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Allen Ludden

Allen Ludden (1917–1981), American game show host of Password and G.E. College Bowl, 1976 Emmy winner, University of Texas Phi Beta Kappa graduate, and husband of Betty White, whom he met on Password.

Allen M. Goldman

Allen M. Goldman (1937–2025) was an American experimental condensed matter physicist at the University of Minnesota, known for the Carlson–Goldman modes and the superconductor–insulator transition.

Allen M. Peterson

Allen M. Peterson (1922–1994) was an American electrical engineer at Stanford University whose radar and ionospheric research helped start radar astronomy, radar oceanography, and over-the-horizon missile-warning radar.

Allen M. Spiegel

Allen M. Spiegel is an American physician-scientist and endocrinologist whose G-protein research clarified inherited endocrine disorders, and who directed NIDDK from 1999 to 2006 before becoming Dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer

The Allen M. Sumner class was a class of 58 United States Navy destroyers armed with three twin 5-inch gun mounts, serving from World War II into the 1970s.

Allen Morgan

Allen Morgan (1925-2011), American rowing coxswain; coxed the University of Washington-based US coxed four to 1948 London Olympic gold in 6:50.3 with Westlund, Martin, Will, and Giovanelli; UW Hall of Fame 1981 and 2003.

Oct 10, 2026

Allen N. Berger

Allen N. Berger is an American economist who spent 26 years at the Federal Reserve Board and is a banking and finance professor at the University of South Carolina.

Allen Newell

Allen Newell (1927–1992) was an American computer scientist and cognitive psychologist who, with Herbert Simon, created the first AI programs and won the 1975 Turing Award.

Allen P. Kaplan

Allen P. Kaplan is an American allergist and immunologist at the Medical University of South Carolina known for research on bradykinin formation, hereditary angioedema, and chronic urticaria.

Allen Payne

Allen Payne (born 1968, Harlem) is an American actor known for Gee Money in New Jack City, Euripides in CB4, and CJ Payne on Tyler Perry's House of Payne (TBS 2007-2012, BET revival 2020-), the longest-running Black sitcom.

Allen Robinson

Allen Robinson II (born 1993, Detroit) is a former NFL wide receiver, Penn State product drafted 61st overall by Jacksonville in 2014. One-time Pro Bowler (2015: 1,400 yards, league-leading 14 TDs); retired August 2026 with 565 catches, 7,058 yards, 43 touchdowns.

Allen S. Lichter

Allen S. Lichter is an American radiation oncologist who was dean of the University of Michigan Medical School and chief executive officer of ASCO from 2006 to 2016.

Allen Stack

Allen Stack (Allen McIntyre Stack, 1928–1999), American backstroke swimmer; 1948 Olympic 100 m backstroke gold medalist in 1:06.4, six world records, 1951 Pan Am double gold, later a Honolulu lawyer.

Allen Stanford

R. Allen Stanford is an American financier who built a Caribbean banking empire on certificates of deposit and was convicted in 2012 of a $7 billion, 20-year Ponzi scheme.

Allen Stone

Allen Stone (born 1987) is an American soul/R&B singer-songwriter from Chewelah, Washington, a pastor's son whose gospel-rooted voice, self-titled 2011 album, and albums Radius, Building Balance, and APART define his career.

Allen Swift

Allen Swift (Ira J. Stadlen, 1924-2010), American voice actor known for Simon Bar-Sinister on Underdog, Mad Monster Party?, Howdy Doody, and over 30,000 commercials; not the congressman Al Swift.

Oct 15, 2026

Allen Telescope Array

The Allen Telescope Array is a radio telescope in Northern California with 42 dishes, dedicated in 2007 as the first built for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Allen Toussaint

Allen Toussaint (1938–2015), New Orleans pianist, songwriter, producer, and arranger behind hits like "Mother-in-Law" and "Working in the Coal Mine"; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1998, National Medal of Arts 2012.

Allen University

Allen University is a private historically Black university in Columbia, South Carolina, founded in 1870 and named for Bishop Richard Allen, founder of the AME Church.

Allen V. Astin

Allen V. Astin (1904–1984) was an American physicist who directed the National Bureau of Standards from 1952 to 1969 and was reinstated after his 1953 forced resignation in the AD-X2 controversy.

Allen Weisselberg

Allen Weisselberg is an American corporate executive who was the Trump Organization's chief financial officer for decades, then pleaded guilty to tax fraud in 2022 and perjury in 2024.

Allen West (politician)

Allen West (born 1961) is an American retired Army lieutenant colonel and Republican politician, one-term U.S. representative for Florida's 22nd district (2011-2013), Texas GOP chairman 2020-2021, and unsuccessful 2022 Texas gubernatorial primary candidate.

Oct 10, 2026

Allen Whipple

Allen Oldfather Whipple (1881–1963) was an American surgeon at Columbia University who gave his name to the Whipple procedure for pancreatic tumors and described Whipple's triad for diagnosing insulinoma.

Allen Whitty

Allen Whitty (1867–1949), British Army officer and sport shooter, Worcestershire Regiment, DSO; won 1924 Paris Olympic gold in running deer double shot team event, beating Norway by one point.

Allen Woodring

Allen Woodring (1898–1982), American sprinter from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; 1920 Antwerp Olympic 200 m gold medalist in 22.0, beating Charley Paddock after entering as an alternate; Syracuse IC4A champion and 1923 quarter-mile world leader.

Allen Zhu (朱啸虎)

Allen Zhu, also known as Zhu Xiaohu (朱啸虎), is a Chinese venture capitalist and Managing Partner at GSR Ventures, best known as the first institutional investor in DiDi Chuxing.

Oct 15, 2026

Allen–Cahn equation

The Allen–Cahn equation, also known as the time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau equation, is a second-order parabolic partial differential equation describing antiphase boundary motion, introduced by Samuel Allen and John Cahn in 1979.

Allen, Texas

Allen, Texas, a Collin County city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex (also called Allen, TX), named for Ebenezer Allen; population about 113,000 in 2025, median household income about $131,000, anchored by Allen ISD and SH 121 corridor employers.

Allen's test

Allen's test (modified Allen test, MAT): bedside maneuver assessing radial and ulnar artery patency and palmar arch collateral circulation before radial artery puncture, cannulation, or harvest; color should return within 5–15 seconds; pooled sensitivity 57%, specificity 91%.