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Alushta Aquarium
Алуштинский аквариум (Alushta Aquarium): public aquarium in Alushta, Crimea, founded 2003 by ichthyologists under Viktor Zhilenko in the trolleybus ticket office building; over 250 fish species, crocodiles, turtles, four halls plus World of the Jungle.
Alute Empress
The Alute Empress (阿鲁特氏), posthumously honored as Empress Xiaozheyi, was the consort of the Tongzhi Emperor, installed by decree and dead at 22 in 1875, soon after him.
Aluto Langano Geothermal Power Station
The Aluto Langano Geothermal Power Station is Ethiopia's only producing geothermal power plant, located in the Main Ethiopian Rift about 200 km from Addis Ababa with an installed capacity of about 7.3 MW.
Alva Belmont
Alva Belmont (1853-1933), born Alva Erskine Smith in Mobile, Alabama, was a Vanderbilt-era socialite and suffragist, president and chief benefactor of the National Woman's Party, namesake of the Alva Belmont House.
Alva Colquhoun
Alva Colquhoun (Alva Merlin Colquhoun, married name Wyatt, 1942-2025), Australian freestyle swimmer; silver in the 4x100m freestyle relay at Rome 1960 swimming anchor, world record 4:16.2 in Townsville 1960, and three medals at the 1958 Cardiff Empire and Commonwealth Games.
Alva Kinney
Alva Kinney was an American flour miller who in 1919 brought four central Nebraska grain-milling companies together to form Nebraska Consolidated Mills, the enterprise that became today's Conagra Brands.
Alva Myrdal
Alva Myrdal, born Alva Reimer, was a Swedish diplomat and disarmament advocate who shared the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize and helped shape the Swedish welfare state.
Alvah Hovey
Alvah Hovey (1820–1903) was an American Baptist theologian and educator who taught at Newton Theological Institution, Massachusetts, and served as its president from 1868 to 1898.
Alvan R. Feinstein
Alvan R. Feinstein was an American physician and Sterling Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Yale, credited as the founding father of clinical epidemiology, who wrote Clinical Judgment and Clinimetrics.
Alvania
Alvania (Risso, 1826) is a genus of small marine rissoid sea snails with clathrate shells, hundreds of species from intertidal to abyssal depths across the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indo-Pacific, and Australia.
Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto, fully Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto, was a Finnish architect and designer (1898–1976) known for Paimio Sanatorium, Finlandia Hall, the Savoy vase, and bent birch furniture.
Àlvar Agustí
Àlvar Agustí (Alvar Agustí García-Navarro), born in Barcelona in 1956, is a Spanish pulmonologist and COPD researcher, professor at the Universitat de Barcelona and chair of the global COPD initiative GOLD since 2016.
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490), Spanish explorer, treasurer of the 1527 Narváez expedition; one of four survivors who walked from Galveston, Texas to Mexico City; author of La Relación (Naufragios); later governor of Río de la Plata.
Alvar Pelayo
Alvar Pelayo (Álvaro Pais; Latin Alvarus Pelagius, c. 1275/80–1349) was a Galician Franciscan canon lawyer and bishop of Silves who defended papal supremacy in De statu et planctu ecclesiae.
Alvarado
Club Atlético Alvarado, "el Torito," is a Mar del Plata football club founded June 21, 1928, playing in the Torneo Federal A; it reached Argentina's top flight in 1978 and rivals Aldosivi.
Alvarado score
The Alvarado score, also known as MANTRELS, is a 10-point clinical scoring system introduced by Alfredo Alvarado in 1986 to estimate the probability of acute appendicitis.
Álvares de Azevedo
Álvares de Azevedo, full name Manuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo (1831–1852), was a Brazilian poet and dramatist of the ultraromantic generation, best known for Lira dos vinte anos.
Alvarez and Marsal
Alvarez and Marsal, also known as Alvarez & Marsal, is a private global professional services firm founded in New York in 1983 that specializes in restructuring and turnaround management.
Alvarez Kelly
Alvarez Kelly (1966) is a Columbia Pictures Civil War Western directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring William Holden and Richard Widmark, loosely based on the 1864 Beefsteak Raid, in which a cattleman is forced to drive a stolen herd to Richmond.
Álvaro Arbeloa
Álvaro Arbeloa Coca, born 1983 in Salamanca, is a Spanish former right-back who won the 2010 World Cup and two European Championships with Spain and now manages Fulham.
Álvaro Cepeda Samudio
Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, known as "El Nene", was a Colombian writer and journalist of the Barranquilla Group whose 1962 novel La casa grande portrays the 1928 banana massacre.
Álvaro Cortés
Álvaro Cortés Moyano (born 2005, Zaragoza) is a Spanish left-footed centre back, a La Masia product who debuted for FC Barcelona in May 2026 and transferred to Royal Antwerp in 2026.
Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate
Álvaro de Bazán class (F-100): five Spanish Navy Aegis guided-missile frigates built by Navantia Ferrol, delivered 2002-2012, with SPY-1D radar, 48-cell Mk 41 VLS, basis of Norway's Nansen and Australia's Hobart classes.
Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira
Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira (1542–1595) was a Spanish navigator who discovered the Solomon Islands in 1568 and died in 1595 on a second Pacific voyage.
Álvaro Díaz
Álvaro Díaz is a Puerto Rican rapper and singer from Hato Rey, San Juan, who began on SoundCloud in 2012 and became a reference figure of alternative Latin urbano.
Alvaro Gestido
Álvaro Gestido (José Álvaro Pelegrín Gestido Pose), Uruguayan half-back born 1907, Peñarol 1928–1941 and the "Cortina Metálica" midfield; Olympic gold 1928, 1930 World Cup winner, army colonel, died 1957.
Álvaro González (footballer, born 1990)
Álvaro González Soberón (born 1990, Potes, Cantabria), Spanish centre-back for Racing Santander, Zaragoza, Espanyol, Villarreal, Marseille, Al-Nassr, Al-Qadsiah, Johor, and Tenerife; retired 2025; cleared in the 2020 Neymar racism case.
Alvaro I of Kongo
Alvaro I of Kongo was king of the Kingdom of Kongo from 1567 or 1568 until 1587, best known for surviving the Jaga invasion of 1568–1570 with Portuguese military aid.
Álvaro Martín
Álvaro Martín (Álvaro Rafael Martín Uriol, born 1994) is a Spanish race walker from Llerena, world 20km and 35km champion in Budapest 2023, Paris 2024 mixed relay gold and 20km bronze medallist, retired September 2024.
Álvaro Medrán
Álvaro Medrán (Álvaro Medrán Just), Spanish central midfielder born 1994 in Dos Torres, Córdoba; Real Madrid academy product who debuted in 2014, scored in the Champions League, later played for Valencia, Chicago Fire, and Al Ettifaq in Saudi Arabia.