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Albert Starr
Albert Starr (1926–2024) was an American cardiovascular surgeon who, with engineer Lowell Edwards, developed and implanted the first successful artificial heart valve in Portland, Oregon, in 1960.
Albert Steffen
Albert Steffen (1884–1963) was a Swiss poet, novelist, and playwright who edited the weekly Das Goetheanum for 42 years and chaired the General Anthroposophical Society from 1925 until his death.
Albert Stevens
Albert Stevens (1887–1966), known as CAL-1, was an American house painter secretly injected with plutonium in 1945 in a Manhattan Project experiment at the University of California Hospital, San Francisco.
Albert Stöckl
Albert Stöckl (1823–1895) was a German Catholic priest and philosopher, a leading champion of Neo-Scholasticism whose textbooks made Eichstätt a center of the scholastic revival.
Albert Stolow
Albert Stolow is a Canadian physical chemist who developed time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy for studying ultrafast molecular dynamics, and is Canada Research Chair in Molecular Photonics at the University of Ottawa.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893–1986) was a Hungarian biochemist who isolated vitamin C from paprika, won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and discovered the muscle proteins actin and myosin.
Albert Taillandier
Albert Philippe Taillandier (1879–1945), French amateur track sprint cyclist, sometimes listed as Georges Taillandier; won the men's sprint gold at the 1900 Paris Olympics and the 1900 Grand Prix de Paris for amateurs.
Albert Thomas Price
Albert Thomas Price (1903–1978) was a British geophysicist who developed methods for separating geomagnetic variations into external and internal parts and modeling induction in the Earth.
Albert Vandeweghe
Albert Joseph "Al" Vande Weghe (1916-2002), American backstroke swimmer, won 1936 Olympic silver in the 100 m backstroke, set six world records, first under one minute for 100 yards, introduced the backstroke flip turn.
Albert Verwey
Albert Verwey (1865–1937) was a Dutch poet, critic, and translator who co-founded De Nieuwe Gids in 1885, edited De Beweging, and taught Dutch literature at Leiden.
Albert Victor Bäcklund
Albert Victor Bäcklund (1845–1922) was a Swedish mathematician and physicist at Lund University, known for the Bäcklund transformations, which generate new solutions of differential equations, and for his 1883 surface construction.
Albert von Behaim
Albert von Behaim (c. 1180 – 1260) was a Bavarian cleric and legal expert who served four popes and enforced Frederick II's excommunication in Bavaria from 1239.
Albert von Kölliker
Albert von Kölliker (1817–1905) was a Swiss anatomist, histologist, and embryologist, professor at Würzburg from 1847, who introduced the term cytoplasm and wrote the first histology handbook.
Albert W. Tucker
Albert W. Tucker, born Albert William Tucker, was a Canadian-American mathematician at Princeton University who named the prisoner's dilemma and co-created the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions in nonlinear programming.
Albert Wang
Albert Wang (Wang Can) is a Chinese technology entrepreneur from Chongqing who co-founded the children's apparel e-commerce company PatPat in Mountain View, California, in 2014 and has been its chief executive officer since October 2014.
Albert Warner
Albert Warner (Aaron Wonsal, 1884–1967), Polish-born American film executive, co-founder of Warner Bros. with brothers Harry, Sam, and Jack; served as treasurer and head of distribution until selling his stock in 1956.
Albert Wass
Albert Wass (Wass Albert, 1908–1998), Transylvanian Hungarian forestry engineer and writer, author of Farkasverem and A funtineli boszorkány; sentenced to death in absentia by Romania's Cluj People's Tribunal in 1946; emigre in the USA from 1952; a politically contested figure.
Albert Weixlbaumer
Albert Weixlbaumer is a structural biologist who led the 2008 RF2 ribosome structure behind the 2009 Chemistry Nobel and runs a lab at the IGBMC in France.
Albert Wendt
Albert Wendt, born in Apia, Samoa, in 1939, is a Samoan novelist and poet whose 1973 first novel, Sons for the Return Home, is hailed as the first Pacific novel.
Albert Wenger
Albert Wenger is a venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures in New York, known for early investments in Etsy and Tumblr and for the book The World After Capital.
Albert Wesker
Albert Wesker is the principal recurring villain of Capcom's Resident Evil franchise, debuting in 1996 as an Umbrella double agent, gaining superhuman powers from the Prototype virus, and dying in Resident Evil 5 (2009); voted #1 franchise villain.
Albert Whitford (astronomer)
Albert Edward Whitford (1905–2002) was an American astronomer who pioneered photoelectric photometry, derived the Whitford reddening law for interstellar dust, and directed Lick Observatory from 1958 to 1968.
Albert Wiggins
Albert Wiggins (Albert Marcus Wiggins, Jr., 1935–2011), American swimmer from Pittsburgh and Ohio State; 1956 Olympic 100 m backstroke finalist, butterfly world record holder, first American with AAU titles in three strokes.
Albert Woolson
Albert Henry Woolson (1850–1956), Union drummer and bugler in the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery, was the last surviving Union Civil War veteran and last GAR member, dying in Duluth in 1956.
Albert Z. Kapikian
Albert Z. Kapikian (1930–2014) was an American virologist at NIAID who identified the first norovirus and hepatitis A virus and led the first licensed rotavirus vaccine.
Albert Zafy
Albert Zafy (1927 – October 2017) was a Malagasy thoracic surgeon and politician who defeated longtime ruler Didier Ratsiraka in 1993 to become Madagascar's first democratically elected president.
Albert Zapanta
Albert Zapanta is an American politician and retired U.S. Army general elected Mayor of Irving, Texas, in 2026, after serving on the city council from 2018.
Albert Zhang
Albert Zhang is an Indonesian-based technology entrepreneur who co-founded Traveloka in Jakarta in 2012 with Ferry Unardi and Derianto Kusuma, after working as an engineer at NetSuite.
Albert Zlotnik
Albert Zlotnik is an immunologist known for chemokine research whose 1994 discovery of lymphotactin established a new structural class, and who later showed chemokine receptors guide breast cancer metastasis.
Albert Zurner
Albert Zürner (1890-1920), German diver from Hamburg's SV Stern, won 1908 Olympic springboard gold (85.50) and 1912 platform silver (72.60), finished fourth at 1906 Athens, and died in a diving accident.