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Alok Kanojia

Alok Kanojia, known online as Dr. K, is an American Harvard-trained psychiatrist who co-founded Healthy Gamer, a mental health platform offering content and coaching for gamers.

Alok Kumar Suman

Alok Kumar Suman, born 1957, is an Indian Janata Dal (United) politician and medical doctor who has represented Gopalganj, Bihar, in the Lok Sabha since 2019.

Alok Nath (अलोक नाथ)

Alok Nath (अलोक नाथ), born 1956 in Khagaria, Bihar, is an Indian actor, NSD graduate, and "Sanskari Babuji" of Hindi film and TV; breakthrough as Master Haveliram in Buniyaad (1986), films from Gandhi (1982) to Vivah, accused in 2018 #MeToo cases, largely absent since.

Alok Sharma

Alok Sharma, Lord Sharma KCMG, British Conservative politician; MP for Reading West 2010-2024, Secretary of State for Business, and COP26 President who brokered the Glasgow Climate Pact; now sits in the House of Lords.

Alok Sharma (Indian politician)

Alok Sharma (born 1967) is a BJP politician and former Mayor of Bhopal who won the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat in 2024 with 981,109 votes and a record 501,499 margin, six months after losing a 2023 assembly race.

Alok Sharma (police officer)

Alok Sharma (born 1966, Aligarh) is a 1991-batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IPS officer and Director of India's Special Protection Group since 17 November 2023; not the Indian politician or IAF officer of the same name; tenure extended to 31 March 2027.

Alokeranjan Dasgupta

Alokeranjan Dasgupta (অলোকরঞ্জন দাশগুপ্ত, 1933–2020) was an Indian Bengali poet and translator who taught in Heidelberg and won the 1992 Sahitya Akademi Award for Marami Karat.

Aloma Wright

Aloma Wright (Aloma Lesley Wright), American actress born 1950 in New York City; known for Nurse Laverne Roberts on Scrubs, Maxine Landis on Days of Our Lives, and Gretchen Bodinski on Suits.

Alon Chen

Alon Chen (אלון חן) is an Israeli neuroscientist who studies the neurobiology of stress and became the 11th President of the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2019.

Alon Gorodetsky

Alon Gorodetsky is an American chemical engineer and associate professor at the University of California, Irvine, whose research group turns cephalopod biology into adaptive camouflage and thermoregulatory materials.

Alon Huri

Alon Huri is an Israeli venture investor and Managing Partner at Team8, where he builds fintech startups; he co-founded Check, sold to Intuit for $360 million in 2014, and NEXT Insurance.

Alon Lifshitz

Alon Lifshitz is an Israeli-born venture capitalist who co-founded Hanaco Ventures in 2017, a firm managing about $2 billion before it stopped fundraising in 2025.

Alon-Lee Green (אלון-לי גרין)

Alon-Lee Green (אלון-לי גרין), Israeli activist, co-founder and national co-director of the Jewish-Arab movement Standing Together; 2011 social protest leader, former Knesset adviser, TIME100 Next 2024 honoree.

Alona Fyshe

Alona Fyshe is a Canadian computational neuroscientist and machine learning researcher at the University of Alberta who compares brain recordings of readers with language models.

Alona Tal (אלונה טל)

Alona Tal (אלונה טל), born 1983 in Herzliya, is an Israeli-American actress known for HaPijamot, Veronica Mars, Supernatural, SEAL Team, and Cross, and for music with Subliminal and Wyclef Jean.

Alone (2015 Hindi film)

Alone (अलोन) is a 2015 Hindi horror film directed by Bhushan Patel, an official remake of a 2007 Thai film, starring Bipasha Basu as conjoined twins Anjana and Sanjana and Karan Singh Grover in his film debut, released 16 January 2015.

Alone (2020 horror film)

Alone (2020 horror film), the Johnny Martin zombie film written by Matt Naylor and tied to the Korean #Alive screenplay, stars Tyler Posey, Summer Spiro, and Donald Sutherland; released October 16, 2020, rated R, 1h 32m, 27% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Alone (2020 thriller film)

Alone (2020) is John Hyams' American survival thriller, a remake of the 2011 Swedish film Gone (Försvunnen), starring Jules Willcox as widowed Jessica hunted by killer Marc Menchaca in the Pacific Northwest; distinct from two other 2020 films of the same name.

Alone (music)

"Alone" is a 2016 future bass single by the masked American producer Marshmello, released on Monstercat as his breakout hit and Monstercat's first RIAA-certified platinum record.

Alone (The Cure song)

"Alone" is a 2024 song by English rock band The Cure, its first new song in 16 years and the opening track and lead single of the album Songs of a Lost World, released 26 September 2024 with lyrics based on Ernest Dowson's poem Dregs.

Alone (TV series)

Alone is a History Channel survival reality series (premiered June 18, 2015, Leftfield Pictures) in which ten self-filming survivalists with ten tools compete in remote wilderness for $500,000; 13 seasons, plus Alone Australia and UK versions.

Alone Across the Pacific (太平洋ひとりぼっち)

Alone Across the Pacific (太平洋ひとりぼっち, Taiheiyo Hitoribocchi), also released as Alone on the Pacific, is Kon Ichikawa's 1963 Nikkatsu film dramatizing Kenichi Horie's 94-day solo 1962 yacht crossing, the first production of Yujiro Ishihara's Ishihara Productions.

Alone Again (Naturally)

"Alone Again (Naturally)" is a 1972 Gilbert O'Sullivan soft-rock ballad, also credited to Raymond O'Sullivan: six weeks at US No. 1, Canada No. 1, UK No. 3, No. 2 song of 1972, written about a fictional suicide narrative, not autobiography.

Alone Again, Natura-Diddily

"Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" is the fourteenth episode of season 11 of The Simpsons, first broadcast in 2000, remembered for the death of Maude Flanders, wife of Ned Flanders.

Alone at Dawn

Alone at Dawn: upcoming Ron Howard war drama for Amazon MGM starring Adam Driver and Anne Hathaway, adapted from the Schilling/Longfritz book about Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman; scheduled December 25, 2027.

Alone Denmark

Alone Denmark (Danish: Alene i vildmarken) is a Danish reality series on DR since 2017, in which contestants survive alone in Norwegian and Finnish wilderness, filming themselves until one remains.

Alone in Berlin (film)

Alone in Berlin (Seul dans Berlin) is a 2016 French-German-British war drama by Vincent Pérez, adapted from Hans Fallada's 1947 novel Every Man Dies Alone, starring Brendan Gleeson, Emma Thompson, and Daniel Brühl as wartime anti-Nazi postcard resisters; it competed at the 2016 Berlinale.

Alone in the Dark

Alone in the Dark: survival horror franchise begun by Infogrames in 1992, also known as the genre founder. Fixed-camera 3D horror at Derceto Manor, Lovecraftian story, seven main entries, now owned by THQ Nordic/Embracer after the 2024 remake flopped.

Alone in the Dark (1992 video game)

Alone in the Dark (1992) is a DOS survival horror game by Infogrames directed by Frédérick Raynal, set in Derceto mansion with Edward Carnby and Emily Hartwood; the first 3D survival horror game and direct influence on Resident Evil.

Alone in the Dark (2005 film)

Alone in the Dark (2005) is Uwe Boll's horror film adaptation of the Atari video game, starring Christian Slater, Tara Reid, and Stephen Dorff; released by Lionsgate on January 28, 2005, it grossed about $10.6 million on a $20 million budget and scored 1% on Rotten Tomatoes.