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Alvin Langdon Coburn
Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966) was an American-born photographer who later became a British citizen, known for Pictorialist portraits and for the Vortographs, the first intentionally abstract photographs.
Alvin Lee
Alvin Lee (Graham Anthony Barnes, 1944–2013), English blues-rock guitarist and singer who fronted Ten Years After; famed for the fast "I'm Going Home" at Woodstock 1969 and the hit "I'd Love to Change the World."
Alvin Leung (梁经伦)
Alvin Leung (梁經倫), the self-taught 'Demon Chef' born in London and raised in Toronto, founded Hong Kong's Bo Innovation (up to three Michelin stars), created X-treme Chinese cuisine, judged MasterChef Canada, and runs restaurants worldwide.
Alvin Liberman
Alvin Liberman (1917–2000) was an American experimental psychologist who founded the study of speech perception at Haskins Laboratories and proposed the motor theory of speech perception.
Alvin M. Johnston
Alvin M. "Tex" Johnston was an American test pilot who flew the first flights of the Boeing B-52 prototype and barrel-rolled the 707's Dash 80 prototype in 1955.
Alvin M. Mauer
Alvin M. Mauer was an American pediatric hematologist known for measuring granulocyte and leukemia cell turnover and for serving as the second director of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Alvin M. Weinberg
Alvin M. Weinberg was an American nuclear physicist who directed Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1955 to 1973, coauthored the first comprehensive text on nuclear reactor theory, and coined "big science."
Alvin McDonald
Alvin Frank McDonald (1873–1893), also signed ZUQ, was the first tour guide and systematic explorer of Wind Cave, South Dakota, mapping 8–10 miles by candlelight before dying of typhoid at 20.
Alvin Moreau
Alvin Moreau (June 6, 1910 - July 7, 1990), American hurdler from Marksville, Louisiana; equaled the 110 m hurdles world record of 14.2 s at Oslo in 1935, captained LSU's 1933 NCAA championship team, and later coached LSU track to six conference titles.
Alvin P. Shapiro
Alvin P. Shapiro (born 1920) was an American physician and hypertension researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine who studied how stress affects blood pressure.
Alvin Plantinga
Alvin Plantinga, also known as Alvin Carl Plantinga, is an American analytic philosopher who taught at Notre Dame and is known for his free-will defense and Reformed epistemology.
Alvin Robertson
Alvin Robertson (born 1962, Barberton, Ohio) is a former NBA shooting guard, 1984 Olympic gold medalist, 1986 Defensive Player of the Year and Most Improved Player, and career leader in steals per game at 2.71.
Alvin S. Johnson
Alvin S. Johnson (Alvin Saunders Johnson, 1874–1971) was an American economist who co-founded the New School in 1919 and led its refugee-rescuing University in Exile from 1933.
Alvin Stardust
Alvin Stardust, stage name of Bernard William Jewry (also Shane Fenton), English glam rock singer; "My Coo Ca Choo" (UK No 2, 1973), "Jealous Mind" (UK No 1, 1974), 1980s comeback with "Pretend"; died 2014.
Alvin Toffler
Alvin Toffler (1928–2016), American futurist and author of Future Shock (1970), The Third Wave (1980), and Powershift (1990); coined future shock, information overload, and prosumer, and deeply influenced China's 1980s reformers.
Alvin Trivelpiece
Alvin Trivelpiece (1931–2022) was an American plasma physicist known for the Trivelpiece–Gould modes, the textbook Principles of Plasma Physics, and directing Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Alvin V. Tollestrup
Alvin V. Tollestrup (1924–2020) was an American accelerator physicist at Fermilab who led the design of the Tevatron's 1,000 superconducting magnets and co-founded the CDF collaboration.
Alvin W. Thompson
Alvin W. Thompson, born in 1953, is a senior judge on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
Alvin York
Alvin Cullum York (1887–1964), Tennessee marksman and Medal of Honor recipient, silenced machine guns and captured 132 Germans on October 8, 1918, in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, later founding the York Institute.
Alvis Car and Engineering Company
Alvis Car and Engineering Company was a Coventry firm founded in 1919 that built luxury cars, aero engines, and military vehicles; car production ended in 1967.
Alvis Saladin
The Alvis Saladin, also known as the Saladin armored car, is a British six-wheeled armored car with a 76 mm gun, produced by Alvis from 1958 to 1972 for reconnaissance.
Alvise Cadamosto
Alvise Cadamosto, also Alvise da Mosto, was a Venetian patrician and navigator who sailed along the West African coast in 1455 and 1456 for Prince Henry the Navigator.
Alvise Pérez
Alvise Pérez (Luis Pérez Fernández, born 1990, Seville) is a Spanish far-right agitator and MEP for Se Acabó La Fiesta (SALF), which won 800,763 votes and three seats in the 2024 European election; he is non-attached, lost his two fellow MEPs, and had immunity lifted in April 2026.
ALVO study
ALVO study (NCT02818868): Japanese multicenter observational registry of 686 patients with acute large vessel occlusion stroke and atrial fibrillation started on apixaban within 14 days; 9.6% composite death/bleeding/ischemia at 90 days, 17.5% at one year.
Alvocidib
Alvocidib, developed as flavopiridol, is a semisynthetic flavonoid CDK inhibitor derived from rohitukine that entered human trials in the late 1990s as a treatment for acute myeloid leukemia.
Alvor Agreement
The Alvor Agreement (Acordo de Alvor) was a treaty signed on 15 January 1975 between Portugal and the FNLA, MPLA, and UNITA, setting Angolan independence for November 1975.
Alvord Desert
Alvord Desert: a large dry playa (6 by 11 miles) in southeastern Oregon east of Steens Mountain, a former Pleistocene lake bed with hot springs, borax-mining history, and BLM wilderness study area status.
Alvvays
Alvvays (pronounced "always") is a Canadian indie pop band formed 2011 in Charlottetown, PEI, now based in Toronto, led by Molly Rankin of the Rankin Family; albums Alvvays (2014), Antisocialites (2017), Blue Rev (2022).
Alvy Moore
Alvy Moore (Jack Alvin Moore, 1921–1997), American character actor who played scatterbrained county agent Hank Kimball in 142 episodes of CBS's Green Acres (1965–1971); also Iwo Jima Marine, Broadway Mister Roberts Ensign Pulver, and film producer of A Boy and His Dog.
Alwahda Park
Alwahda Park (حديقة الوحدة, Unity Park) is a 5.9-acre public park in Sana'a, Yemen, on Algiers Street in the Al-Wahda district, open daily 06:00 to midnight, distinct from same-named parks in Seiyun and Amman.