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All-time Universiade swimming medalists

All-time Universiade swimming medalists are the swimmers and countries that have won medals in swimming at the Summer Universiade, held since 1959 and led by the United States.

All-time Winter Paralympic Games medal table

The all-time Winter Paralympic Games medal table ranks National Paralympic Committees by medals won since 1976, with Norway leading on gold medals and the United States on total medals.

All-time World Games medal table

All-time World Games medal table: cumulative national rankings at the IWGA's World Games since 1981. Italy led with 137 golds as of 2013; China topped Chengdu 2025 with 36 golds.

All-time World Short Track Speed Skating Championships medal table

The all-time World Short Track Speed Skating Championships medal table counts medals by country and skater across every edition, with South Korea leading on golds and Canada on total medals.

All-time World Speed Skating Championships medal table

The all-time World Speed Skating Championships medal table aggregates medals won by nations across the ISU's allround, sprint, and single distances world championships, led by the Netherlands.

All-time Youth Olympic Games medal table

The all-time Youth Olympic Games medal table is an unofficial ranking of medals won by each National Olympic Committee since the first Games in Singapore in 2010.

All-to-all communication

All-to-all communication is a collective communication pattern where every process exchanges distinct data with every other, standard in MPI and GPU libraries and a major cost in Mixture-of-Experts training.

All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee

The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsVK, Всеукраїнський центральний виконавчий комітет) was the highest organ of state power in the Ukrainian SSR from 1917 to 1938, chaired by Hryhorii Petrovsky.

All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets

The All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets (Всеукраїнський з'їзд Рад) was the formally highest organ of state power in Soviet Ukraine from December 1917 to January 1937.

All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), or VKP(b), was the ruling party of the Soviet Union from December 1925 until 1952, when it became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

All-Union Pioneer Organization

The All-Union Pioneer Organization (Всесоюзная пионерская организация имени В. И. Ленина) was the Soviet Union's mass communist organization for children and teenagers, peaking at 23.5 million members in 1973.

All's Fair (2025 TV series)

All's Fair is a 2025 Hulu legal comedy-drama created by Ryan Murphy, Jon Robin Baitz, and Joe Baken, starring Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, and Glenn Close as all-female divorce attorneys; critically panned (Metacritic 19/100) but Hulu's biggest scripted premiere in three years, renewed for a second season.

All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare's problem comedy printed in the 1623 First Folio, adapted from Boccaccio's Decameron via Painter; Helena wins reluctant Bertram through a bed trick; first recorded performance 1741.

All's Well, Ends Well (家有喜事)

All's Well, Ends Well (家有囍事) is a 1992 Hong Kong Lunar New Year comedy directed by Clifton Ko, starring Stephen Chow, Leslie Cheung, and Maggie Cheung; it earned about HK$49 million, a then Hong Kong record.

All's Well, Ends Well 2009 (家有囍事2009)

All's Well, Ends Well 2009 (家有囍事2009) is a Hong Kong Lunar New Year comedy directed by Vincent Kok, the third film in the All's Well, Ends Well series, starring Sandra Ng, Louis Koo, and Ronald Cheng; it earned HK$24,655,932 and was 2009's top Hong Kong film.

All's Well, Ends Well Too (花田囍事)

All's Well, Ends Well Too (花田囍事) is a 1993 Hong Kong Cantonese Lunar New Year comedy directed by Clifton Ko, starring Sam Hui, Leslie Cheung, and Rosamund Kwan, set in the Song dynasty and grossing HK$35,481,478.

All(H)Ours

All(H)Ours (올아워즈) is a seven-member South Korean boy group under EDEN Entertainment that debuted January 10, 2024 with ALL OURS and "GOTCHA"; nicknamed "Stray Kids' cousin group", known for aggressive EDM/hip-hop performance tracks like GIMME GIMME and DEAD MAN WALKING.

Alla Amidas

Alla Amidas (Éllä Amida, እለ አሚዳ) was a king of the Kingdom of Aksum around 535–550, attested chiefly by rare gold coins die-linked to Kaleb.

Alla Bruletova (Алла Брулетова)

Alla Bruletova (Алла Брулетова), Russian model and content creator born 1999 in Ivanovo, famous for the 2023 viral Bentley ASMR video; LOOKFOREVER brand co-founder, about 2.6 million Instagram followers, later London-based fashion model.

Alla Fyodorova

Alla Fyodorova (Alla Vasilyevna Davydova-Fyodorova, Алла Давыдова), Russian hammer thrower born 1966 in Bishkek; set women's hammer world bests of 62.70 m and 64.44 m at Adler in 1991, won Soviet titles, and placed 18th in qualifying at the 2000 Sydney Olympics; personal best 69.17 m (2003).

Alla Nazimova (Алла Назимова)

Alla Nazimova (Алла Назимова), born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon (1879–1945), Russian-born stage and silent film star, famed Ibsen interpreter, highest-paid actress of her era, and producer of the avant-garde Salomé (1922).

Alla Pugacheva (Алла Борисовна Пугачёва)

Alla Pugacheva, also known as Alla Borisovna Pugacheva, is a Soviet and Russian estrada singer born in Moscow in 1949, famous across the late Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia.

Alla Rakha

Alla Rakha (Allah Rakha Qureshi, 1919-2000), Indian tabla master of the Punjab gharana, Ravi Shankar's longtime accompanist at Monterey, Woodstock, and Bangladesh, film composer as A.R. Qureshi, founder of the 1985 Alla Rakha Institute, father of Zakir Hussain.

Alla Shishkina

Alla Shishkina (Алла Шишкина), born 1989 in Moscow, is a Russian artistic swimmer who won Olympic team gold at three consecutive Games and 14 world titles.

Alla Vazhenina

Alla Vazhenina (Алла Ивановна Важенина), Kazakh weightlifter born 1983 in Shadrinsk, Russia; won 2008 Olympic 75 kg gold (266 kg total) upgraded in 2019 after Cao Lei's doping disqualification.

Alla Y. Karpova

Alla Y. Karpova is a systems neuroscientist who has been a group leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus since 2006, studying how rat frontal cortical circuits support flexible behavior.

Allah (الله)

Allah (الله) is the Arabic name of God in Islam, also used by Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews, occurring about 2,700 times in the Quran and debated by philologists.

Allah Is Not Obliged

Allah Is Not Obliged (Allah n'est pas obligé) is a 2000 novel by Ivorian writer Ahmadou Kourouma about Birahima, a child soldier in the Liberian and Sierra Leonean wars.

Allah Kuli Khan

Allah Kuli Khan was the khan of Khiva from 1825 to 1842, a Qungrat ruler known for building Khiva's great monuments during a trade boom with Russia.

Allah-Las

Allah-Las are an American garage-rock/neo-psychedelic band formed in 2008 in Los Angeles by Miles Michaud, Pedrum Siadatian, Spencer Dunham and Matthew Correia, three of whom met working at Amoeba Music. Known for 1960s surf-psych revivalism and later albums Zuma 85 and Sirenas, plus Reverberation Radio and Calico Discos.