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Allan Kayser
Allan Joseph Kayser II (born 1963, Littleton, Colorado) is an American actor who played Bubba Higgins in 95 episodes of Mama's Family (1986–1990) and Brad in Night of the Creeps; not the Australian media-and-real-estate figure described in net-worth listicles.
Allan Kournikova
Allan Kournikova (born 2004), West Palm Beach, Florida amateur golfer, half-brother of Anna Kournikova; won U.S. Kids Golf World Championship 2011-2013, featured in The Short Game, won FJT events in 2017 and 2019.
Allan L. Klein
Allan L. Klein is a cardiologist at Cleveland Clinic who led the landmark 2001 TEE-guided cardioversion trial and the phase 3 RHAPSODY trial of rilonacept for recurrent pericarditis.
Allan L. Reiss
Allan L. Reiss is an American child and adolescent psychiatrist at Stanford University who uses neuroimaging to study neurogenetic disorders including fragile X, Turner, and Williams syndromes.
Allan Legere
Allan Joseph Legere, the "Monster of the Miramichi," was a New Brunswick serial killer who escaped custody in 1989, killed four people, and became Canada's first murderer convicted largely on DNA evidence; he died in prison in 2026.
Allan Lichtman
Allan J. Lichtman, American University historian and co-creator with Vladimir Keilis-Borok of the 13 Keys to the White House election-prediction system; called Reagan 1984 through Biden 2020, missed 2000 and 2024.
Allan M. Butler
Allan M. Butler was an American pediatrician, Harvard professor, and chief of children's medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for studies of diabetic coma and fluid therapy.
Allan M. Cormack
Allan M. Cormack, also known as Allan MacLeod Cormack, was a South African-born American physicist at Tufts who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for CAT scan mathematics.
Allan M. Lefer
Allan M. Lefer (1936–2018) was an American cardiovascular physiologist who chaired the Department of Physiology at Thomas Jefferson University, identified myocardial depressant factor, and reported prostacyclin's heart-protective effects.
Allan M. Ross
Allan M. Ross is an American cardiologist, professor of medicine at the George Washington University Medical Center, known for leading randomized trials of adjunctive drug therapy for heart attack.
Allan M. Weissman
Allan M. Weissman is an American researcher who spent his career at the National Cancer Institute and established RING finger proteins as E3 ubiquitin ligases.
Allan MacDonald
Allan MacDonald is a Canadian condensed matter theorist at the University of Texas at Austin whose 2011 calculation predicting superconductivity at a magic angle in twisted bilayer graphene founded twistronics.
Allan McGregor
Allan McGregor, born 1982 in Edinburgh, Scottish goalkeeper; over 500 Rangers appearances across two spells, Besiktas and Hull City, 42 Scotland caps, SPFL Player of the Year 2020/21, now Rangers lead goalkeeping coach.
Allan McKeown
Allan McKeown (1946–2013), British television, film and stage producer, husband of Tracey Ullman; founded Witzend/SelecTV, produced Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Birds of a Feather, and won a 1997 Emmy for HBO's Tracey Takes On....
Allan Meehan
Allan Meehan is an Australian outlaw bikie, national president of the Comanchero Motorcycle Club from June 2022, formerly ACT and Sydney chapter commander, subject to a 2022 NSW Serious Crime Prevention Order he breached and was convicted for in 2023.
Allan Melvin
Allan John Melvin (1923–2008), American character actor and impressionist; Cpl. Henshaw on The Phil Silvers Show, Sam the Butcher on The Brady Bunch, Barney Hefner on All in the Family, voice of Magilla Gorilla.
Allan Menzies
Allan Menzies (1845–1916) was a Scottish theologian who held the chair of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at St Andrews and wrote History of Religion (1895).
Allan Nascimento
Allan "Puro Osso" Nascimento (Allan Alves do Nascimento, 1991-2026), Brazilian UFC flyweight from São Paulo, Chute Boxe Diego Lima grappler; 22-7 record, 15 submission wins, 4-2 in the UFC, died at 34 of an apparent heart attack.
Allan Octavian Hume
Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912), British Indian civil servant, ornithologist, and founder of the Indian National Congress in 1885; donor of over 80,000 bird specimens to the Natural History Museum and founder of Stray Feathers.
Allan Peter Young
Allan Peter Young, born 1948, is a British theoretical condensed-matter physicist at UC Santa Cruz known for Monte Carlo studies of spin glasses and disordered systems.
Allan Pinkerton
Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), Scottish-born cooper and abolitionist, founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago, foiled the 1861 Baltimore Plot against Lincoln, served as McClellan's Civil War spymaster, and hired the first female detective, Kate Warne.
Allan Potts
Allan Potts (Allan Wilson Potts, 1904-1952), American speed skater of the Brooklyn Ice Palace; 1932 and 1936 Olympian, 500 m world record holder (42.4, Oslo 1936), National Speedskating Hall of Fame inductee; distinct from the New Zealand athletics coach of the same name.
Allan Quatermain
Allan Quatermain, also spelled Quartermain, is H. Rider Haggard's English big-game hunter narrator of King Solomon's Mines (1885) and a 14-book series ending with Allan and the Ice-gods (1927); he dies in the 1887 sequel and inspired Indiana Jones.
Allan R. Chivas
Allan R. Chivas is an Australian geologist and geochemist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Wollongong, known for applying geochemical and isotopic methods to Earth-surface processes.
Allan R. Tunkel
Allan R. Tunkel is an American infectious-diseases physician and professor at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School, known for research on bacterial meningitis and central nervous system infections.
Allan R. Wagner
Allan R. Wagner (1934–2018) was an American experimental psychologist who spent his career at Yale and is best known for the Rescorla–Wagner model of Pavlovian conditioning.
Allan Ramsay (artist)
Allan Ramsay (1713–1784) was a Scottish portrait painter, son of the Edinburgh poet of the same name, who became Principal Painter to King George III.
Allan Ronald
Allan Ronald is a Canadian infectious disease physician and medical microbiologist at the University of Manitoba, known for co-founding the Manitoba–Nairobi HIV research program in Africa.
Allan Rosenfield
Allan G. Rosenfield was an American obstetrician-gynecologist and dean of Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health from 1986 to 2008, known for work on maternal mortality.
Allan S. Detsky
Allan S. Detsky is a Canadian physician-scientist, University of Toronto professor, and former Physician-in-Chief of Mount Sinai Hospital, known for economic evaluation of drug policy and a Member of the Order of Canada.