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Alireza Jahanbakhsh (علیرضا جهانبخش جیرنده)
Alireza Jahanbakhsh (علیرضا جهانبخش جیرنده), Iranian forward born 1993 in Jirandeh; 2017/18 Eredivisie top scorer with AZ (21 goals), record Brighton signing, Feyenoord title winner, Iran captain at four World Cups.
Alireza Marandi
Alireza Marandi is a professor of electrical engineering and applied physics at the California Institute of Technology, known for nanophotonic parametric oscillators, coherent Ising machines, and ultrafast lithium niobate lasers.
Alirocumab
Alirocumab (Praluent) is a PCSK9-inhibitor monoclonal antibody by Sanofi/Regeneron, FDA-approved 2015, dosed subcutaneously every 2 or 4 weeks to lower LDL-C; ODYSSEY OUTCOMES showed reduced cardiovascular events after acute coronary syndrome.
Alisa (Алиса) (Yandex assistant)
Alisa (Алиса) is Yandex's voice-and-chat virtual assistant, rebuilt from 2023 as a generative AI assistant powered by YandexGPT and, since October 2025, the Alice AI model family.
Alisa Camplin
Alisa Camplin (born 1974, Melbourne), also Camplin-Warner, Australian aerial freestyle skier; won 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic gold (193.47) and 2006 Turin bronze, Australia's first female Winter Olympic gold medallist.
Alisa Dvoeglazova
Alisa Dvoeglazova (Алиса Двоеглазова), born 2008, Russian ladies' singles figure skater of Eteri Tutberidze's Khrustalnyi group; 2025/26 Russian Grand Prix Final champion and Russian national silver medalist, known for quadruple toe loop and Lutz attempts.
Alisan Porter
Alisan Porter, American singer, songwriter, and former child actress (born 1981, Worcester, Massachusetts), starred in Curly Sue (1991), won The Voice US season 10 in 2016 on Team Christina Aguilera, and has released albums including Pink Cloud (2019) and PORTER (2026).
Alişar Höyük
Alişar Höyük (Alishar Huyuk) is a large multi-period archaeological mound in Yozgat Province, central Anatolia, excavated by the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute from 1927 to 1932.
Alisca
Alisca was a Roman auxiliary fort with a civilian settlement on the Danube frontier in Pannonia Inferior, at Ócsény in present-day Hungary, used from about 50 to 435 AD.
Alisdair R. Fernie
Alisdair R. Fernie is a plant scientist leading the Central Metabolism group at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany, and heads plant metabolomics at CPSBB in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Aliseda treasure
The Aliseda treasure (Tesoro de Aliseda) is a hoard of orientalizing goldwork found at Aliseda, Extremadura, Spain, in 1920, now in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid.
Alisertib
Alisertib (MLN8237) is an investigational oral inhibitor of Aurora A kinase studied in more than 1,000 patients with blood and solid tumors, developed by Millennium Pharmaceuticals.
ALISHA
ALISHA is a British tech house DJ and producer from Peterborough, England, known for releases on Kaluki, Relief, and Hot Creations and for Jamie Jones' Paradise in Ibiza.
Alisha Chinai
Alisha Chinai (born 1965, Sujatha Chinai) is an Indian pop and Bollywood playback singer, called India's first pop star; her 1995 Biddu-composed "Made in India" sold about 50 lakh units, and "Kajra Re" won the 2005 Filmfare Award.
Alisha Lehmann
Alisha Debora Lehmann (born 1999), Swiss forward for Leicester City and Switzerland, formerly West Ham, Everton, Aston Villa, Juventus, and Como; most-followed women's footballer on Instagram with about 17 million followers.
Alisha Palmowski
Alisha Palmowski, British racing driver from Glossop, Derbyshire; 2024 GB4 Vice Champion (3 wins, 11 podiums, 422 points) with Elite Motorsport; Red Bull Racing Pepe Jeans Academy Programme driver in F1 Academy with Campos Racing from 2025.
Alisher Navoi International Prize
The Alisher Navoi International Prize is a biennial Organization of Turkic States award established in 2021, honoring contributions to the unity of the Turkic world.
Alisher Usmanov (Алишер Бурханович Усманов)
Alisher Usmanov (Алишер Бурханович Усманов) is a Russian-Uzbek billionaire who built a fortune in metals, mining, and telecoms, invested early in Facebook, and was sanctioned in 2022.
Alishmas
Alishmas (علیشمس) is an Iranian rapper, singer, and songwriter in Persian pop rap, known for collaborations with Mehdi Jahani and based in Turkey since 2018.
Aliskiren
Aliskiren (Tekturna, Rasilez) is the first and only marketed direct renin inhibitor, approved in 2007 for adult hypertension. It lowers blood pressure similarly to ACE inhibitors and ARBs but must not be combined with them in diabetes or renal impairment.
Alisma
Alisma, commonly known as water plantains, is a genus of ten species of aquatic and wetland herbs in the family Alismataceae, named by Linnaeus in 1753.
Alismataceae
Alismataceae, the water-plantain family (Vent., 1799, nom. cons.), is a family of aquatic or semi-aquatic monocot herbs with worldwide distribution; type genus Alisma, about 12-18 genera including Sagittaria and Echinodorus, former Limnocharitaceae included.
Alismatales
Alismatales (R.Br. ex Bercht. & J.Presl, 1820) is an early-diverging monocot order of 14 families, the largest clade of aquatic angiosperms and the only one containing all marine seagrasses, diverging ca 131 Ma.
Aliso
Aliso (volcano number 352031) is a largely unexplored Ecuadorian volcanic complex east of Antisana, a 4,267 m stratovolcano with rhyolitic and dacitic lava domes, last confirmed eruption 2450 BCE.
Alison Appling
Alison Appling is an American data scientist and aquatic ecologist at the United States Geological Survey, known for national-scale river metabolism research and machine-learning methods for water-quality prediction.
Alison Arngrim
Alison Arngrim (born 1962), American actress and comedian, played Nellie Oleson on NBC's Little House on the Prairie (1974–1981); author of the NYT bestseller Confessions of a Prairie Bitch and child-protection and AIDS activist.
Alison B. Hickman
Alison B. Hickman, also published as A.B. Hickman, is a structural biologist at NIH's NIDDK since 1999, known for crystal structures of the Hermes transposase and other DNA-processing enzymes.
Alison Balsom
Alison Balsom (born 1978) is an English classical trumpet soloist, EMI and Warner Classics recording artist, three-time Classical Brits winner, and 2016 OBE, known for natural-trumpet Baroque recordings, the MacMillan Seraph commission, and her 2025 farewell at the Last Night of the Proms.
Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel (born 1960) is an American cartoonist, creator of Dykes to Watch Out For (1983–2008), author of Fun Home, and namesake of the Bechdel test for gender representation in film.
Alison Becker
Alison Becker (Alison Helene Becker), American actress, comedian, and writer from Allamuchy, New Jersey; played Shauna Malwae-Tweep on Parks and Recreation and was head writer on Tiny Toons Looniversity; UCB alumna and Georgetown graduate.