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Allahabad Bank (इलाहाबाद बैंक)
Allahabad Bank (इलाहाबाद बैंक) was a government-owned Indian public sector bank founded at Allahabad in 1865, with 3,169 branches at its 2020 merger into Indian Bank.
Allahabad High Court
Allahabad High Court (High Court of Judicature at Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh's high court, established 17 March 1866 at Agra, moved to Allahabad 1869, Lucknow bench since 1948 amalgamation, sanctioned strength 95, India's largest case backlog.
Allahabad Pillar
Allahabad Pillar (Prayagraj Prashasti pillar): sandstone column in Allahabad Fort bearing Ashoka's edicts, Samudragupta's Sanskrit praśasti by Harishena, and Jahangir's Persian inscription.
Allahabad Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta
The Allahabad Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta, also called the Prayag Prashasti (प्रयाग प्रशस्ति), is a Sanskrit panegyric by Harishena engraved at Prayagraj around 350 CE, cataloging Samudragupta's conquests across India.
Allahdino
Allahdino is a small excavated settlement of the Indus civilization near Karachi, Pakistan, excavated by Walter A. Fairservis, Jr. in the 1970s and suddenly abandoned around 2200 BC.
Allahverdi Khan
Allahverdi Khan (اللهوردی خان) was a Georgian ghulam who served Shah Abbas I as commander of the ghulam regiments and gave his name to Isfahan's Si-o-se-pol bridge.
Allais paradox
The Allais paradox is a pair of choice problems posed by French economist Maurice Allais in 1953, whose typical answers violate expected utility theory's independence axiom.
Allakos Inc.
Allakos Inc. was a clinical-stage biotechnology company in San Carlos, California that developed antibodies targeting Siglec receptors for allergic and eosinophilic diseases; in 2025 it agreed to be acquired by Concentra Biosciences for $0.33 per share.
Allal al-Fassi
Allal al-Fassi (علال الفاسي), born in Fez in 1910, was a Moroccan nationalist leader and Islamic jurist who founded and led the Istiqlal Party through Morocco's independence struggle.
Allam Nassar
Allam Nassar (علام نصار) was an Egyptian Sharia jurist who served as the ninth Grand Mufti of Egypt from 1950 to 1952, appointed by King Farouk I.
Allam power cycle
The Allam power cycle, also called the Allam-Fetvedt cycle, is an oxy-fuel power cycle using supercritical carbon dioxide as its working fluid, patented by Rodney Allam in 2013.
Allama Iqbal International Airport (علامہ اقبال)
Allama Iqbal International Airport (علامہ اقبال), formerly Lahore International Airport, is the main airport serving Lahore, Pakistan. It is the country's third busiest and a hub for Pakistan International Airlines.
Allama Iqbal Open University (علامہ اقبال اوپن یونیورسٹی)
Allama Iqbal Open University (علامہ اقبال اوپن یونیورسٹی, AIOU), Islamabad, founded May 1974, is Pakistan's largest public distance-learning university, with over 1.2 million students, 53 regional campuses, and programs from Matric to PhD.
Allama Prabhu
Allama Prabhu (ಅಲ್ಲಮ ಪ್ರಭು) was a twelfth-century Lingayat mystic and vachana poet of Karnataka, presiding guru of the Anubhava Mantapa at Kalyana, who wrote over 1600 vachanas signed Guheshvara.
Allama Prabhu's Vachanas
Allama Prabhu's Vachanas (ಅಲ್ಲಮ ಪ್ರಭು) are free-verse Kannada mystical poems by Allama Prabhu, a twelfth-century Shaiva saint-poet of the sharana movement in Karnataka, signed with the epithet Guheshwara.
Allamaye Halina
Allamaye Halina (Allah-Maye Halina), born 1967, Chadian diplomat and politician, Prime Minister of Chad since May 2024 under Mahamat Idriss Déby; former chief of protocol to Idriss Déby and ambassador to China; reappointed February 2025.
Allan (footballer, born 1991)
Allan Marques Loureiro (born 1991, Rio de Janeiro), Brazilian defensive midfielder; played for Vasco da Gama, Udinese, Napoli, Everton, Al-Wahda, and Botafogo; 10 Brazil caps; 2024 Série A champion; distinct from Allan Rodrigues de Souza (born 1997).
Allan (footballer, born 1997)
Allan Rodrigues de Souza, Brazilian defensive midfielder born 1997 in Araçatuba; ex-Liverpool player (2015–2020, loan spells only), later Atlético Mineiro, Flamengo, and Corinthians, winner of the 2025 Copa Libertadores and two Série A titles. Distinct from Allan Elias (Palmeiras winger) and Allan Marques Loureiro (born 1991).
Allan (footballer, born 2004)
Allan (Allan Andrade Elias, born 2004, Florianópolis), Brazilian left-footed winger; Palmeiras academy product who broke out in the 2025 Libertadores, joined Manchester City in August 2026 for a reported fee up to £34.2m/€40m, and scored and assisted on his EFL Cup debut.
Allan Adams
Allan Adams is a theoretical physicist at MIT known for applying holographic duality to strongly interacting quantum fluids and for his widely viewed MIT quantum mechanics lectures.
Allan Arbus
Allan Arbus (1918–2013), American actor and fashion photographer; ex-husband and studio partner of Diane Arbus; played psychiatrist Sidney Freedman in 12 M*A*S*H episodes, 1973–1983.
Allan Balmain
Allan Balmain is a Scottish-born cancer geneticist, professor at UCSF since 1997, known for linking chemical carcinogens to tumor initiation and for mouse studies of cancer susceptibility.
Allan Beigel
Allan Beigel was an American psychiatrist and University of Arizona vice president who built a unified community mental health system in Pima County and led national psychiatric organizations.
Allan Bogue
Allan G. Bogue (1921–2016) was a Canadian-born American historian of agriculture and nineteenth-century politics who taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and pioneered quantitative history.
Allan Border
Allan Border is an Australian former cricketer who captained Australia to its first Cricket World Cup title in 1987 and retired in 1994 as Test cricket's leading run-scorer.
Allan Borodin
Allan Borodin is a computer scientist at the University of Toronto, known for the gap theorem, online algorithms, and the 1998 textbook Online Computation and Competitive Analysis.
Allan Bradley
Allan Bradley is a British geneticist known for embryonic stem cell technology that made knockout mice possible and for directing the Wellcome Sanger Institute from 2000 to 2010.
Allan Briggs
Allan Lindsay Briggs (1873-1951), American Army captain and rifle shooter; won 1912 Stockholm Olympic gold in the team military rifle match (USA, 1,687) and placed fourth in the individual 600 m event.
Allan C. Gelber
Allan C. Gelber is an American rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, known for gout research including the 1997 Meharry-Hopkins study and the 2020 ACR gout guideline.
Allan C. Wilson
Allan C. Wilson was a New Zealand-born biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for dating the human–ape split and the 1987 mitochondrial Eve study.