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Alina Ivanova

Alina Ivanova (Алина Иванова) is a Russian race walker, born in 1969, who won the 10 km walk at the 1991 World Championships for the Soviet Union.

Alina Kabaeva (Алина Маратовна Кабаева)

Alina Kabaeva (Алина Маратовна Кабаева), born 1983 in Tashkent, Russian rhythmic gymnast, 2004 Olympic all-around champion and 2000 bronze medalist; later State Duma deputy, National Media Group chairwoman, Sky Grace founder, and sanctioned Putin associate.

Alina Komashchuk

Alina Komashchuk (Аліна Іванівна Комащук), Ukrainian sabre fencer born 1993 in Netishyn; Olympic team sabre gold at Paris 2024 and silver at Rio 2016, world team champion 2013.

Alina Makarenko

Alina Andreyevna Makarenko (Алина Макаренко), Russian group rhythmic gymnast born 1995 in Elista; won group all-around gold at the 2010 Youth Olympics and London 2012, 2011 world silver; retired 2013, now a coach.

Alina Szapocznikow

Alina Szapocznikow (1926–1973) was a Polish sculptor and Holocaust survivor who settled in Paris and cast fragments of her own body in polyester and polyurethane, exploring fragility, sensuality, and mortality.

Alina Zagitova (Алина Ильназовна Загитова)

Alina Zagitova (Алина Загитова), Russian figure skater born 2002 in Izhevsk; 2018 Olympic champion who beat Evgenia Medvedeva by 1.31 points with fully backloaded jumps, prompting the 'Zagitova rule'; 2019 World champion; retired from competition December 2019.

Alinda Capital Partners

Alinda Capital Partners was an American infrastructure private equity firm founded in 2005 in Greenwich, Connecticut, which managed infrastructure funds for pension investors before rebranding as Astatine in 2022.

Aline Andres

Aline Andres is a nutrition scientist and professor of pediatrics at UAMS, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025 for research on early-life nutrition.

Aline Khalaf

Aline Khalaf (آلين خلف) is a Lebanese pop singer born in 1974 who won the Golden Medal on Layali Lebnan and led 1990s Lebanese pop.

Aline Rotter Focken

Aline Rotter Focken (Aline Rotter-Focken, née Focken), born 1991 in Krefeld, is a retired German freestyle wrestler, 2014 world champion at 69 kg, and Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist at 76 kg, the first German Olympic medal in women's wrestling.

Alinea

Alinea, Caribbean stripeless skinks, is a skink genus erected by Hedges & Conn 2012 from former Mabuya species, holding two possibly extinct Lesser Antilles species, A. lanceolata of Barbados and A. luciae of Saint Lucia.

Alinea (restaurant)

Alinea is a fine-dining restaurant in Chicago's Lincoln Park, opened in May 2005 by Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas and known for theatrical, science-driven modernist cuisine.

Oct 10, 2026

Alinma Bank

Alinma Bank is a fully Sharia-compliant Saudi bank headquartered in Riyadh, created by royal decree in 2006 and listed on the Saudi Exchange in 2008.

Alinne Rosa

Alinne Rosa, born Aline Oliveira Santos, is a Brazilian axé singer who fronted Cheiro de Amor from 2003 to 2014 before a solo career in Salvador's Carnival music.

Aliobrix

Aliobrix was a Roman fortification on the left bank of the Lower Danube at modern Orlivka, Ukraine, guarding a Danube crossing until its destruction in the mid-3rd century.

Aliocha Schneider

Aliocha Schneider is a Quebec actor and singer-songwriter born in Paris in 1993 and raised in Montreal, who broke through in French pop with his 2023 album and the duet "Ensemble" with Charlotte Cardin.

Aliona Vilani

Aliona Vilani (Aliona Valeriya Kavanagh), born 1984 in Kazakhstan, is a professional ballroom dancer and the first Strictly Come Dancing professional to win twice, with Harry Judd (2011) and Jay McGuiness (2015).

Oct 10, 2026

Alior Bank

Alior Bank is a Polish universal bank headquartered in Warsaw, listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 2012 and controlled by the insurer PZU, itself partly owned by the State Treasury.

Aliou Cissé

Aliou Cissé (born 1976, Ziguinchor) is a Senegalese football manager, now Angola head coach. Former Senegal captain and coach (2015-2024) who won Senegal's first AFCON in 2021; earlier Libya coach from March 2025.

Alioum Fantouré

Alioum Fantouré is the pen name of Mohammed Touré, a Guinean French-language novelist and economist born in 1938 whose fiction denounces dictatorship in post-independence Africa.

Alioune Diop

Alioune Diop (1910–1980) was a Senegalese intellectual and publisher who founded the journal and publishing house Présence Africaine in Paris in 1947, organizing the first Congress of Black Writers and Artists.

Sep 21, 2026

Alipasha Vaziri

Alipasha Vaziri is an Iranian-born physicist and neuroscientist who heads the Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University, developing microscopes that record neuronal activity.

Alipay (支付宝)

Alipay (支付宝) is a Chinese mobile payment and digital-services platform operated by Ant Group, connecting more than one billion consumers to over 80 million merchants.

Oct 15, 2026

Aliphatic isocyanates

Aliphatic isocyanates are isocyanate compounds with the reactive NCO group attached to an alkyl chain or saturated ring rather than an aromatic ring, valued for coatings that resist yellowing.

Alipheira

Alipheira (Ἀλίφειρα), ancient walled city of western Arcadian Kynouria near Elis and Triphylia, modern Kastro of Nerositza, Elis; Doric temple of Athena (500-490 BC), Asklepieion, taken by Philip V in 219 BC.

Sep 23, 2026

Alipore Bomb Case

The Alipore Bomb Case (अलीपुर बम केस) was a sedition trial held in Calcutta from 1908 to 1909, following a bomb attack meant to kill magistrate Douglas Kingsford.

Aliran Hamzah Fansuri

Aliran Hamzah Fansuri is the Malay Sufi poetic school founded by the sixteenth-century Aceh poet Hamzah Fansuri, expressing Ibn ʿArabi's unity-of-being doctrine in syair verse.

Alireza Beiranvand

Alireza Beiranvand, full name Alireza Safar Beiranvand, is an Iranian goalkeeper for Tractor and Iran's national team, known for saving Cristiano Ronaldo's 2018 World Cup penalty.

Alireza Eftekhari

Alireza Eftekhari (علیرضا افتخاری) is an Iranian vocalist of Persian classical music, born in Isfahan around 1958, whose 1996 album Niloufaraneh sold three million copies.