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Alicia Limtiaco
Alicia G. Limtiaco is an American Democrat, a former U.S. Attorney for Guam and the Northern Marianas and Guam attorney general, now running for the U.S. House.
Alicia Machado
Alicia Machado (Yoseph Alicia Machado Fajardo), Venezuelan Miss Universe 1996 from Maracay, later actress in Mexican telenovelas, La Casa de los Famosos winner, and 2016 Clinton campaign figure.
Alicia Magdalena Sintes
Alicia Magdalena Sintes Olives is a Spanish gravitational-wave physicist, full professor of Theoretical Physics at the Universitat de les Illes Balears and a LIGO Scientific Collaboration member since 1997.
Alicia Menendez
Alicia Menendez (born 1983) is an American TV journalist, daughter of Senator Bob Menendez, MSNBC weekend anchor of American Voices, author of The Likeability Trap, and host of On the Line and the Latina to Latina podcast.
Alicia Nash
Alicia Nash, born Alicia López-Harrison de Lardé, was a Salvadoran-born American physicist and MIT graduate who cared for her husband, mathematician John Nash, through decades of schizophrenia.
Alicia Quirk
Alicia Quirk, now Alicia Lucas, Australian rugby sevens player born 1992 in Wagga Wagga; touch football convert who won Rio 2016 Olympic gold playing every minute, plus 2018 Commonwealth silver and World Cup bronze; retired 2022.
Alicia Roth Weigel
Alicia Roth Weigel, intersex activist, author of the 2023 memoir Inverse Cowgirl, Austin Texas Human Rights Commissioner, and subject of the documentary Every Body, advocates against non-consensual intersex surgeries.
Alicia Sacramone
Alicia Sacramone (Sacramone-Quinn), born 1987, American artistic gymnast; 10 World medals (second only to Biles), 2005 floor and 2010 vault world champion, captain of 2008 Olympic team silver; retired 2012.
Alicia Scholes
Alicia Scholes (born 2001), daughter of footballer Paul Scholes, is an English netball wing attack and centre for London Pulse and England's Vitality Roses; 2025 NSL and Nations Cup champion.
Alicia Silverstone
Alicia Silverstone (born 1976, San Francisco) is the American actress who played Cher Horowitz in Clueless (1995), Batgirl in Batman & Robin (1997), and starred in the Aerosmith videos Cryin', Amazing, and Crazy; also a vegan author and PETA spokesperson.
Alicia Tournebize
Alicia Tournebize (born 2007) is a French center, daughter of Isabelle Fijalkowski, first French woman to dunk in an official game, Bourges product now at South Carolina, 2027 WNBA draft prospect.
Alicia Vela-Bailey
Alicia Vela-Bailey (born 1982) is an American stuntwoman and actress from Hawaii, stunt double for Zoe Saldana, Gal Gadot, and Kate Beckinsale, and on-screen performer as Diana in Lights Out and Alisha Whitley on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Alicia Vikander
Alicia Amanda Vikander, Swedish actress and Academy Award winner (Best Supporting Actress, The Danish Girl, 2016), former ballet dancer from Gothenburg, known for Ex Machina, Tomb Raider, Firebrand, and The Assessment.
Alicia Webb
Alicia Webb (Alicia Nicole Webb, born 1979) is a retired American wrestling valet and wrestler, aka Ryan Shamrock (WWF 1999) and Symphony (WCW), later first WSU Champion and first WSU Triple Crown winner.
Alicia Witt
Alicia Witt (born 1975, Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and pianist, discovered by David Lynch for Dune (1984) and Twin Peaks, known for Cybill, Urban Legend, and Longlegs (2024), also releasing albums including Revisionary History and Between Heaven and Earth.
Alicja Bachleda-Curuś
Alicja Bachleda-Curuś (born 1983, Tampico, Mexico) is a Polish actress and singer; film debut as Zosia in Wajda's Pan Tadeusz (1999), Best Actress for Trade (2007), title role in Ondine (2009), album Klimat (2001), mother of Henry Tadeusz Farrell.
Alicja Wolk
Alicja Wolk is a Swedish nutritional epidemiologist and professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for building the Swedish Mammography Cohort and Cohort of Swedish Men, together over 100,000 participants.
Alick Isaacs
Alick Isaacs (1921–1967) was a Scottish virologist who, working with Jean Lindenmann at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, discovered interferon in 1957 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1966.
Alick Moore
Alick Moore, full name Alick Gibson Moore, was a British ornithologist who co-founded the Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, the first to recognize subspecies.
Alicorp
Alicorp S.A.A. is Peru's largest consumer goods company, based in Callao and controlled by Grupo Romero, with over 150 brands across eight countries in the Americas.
Alicyclobacillus
Alicyclobacillus, thermo-acidophilic gram-positive spore-forming rods with omega-alicyclic membrane fatty acids; genus established 1992; A. acidoterrestris causes flat-sour, guaiacol off-flavor spoilage of pasteurized fruit juices.
Alida Valli
Alida Valli (Alida Maria Altenburger, 1921–2006), Italian actress born in Pola; star of Piccolo mondo antico, Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, The Third Man, Visconti's Senso, and Suspiria; Golden Lion 1997.
Alids of Rayy
The Alids of Rayy (العلويون في الري) were a Zaydi Alid dynasty that intermittently held Rayy and Qazvin in the late ninth and early tenth centuries.
Alids of Tabaristan
The Alids of Tabaristan (الزيدية في طبرستان) were a Zaydi Shiite dynasty of Ali's descendants that ruled Tabaristan and Daylam, south of the Caspian Sea, from 864 until 928.
Alie van den Bos
Alie van den Bos (Alida Johanna van den Bos, 1902-2003), Dutch gymnast, won the first Olympic women's gymnastics gold with the Netherlands team at Amsterdam 1928; later 1948 team leader and 2000 Olympic Order recipient.
Alie Ward
Alie Ward is an American science communicator, Daytime Emmy-winning CBS correspondent, and host of the Ologies science podcast (2017-present), creator of kid-friendly Smologies, Nerd Brigade co-founder, and a San Francisco State cinema alumna based in Los Angeles.
Aliecer Urrutia
Aliecer Urrutia Delgado (born 1974, Placetas, Cuba) is a retired Cuban triple jumper; his 17.83 m indoor mark (Sindelfingen, 1997) was the world indoor record until 2010, and he won 1997 World Indoor silver and 1997 World Championships bronze.
Alien
Alien: English word from Latin alienus via Old French, meaning foreign or belonging to another; covers legal non-citizen status, introduced species, and, from 1953, extraterrestrial beings.
Alien (film)
Alien (1979) is Ridley Scott's science fiction horror film about the Nostromo crew and a parasitic extraterrestrial, written by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, designed by H.R. Giger, and winner of the 1980 Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
Alien (franchise)
Alien franchise: science fiction horror media franchise begun with Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott; includes Aliens, Alien 3, Resurrection, Prometheus, Covenant, Romulus, Alien: Earth, and the Xenomorph.