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Allan Campbell (microbiologist)

Allan McCulloch Campbell (1929–2018) was an American microbiologist and geneticist at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1971, known for the 1962 Campbell model of lambda phage integration.

Allan Carr

Allan Carr (born Allan Solomon, 1937–1999) was an American producer and talent manager behind Grease (1978), the Tony-winning Broadway La Cage aux Folles, the flops Can't Stop the Music and Grease 2, and the notorious 1989 Academy Awards telecast.

Allan Clarke (footballer)

Allan John Clarke, "Sniffer" (born 1946), English striker for Walsall, Fulham, Leicester City, Leeds United, and Barnsley; 151 goals in 364 Leeds games, 1972 FA Cup final winner, 19 England caps.

Allan Clarke (singer)

Allan Clarke (Harold Allan Clarke, born 1942, Salford) is an English singer, founding lead vocalist of the Hollies with Graham Nash, voice of 'He Ain't Heavy' and 'The Air That I Breathe', with intermittent solo albums and a 2019 comeback.

Allan D. Sniderman

Allan D. Sniderman is a Canadian cardiologist at McGill University in Montreal, known since 1980 for establishing apolipoprotein B as a better marker of cardiovascular risk than LDL cholesterol.

Allan D. Struthers

Allan D. Struthers, born 1952, is Emeritus Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Dundee, known for research on heart failure, BNP testing, and allopurinol.

Allan Donald

Allan Donald, "White Lightning" (born 1966, Bloemfontein), South African fast bowler 1991-2003; 330 Test wickets at 22.25, 272 ODI wickets, first South African to 300 Test wickets, ICC Hall of Fame 2019.

Allan F. Henry

Allan F. Henry (1925–2001) was an American nuclear engineer who led reactor theory work at Bettis on submarine reactors, taught at MIT, and wrote the textbook Nuclear-Reactor Analysis.

Allan Fakir

Allan Fakir, also known as Alan Faqir, was a Pakistani Sindhi Sufi folk singer whose duets with pop singer Muhammad Ali Shehki made him nationally famous.

Allan Fox

Allan Fox is an attorney and biotech company builder who co-founded the gene-therapy company REGENXBIO through his firm FOXKISER and has served on its board since 2009.

Allan G. Redeker

Allan G. Redeker was an American hepatologist, a 30-year USC professor who co-led the USC Liver Unit and was the AASLD's twenty-second president in 1971.

Allan Gibbard

Allan Gibbard (born 1942) is an American philosopher and game theorist at the University of Michigan, known for the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem and his 1990 book Wise Choices, Apt Feelings.

Allan Glaser

Allan Glaser (born 1959, Norfolk, Virginia) is an American film producer of Lust in the Dust, Dark Horse, and Tab Hunter Confidential, and the longtime partner and widower of actor Tab Hunter, whom he married in 2013.

Allan Green (botanist)

Thomas George Allan Green is a British-born lichenologist and botanist, PhD and DSc from Oxford, based at Waikato, New Zealand, known for lichen ecophysiology, Antarctic Dry Valleys work, biocrusts, and the Acharius Medal.

Allan H. Conney

Allan H. Conney (1930–2013) was an American pharmacologist and cancer researcher at Rutgers University whose laboratory characterized cytochrome P450 enzymes and showed green tea, caffeine, and exercise may prevent cancer.

Allan H. Meltzer

Allan H. Meltzer (1928–2017) was an American monetary economist at Carnegie Mellon who co-founded the Shadow Open Market Committee and wrote A History of the Federal Reserve.

Allan H. Ropper

Allan H. Ropper, also known as Allan Ropper, is an American neurologist who helped open the first academic neurologic intensive care unit and leads Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology.

Allan Hackshaw

Allan Hackshaw is a British epidemiologist, Professor of Epidemiology & Medical Statistics at University College London and Director of its Cancer Research UK Cancer Trials Centre.

Allan Hawco

Allan Hawco (born 1977) is a Canadian actor, writer, and producer from Bell Island, Newfoundland; creator and star of Republic of Doyle and co-creator and lead of CBC's Saint-Pierre, with film and theatre credits and Hawco Productions.

Allan Holdsworth

Allan Holdsworth (1946–2017), English jazz-fusion guitarist from Bradford, known for Soft Machine, Tony Williams' Lifetime, U.K., solo albums like Metal Fatigue, legato technique, and SynthAxe use.

Allan Houser

Allan Houser (born Allan Capron Haozous) was a Chiricahua Apache sculptor and painter, one of the most influential Native American artists of the 20th century.

Allan Houston

Allan Houston is an American former shooting guard who played for the Detroit Pistons and New York Knicks, and holds an executive role with the Knicks.

Allan I Pack

Allan I. Pack (Allan Ian Pack) is a physician-scientist in sleep medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on the genetics of sleep and obstructive sleep apnea.

Allan I. Basbaum

Allan I. Basbaum is a Canadian-born pain neuroscientist and anatomist who has chaired the Department of Anatomy at UCSF since 1997, studying chronic pain and itch.

Allan I. Levey

Allan I. Levey is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Emory University. He directed the Emory Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and chaired the department from 2003 to 2021.

Allan J. Collins

Allan J. Collins is an American nephrologist and outcomes researcher who directed the US Renal Data System Coordinating Center from 1999 to 2014 and is Emeritus Professor at the University of Minnesota.

Allan Jacobson

Allan Jacobson is an American molecular biologist at UMass Chan Medical School who discovered, named, and characterized nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, the pathway degrading mRNAs with premature stop codons.

Allan Jones (neuroscientist)

Allan Jones is an American neuroscientist and genomics executive who was a founding employee and the first CEO of the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham

Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham, born in Delhi in 1842, was a British military engineer and amateur number theorist whose factorization tables launched the Cunningham Project.

Allan K. Bertram

Allan K. Bertram is a Canadian atmospheric chemist, professor at the University of British Columbia, known for work on aerosol particles, ice nucleation, and organic particle viscosity.