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Allegra Fulton
Allegra Fulton is a Canadian actor and director from Toronto, known for Frida K., The Shape of Water, Maps to the Stars, Moonshine, and Chapelwaite; daughter of Gloria Montero.
Allegra Huston
Allegra Huston is a British-born author, editor, and writing teacher, daughter of Ricki Soma, John Huston, and John Julius Norwich. Known for the memoir Love Child (2009), the novel A Stolen Summer, and co-founding the Imaginative Storm writing method with James Navé.
Allegra Mostyn-Owen
Allegra Mostyn-Owen (born 1964), British journalist, ceramic artist, and teacher; first wife of Boris Johnson (married 1987, divorced 1993); teaches English and art at the Minhaj-ul-Quran Mosque, Forest Gate; married Abdul Majid in 2009.
Allegra Stratton
Allegra Stratton (born 1980) is a British journalist, former BBC Newsnight and ITV News editor, and ex-Downing Street press secretary who resigned in December 2021 over the leaked Christmas party rehearsal video.
Allegra Versace
Allegra Versace, also known as Allegra Beck, is an Italian heiress, daughter of Donatella Versace, who inherited Gianni Versace's 50% stake in 1997 and joined the board in 2011.
Allègre
Allègre, today Allègre-les-Fumades, is a commune in the Gard, Occitanie, France, with 779 inhabitants in seven hamlets, a ruined 12th-century castrum, ancient nymph-cult thermal springs, and the modern Thermes des Fumades spa.
Allegro (website)
Allegro is a Polish online marketplace launched in 1999 in Poznań as an auction site, now the country's leading e-commerce platform with marketplaces in Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary.
Allegro Hand
The Allegro Hand is a four-finger, 16-degree-of-freedom robotic hand for dexterous manipulation research, torque controlled at each joint and sold as a low-cost platform by SimLab and Wonik Robotics of Seoul.
Allegro MicroSystems
Allegro MicroSystems is an American fabless semiconductor company in Manchester, New Hampshire, that designs magnetic sensor and analog power ICs for automotive and industrial markets.
ALLEGRO-2b/3 trial
ALLEGRO-2b/3 (NCT03732807), Pfizer's pivotal phase 2b/3 trial of ritlecitinib (PF-06651600, Litfulo) for severe alopecia areata in patients 12 and older; 718 randomized, SALT ≤20 primary endpoint at week 24.
Allele
Allele: one of two or more versions of a DNA sequence at a genomic locus; also called allelomorph. Individuals inherit two alleles, one per parent; homozygous if identical, heterozygous if different, with dominance, codominance, or incomplete dominance effects.
Allelopathy
Allelopathy is an ecological interaction, named by Hans Molisch in 1937, in which a plant releases allelochemicals that inhibit or stimulate neighboring organisms, now studied for weed control.
Allen A. Mitchell
Allen A. Mitchell is a physician-epidemiologist at Boston University who directed the Slone Epidemiology Center from 1998 to 2015 and led landmark studies of medications and birth defects.
Allen Adham
Allen Adham (born Ayman Adham), Egyptian-American co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment (Silicon & Synapse, 1991), first president and chairman, original lead designer of World of Warcraft, left 2004, returned 2016 as Chief Design Officer, departed 2024.
Allen C. Alfrey
Allen C. Alfrey (A. C. Alfrey) was an American nephrologist whose 1976 report identified aluminum intoxication as the cause of dialysis encephalopathy, a fatal dementia in hemodialysis patients.
Allen C. Steere
Allen C. Steere is an American rheumatologist who identified Lyme disease in 1976 and is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Allen C. Winsor
Allen C. Winsor is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Florida since 2019, and its chief judge since 2025.
Allen Carr
Allen Carr (1934–2006), British accountant and author of The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, creator of the drug-free Easyway quit-smoking method; quit a 100-a-day habit in 1983 and built a global clinic network.
Allen Chao
Allen Chao (赵宇天) is a Taiwanese American pharmaceutical executive who co-founded Watson Pharmaceuticals in 1984 and built it into one of the largest US generic drug companies; he became CEO of Zephyr AI in 2025.
Allen Coage
Allen James Coage (1943–2007), American judoka and pro wrestler "Bad News Brown"/"Bad News Allen"; 1976 Montreal Olympic heavyweight judo bronze, first African American individual Olympic medalist outside boxing or track and field.
Allen Collins
Allen Collins (Larkin Allen Collins Jr., 1952–1990), Lynyrd Skynyrd founding guitarist from Jacksonville, Florida; co-wrote and played the solo of Free Bird on his 1964 Gibson Firebird; survived the 1977 plane crash, later led the Rossington Collins Band, was paralyzed in a 1986 car crash, and died of pneumonia in 1990.
Allen County, Indiana, United States
Allen County, Indiana (FIPS 18003), a northeastern Indiana county with seat Fort Wayne; largest Indiana county by area (657.30 sq mi), third most populous (402,329 in 2025), formed April 1, 1824, named for Colonel John Allen.
Allen Covert
Allen Stephen Covert (born 1964) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer, star and co-writer of Grandma's Boy (2006), longtime Adam Sandler collaborator and Happy Madison executive producer.
Allen Crabbe
Allen Crabbe, born 1992, American NBA guard-forward (2013-2020) with Portland, Brooklyn, Atlanta, Minnesota; Cal's 2013 Pac-12 Player of the Year; signed the noted four-year, $75 million restricted free agency contract.
Allen Curnow
Allen Curnow (Thomas Allen Monro Curnow, 1911 to 2001) was a New Zealand poet and journalist who wrote 21 volumes of poems and edited landmark anthologies of New Zealand verse.
Allen D. Roses
Allen D. Roses (1943–2016) was an American neurologist and geneticist at Duke University who identified the APOE ε4 gene as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease in 1993.
Allen Dorfman
Allen M. Dorfman, Chicago insurance executive and Teamsters Central States Pension Fund consultant with organized-crime ties, convicted in 1982 of bribing Sen. Howard Cannon, shot dead January 20, 1983 in Lincolnwood, Illinois; murder unsolved.
Allen Dulles
Allen Welsh Dulles (1893–1969), OSS Bern station chief and longest-serving Director of Central Intelligence (1953–1961), negotiated Operation Sunrise, oversaw the Iran and Guatemala coups, and was dismissed after the Bay of Pigs.
Allen E. Puckett
Allen E. Puckett (1919–2014) was an American aeronautical engineer whose doctoral work laid the theoretical basis for the delta wing, and who later led Hughes Aircraft as chairman and CEO.
Allen Eagles football
Allen Eagles football: Allen High School, Allen, Texas, Class 6A program with five state titles (2008, 2012-14, 2017), Kyler Murray's 43-0 quarterback record, 57-game win streak, and $60 million Eagle Stadium.