known for Chariots of Fire (1981), the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact, Ghost Story, Skin, and She Will.

Alice Kuhnke

Alice Bah Kuhnke is a Swedish Green Party politician, a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 and Vice-Chair of the Greens/EFA group, previously Sweden's Minister for Culture.

Alice Larkin

Alice Larkin, previously Bows, is a British climate scientist and professor at the University of Manchester's Tyndall Centre, known for quantifying aviation and shipping emissions and carbon-budget research.

Alice Lenshina

Alice Lenshina, born Alice Mulenga, was a Zambian prophet who founded the Lumpa Church, an anti-witchcraft movement that attracted tens of thousands before its violent suppression in 1964; she died in 1978.

Alice Levine

Alice Levine, or Alice Esme Levine, is an English broadcaster and presenter, co-creator of the podcast My Dad Wrote a Porno and a BBC Radio 1 host from 2013 to 2020.

Alice Liddell

Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves (1852-1934), daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; met Dodgson in 1856, boat trip 4 July 1862, received the Under Ground manuscript 1864, married Reginald Hargreaves 1880.

Alice Lowe

Alice Lowe (born 1977, Coventry) is an English actress, comedy writer, and director of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace fame, known for Sightseers (2012) and Prevenge (2016) and Timestalker (2024).

Alice Loxton

Alice Loxton is a British historian, presenter and Sunday Times bestselling author (@history_alice), author of UPROAR!, Eighteen and Eleanor, with over three million social media followers and documentaries for History Hit, Channel 4 and the BBC.

Alice M. Batchelder

Alice M. Batchelder, also known as Alice Moore Batchelder, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2019.

Alice M. Rivlin

Alice M. Rivlin (1931–2019) was an American economist who founded the Congressional Budget Office and served as the first woman director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Alice Maio Mackay

Alice Maio Mackay, Australian transgender horror filmmaker from Adelaide, directed So Vam, Bad Girl Boogey, T-Blockers, Satranic Panic, Carnage for Christmas, and The Serpent's Skin, six micro-budget queer features by age 21.

Alice Marie Johnson

Alice Marie Johnson, American criminal justice reform advocate and former federal prisoner, served about 22 years of a life sentence for a first-time nonviolent drug offense before Trump commuted her sentence in 2018 and pardoned her in 2020; she became his pardon czar in 2025.