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Al-fadl ibn Naubakht
Al-fadl ibn Naubakht, (also written Nowbakht), was an 8th century Persian scholar at the court of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid. He was son of the famous Naubakht, a former Zoroastrian, who had designed Baghdad. Fadl was appointed by the Caliph as chief librarian of the Khizānat al-Hikmah (The Treas..
Al-Faiz
Al-Faiz (b.1149 d.1160) was the thirteenth Caliph of the Fatimids (1154-1160). He succeed his father Az-Zafir (1149-1154) as a child, with the vizir Tali ibn Russik acting as regent. Tali attempted to address the dominance of the Crusaders in Palestine through an alliance of the Fatimids and the Z..
Al-Fajr
Al-Fajr may refer to: Al-Fajr (sura), the 89th sura of the Qur'anFajr, the first of the five salat prayersAl-Fajr (Tunisian newspaper), the now-defunct newspaper of the banned Tunisian Islamist opposition movement Al-NahdaOperation Phantom Fury This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page..
Al-Fajr (sura)
right Surat Al-Fajr (Arabic: ‎ Sūrät al-Faǧr, The Dawn, Daybreak) is the 89th sura of the Qur'an with 30 ayat. Preceded by:Al-Ghashiya Sura 89 Succeeded by:Al-Balad The Qur'an 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38..
Al-Falah Society
Al-Falah Society is one of the neighborhoods of Shah Faisal Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. There are several ethnic groups in Shah Faisal Town including Urdu speakers, Punjabis, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochs, Memons, Bohras, Ismailis. Over 99% of the population is Muslim. The ..
Al-Falaq
"The Dawn" redirects here. For the Filipino rock band, see The Dawn (band). 250px Surat Al-Falaq (Arabic: سورة الفلق ) (Dawn, Daybreak) is the 113th Sura of the Qur'an. It is a brief 5-verse invocation, asking God for protection from evil. It is a Makkan sura. Summary, Lines 1-4 This..
Al-Fao
Al-Fao is a self-propelled artillery system designed for the Iraqi Army by the late Canadian weapons engineer, Gerald Bull. It is one of the world's most powerful artillery pieces, with a calibre of 210mm and a range of 45,000 metres (28 miles). The Al Fao, which weighs 48 tons, is claimed to be abl..
Al-Farabi
--> Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد فارابی) or Abū Nasr al-Fārābi (in some sources, known as Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Tarkhan ibn Uzalagh al-Farabi), also known in the West as Alpharabius, Al-Farabi, Farabi, and Abunaser (870–950 CE) was an Islami..
Al-Farabi University
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Kazakh: Казахский Национальный университет им. аль-Фараби), often shortened to Al-Farabi University, is a university in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It is the country's primary and largest university. The University was found..
Al-Farazdaq
Hammam ibn Ghalib Abu Firas, (Arabic: ‎)commonly known as al-Farazdaq (Arabic: ‎) (Ar. "lump of dough") (c. 641 - c. 728 or 730), was an Arab poet. He was born at Basra. He was a member of the Darim, one of the most respected divisions of the Bani Tamim, and his mother was of the tribe ..
Al-Farghani
Abu 'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani (Arabic: أبو العبّاس أحمد بن محمد بن كثير الفرغاني , and known as Alfraganus in the West) was one of the famous astronomers working for the Abbasid caliphs in the 9th century. He was involved in the measuremen..
Al-Farisi
Kamal al-Din Abul Hasan Muhammad Al-Farisi (in Persian: كمال الدين ابوالحسن محمد الفارسي) (1260 - 1320) was a prominent Persian mathematician and physicist. He made two major contributions to mathematics, one on optics, the other on number theory. His work on light, co..
Al-Fashir
Al Fashir (Arabic: الفاشر) is a capital city of North Darfur, Sudan. It is located at around [13°37′60″N, 25°21′0″E]. ..
Al-Fath
Surat Al-Fath (Arabic: سورة الفتح ) (Victory, Conquest) is the 48th sura of the Qur'an with 29 ayat. Preceded by:Muhammad Sura 48 Succeeded by:Al-Hujraat The Qur'an 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 4..
Al-Fatiha
Manuscript of Sura Sura Al-Fatiha (الفاتحة), "The Opening," is the first chapter of the Muslim holy book, the Qur'an. Its seven verses are a prayer for God's guidance and stress the lordship and mercy of God. This chapter has a special role in traditional daily prayers, being recited ..
Al-Fatiha (disambiguation)
Al-fatiha may refer to: the first chapter of the Muslim holy book, the qur'an; see Al-Fatihathe Al-Fatiha Foundation, an organization of gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referre..
Al-Fatiha Foundation
LGBT movements  Around the world ·   · · Opposition · Violence The Al-Fatiha Foundation is an organization devoted to advancing the cause of gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims. It was founded in 1998 by Faisal Alam, a Pakistani American, and is registered as a nonp..
Al-Faw Peninsula
Al-Faw Peninsula, Iraq This article is about the Iraqi peninsula. See also the Al-Fao artillery system. The al-Faw peninsula (Arabic: شبه جزيرة الفاو; also transliterated as al-Fao or al-Fawr) is a marshy region adjoining the Persian Gulf in the extreme south-east of Iraq, betwe..
Al-Fazari
al-Fazari can refer to: Ibrahim al-Fazari, 8th century Persian astronomerMohammad al-Fazari, 8th century Persian astronomer and translator redirect[[Template:Disambig]]..
Al-Fil
Surat al-Fil (Arabic: سورة الفيل ) (The Elephant) is the 105th chapter of the Qur'an. It is a Makkan sura consisting of 5 ayat. It describes the incidents of the Year of the Elephant, the year when Muhammad was born. It forms a pair with the following sura, Quraish, reminding the Quraysh..
Al-Foraih
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } The Al-Foraih family (Arabic: الفريح) (also sp..
Al-Fuqra'
Jamaat Al-Fuqra' (alternatively Jamaat ul-Fuqra) (Arabic جماعة الفقراء) is a Pakistan and US-based extremist group believed to be responsible for the fatal stabbing of Muslim schismatic Rashad Khalifa in 1990, and the assassination of Ahmadiyya sect leader Mozaffar Ahmad in 1983. U.S. of..
Al-Furqan
Surat Al-Furqan (Arabic: سورة الفرقان ) (The Criterion, The Standard) is the 25th sura of the Qur'an with 77 ayat. The name "The Criterion" refers to the Qur'an itself as the decisive factor between the Good and the Evil. The meaning of this word is to distinguish between good and bad. ..
Alf's Hit Talk Show
Alf's Hit Talk Show was an American cable television talk show on the TV Land network. It ran for seven episodes in 2004. The host is Alf, of '80s television fame. At the beginning of each show, Alf is introduced by his "sidekick," Ed McMahon. The show runs in a 30-minute block and has featured gue..
Alf's Imperial Army
Alf's Imperial Army was the creation of The Wizard of New Zealand in 1972 at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It is a proponent of pacifist warfare and battles against enemies of Her Majesty the Queen using strictly non-lethal weapons, such as newspaper swords, cardboard shields, and fl..
Alf-Inge Haaland
Alf-Inge Rasdal Haaland (born 23 November 1972 in Stavanger, Norway) is a former football player. He played his club football for Bryne F.K., and later played for Nottingham Forest F.C., Leeds United F.C. and Manchester City F.C.. He stood at 5'10' (178 cm), and played in the midfield position. Haa..
Alf. FAP David Figueroa Fernandini Airport
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Alf: The Animated Series
Alf: The Animated Series (AKA Alf on Melmac) was a spinoff animated cartoon based on a live-action series of the same name. It premiered on September 26, 1987 and ran for 26 episodes. The show was a prequel, depicting Alf's life back on his home planet of Melmac. Since the name "ALF" was an acron..
Alfa
Alfa may refer to: A Land Far AwayAlfa (beer)Alfa (rocket)Alfa class submarineAlpha GroupAlfa Romeo See also: alpha. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to poi..
Alfa-Vita Vassilopoulos
"Alfa-Vita Vassilopoulos" (Άλφα-Βήτα Βασιλόπουλος) or simply "AB" is one of the largest supermarket chain in Greece. The company has witnessed a dramatic growth the last years. They absorbed two Greek super-market chains (albeit much smaller than them, super-markets "Τροφό"..
Alfaião
Alfaião is a Portuguese parish in the municipality of Bragança. The population in 2001 is 173, its density is 8.87/km² and the area is 19.98 km². ..
Alfajor
peruvian alfajores Two alfajores ("black" and "white" flavours) An alfajor (Spanish, in IPA [alfa'xɔɾ] plural alfajores) is a traditional cookie in some South American countries, most notably Uruguay, Argentina, Peru and Chile. Its most basic form consists of two ..
Alfalfa
For the Our Gang (Little Rascals) character, see Carl Switzer. For the place, see Alfalfa, Oklahoma. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa), also known as Lucerne, Purple Medick and Trefoil, is a perennial flowering plant cultivated as an important forage crop. Alfalfa lives from five to twelve years, depen..
Alfalfa's Aunt
Alfalfa's Aunt is a one-reel comedy short subject; part of the Our Gang (Little Rascals) series. It was produced by Jack Chertok for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by George Sidney, and originally released to theatres by MGM on January 7, 1939. It is considered one of the best shorts in the Our Gan..
Alfalfa Club
The Alfalfa Club is an exclusive Washington, D.C. social organization, founded in 1913. The Club exists only to hold an annual banquet honoring the birthday of Civil War General Robert E. Lee. The club's membership, which numbers about 200, is composed primarily of American politicians and influent..
Alfalfa County, Oklahoma
Alfalfa County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of 2000, the population is 6,105. Its county seat is Cherokee6. Contents 1 Geography1.1 Adjacent counties2 Demographics3 Cities and towns4 NRHP Sites Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, th..
Alfalfa leafcutter bee
The Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee (Megachile rotundata) is a European species of bee that has been cultured in the United States solely for pollination purposes. As a solitary but gregarious bee species, it does not build colonies or store honey, but is a very efficient pollinator of alfalfa seed, carrot..
Alfama
Overlooking Alfama from Miradouro de Santa Luzía Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [Special] Alfama (pron. IPA: [aɫ'fɐmɐ]) is the oldest district of Lisbon close to the Tejo, known for its Fado bars and restaurants. Its name comes from the Arabic Al-hamma. Alf..
Alfândega da Fé
Alfândega da Fé Location - Region - Subregion - District or A.R.  NorteAlto Trás-os-MontesBragança Party João Sarmento PSD Area 322.0 km² Population - Total - Density 5,68818/km² parishes 20 Coordinates [41º21'N 6º58'W] Municipal..
Alfandra
A Usenet newsgroup in which dragons, friends of dragons, fans of dragons, dragon role-players, or anyone else can chat comfortably without fear of being flamed for their beliefs/likes. Topics can cover anything; they do not have to be dragon-related. The newsgroup is text-only, as many newsreaders d..
Alfandria
Contents 1 What is Alfandria?2 How to connect2.1 To the newsgroup2.2 To the MUCK2.2.1 Using any Telnet program2.2.2 In Windows, using the included Telnet program2.2.3 In Mac OS X, using the included Telnet program2.2.4 In Linux, using the included telnet pr..
Alfani
Alfani is a popular house brand for clothing and shoes for Bloomingdales and Macy's, which belong to a major chain of department stores called FDS (Federated Department Stores). ..
Alfano I, Archbishop of Salerno
Saint Alfano I (also Alfanus or Alpuhans), (died 1085) Archbishop of Salerno from 1058 to his death, was famed as a translator, writer, theologian, and medical doctor in the eleventh century. He was a physician before he became archbishop, one of the earliest great doctors of the Schola Medica Sale..
Alfapet
Alfapet is the Swedish name for the game Scrabble. It's a pun on the word alfabet ("alphabet"). ..
Alfarista Radical Front
The Alfarista Radical Front (Spanish: Frente Radical Alfarista) is a centrist liberal party in Ecuador, founded in 1972. One of its best known figures is former acting president Fabián Alarcón. The party is named after the most prominent liberal politician in Ecuadorian history, Eloy Alfaro, who..
Alfaro Vive, Carajo!
Alfaro Vive, Carajo! is the second EP by At the Drive-In. Released in 1995, the work captures the enthusiastic dynamic of the band. "Plastic Memories", featured only on the CD version, is an earlier version of "Picket Fence Cartel" which reappears in their EP, El Gran Orgo. Track listing "Bradley..
Alfatar
Alfatar (Bulgarian Алфатар) is a town in Northeastern Bulgaria. It is located in Silistra oblast and is close to the town of Silistra. ..
Alfa (rocket)
Alfa was the designation of an Italian program for the development of efficient solid-propellant rockets. The Alfa rocket was planned as two-stage rocket. It was never developed to completion, however test launches with upper stage mockup from Salto di Quirra took place between 1973 and 1975. The A..
Alfa Bank
Alfa Bank, the corporate treasury of the Alfa Group, is one of the largest commercial banks in the Russian Federation. Its headquarters are in Moscow, Kalanchevskaya street. External links [Alpha bank corporate site][Russian website] ..
Alfa Brewery
Alfa Brewery (Alfa Brouwerij) is a family owned independent brewery located in Schinnen, the Netherlands. Alfa was started in 1870 by Joseph Meens and is one of the few independent breweries left in the Limburg province. Contents 1 Availability2 Brief details3 Awards4&nb..
Alfa Brigade
The Alfa Brigade is the Elite Russian Special Operations Counter Terrorism Unit. Notable efforts of the Alfa Brigade include ending the Moscow Theater Siege on October 23,2002 and killing Chechen Rebel Leader Movsar Barayev. By military logic the casualty figures of the siege categorize the outcom..
Alfa Cable Television
Alfa Cable is a cable television company in Tirana, Albania. It offers many popular international channels from western europe and the Balkan. Though the channels it offers change sometimes rapidly, some of the more consistent and mopre popular ones are: Sky Cinema 1, Italia 1, Canale 5, Rette 4..
Alfa class submarine
Alfa class submarine at sea. The Soviet Union/Russian Navy Project 705 (Lira) was a submarine class of hunter/killer nuclear powered vessels (Podvodnaya Lodka Atomnaya). The class is also known by the NATO reporting name of Alfa. They were the fastest and one of the deepest diving military sub..
Alfa Group
Alfa Group Consortium is one of Russia's largest privately owned financial-industrial conglomerates, with interests in oil and gas, commodities trading, commercial and investment banking (Alfa Bank), insurance, retail trade and telecommunications. The group was founded by Mikhail Fridman (one of the..
Alfa Kappa Pi
Alfa Kappa Pi (AΚΠ) is a medical college fraternity started on February 13 2005 on the campus of Universidad Central del Este in the Dominican Republic. It is also registered in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is a Fraternity for Medical Students and Medical Professionals who wish to expand their knowle..
Alfa Laval
Alfa Laval AB is a Swedish company, founded in 1883 by Gustaf de Laval and Oscar Lamm. The company is a leading producer of specialized products and solutions used to heat, cool, separate and transport products such as oil, water, chemicals, beverages, foodstuffs, starch and pharmaceuticals. Con..
Alfa Matrix
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Alfa Pendular
Alfa Pendular is the name of the pendolino high-speed train of Portuguese state railway company CP. It connects the cities of Braga, Porto, Aveiro, Coimbra, Santarém, Lisbon, Albufeira and Faro, among others. Its top speed is 220 km/h (136.7 mph). Its tilting technology allows the train to negot..
Alfa Romeo
Alfa Romeo is an Italian automobile manufacturer. Alfa Romeo has been a part of Fiat SpA since 1986. The company was originally known as ALFA, which is an acronym for Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili (translated: Lombard Automobile Factory, Public Company). (First logo: [link]) C..
Alfa Romeo 145
Alfa Romeo 145 & 146 Manufacturer: Alfa Romeo Production: 1994–2001 Body Styles: FF compact 3- or 5-door hatchback Predecessors: Alfa Romeo 33Alfa Romeo 75 Successors: Alfa Romeo 147 Competitors: Audi A3Citroën XsaraCitroën ZXFord EscortPeugeot 306Renault MeganeToyota CorollaVolkswa..
Alfa Romeo 147
Alfa Romeo 147 Manufacturer: Alfa Romeo Production: 2000–present Body Styles: FF compact 3-door & 5-door hatchback Predecessors: Alfa Romeo 145/146 Successors: Still in productionAlfa Romeo 149 Competitors: Audi A3BMW 1-Series The Alfa Romeo 147 is a compact automobile produced by th..
Alfa Romeo 149
The Alfa Romeo 149 is the replacement for the model Alfa Romeo 147. It should come at the end of 2007. ..
Alfa Romeo 155
Alfa Romeo 155 Manufacturer: Alfa Romeo Production: 1992–1998 Body Styles: FF mid-size sedan Predecessors: Alfa Romeo 75 Successors: Alfa Romeo 156 Competitors: Audi A4BMW 3 SeriesCitroën XantiaFord MondeoMercedes-Benz C-Class The Alfa Romeo 155 was a mid-size sedan automobile pr..
Alfa Romeo 156
The Alfa Romeo 156, manufactured by Alfa Romeo, is a large family car introduced in 1997 as the replacement for the 155. Its distinctive style with its high curved flanks made it, to some, the best looking car in its class. For many, this is the car with the 'hidden' rear door handles which are no..
Alfa Romeo 159
2005 Alfa Romeo 159 The Alfa Romeo 159 is a mid-size sedan produced by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo since 2005. The 159, the replacement for the hugely successful Alfa Romeo 156, was introduced in production form at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show. The Giugiaro-designed sedan uses the G..
Alfa Romeo 164
The rear of a Alfa Romeo 164 The Alfa Romeo 164 was a full-size automobile produced by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo from 1988 to 1997. Contents 1 Overview2 Design3 Styling4 Engines5 Timeline6 Trivia7 External links Overview First unveiled at t..
Alfa Romeo 166
Alfa Romeo 166 Manufacturer: Alfa Romeo Production: Left-hand drive: 1998-present Right-hand drive: 1998-October 2005 Body Styles: FF full-size sedan Engines: 2.0 Twin Spark2.5 V63.0 V62.4 JTD diesel (LHD only) Predecessor: Alfa Romeo 164 Successor: Still in production Competitors: Audi A..
Alfa Romeo 169
The Alfa Romeo 169 is the replacement for the Alfa Romeo 166. ..
Alfa Romeo 1750
The Alfa Romeo 1750 was a medium-priced range of cars presented in 1967 by Alfa Romeo. Designed by Bertone, the 1750 Berlina sedan and 1750 GTV coupe were introduced in 1967, based off the existing Giulia range of cars. They made use of the same body shell as their predecessors, but made significan..
Alfa Romeo 189
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Alfa Romeo 1900
The Alfa Romeo 1900 was a sports sedan designed by Orazio Satta for the Alfa Romeo company in 1950. It was Alfa Romeo's first car built entirely on a production line. The 1900 was offered in two door or four door models, with a 1,884 cc, 90 bhp, 4 cylinder engine. It was spacious and simple, yet qu..
Alfa Romeo 2000
Alfa Romeo 2000 is a car produced by the Italian automobile manufacturing company Alfa Romeo as a successor to the 1900. First shown in 1957 on the Turin autosalon, the car was produced in two models, the Berlina with 105 hp and the Spider with 115 hp since 1958. In 1960, the Sprint was added. Th..
Alfa Romeo 250
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Alfa Romeo 260
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Alfa Romeo 2600
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [Special] The Alfa Romeo 2600 was Alfa Romeo´s six-cylinder flagship produced from 1961 to 1968, it was the successor to the Alfa Romeo 2000. It has become historically significant as the last Alfa Romeo to have been fitted with an inline si..
Alfa Romeo 33
Alfa Romeo 33 may refer to: Alfa Romeo Tipo 33, a sports car racing prototype used from 1968 to 1977Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale, a rare road going version of the race car, built in 1967 Alfa Romeo 33, a compact car produced between 1983 and 1994 This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a..
Alfa Romeo 33 (road car)
Alfa Romeo 33 Manufacturer: Alfa Romeo Production: 1983-1994 Body Styles: FF compact 5-door hatchback & station wagon Predecessors: Alfa Romeo AlfasudAlfa Romeo Arna (a stop gap car based on the Nissan Cherry) Successors: Alfa Romeo 145/146 Competitors: Ford EscortVolkswagen GolfLancia Delt..
Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [Special] The Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale is an extremely rare road car built by Alfa Romeo of Italy as only 18 are reported to have been made. The Stradale, first built in 1967, was based on the Autodelta Alfa Romeo T33 racing car. The car, desi..
Alfa Romeo 75
Alfa Romeo 75/Milano Manufacturer: Alfa Romeo Production: 1985-1992 Body Styles: FR compact sedan Predecessors: Alfa Romeo GiuliettaAlfa Romeo Alfetta Successor: Alfa Romeo 155 Competitors: The Alfa Romeo 75, sold in North America as the Alfa Romeo Milano, was a compact automobile prod..
Alfa Romeo 8C
1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 Mille Miglia from the Ralph Lauren car collection Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [media] Alfa Romeo's 8C was a famed sports car of the 1930s. The name referred to the straight 8 cylinder engine. The Vittorio Jano-designed 8C was Alfa's primary..
Alfa Romeo 90
Alfa Romeo 90 Manufacturer: Alfa Romeo Production: 1984–1987 Body Styles: FR mid-size sedan Predecessors: Alfa Romeo Alfa 6Alfa Romeo Alfetta Successors: Alfa Romeo 75 Competitors: The Alfa Romeo 90 was a mid-size automobile produced by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo betwee..
Alfa Romeo Alfasud
Alfa Romeo Alfasud Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [Special] The Alfa Romeo Alfasud was a compact car made by Alfa Romeo of Italy from 1971 to 1989. It was considered one of Alfa Romeo's most successful models. A common nickname for the car is ’Sud. It was built at a ..
Alfa Romeo Alfa 6
Alfa Romeo Alfa 6 Manufacturer: Alfa Romeo Production: 1979–1986 Body Styles: FR mid-size sedan Length/Width/Height: 4.76/1.68/1.42m Weight: 1480kg (petrol)1580kg (turbodiesel) Predecessors: None Successors: Alfa Romeo 164 Competitors: Number built: 12,070 The Alfa Romeo Alfa..
Alfa Romeo Alfetta
The Alfa Romeo Alfetta was an executive saloon car and fastback coupé produced from 1972 until 1984 by Alfa Romeo. It was popular due to its combination of a modest design with powerful engines, selling over 400,000 units until the end of its production run, but in the final years its sales were do..
Alfa Romeo Arna
Rear of an Alfa Romeo Arna The Alfa Romeo Arna was a subcompact automobile produced by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo between 1984 and 1986. Launched at the 1983 Frankfurt Motor Show, the Arna was a product of a short-lived partnership between Alfa Romeo and Japanese manufacturer Nissa..
Alfa Romeo Brera
250px Alfa Romeo Brera Spider Alfa Romeo Brera Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [Special] The Alfa Romeo Brera is an automobile due to be produced by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo from 2005, in both coupé and convertible (Spider) forms. Contents..
Alfa Romeo Flat-4 engine
Alfa Romeo developed a flat-4 engine for their new Alfasud, introduced in 1971. Contents 1 12002 13003 14004 15005 17006 1700 16V 1200 The original engine displaced 1.2 L (1186 cc) with an 80 mm bore and 59 mm stroke. Applications: 1971-1983 A..
Alfa Romeo Giulia
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [Special] The Alfa Romeo Giulia is an Alfa Romeo automobile. Alfa was the first to put a powerful engine in a light-weight car for mainstream production. The Giulia weighed about 1.000 kg or 2200 pounds. The car was equipped with a 1.6-lit..
Alfa Romeo GT
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Alfa Romeo GTA
Alfa Romeo GTA Manufacturer: Alfa Romeo Class: front-engined coupe Production: 1962- 1971 Predecessor: Giulietta Coupé Successor: Body styles: coupé Engines: 1570 cc The Alfa Romeo GTA was a coupé automobile manufactured by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo from 1962 to 1971. ..
Alfa Romeo GTV & Spider
Alfa Romeo GTV Spider The Alfa Romeo GTV and Alfa Romeo Spider are two automobiles produced by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo since 1995. The GTV is a four-seater coupe, with the Spider being essentially a convertible GTV, with only two seats. The pair were launched at the Geneva M..
Alfa Romeo Kamal
The Alfa Romeo Kamal is an SUV to be launched for the 2007 model year. It uses the Fiat Premium platform, shared with the 159, Spyder, and Brera. A version of the General Motors Premium V V8 engine (familiar as the Cadillac Northstar) will be used, at least in the United States market. ..
Alfa Romeo Model Register
Alfa Romeo Model Registers are individual bodies whose purpose is to share information relating to the specific Alfa Romeo models, helping owners of new or old cars to solve problems related to restoration, maintenance, spare parts and insurance valuations. Alfa 164 Model Register ..
Alfa Romeo Montreal
Alfa Romeo Montreal Manufacturer: Alfa Romeo Production: 1970–1977 Body Styles: FR coupe Weight: 1270kg Number built: 3917 The Alfa Romeo Montreal was a coupe automobile produced by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo from 1970 to 1977. The Montreal was introduced as a concept ca..
Alfa Romeo Nuvola
The Alfa Romeo Nuvola concept car was released at the Paris International Auto Show in 1996. It is a 2-door model featuring a 2.5 liter, twin-turbo V6 coupled with a 6-speed manual transmission which puts out 300bhp and can power the car to 166 mph. The chassis of the Nuvola is designed to handl..
Alfa Romeo P3
The Alfa Romeo P3 was a classic Grand Prix car designed by Vittorio Jano. It was based on the earlier successful Alfa P2. Taking lessons learned from that car, Jano went back to the drawing board to design a car that could last longer race distances. The P3 was first genuine single seater racing car..
Alfa Romeo Spider
This article is about the original Alfa Romeo Spider, launched in 1966. For the Alfa Spider launched in 1994, see Alfa Romeo GTV & Spider. For the Alfa Spider based on the Alfa Romeo Brera, see Alfa Romeo Brera. The Alfa Romeo Spider is a roadster produced by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo fro..
Alfa Romeo Sprint
Alfa Romeo Sprint Manufacturer: Alfa Romeo Production: 1976-1989 Body Styles: FF 3-door coupé Derived from: Alfa Romeo Alfasud Successors: Alfa Romeo Arna Alfa Romeo 33 (road car) The Alfa Romeo Sprint was a coupe version of the Alfa Romeo Alfasud, produced from 1976 to 1989 by Alfa Ro..
Alfa Romeo Sprint GT (Veloce)
The Alfa Romeo Sprint GT was a Coupé automobile manufactured by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo from 1965 until 1967. It was the successor to the celebrated Giulietta Coupé, informally called the "Series 105". It used the shortened floorpan from the Giulia Berlina car, and the body shape w..
Alfa Romeo SZ
Alfa Romeo SZ 1991 Alfa Romeo SZ 1991 Alfa Romeo RZ 1993 The Alfa Romeo SZ (ES-30 or Experimental Sportscar 3.0 litre) was a high performance limited production sports car/road-concept car built between 1989 and 1991 with partnership via Centro Stile Zagato, Centro Stile Alfa Romeo..
Alfa Romeo T33
The Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 was a sports car racing prototype raced by the Alfa Romeo factory team between 1967 and 1977. A small number of road going cars were derived from it in 1967, called Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale The number was also used in the 1980s for the unrelated road car, Alfa Romeo 33 (roa..
Alfa Romeo Twin Cam engine
The all alloy Alfa Romeo Twin Cam engine series was a inline-4 cylinder engine produced by Alfa Romeo from 1954 to 1994. For earlier Alfa Romeo engines featuring twin camshafts, refer to the main Alfa Romeo page. For the later Twin Spark engines which also feature twin camshafts, and are based on a..
Alfa Romeo Twin Spark engine
The Alfa Romeo Twin Spark (TS) technology was originally developed by Alfa in the early 1960s in their race cars (GTA, TZ) to enable it to achieve a higher power output from its engines. And in the early and middle 1980s, Alfa Romeo incorporated this technology into their road cars to enhance their..
Alfa Romeo V6 engine
Alfa Romeo's in-house V6 engine debuted in 1979 with the Alfa 6, and became famous in the later 164. Contents 1 2.51.1 Four-valve2 3.02.1 Four-valve 2.5 The original engine displaced 2.5 L and produced 154 hp (115 kW). It was a 2-valve design with a single b..
Alfa TV
Alfa TV is a premium television service available in Cyprus, that broadcasts Sports and children's programming as well as the odd film. It is owned by Alfa TV Ltd. and it launched in 1998. Alfa TV is one of only 2 pay-TV services in Cyprus, the other being Lumiere TV with whom Alfa TV has a progra..
Alfa Yaya of Labé
Alfa Yaya Maudo, of Labé in present-day Guinea, was a 19th-century ruler of the Fula people in the Fouta Djallon confederacy that included the interior of much of Guinea and Guinea-Bissau. In 1866, Alfa Yaya joined Al-Haj Umaru in the siege of Kansala, the capital of the kingdom of Kaabu. When Man..
Alfdorf
--> The municipality Alfdorf came into being in 1972 from the union of the earlier municipalities: the village Alfdorf, Pfahlbronn and Front-Steinenberg to the new municipality called village Alfdorf. With the new arrangement of the administrative districts the municipality Alfdorf came to Rems-Mu..
Alfedena
Alfedena is a comune and town in the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy ..
Alfeios River
For a Greek mythological figure see Alpheus. The Alfeiós (Greek: Αλφειός, also Alfiós) is a river in Peloponnese, Greece. Its source is near Megalopoli in the prefecture Arcadia. It flows along Olympia and empties into the Ionian Sea in the prefecture of Ilia, n..
Alfei Menashe
Alfei Menashe is an Israeli settlement of 5,400 people in Samaria, 2.5 miles south of Qalqilyah. Palestinian villagers that live in the Alfei Menashe enclave have protested over Israel's security fence in the area. In September 2005 Israel's Supreme Court ruled that the government must consider re..
Alfeld
Map of Germany showing Alfeld Alfeld is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on the Leine river in the district of Hildesheim. Population: 23,000. The town was founded in 1214. Sights in Alfeld include the town hall (1586) with its octagonal tower, the church Saint Nicolai and th..
Alfenas
Alfenas is a Brazilian city and municipality in southern Minas Gerais state. As of 2004 its population is estimated to be 74,272 and the area of the municipality is 849Km2. It is served by highways MG 179, BR 491 and BR 369. The distance to the state capital of Belo Horizonte is 335 km and the di..
Alfentanil
Alfentanil (Alfenta) is a parenteral short-acting synthetic opioid analgesic drug, used for anaesthesia in surgery. While it gives less cardiovascular complications, it tends to give stronger respiratory depression. Alfentanil is a Schedule I drug under the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs[..
Alfenus
Alfenus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Species Alfenus calamistratus Simon, 1902 (Congo)Alfenus chrysophaeus Simon, 1903 (Equatorial Guinea or Cameroon) Literature [Szűts, T. & Schaff, N. (2005): Redescriptions of little known jumping spider genera (Araneae: S..
Alfeo Brum
Alfeo Brum (1898-1972) Uruguayan politician, lawyer and Vice-President from 1947 to 1951, and 1951 to 1955 Alfeo Brum was born in Salto on March 22, 1898. He was a younger brother of President Baltasar Brum. He studied law, and became a lawyer. From his youth, he was a member of the Colorado Party...
Alferaki Palace
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Alferd Packer
Alferd Packer is one of the few people in the US to ever be jailed for cannibalism, having allegedly killed and eaten five of his travelling companions while trapped in the Rocky Mountains during fierce winter weather. Alferd Packer (January 21, 1842 – April 23, 1907) [#endnote_myr..
Alferez FAP Alfredo Vladimir Sara Bauer Airport
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Alferon Management
Alferon Management Limited of London is a management company for International Mineral Resources (IMR) in Kazakhstan. IMR is a part of the Eurasian Natural Resources Group, one of the world’s largest private mining and metals group owned by three Kazakh businessmen Alexander Mashkevich, Patokh Cho..
Alferrarede
Alferrarede Alferrarede is a Portuguese parish, located in the municipality of Abrantes, in district of Santarém. The parish has a population of 3,831 inhabitants and a total area of 23.62 Km².   Parishes of Abrantes municipality ..
Alfet
An alfet (mod. form would be ole-vat) was an ancient cauldron filled with boiling water, into which an accused person was to plunge his arm up to his elbow. If hurt, he was held guilty; if not, acquitted. It was also used for purgation. References This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyc..
Alfgang
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } The Alfgang was a short-lived Danish automobile, manuf..
Alfhausen
Alfhausen is a town which is a member of the amt Bersenbrück in the district Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. Contents 1 Geography1.1 Situation1.2 Climate2 History3 Sightseeings Geography Situation Alfhausen is nearly 27 km (air line) north of Osnabrück. Climate Moderate s..
Alfheim (disambiguation)
Alfheim is an old Norse place-name. It may refer to: Álfheim, home of the elves in Norse mythologyAlfheim Mountain Cabin, a cabin in Sunndal, NorwayAlfheim Stadium, a football stadium in Tromsø, Norway Alfheim is also the name of individual areas in several Norwegian municipalities. An area name..
Alfheim Stadium
Alfheim Stadium (Alfheim Stadion) is the home ground of the Norwegian Eliteserie football club Tromsø I.L.. Contents 1 The pitch2 The stands3 Fort Alfheim4 External link The pitch The grass pitch at Alfheim Stadium is the biggest in Norway, being 110 metres long and 70 meter..
Alfhild
In Norse mythology, Alfhild was a beautiful maiden engaged to King Alf. She dressed as a man to avoid marrying him. Then, he thinking she was a warrior, they battled almost to the death. Realizing he was as strong as she was, Alfhild married him. See also DísirShieldmaiden Norse mythology..
Alfhild Agrell
Alfhild Agrell (born Alfhild Martin in Härnösand; 13 January 1849 — 8 November 1923) was a Swedish writer. She was born to Erik Johan Martin and Karolina Margareta Adolphson, who worked as confectioners. From 1868 until 1995 she was married to the Stockholmer merchant A. Agrell. She also te..
Alfi
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } The Alfi was a German automobile built in Berlin by an..
Alfianello
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Alfie
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Alfie is a 1966 film starring Michael Caine. The film was remade in 2004 and starred Jude Law. Contents 1 Plot and other details2 Cast and crew2.1 Cast3 Trivia4 External link Plot and other details Alfie tells the story of a yo..
Alfieri Maserati
Alfieri Maserati (September 23 1887 in Voghera - March 3 1932 in Bologna) was an italian automotive engineer, known for establishing and leading the Maserati racing car manufacturer until his death. In 1903 he and his brother Bindo Maserati started working for Isotta-Fraschini in Milan, on their ol..
Alfie (2004 film)
Alfie is a 2004 American-British comedy romance film starring Jude Law as the title character. It is written and directed by Charles Shyer and a remake of the 1966 film of the same name starring Michael Caine. The 2004 version of Alfie takes place in New York City, rather than in London, where the..
Alfie (band)
Alfie is a Manchester-based Indie rock band. They were originally signed to Twisted Nerve records, but moved to Regal Zonophone Records. On October 27, 2005, they announced they were breaking up: http://www.nme.com/news/alfie/21358. Contents 1 Band members2 Discography2.1 Singles a..
Alfie (disambiguation)
Alfie is a 1966 film starring Michael Caine. Alfie may also refer to: Alfie (2004 film), a 2004 re-make of the film mentioned aboveAlfie (radio play), a radio play written by Bill Naughton that the above film was based on.Alfie (band), a Manchester-based indie rock bandThe Alfee, a Japanese rock ba..
Alfie Anido
Alfie Anido (December 31, 1959 – December 30, 1981) was a popular Filipino matinee idol best remembered today for having died tragically at the young age of 22. He was elder brother of Albert Anido, another Filipino actor. He was the eldest of four children of Alberto Anido and Sara Serrano. ..
Alfie Atkins
Alfie Atkins is a fictional character created by the author Gunilla Bergström from Sweden in 1972. Alfie Atkins appears in books and cartoons. In Swedish, he is known as Alfons Åberg. External links [Official Website] ..
Alfie Bass
--> Aflie Bass as "the Giant" in "The Goodies and the Beanstalk" (VHS) Alfred Bass (April 8 1921 – July 15 1987) was a diminutive cockney-accented Jewish actor, born in London's Bethnal Green. Among his most often seen films (by modern audiences), are The Lavender Hill Mob and A Tale..
Alfie Conn
Alfie Conn was a professional footballer, who was the first post-war player to play for both Celtic F.C. and Rangers F.C.. He shared his name with the famous East Coast footballing legend who was one of the 'Terrible Trio' of Heart of Midlothian F.C.in the 1950s. In between his stints with Celtic a..
Alfie Kohn
Alfie Kohn Alfie Kohn is an American lecturer and author in the fields of education, psychology and parenting, residing in Belmont, Massachusetts. He is an outspoken critic of American public education, particularly the trend toward pervasive standardized testing, and has written several books ..
Alfie Moon
Alfred 'Alfie' Moon was a fictional character in the popular British soap opera EastEnders. He was played by Shane Richie. Contents 1 Personality2 First episode3 Alfie's past4 Alfie and Kat5 Quotes6 Family7 External links Personality Alfie was a cheeky Cockne..
Alfie O'Meggan
Alfie O’Meagan is a fictional comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. He was the main villain in [[Nth_Man:_the_Ultimate_Ninja|Nth Man]] written by Larry Hama. His first appearance was in Marvel Comics Presents in 1988. Other appearances The Excalibur team of superheroes ran into..
Alfio Basile
Alfio Rubén Basile (born November 1 1943 in Bahía Blanca), also known as El Coco, is an Argentine football (soccer) coach and former player. El Coco Basile started playing in the small Bella Vista club from his home city. Then played from 1964 to 1970 for Racing Club, and for Huracán until 1975...
Alfio Bonanno
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since July 2006. } Alfio Bonanno, contemporary Italian-Australian singe..
Alfisols
Alfisol profile Alfisols are a soil order in USA soil taxonomy. Alfisols form in semiarid to humid areas, typically under a hardwood forest cover. They have a clay and nutrient-enriched subsoil. "Alf" refers to aluminium (Al) and iron (Fe). Because of their productivity and abundance, the A..
Alfitaria
Alfitaria is the largest and most technologically advanced city in the whole game of [[Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles]]. It has many markets and blacksmiths, the largest myrhh crystal in the game, and is the home of Castle Alfitaria, which is a key location in the game's largest side-quest. Alfit..
Alfold
For other uses please see Alfold (disambiguation) Alfold is small village on the Surrey/West Sussex border in England. Originally sited perhaps for the glass making (evidence of which can be seen in Sydney Wood). Charcoal was extensively burnt in the parish for gunpowder works in Dunsfold, Cranle..
Alfold (disambiguation)
Alfold is the name of an English village in Surrey. Alföld is also the name of the Hungarian parts of the Pannonian Plain: Great Alföld (also known as Alföld or the Great Hungarian Plain)Little Alföld (also known as the Little Hungarian Plain) See also AlfordAldfold This is a [disambiguati..
Alfond Arena
Alfond Arena is a 5,712-seat multi-purpose arena in Orono, Maine, USA. The arena opened in 1977. It is home to the University of Maine Black Bears ice hockey & basketball teams. It is recognizable for its unique multi-angular roof design, which was also used in the similarly-designed Pavilion at ..
Alfond Stadium
Alfond Stadium is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Orono, Maine. It opened in 1998. It is home to the University of Maine Black Bears football team. ..
Alfonse
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Alfonse, a given name, may refer to: Alfonse D'Amato,..
Alfonsi
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Alfonsi is a family name of Italian descent, the actua..
Alfonsina Molinari
Alfonsina Molinari (sometimes credited as Alfonsina Molinari-Rosaly), born c. 1975, is a Puerto Rican actress and opera singer. Molinari is the daughter of actress Johanna Rosaly and stage director Jose G. Molinari. Molinari became famous when she played the title character in television's Maripili..
Alfonsina Storni
Alfonsina Storni (May 29 1892 – October 25 1938) was one of the most important Ibero-American poetess of the postmodernism movement. Biography Alfonsina was born in Sala Capriasca, Switzerland to an Argentine beer industrialist while in Switzerland for a few years. There Alfonsina learned to sp..
Alfonsine tables
The Alfonsine tables were astronomical tables drawn up at Toledo by order of Alfonso X around 1252 to 1270 to correct the anomalies in the Tables of Toledo; they divided the year into 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, 16 seconds. They were originally written in Spanish and later translated into Latin. ..
Alfonsino
The Alfonsino or Alfonsin (Beryx decadactylus) is a deepwater fish that inhabits temperate and tropical ocean waters nearly worldwide, with the exception of the eastern Pacific. More generally, the name is also used to denote any member of the family Berycidae. Alfonsinos have large eyes and dee..
Alfonsín stamps
A number of stamps were issued in Argentina to celebrate the return to democracy after the military government with the asumption of president Raúl Alfonsín (in office from 10 December 1983 to 9 July 1989), and a state visit to the neighboring nation of Uruguay in November 1986. The Argentine..
Alfonso
Alfonso (Spanish and Italian), Alfons (German or Catalan), Afonso (Portuguese), Affonso (Portuguese), Alphonse (French and Italian), Alphons (Dutch), Alphonso (English), or Alphonzo (English) is a masculine name, originally from the Gothic language, in which it was Hildefuns, which is preserved in t..
Alfonso, Cavite
Alfonso is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 39,674 people in 8,045 households. It has a land area of 70.0 square kilometres. Barangays Alfonso is politically subdivided into 32 barangays. Barangay I (Pob.)Bara..
Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz
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Alfonso "Sito" Pons
Alfonso "Sito" Pons Ezquerra (born November 1959 in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish former motorcycle racer, who now runs a Honda team in MotoGP, with Alex Barros and Troy Bayliss his 2005 riders. He won the 250cc World Championship with Honda in 1988 and 1989. In 1990 he was awarded the Prince of A..
Alfonso Andria
Alfonso Andria (born on 27 May 1952 in Salerno) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Southern with the Margherita Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development. He is a substit..
Alfonso Arana
Alfonso Arana (1927-2005) was a Puerto Rican painter. Arana was born in New York City from Mexican father and Puerto Rican mother. When he was young, the family moved to San Sebastian, Puerto Rico, where the young painter spent his youth. At age six, Arana made his first picture and presented it ..
Alfonso Arau
Alfonso Arau (born January 11, 1932) is a Mexican director of such films as [[Zapata: The Dream of a Hero]], Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico, 1992) (the novel of which was written by his wife, Laura Esquivel), and A Walk in the Clouds, which starred Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn. He is also an ac..
Alfonso Barrantes Lingán
Alfonso Barrantes Lingán (1927, Cajamarca, Peru; d. December 2, 2000, Havana, Cuba) was a Peruvian politician in the mid 1980's. Affiliated with the United Left party, he was the mayor of Lima from 1984 to 1986. He ran for President in 1985 and came in second place. He was defeated in the runoff by..
Alfonso Bedoya
Alfonso Bedoya in Treasure of Sierra Madre Alfonso Bedoya (1904 - 1957) was a Mexican actor. Born in Sonora, Bedoya had, allegedly, a nomadic childhood upbringing that included an education in Houston, Texas. He found work in the US film industry in the 1930s and the Mexican industry in the 1..
Alfonso Bialetti
Alfonso Bialetti was the designer of the Moka Express coffee pot and founder Bialetti Industrie S.p.A. Contents 1 See Also2 Trivia3 Notes4 External links See Also Trivia L'Omino (a.k.a. the small man with a moustache) on the Bialetti logo is actually a caricature of Alfons..
Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport
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Alfonso Boone
Alfonso Boone (born January 11, 1976 in Saginaw, Michigan) is an American football defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears of the NFL. He was selected by the Detroit Lions with the 47th pick of the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft out of Mount San Antonio Junior College in Walnut, California. ..
Alfonso Brescia
Alfonso Brescia (6 January1930 - 6 June 2001) was an Italian film director of low budget films, sometimes credited as Al Bradley. Selected filmography Iron Warrior (1987)War of the Robots (1978)[[Cosmos: War of the Planets]] (1977)Battle of the Amazons (1973) External links ..
Alfonso Calzolari
Alfonso Calzolari is an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlights of his career were his three overall wins in the 1914 Giro d'Italia. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Alfonso Cano
Alfonso Cano is the nom de guerre of an important ideological leader of the FARC-EP ("Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - Ejército del Pueblo"). Cano's real name is Guillermo León Sáenz. It has been speculated the Cano would eventually be in line for assuming the position currently know..
Alfonso Cardinal López Trujillo
Alfonso Cardinal López Trujillo (born 8 November 1935) is a Colombian Cardinal Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church and president of the Pontifical Council for the Family. Biography Born in 1935 in Villahermosa, Tolima, López Trujillo moved to Bogotá as a young boy and attended university and the..
Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime
Alfonso Carlos de Bourbon, Duke of San Jaime (1849 - 1936) was the Legitimist claimant to the throne of France and the Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain. He married Maria Neves of Portugal and had one son, who however deceased as child. He left no surviving issue. "|Preceded by:Jaime III/Jac..
Alfonso Caruana
Police surveillance photo of Alfonso Caruana on the cover of Toronto Life Alfonso Caruana (Castelvetrano, January 1, 1946) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia and was the head of the Cuntrera-Caruana family branch in Canada. He acquired Canadian nationality in 1978. He was born in Castelvetran..
Alfonso Carvajal
Alfonso Carvajal is a Filipino actor and the younger brother of Monang Carvajal. ..
Alfonso Caso
Alfonso Caso y Andrade (Mexico City, 1896 - Mexico City, November 30th, 1970) was an archaeologist who made important contributions to pre-Columbian studies in his native Mexico. His notable discoveries include the excavations at Monte Albán including the famous "Tomb Seven" (in which several go..
Alfonso Castaneda, Nueva Vizcaya
Alfonso Castaneda is a 5th class municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 4,808 people in 873 households. Barangays Alfonso Castaneda is politically subdivided into 6 barangays. AbuyoGalintujaCauayanLipugaLublub (Pob.)Pelawa..
Alfonso Caycedo
Alfonso Caycedo (born in Bogotá, Colombia; 1932-11-19) was a neuro-psychiatrist and the creator of sophrology. ..
Alfonso Cuarón
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. -->Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (born November 28, 1961 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director. Alfonso Cuarón..
Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao
Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao (January 30 1886, Rianxo—1950) is one of the main symbols of Galicia (in Spain). As a politician, caricaturist and writer, he is one of the leading figures of Galician culture and identity. Early life Although born in Galicia, he spent his childhood and ado..
Alfonso de Anda
Poncho de Anda Alfonso de Anda aka Poncho de Anda (born July 25, 1974 in Mexico City) is a Mexican show host. He is the host for the entertainment segments at the Telemundo morning News Show “Hoy en el Mundo” and the morning show “De Mañanita”. He also has a gossip segment in “Al R..
Alfonso de Galarreta
Alfonso de Galarreta is a bishop of the Society of St. Pius X. He claims to be a member of the Roman Catholic Church; the Holy See claims that he is excommunicated and guilty of a schismatical act. Recently Cardinal Hoyos, head of the Ecclesia Dei Commission, has referred to this as a "situation o..
Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar
Don Alfonso de la Cueva-Benavides y Mendoza-Carrillo, marqués de Bedmar (first name also spelled Alonso, often used was the title Bedmar) (1572-August 10, 1655[#endnote_bedmarDates]) was a Spanish diplomat, bishop and cardinal. He was born in Bedmar, Spain, the son of Luis de la Cueva-Bena..
Alfonso de Nigris
Alfonso de Nigris (born May 3, 1976 in Monterrey, Nuevo León), also known as Poncho de Nigris, is a Mexican male model. His brother is the football player Antonio de Nigris. His paternal grandfather is Italian. External links () [Official Website] ..
Alfonso de Portago
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Alfonso de Zamora
Alfonso de Zamora was Spanish Rabbi who converted to Roman Catholicism. He was baptized in 1506; died 1531. He revised the Hebrew text for Ximenes's Polyglot Bible, translated the Chaldee paraphrase in it, and added the sixth volume. He published also a work called "Introductiones Hebraicae" (Alcal..
Alfonso Durazo
Alfonso Durazo Montaño is a Mexican politician and a former member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as chief spokesman and private secretary of President Vicente Fox. Durazo holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico an..
Alfonso Ferrabosco (I)
Alfonso Ferrabosco (Alfonso Ferrabosco (I); his son, Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger was also a composer) (baptized January 18, 1543 – August 12, 1588) was an Italian composer. While mostly famous as the solitary Italian madrigalist working in England, and the one mainly responsible for the gr..
Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger
Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (b. Greenwich, c1575; bur. Greenwich, March 11, 1628) was an English composer and viol player of Italian descent. He straddles the line between the Renaissance and Baroque eras. He was the illegitimate son of the Italian composer Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder. His mothe..
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora (November 18, 1804–January 5 1878) was an Italian general and statesman. His brother Alessandro La Marmora founded the branch of the Italian army now called the Bersaglieri. Biography Born in Turin, he entered the Sardinian army in 1823, and was a captain in March ..
Alfonso Fontanelli
Alfonso Fontanelli (February 15, 1557 – February 11, 1622) was an Italian composer, writer, diplomat, courtier, and nobleman of the late Renaissance. He was one of the leading figures in the musically progressive Ferrara school in the late 16th century, and one of the earliest composers in the se..
Alfonso Froilaz
Alfonso Froilaz, called the Hunchback or, in Spanish, el Jorobado, was the king of Galicia for a short time, from 925 to 926. He seems to have claimed Asturias and León as well, as the inheritor of Fruela II, but was driven from the realm by his cousins Sancho, Alfonso, and Ramiro, the sons of Ord..
Alfonso Gagliano
Alfonso Gagliano Alfonso Gagliano, PC (born January 25, 1942) is a Canadian accountant and a former Liberal Party politician. Born in Siculiana, Italy, his political career began in 1977 when he ran for a seat on the Montreal school board. In the 1984 federal election, he ran for Parliament..
Alfonso García Robles
Alfonso García Robles (20 March 1911 – 2 September 1991) was a Mexican diplomat and politician who, in conjunction with Sweden's Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. García Robles was born in Zamora, Michoacán, and trained in law at UNAM before joining his country's foreig..
Alfonso Gomez
Alfonso Gomez Profile Born October 28th, 1980 Birthplace Guadalajara, Mexico Nationality Mexican Residence Tustin, USA Height 5' 9" Classification Middleweight Boxing Record Fights 19 Wins (KOs) 14 (5) Losses 3 Draws 2 Results on The Contender First Round Beat Manfredo on points ..
Alfonso Gomez-Lobo
Dr. Alfonso Gomez-Lobo, a renowned professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Georgetown University, is known for his critical evaluations of modern day ethics. He is a member of the US Council on Bioethics. Born in Chile in 1940, Dr. Gomez-Lobo studied at five universities before completing..
Alfonso Guerra
Alfonso Guerra Alfonso Guerra González (born May 31, 1940 in Sevilla) is a Spanish politician. A leading member of the Socialist Workers' Socialist Party (PSOE), he served as Vice President of the Government (vicepresidente del Gobierno, i.e., equivalent to deputy Prime Minister) of Spain fro..
Alfonso Herrera
Alfonso Herrera (born 28 August 1983) is a Mexican actor known primarily for performances in Mexican telenovelas. He is also a member of the telenovela-derived music group RBD. As a kid, Alfonso, or Poncho as his friends call him, dreamed of becoming a pilot and wanted to move to San Antonio, Te..
Alfonso I
Alfonso I can refer to: Afonso I of Portugal, (1094-1195) (Afonso Henriques)Alfonso I of Asturias, (739-757)Alfonso I (of Castile), (1040-1109) the first King of Castile to be called Alfonso, but better known as Alfonso VI of Castile as he was the sixth Alfonso in the line that started with Alfonso ..
Alfonso II
Alfonso II can refer to: Alfonso II of Asturias (791-842)Alfonso II of Aragon (1152-1196)Afonso II of Portugal (1185-1223), "the Fat"Alphonso II of Naples (1448-1495)Alfonso II d'Este, duke of Ferrara from 1559 to 1597. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles ass..
Alfonso II, Count of Provence
Alfonso, Count of Provence (died 1209), was the son of Alfonso II of Aragon and Sancha of Castile. He married, in 1193, Gersenda II of Sabran, daughter of Rainou, Count of Forcalquier. They had a child, Raymond Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195 - d. 19 Aug 1245). According to explanation..
Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara
Alfonso II d'Este (November 22, 1533-1597) was duke of Ferrara from 1559 to 1597. He was a member of the house of Este. He was the elder son of Ercole II d'Este and Renée de France, the daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne of Brittany. As a young man, he fought in the service of Henry II ..
Alfonso III
There have been several monarchs called Alfonso III: Alfonso III of Leon -- (866-914) surnamed "the Great"Afonso III of Portugal -- (1210-1279)Alfonso III of Aragon -- (1285-1291)Alfonso III of Kongo -- (1666-1667) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associat..
Alfonso III of Aragon
redirect [[Template:Not verified]] Alfons or Alfonso III of Aragon (1265 – June 18, 1291, also Alfons II of Barcelona), surnamed the Liberal, was the king of Aragon and count of Barcelona from 1285 to 1291. He was a son of Peter III of Aragon and his Queen consort Constance of Sicily, daugh..
Alfonso III of León
Statue in Madrid (L.S. Carmona, 1750-53). Alfonso III (c.848–20 December 910), called the Great, was the king of Asturias from 866 until his death. He was the son and successor of Ordoño I. Little is known about Alfonso except the bare facts of his reign and of his comparative success in..
Alfonso II of Aragon
Alfonso II of Aragon Alfonso II of Aragon (Alfons I of Provence and Barcelona, 1152-1196), known as the Chaste or the Troubadour was king of Aragon and count of Barcelona from 1162 to 1196. He was the son of Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona and Petronila of Aragon. Born Ramon Berenguer, he asc..
Alfonso II of Asturias
Statue of Alfonso II at Santiago de Compostela. Alfonso II (759-842), called the Chaste, was the king of Asturias from 791 to his death, Alfonso I's reputed grandson, the son of Fruela I and the Basque Munia. He was born in Oviedo in 759 or 760. He was put under the guardianship of his aunt ..
Alfonso IV
Alfonso IV can refer to: Alfonso IV of Leon -- (924-931)Afonso IV of Portugal -- (1291-1357)Alfonso IV of Aragon -- (1327-1336) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the li..
Alfonso IV of Aragon
Alfonso IV of Aragon, surnamed the Kind (Catalan: Alfons el Benigne) (1299 – January 24 1336) was the king of Aragon and count of Barcelona (as Alfonso III) from 1327 to 1336. He was the second son of James II of Aragon and Blanche of Anjou. He became heir after his older brother James reno..
Alfonso IV of León
Alfonso IV (d. 933), called the Monk, was King of León from 925 (or 926) and of Galicia from 929, until he abdicated in 931. When Ordoño II died in 924 it was not one of his sons who ascended to the throne of León but rather his brother Fruela II of Asturias. The exact circumstances of the succe..
Alfonso IX of Leon
Alfonso IX (August 15, 1171 – September 23 or 24, 1230), first cousin of Alfonso VIII of Castile and numbered next to him as being a junior member of the family, is said by Ibn Khaldun to have been called the Baboso or Slobberer because he was subject to fits of rage during which he foamed at ..
Alfonso I d'Este
Alfonso d'Este (21 July, 1486 – 31 October, 1534) was Duke of Ferrara during the time of the War of the League of Cambrai. He was the son of Ercole d'Este I. In the Italian Wars he entered the League of Cambrai against Venice and remained an ally of Louis XII of France even after Pope ..
Alfonso I of Asturias
Statue in Madrid (J. Porcel, 1750-53). Alfonso I (more rarely Alonso), called the Catholic (el Católico), was the King of Asturias from 739 to his death in 757. He was son of Duke Peter of Cantabria, and held many lands in that region. He may have been the hereditary chief of the Basques (Va..
Alfonso I of Kongo
Alfonso I of the Kongo Empire, also called Nzinga Mbemba, was a devout Catholic African King. He was a son of King Nzinga and protested against injustice between Africans and Europeans. He assumed the throne in 1506. After his death, the Church did not thrive in the Congo. ..
Alfonso J. Cervantes
Alfonso J. Cervantes (August 27 1920 in St. Louis, Missouri - June 23 1983 in St. Louis, MO) was the forty-third Mayor of Saint Louis, Missouri (from 1965 to 1973). Contents 1 Personal Life & Early Political Career2 Term as Mayor3 Later life4 References Personal Life & Early..
Alfonso Lastras Ramirez
Alfonso Lastras Ramirez (November 24 1924–December 25 1999) was a Mexican lawyer and politician. He was born in the city of San Luis Potosí to a Spanish father and Mexican mother. His elementary studies were made at the Instituto Potosino. During the course of these studies he was invited..
Alfonso Leng
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Alfonso Lista, Ifugao
Alfonso Lista is a 4th class municipality in the province of Ifugao, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 21,167 people in 4,275 households. Barangays Alfonso Lista is politically subdivided into 20 barangays. BangarBusilacCalimagCalupaanCaragasanDolowogKilingNamna..
Alfonso Loera
Alfonso Loera Pico (born December 4, 1978 in Ensenada, Baja California) is a Mexican soccer defender. Loera spent part of the 2005 Major League Soccer season with C.D. Chivas USA. Loera came to Chivas USA as one of imports from parent club Chivas de Guadalajara, and also played for their other chi..
Alfonso López
Alfonso López may refer to one of three people: Alfonso López Caballero, Colombian Ambassador to London from 2002Alfonso López Michelsen, president of Colombia from 1974 to 1978Alfonso López Pumarejo, president of Colombia from 1934 to 1938 and from 1942 to 1945Alfonso Cardinal López Trujillo,..
Alfonso López Caballero
Alfonso López Caballero is an influential Colombian politician. He is the son of Alfonso López Michelsen, who was president from 1974 to 1978[link], and grandson of Alfonso López Pumarejo, who was president from 1934 to 1938, and once again from 1942 to 1945[link]. Biography..
Alfonso López Michelsen
Alfonso López Michelsen (b. June 30, 1913) is a Colombian politician. He was president of Colombia from 1974 to 1978. He is the son of Alfonso López Pumarejo, who was president from 1934 to 1938, and once again from 1942 to 1945. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Alfonso López Pumarejo
Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo (1886 - 1959) was a Colombian president and political figure, as a member of the Colombian Liberal Party. He served as president of Colombia for the first time between 1934 and 1938 and again between 1942 and 1945. Alfonso López Pumarejo born in Honda (Tolima), his father ..
Alfonso López Pumarejo Stadium
The Alfonso López Pumarejo Stadium is a soccer stadium located at University City of Bogotá. It is named after Alfonso López Pumarejo. ..
Alfonso Marshall
Alfonso Lanard Marshall (born January 17, 1981 in Clewiston, Florida) is an American football cornerback for the Chicago Bears. He was selected with the 14th pick of the seventh round of the 2004 NFL Draft out of the University of Miami. ..
Alfonso Martínez Domínguez
Alfonso Martínez Domínguez (January 7, 1922 – November 6, 2002) was a controversial Mexican politician affiliated to the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI). He served as a president of the PRI (1968 – 1970), senator (1988 – 1994, 1997 – 2000), mayor of Mexico City (197..
Alfonso Mondelo
Alfonso Mondelo (born August 13, 1958 in Baracaldo, Spain) is a soccer coach. Mondelo's coaching career includes many highlights, like the Puerto Rican national team, where he coached future U.S. National team star Chris Armas. He also coached the Long Island Rough Riders in the A-League. His big b..
Alfonso Obregón
Alfonso Obregón (born 12 May, 1972) is an Ecuadorian football player. In his career he played mostly for LDU Quito and as of July 2006 still plays there. He played for the Ecuador national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. ..
Alfonso of Burgos
Alfonso of Burgos was royal confessor of Ferdinand and Isabella. Born of a noble family, in Burgos ; died at Palencia, 8 December, 1489. He was conspicuous for learning before his entrance into the Dominican order, early in life. His preaching attracted the notice of Ferdinand and Isabella, who sel..
Alfonso of Castile, Prince of Asturias
Infante don Alfonso de Trastamare y Aviz, Prince of Asturias (1453-68) was the figurehead of rebelling magnates against his brother Henry IV of Castile. Alfonso was born as the only surviving son of Isabel de Portugal, queen, and her husband John II of Castile, whose second marriage that was. Alfon..
Alfonso of Hauteville
Alfonso of Hauteville (Latin Anfusus) (died 10 October 1144), second son of Roger II of Sicily and Elvira of Castile, was the prince of Capua from 1135 to his death. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Alfonso VI of Castile. His maternal grandmother was his fourth wife Isabel. Isabel was p..
Alfonso of Molina
Alfonso of Leon, Lord of Molina (1203-1272) was the second son of King Alfonso IX of Leon and Berenguela of Castile, and a younger brother of King Ferdinand III of Castile. In 1240 he gained control of Molina by marrying Mafalda Manrique de Lara, the heiress of Molina. They had a son, Fernando, who..
Alfonso of Spain, Prince of Asturias
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Spanish RoyaltyHouse of Bourbon ..
Alfonso Oiterong
Alfonso Rebochong Oiterong, a politician from Palau, served as the country's Vice-President from 1981 to 1985. He was President from 2 July to 25 October 1985. |- style="text-align: center;" |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio
Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio (March 13, 1959), is an Italian politician. He was appointed on May 17, 2006, as Minister of Environment in the cabinet of Romano Prodi. Born in Salerno, member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 1992, Pecoraro Scanio is the leader and current president of the Itali..
Alfonso Pérez
Alfonso Pérez Muñoz (born in Getafe on September 26, 1972). Is a former Spanish international and Real Madrid footballer. Club Career In 1990, Pérez began to play football professionally for Real Madrid, and helped the club win La Liga in 1995. Later that year, he signed for Real Betis. In h..
Alfonso Pérez Agote
Professor Alfonso Pérez Agote is a scholar who is completing research for a book entitled La reproducción social del nacionalismo vasco (franquismo y posfranquismo). He works for the Department of Sociology II of the University of the Basque Country in Leioa. He is married to Mari Puri Herrero, a..
Alfonso Petrucci
Alfonso Petrucci (c. 1490 - July 6, 1517) was an Italian nobleman, a member of the Medici family in the early Renaissance. Born in Siena, he was a son of Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici. He died in Rome. ..
Alfonso Pichardo
Alfonso Pichardo is the current lead singer of Mexican electronica group Moenia. He's featured in many hits already like: Regreso a casa ("Returning Home"), Manto Estelar ("Stellar Mantle"), Tú sabes lo que quiero ("You Know What I Want"), ¿En que momento? ("In What Moment?"), and the recent cover..
Alfonso Portillo
Pres. Portillo on a visit to OAS headquarters, April 2003. Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera (born September 24, 1951) is a Guatemalan politician. He served as the President of the Republic of Guatemala from 2000 to 2004. He took office on January 14, 2000, representing the Guatemalan Republ..
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina (1874-1950) was President of El Salvador 21 December 1918 - 1 March 1919 and 1 March 1923 - 1 March 1927. |- style="text-align: center;" |- style="text-align: center;" |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Alfonso Reyes
Alfonso Reyes "El regiomontano universal" was born in Monterrey, Mexico, in 1889, and died in Mexico City in 1959. He published his first book, Cuestiones estéticas at the age of 21 and founded the Ateneo de la Juventud in 1910. He lived in Madrid between 1914 and 1924, where he excelled as a li..
Alfonso Ribeiro
Alfonso Ribeiro as Carlton Banks in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Alfonso Ribeiro (born in New York City on September 21, 1971) is an American actor and singer of Dominican descent. His parents immigrated to New York from the Dominican Republic. Career He began his acting career on the drama O..
Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr
Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr (born February 18, 1953) is a registered level 3 sex offender in Minnesota and is being held in Fargo, North Dakota for the rape and murder of University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin. He has pled innocent to all charges. Prosecutors are seeking the federal death penalty...
Alfonso Salmeron
Alfonso Salmeron (September 8, 1515 - February 13, 1585) was a biblical scholar and one of the first Jesuits. Born at Toledo, he studied literature and philosophy at Alcala, and thereafter went to Paris for philosophy and theology. Here, through James Lainez, he met Ignatius of Loyola. Together wit..
Alfonso Sastre
--> Alfonso Sastre (born February 20, 1926 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish playwright, essayist, and critic. He was an outspoken critic of censorship within the Spanish theater during the reign of General Francisco Franco. His most noteworthy plays include Death Squad (1953), The Gag (1954), Death ..
Alfonso Soriano
Alfonso Guilleard Soriano (born January 7, 1976 in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic) is a Major League Baseball player with the Washington Nationals. Career in Japan Soriano began his professional baseball career in Japan with the Hiroshima Carp, training at their Carp Academy for Domini..
Alfonso Steele
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Alfonso (Alphonso) Steele was the last remaining survi..
Alfonso the Battler
Alfonso I (c. 1073 – 1134), called the Battler, was the king of Aragón and Navarre from 1104 until his death in 1134. He was the second son of King Sancho Ramírez and successor of his brother Peter I. Alfonso the Battler won his greatest successes in the middle Ebro, where he expelled the ..
Alfonso Thiele
Alfonse Thiele (April 5, 1922 - c. 1986) was a Formula One driver from the United States. He participated in 1 grand prix, debuting on September 4, 1960. He scored 0 championship points. Complete Formula One results Yr Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Team 1960 Coop ARG MON IND DUT ..
Alfonso Ugarte
Alfonso Ugarte (July 13,1847 - July 7, 1880) was a Peruvian military commander during the War of the Pacific, between Peru and Bolivia against Chile. He ultimately rose to the rank of Colonel. Ugarte was born in Tarapacá, Peru, the son of the rich tarapaqueños retailers Don Narciso Ugarte and..
Alfonso und Estrella
Alfonso und Estrella (Alfonso Estrella) is an opera by Franz Schubert. Its story concerns Alfonso, whose father has been usurped as King by Mauregato, and his love for Mauregato's daughter, Estrella. ..
Alfonso V
Alfonso V can refer to: Alfonso V of Castile -- (999-1028)Alfonso V of Aragon -- (1416-1458) The MagnanimousAfonso V of Portugal -- (1432-1481) The African This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, y..
Alfonso VI
Alfonso VI can refer to: Alfonso VI of Portugal -- (1643-1667) second king of the House of BraganzaAlfonso VI of Castile -- (1065-1109) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to chang..
Alfonso VIII of Castile
Alfonso VIII (November 11, 1155 – October 5, 1214); called the Noble or, in Spanish, el Noble; also known as He of Las Navas (El de las Navas); was the king of Castile and grandson of Alfonso VII. He led the coalition of Christian princes and foreign crusaders who broke the power of the Almoh..
Alfonso VII of Castile
Alfonso VII of Castile Alfonso VII of Castile (March 1, 1104/5 – August 21, 1157), nicknamed the Emperor, became the king of Castile and Leon in 1126. He was the son of Urraca of Castile and Count Raymond of Burgundy. Alfonso was a dignified and somewhat enigmatic figure. A vague tra..
Alfonso VI of Castile
Alfonso VI (before June 1040 – July 1, 1109), nicknamed the Brave, was King of León from 1065 to 1109 and King of Castile since 1072 after his brother's death. As he was the first Alfonso to be King of Castile, he is sometimes referred to as Alfonso I of Castile. In 1077, he proclaimed himsel..
Alfonso V of León
Alfonso V, called the Noble, King of León, son of Bermudo II by his second wife Elvira of Castile, reigned from 999 to 1027, and was the first Spanish monarch to use the title of King of Castile. He began the work of reorganizing the Christian kingdom of the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula a..
Alfonso Wong
Alfonso Wong, also known as 王澤, Wong Chak and Alphonso Wong, (originally named 王家禧) claims to be the creator of the popular Hong Kong comic strip Old Master Q in 1962, using his eldest son's name "Wong Chak" as a pen-name. Old Master Q has since been made into many movies, animated films, ..
Alfonso XIII of Spain
Alfonso XIIIKing of Spain Spanish RoyaltyHouse of Bourbon The king also had three illegitimate children: By French aristocrat Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan:* Roger Leveque de Vilmorin (1905-1980)By Spanish actress Carmen Ruíz Moragas:* Ana María Teresa Ruíz Moragas (born in 1926, d..
Alfonso XII of Spain
Alfonso XIIKing of Spain Spanish RoyaltyHouse of Bourbon ..
Alfonso XI of Castile
Alfonso XI of Castile (August 13, 1312 – March 26/27, 1350) was the king of Castile and León, the son of Ferdinand IV of Castile and his wife Constance of Portugal. He is variously known among Castilian kings as the Avenger or the Implacable, and as "he of the Rio Salado." The first two name..
Alfonso X of Castile
Alfonso X and his court. Alfonso X (November 23, 1221 — April 4, 1284) was a Spanish monarch who ruled as the king of Galicia, Castile and León from 1252 until his death. He was nicknamed el Sabio ("the Wise," or more accurately translated, "the Learned") and el Astrólogo ("the Astronomer..
Alfonso Zamora
Alfonso Zamora (born February 9, 1954) was a Mexican bantamweight boxer who fought from 1973 to 1980. Zamora was the silver medalist at the 1972 Munich Olympics and enjoyed a meteoric rise in his professional career. Zamora won the WBA world Bantamweight championship on March 14, 1975 when he k..
Alfonsyna Miączyńska
Alfonsyna Miączyńska Noble Family Dzieduszycki Coat of Arms Suchekomnaty Parents Mateusz MiączyńskiKlementyna Potocka Consorts Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki Children with Włodzimierz DzieduszyckiKlementyna DzieduszyckaAnna DzieduszyckaMaria DzieduszyckaJadwiga Dzieduszycka Date..
Alfons Flisykowski
Alfons Flisykowski (22 September 1902, Goreczyno, Kartuzy County - 5 October 1939, Gdansk-Zaspa) was a Polish worker of The Polish Post Office in the Free City of Danzig in the years 1923-1939 and a second commander (after Konrad Guderski) of the defence of the Post Office from the invading German f..
Alfons Gabriel
Alfons Gabriel (1892 – 1976) was an Austrian geographer and travel writer who made several trips to the deserts of Iran, during 1927-8, 1933, and 1937. Gabriel wrote five books about his trips and findings. His book Durch Persiens Wüsten (1935) is translated into Persian. Bibliography ..
Alfons Goppel
Alfons Goppel (October 1 1905 - December 24 1991) was a German politician of the CSU party. He was prime minister of Bavaria 1962-1978. In 1974 he gained the highest election victory for the CSU in Bavarian history with 62.1% of the votes. One of his sons, Thomas Goppel, is now Minister of Educatio..
Alfons Hug
Alfons Hug is the curator of the XXVI Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil. He was the curator of the XXV Bienal de São Paulo, in 2002. He was the first non-Brazilian to curate this art event. ..
Alfons Karpiński
Alfons Karpiński (February 20, 1875 in Rozwadów near Tarnobrzeg - June 6, 1961 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish painter. He painted mainly portraits of women. "The Parisian Street", 1911, National Museum in Kraków. See also List of Polish painters External links [Alfons Ka..
Alfons Maria Jakob
Alfons Maria Jakob (born July 2, 1884, Aschaffenburg/Bavaria; died October 17, 1931, Hamburg) was a German neurologist with important contributions on neuropathology. Alfons Maria Jakob was the son of a shopkeeper. He studied medicine in Munich, Berlin, and Strasbourg, where obtained his doctorate ..
Alfons Mucha
Alfons Mucha Alfons Maria Mucha [listen] ([Media helphelp]·[info]) (July 24, 1860–July 14, 1939) was a Czech painter and decorative artist. His first name is also sometimes rendered in English as Alphonse. Mucha is a defining artist of the Art Nouveau style. ..
Alfons Rebane
Alfons Vilhelm Robert Rebane (born June 24, 1908, in Valga, Estonia; died March 8, 1976, in Augsburg, Germany) was an Estonian military commander. Rebane served as an officer in the Estonian army in the 1930s until the Soviet troops occupied the country in 1940. In 1941 he led an anti-Soviet guer..
Alfons Vansteenwegen
Alfons Vansteenwegen PhD (* July 6, 1941 in Leuven, Belgium) is one of the Flemmish leading theoreticians and therapists in Communication Theory and important inspirator in the field of couple therapy and general psychotherapy. Contents 1 Education2 Work3 Bibliographie4 Ex..
Alfons Van Brandt
Alfons Van Brandt (born June 24, 1927) nicknamed Fons, was a Belgian football player who won the Belgian Golden Shoe in 1955 while at Lierse. He played 38 times for the national team between 1950 and 1957, starting in a 7-2 friendly win against the Netherlands on November 12, 1950. Van Brandt play..
Alfons von Czibulka
See also the Hungarian composer Alphons Czibulka. Alfons Freiherr von Czibulka, or Alfons Cibulka (* June 28 1888, Ratboř Castle (Schloss Radborsch) near Kolín, Bohemia - October 22, 1969, Munich) was a Czech-Austrian writer, painter. Czibulka was born as a son of the general, Freiherr Hubert vo..
Alfons V of Aragon
Manuscript detail of Alfonso V of Aragon Alfons V of Aragon (also Alfons I of Naples) (1396 – June 27, 1458), surnamed the Magnanimous, was the King of Aragon and Naples and count of Barcelona from 1416 to 1458. He was a son of Ferdinand I of Aragon (also called Ferdinand of Antequera), ..
Alfons Walde
Alfons Walde (1891-1958) an Austrian from Kitzbuhel in the Tyrol was the first painter to successfully bring skiing topics into painting.These sporting scenes to-gether with his winter landscapes and farming images, rendered in a unique tempera style with impastose colouring, complemented his ot..
Alford
Alford may refer to Places There are several places named Alford. See: Alford, Aberdeenshire in Scotland*(also the Vale of Alford Railway)Alford, Lincolnshire a town in EnglandAlford, Florida in the United StatesAlford, Massachusetts in the United StatesAlford, Saskatchewan village in CanadaAlford..
Alford, Aberdeenshire
Alford, Aberdeenshire is a small town of north-east Scotland. It gave its name to a battle of the Scottish Civil War, and lies within the Vale of Alford. The Vale of Alford Railway, Grampian Transport Museum, Alford Heritage Centre and Craigievar Castle are popular visitor attractions, with a range..
Alford, Florida
Alford is a town in Jackson County, Florida in the Florida Panhandle near Marianna. The population was 466 at the 2000 census. According to the 2004 U.S. Census Bureau's Estimates, the town slightly declined to 464. Geography Alford is located at [30°41′41″N, 85°23′35″W] (30.6..
Alford, Lincolnshire
Alford Windmill, 2005 Alford (pronounced "Olford") is a town in Lincolnshire, England, with a population of about 3,500 people. Alford lies at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds, thirteen miles north-west of Skegness. Alford is known for its five-sailed windmill, a 30 metre high, 5 sailed..
Alford, Massachusetts
Alford is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 399 at the 2000 census. History Alford was first settled in 1740 and was officially incorporated in 1773. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 29.9 km² (11.6 mi..
Alford, Somerset
for at grid reference ST607322 Alford is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated eight miles south of Shepton Mallet and two miles west of Castle Cary in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 63 [#endnote_population]. References ↑  Somerset..
Alfordsville, Indiana
Alfordsville is a town in Daviess County, Indiana, United States. The population was 112 at the 2000 census. Geography Alfordsville is located at [38°33′40″N, 86°56′52″W] (38.561057, -86.947857)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bure..
Alfords Point, New South Wales
Alfords Point is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 28km south of the Sydney central business district in the Sutherland Shire. Alfords Point shares the postcode of 2234 with neighbouring suburbs of Menai, Bangor and Illawong. Alfords Point is loc..
Alfords Point Bridge, New South Wales
Alfords Point Bridge is one of three major road crossings of the Georges River. It was opened on the 7th September 1973. The bridge links Padstow Heights in the City of Bankstown to the Sutherland Shire at Alfords Point. The other two crossings over the Georges River are the Captain Cook Bridge a..
Alford L. McLaughlin
redirect[[Template:Portal]] Master Sergeant Alford Lee McLaughin, the 33rd United States Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Korean fighting, earned the Nation’s highest decoration for his intrepid two-machine-gun defense of a lonely outpost on “Bunker Hill.” He was dec..
Alford L. McMichael
redirect[[Template:Portal]] Sergeant Major Alford L. McMichael, USMC, was the 14th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps (1999-2003), and is presently the Senior Non-Commissioned Officer for Allied Command Operations for NATO. McMichael was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas and graduated from Hot Spring..
Alford Manor House
The Manor House is a Grade II listed building which can be found on West street within Alford, Lincolnshire. The house is owned by Alford and District Civic Trust Ltd which is a Registered Charity (No. 252330). External links [Manor House information] ..
Alford plea
In the law of the United States, an Alford plea is a plea in criminal court. In this plea, the defendant does not admit the act and asserts innocence, but admits that sufficient evidence exists with which the prosecution could likely convince a judge or jury to find the defendant guilty. Upon rece..
Alford Windmill
Alford Windmill, September 2005 Alford Windmill is a five-sailed windmill in Alford, Lincolnshire. Today the windmill has been restored, and grinds organic flour. It is open as a tourist attraction. The last commercial operators of the windmill were the Hoyles family. Purchased by Harry Hoyl..
Alforsite
Alforsite is a mineral, Ba5Cl(PO4)3, composed of barium, phosphorus, chlorine, and oxygen. It was discovered in 1981, and named to honor geologist John T. Alfors of the California Division of Mines and Geology for his work in the area where it was discovered. Alforsite is a hexagonal colorless cry..
Alfortville
Alfortville Country      France Région Île-de-France Départment Val-de-Marne Arrondissement Créteil Canton INSEE Postal Code MayorCurrent Term Intercommunality Communauté d'agglomération Plaine Centrale du Val-de-Marne Lon..
Alfoz
Alfoz, is a municipality in the Spanish province of Lugo. [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit ] Municipalities of Lugo Abadín | Alfoz | Antas de Ulla | Baleira | Baralla | Barreiros | Becerreá | Begonte | Bóveda | Burela | Carballedo | Castro de Rei | Castroverde | Cervantes | ..
Alfraganus (crater)
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Alfred
Alfred can refer to: In politics: Alfred Rosenberg, early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi partyAlfred the Great, king of Wessex and first king of England In geography: Alfred, MaineAlfred, New YorkAlfred (town), New York In fiction: Alfred, video game character from the Fatal F..
Alfred's Castle
Alfred's Castle is a small Iron Age hill fort, situated at Grid reference , behind Ashdown Park in the civil parish of Ashbury in Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire). It lies 2-3 km south of the Ridgeway. It has a large enclosure attached that shows as a cropmark. Excavation has shown this to be conte..
Alfred's Kitchen
Alfred's Kitchen is a late night kiosk on the corner of Meadow and James Streets in Guildford, Western Australia. It was established in 1946 by its namesake Alfred Cook . Alfred's main feature is an outdoor fire place with four wandoo log seats around which customers can sit. Alfred's is a pop..
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
HRH Prince Alfred House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Ernst I Children Ernst II Prince Albert Grandchildren Princess Victoria Prince Edward Princess Alice Prince Alfred Princess Helena1 Princess Louise1 Prince Arthur1 Prince Leopold Princess Beatrice1 Great Grandchildren..
Alfred, Maine
--> Alfred is a town in York County, Maine, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 2,497. Alfred is the county seat of York County 6, and home to part of the Massabesic Experimental Forest. The Alfred Historic District includes 48 houses on the National Register of Hi..
Alfred, New York
Alfred is both a town and a village nested in Allegany County, New York, United States. Village of AlfredTown of Alfred This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. If an referred ..
Alfred, Prince of Windischgrätz
Alfred Candidus Ferdinand, Fürst zu Windisch-Graetz (also written zu Windisch-Grätz, or zu Windischgrätz), (May 11, 1787, Brussels — March 21, 1862, Vienna) was an Austrian army officer who distinguished himself throughout the wars fought by the Habsburg Monarchy in the 19th century. Windi..
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (b. 1947) US-American lawyer, writer, and historian, president of the PEN Club in the French part of Switzerland, formerly a senior lawyer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Secretary of the Human Rights Committee and Chief of Petitions. He has w..
Alfred-Pellan (electoral district)
Alfred-Pellan is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. Its population in 2001 was 99,841. Contents 1 Geography2 History2.1 Member of Parliament3 Election results4 See also5 External li..
Alfred-South La Paloma, Texas
Alfred-South La Paloma is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jim Wells County, Texas, United States. The population was 451 at the 2000 census. Geography Alfred-South La Paloma is located at [27°53′40″N, 97°58′27″W] (27.894330, -97.974148)[Geographic references#1GR1]...
Alfreda Benge
Alfreda Benge is musician Robert Wyatt's wife. She has contributed lyrics to many of his compositions. She was the assistant film editor on Nicolas Roeg's masterpiece, Don't Look Now. She is friends of British actress Julie Christie, and when Robert Wyatt was paralyzed in a fall, Christie and her bo..
Alfredo
Alfredo is a common Spanish, Portuguese and Italian language personal name that may refer to: Alfredo Palacio President of EquadorAlfredo Kraus Spanish tenorAlfredo Baldomir President of UruguayAlfredo Palacios Argentine politicianAlfredo Catalani Italian operaticAlfredo Binda Italian cyclistAlfred..
Alfredo (sauce)
Alfredo is a sauce made from heavy cream, butter, parsley, and minced garlic. It is most often served on fettuccine noodles. Alfredo sauce was supposedly invented in Rome in 1914 by restaurant owner Alfredo di Lello. Earlier version was a Roman dish known as Fettuccine al burro (fettuccine with b..
Alfredo Alcala
Alfredo P. Alcala (August 23, 1925 – April 8, 2000) was a Filipino comic book artist. Born in Talisay, Occidental Negros, the Philippines, he was known for his work at both DC Comics and Marvel Comics, as well as his comic strip art. Career Alcala began working for DC in the 1970s, and moved..
Alfredo Alcón
Alfredo Félix Alcón (born 1930-03-03 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine theatre and film actor Buenos Aires. He has worked in more than 50 movies since his first one, El amor nunca muere ("Love Never Dies") in 1955. One of the most respected Argentine actors of the 20th century, Alcón received, am..
Alfredo Amezaga
Alfredo Amezaga Delgado (born January 16, 1978, in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico) is a Major League Baseball utility player for the Florida Marlins. Amezaga made his Major League Baseball debut with the Anaheim Angels on May 24, 2002. Teams Anaheim Angels: 2002-2004Colorado Rockies: 2005Pittsbu..
Alfredo Antoniozzi
Alfredo Antoniozzi (born on 18 March 1956 in Cosenza) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Central with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. He is a substit..
Alfredo Armas Alfonzo
Alfredo Armas Alfonzo (* 6 August 1921 in Clarines, Anzoátegui, Venezuela; † 1990 in Caracas, Venezuela) was a Venezuelan writer, critic, editor and historian, well known throughout Latin America. He was a master of the modern fable, a precursor of what soon would be called magical realism. Alf..
Alfredo Astiz
Alfredo Ignacio Astiz (b. November 8, 1951) was a Captain and Intelligence officer in the Argentine Navy, known as the "Blond Angel of Death", during the rule of Jorge Rafael Videla in the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (1976-1983). He was a member of GT332 (task force 332) based in the Naval..
Alfredo Baldomir
Alfredo Baldomir Ferrari (August 27 1884–February 25 1948) was an Uruguayan soldier, architect and politician. He served as President of Uruguay from June 19 1938 to March 1 1943 and is most notable for leading Uruguay to support the Allies during World War II. Baldomir was born in Montevideo..
Alfredo Baquerizo
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno (1859 1951) was President of Ecuador 1916-1920 and 1931-1932. He was a member of the Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party. ..
Alfredo Binda
Alfredo Binda. Alfredo Binda (August 11, 1902–January 1, 1986) was an Italian cyclist of the 1920s and 1930s, later trainer of Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali. Although born in Cittiglio near Varese, Binda grew up in Nice, in southern France. Learning to become a plasterer, Binda could of..
Alfredo Biondi
Alfredo Biondi (born June 26, 1928) is an Italian politician. Biography Born in Pisa, Biondi was Secretary of the Italian Liberal Party from 1985 to 1986, and later president of the same party. In 1994, with the last PLI leader, Raffaele Costa, he founded the Union of Centre, a small faction of t..
Alfredo Bracchi
Alfredo Bracchi (Milan, Italy, 30 December 1897 – 11 October 1976) was a versatile Italian author, whose production ranged from song lyrics to movie scripts. Between 1930s and 1950s he and Giovanni D'Anzi formed a very prolific pair of songwriters. They worked for radio, cinema and theater pr..
Alfredo Bryce
Alfredo Bryce Echenique (born February 19, 1939) is a Peruvian writer born in Lima. He has written several books and short stories. Contents 1 Early days2 Rise in literary career3 Recent successes4 Bibliography Early days Son of a well-off, English-Peruvian family. Upon the w..
Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez
redirect[[Template:Portal]]Sergeant Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez (also known as Alfredo Gonzalez and Freddy Gonzalez) (born May 23, 1946 in Edinburg, Texas; died February 4, 1968 in Hue City, Vietnam), United States Marine Corps sergeant who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for service in the Vie..
Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani
His Eminence Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani (29 October, 1890 - 3 August, 1979) was Secretary of the Holy Office of the Roman Curia from 1959 to 1966 when that dicastery was reorganized as the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, in which he served as Pro-Prefect, until 1968. He was the leader of ..
Alfredo Caronia
Asteroids discovered: 2 25602 Ucaronia January 2, 2000 with A. Boattini (42614) 1998 EY6 March 2, 1998 with L. Tesi Alfredo Caronia is an Italian astronomer who works at the Osservatorio Astronomico della Montagna Pistoiese (San Marcello Pistoiese Astronomical Observatory). ..
Alfredo Casella
Alfredo Casella (Turin, July 25 1883 - Rome, March 5 1947) was an Italian composer. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1896 to study piano under Louis Diémer and composition under Gabriel Fauré. Back in Italy during the World War I he began teaching piano at the Accademia Nazionale di Sant..
Alfredo Casero
Alfredo Casero (born 1963 in Vicente López, Buenos Aires Province) is a famous Argentine musician, actor and comedian. Casero started studying acting with Norman Brinski in 1987. Soon after he started working in the underground humour scene of Buenos Aires. In 1992 he started, among with other hu..
Alfredo Castelli
Alfredo Castelli (born June 26 1947) is an Italian comic book author and writer. Biography Born in Milan, Castelli began his comic book career at an early age, creating the strip Scheletrino, a humor series for Italian comic book Diabolik, when he was only 16. In 1966 he created with Paolo Sala t..
Alfredo Catalani
Alfredo Catalani (Lucca June 19, 1854 – Milan August 7, 1893), was an Italian operatic composer, best known for the works La Wally (1892, to a libretto by Luigi Illica, containing Catalani's most famous aria, "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana" from Act I) and Loreley (1890). Other operas were less su..
Alfredo Chaves
Alfredo Chaves is the name of a municipality and its capital in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. It is 60 km southwest of the state capital, Vitória. The municipality's area is 616 square kilometers. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Economy4 External links History Geogr..
Alfredo Cid Jurado
Alfredo Tenoch Cid Jurado (born 1965 in the Mexico City) is a professor. He earned is PhD in Semiotic at Università degli Studi di Bologna (University of Bologna), with the advice of Umberto Eco and Paolo Fabbri. Professor Alfredo Cid has been collaborator at the Umberto Eco's chair in semiotic..
Alfredo Cristiani
Alfredo Cristiani Burkard born on November 22, 1947 in San Salvador in El Salvador, was President of El Salvador between 1 June 1989 and 1 June 1994. Career Born into a wealthy coffee-producing family and educated at Escuela Americana (American School) in San Salvador, and then graduated in Adminis..
Alfredo D'Escragnolle Taunay
Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay (b. Rio de Janeiro, February 22, 1843; d. Rio de Janeiro, January 25, 1899, was one of the foremost Brazilian writers in late 19th century, a historian and a distinguished politician. He used many nicknames: Anapurus, André Vidal, Carmotaigne, Eugê..
Alfredo DeOro
Alfredo DeOro (1862–1948) was a Spanish billiards player who several times held the world title in both pocket billiards and 3-Cushion billiards. Career Titles 61-Pool 1887 May1888 Feb Continuous Pool 1889 Jun1890 Apr1891 May1892 Mar1893 Mar1893 Jun1896 May1896 Jun1898 Dec1899 Jan1899 Apr189..
Alfredo de Sá Cardoso
Alfredo de Sá Cardoso Prime Minister of Portugal(President of the Ministry) Order: 72nd (18th of the Republic) Term of Office June 30, 1919 - January 15, 1920 (Fernandes Costa didn't take office; Sá Cardoso reconducted) - January 21, 1920 Predecessor: Domingos Leite Pereira ..
Alfredo Dinis
Afredo Dinis, often known by its nom de guerre, "Alex", was a notable Portuguese anti-fascist, member of the Portuguese Communist Party. "Alex" was murdered in 1945 by the fascist political police, the PIDE. "Alex" was a metallurgical worker and joined the Communist Youth in 1936, aging 19. In Augu..
Alfredo Di Stéfano
Alfredo Di Stéfano ..
Alfredo Duvergel
Alfredo Duvergel (born April 2, 1968) is a Cuban boxer, who won the silver medal in the men's Light Middleweight (71 kg) category at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He also won the World Amateur Boxing Championships in 1997, having won silver medals in 1995 and 1993. ..
Alfredo Escalera
Alfredo Escalera (born March 21, 1952) is a Puerto Rican who was a world champion boxer. A native of Carolina, Escalera was almost as well known for his eccentric clothing practices at social events as he was for his career as a boxer. Several occasions he would be seen, for example, wearing a tux a..
Alfredo Ferrari
Alfredo Ferrari (1932 – June 30, 1956), nicknamed Alfredino or Dino, was the only legitimate son of Enzo Ferrari. Enzo decided to name Alfredo after his grandfather. From an early age Enzo was grooming his son to be his successor, and therefore sent him to some of the best schools in Europe..
Alfredo Fioravanti
Alfredo Fioravanti was an Italian sculptor, who was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ..
Alfredo Foni
Alfredo Foni (born January 20, 1911 - died 1985) was an Italian footballer in the 1930s and later on a coach. Along with teammate Pietro Rava at Juventus, they were the best defensive partnership in 1936 Summer Olympics and 1938 World Cup. ..
Alfredo Genovese
Alfredo Genovese (born November 4 1964 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine artist practitioner of traditional Argentine decorative art fileteado. He's best known for the cover of the Mike Doughty album Haughty Melodic, and the massive Aiwa billboard that looms over the Buenos Aires Obelisco. External ..
Alfredo Gil
Alfredo Bojalil Gil (August 15, 1915-October 10, 1999), also known by his nickname el güero, was a singer and founding member of the musical trio, Trio Los Panchos. As a member of Los Panchos, he was the third voice and player of the requinto, a small guitar. See also Los PanchosChucho Navarro Ext..
Alfredo González Flores
Alfredo González Flores President of Costa Rica Term of office: 8 May 1914 to27 January 1917 – Preceded by:  Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno(first term) – Succeeded by: Federico Tinoco Granados Date of birth: 15 July 1877 Place of birth:Heredia Date of death: 28 December 19..
Alfredo González Tahuilán
Alfredo González Tahuilán (born April 10, 1980 in Mexico City) is a Mexican football player who currently plays defender for Club San Luis. Tahuilán made his debut in the Primera División de México in the Invierno 1999 against Toros Neza. Tahuilán has played his entire career with Club Améri..
Alfredo Griffin
Alfredo Claudino Griffin (born October 6, 1957 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) was a Major League Baseball (MLB) player. He played shortstop. Alfredo began his career as a member of the Cleveland Indians, who signed him as an amateur free agent in 1973. On December 5, 1978, before having play..
Alfredo Harp Helú
Alfredo Harp Helú (born 1944) is a Mexican billionaire, and with a net worth of $1.6 billion (in US dollars) ranked 413 on Forbes Magazine list of "The World's Richest People" in 2005. Born in Mexico City, Helú is the ex-owner of the biggest Latin American and Mexican bank, Banamex (now part of..
Alfredo Hernandez
Alfredo Hernandez was the drummer for desert rock bands Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age and Che. He joined Kyuss in late 1994/early 1995 replacing previous drummer Brant Bjork during the band's tour, due to personal problems. He has only appeared on their last album ...And the Circus Leaves Town and..
Alfredo Iriarte
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Alfredo Iriarte (1932-2002) was a Colombian historian ..
Alfredo Keil
Alfredo Keil (Lisbon, 3 July 1850-Hamburg, 4 October 1907) was a Portuguese classical composer and painter. He was from German paternal origin, and was the great Portuguese romantic composer. He was also considered the last important Portuguese painter from the romantic style. He studied in Munich a..
Alfredo Kojima
Alfredo Kengi Kojima (born February 25 1976 in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Japanese-Brazilian programmer and has been the lead developer of Window Maker, a X11 window manager, since 1997. Biography Kojima was born in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil as the eldest son to Japanese-bo..
Alfredo Kraus
Alfredo Kraus Alfredo Kraus (24 November 1927 – 10 September 1999) was a Spanish tenor, and considered among the legendary tenors of the 20th century along with others like Plácido Domingo, Franco Corelli, José Carreras, Jon Vickers and Luciano Pavarotti. His best known role was the t..
Alfredo Landa
Alfredo Landa Areitio (born march 3 1933) was born on Pamplona, Navarra (Spain). He finished his pre-university studies on San Sebastián. He then began university studies on Law, where he began to work on university school groups. He left university to work in the theater. In the 1950s, he worked..
Alfredo Le Pera
Alfredo Le Pera (4 June 1900? – 24 June 1935) was an Argentinian journalist, dramatist, and lyricist, best known for his brief but fruitful collaboration with the Argentinian tango singer, Carlos Gardel. Some of their best-known collaborations are the tangos "Melodía de arrabal", "Cuesta abaj..
Alfredo Lim
Alfredo S. Lim Senator of the Philippines2004–incumbent Secretary of Interior and Local Government 2000-2001 Mayor of the City of Manila1992–1998 Director, National Bureau of Investigation 1986-1989 Political Party: People's Reform Party (1992-1998) Liberal Party (1..
Alfredo M. Bonanno
Alfredo M. Bonanno, an insurrectionary anarchist from Italy, has had a great impact on insurrectionary anarchism, writing essays such as "Armed Joy", "The Anarchist Tension" and others. He is an editor of Anarchismo Editions and many publications, only some of which have been translated into English..
Alfredo Marcondes
Alfredo Marcondes is a Brazilian city located in the state of São Paulo. Its population in 2004 is 3,802. ..
Alfredo Moreno
Alfredo David Moreno (born January 12, 1980 in Santiago del Estero, Argentina) is an Argentine football forward, who currently plays for Necaxa of the Primera División de México. Moreno began his career with Boca Juniors, making his debut for the team September 26, 1999. He had a brief but succ..
Alfredo Mostarda Filho
For two another Brazilian footballer nicknamed Alfredo , see Alfredo Ramos dos Santos and Alfredo Ramos de Oliveira. For another people with name Alfredo, see Alfredo. Alfredo Mostarda Filho, best known as Alfredo (born in São Paulo, October 18, 1946) was a former Brazilian footballer. In longest..
Alfredo Nobre da Costa
Alfredo Jorge Nobre da Costa (1923—April 1, 1996), commonly known just by Nobre da Costa, pron. IPA /'nɔbɾ(ɨ) dɐ 'kɔʃtɐ/. was a Portuguese engineer and politician. A moderate independent center-left politician, he was chosen by President António Ramalho Eanes to lead a government tha..
Alfredo Omar Tena
Alfredo Omar Tena (born April 28, 1985 in Mexico City) is a Mexican footballer who currently plays for Club América. He is the son of the legendary Alfredo Tena who played as a defender for Club América in the 1980's. ..
Alfredo Oriani
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since July 2006. } Alfredo Oriani (1852 - 1909) was an Italian author, ..
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean
Alfredo Saint-Jean Term of Office: June 18 1982—July 1 1982 Predecessor: Leopoldo Galtieri Successor: Reynaldo Bignone Vice-president: none Date of Birth: 1926 Place of Birth: Date of Death: Place of Death: Profession: Military Political Party: none Alfredo Oscar Saint-Jean (b..
Alfredo Ovando Candía
Alfredo Ovando Candía (1918 - 1982) was a Bolivian dictator, general and political figure. He overthrew Víctor Paz Estenssoro in 1964, but gave up power to the more popular René Barrientos. He then served as the president of Bolivia from 1969 until he was overthrown in 1970. |- style="text-alig..
Alfredo Palacio
Alfredo Palacio Teachers campaign outside of Palacio's presidential palace in August 2005 Dr. Luis Alfredo Palacio González (born January 22 1939) is the current President of Ecuador. From January 15 2003 to April 20 2005 he served as vice president, after which he was appointed to th..
Alfredo Palacios
Alfredo Palacios (August 10 1880 - 1965) was a South American socialist politician. Palacios was born in Buenos Aires, and studied law at Universidad de Buenos Aires, after which he became a lawyer and taught at the university until he became a dean. In 1902, he was elected to the Buenos Aires' ..
Alfredo Panzini
Alfredo Panzini (December 31,1863-April 10,1939) was an Italian novelist and lexicographer. Born in Senignallia, Italy, Panzini was the student of Giosue Carducci at the University of Bologna. Panzini worked as a secondary school teacher before becoming a writer. Panzini is noted for the humorous an..
Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco
Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco (1908 - 1993) was the Foreign Minister of Ecuador from 1979-1980. He was a historian and prolific writer. Diezcanseco was born in Guayaquil in 1908. ..
Alfredo Peña
Alfredo Peña (born April 13, 1944 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan journalist and politician. He studied Journalism at the Central University of Venezuela and became well-known after he was hired as the director of the newspaper El Nacional. He also hosted his own interview program on t..
Alfredo Piàn
Alfredo Piàn (born in Las Rosas, October 21, 1912 - died July 25, 1990) was a racing driver from Argentina. He entered the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix with a Maserati run by Scuderia Achille Varzi. During the Saturday practice sessions, Pián, who had the sixth fastest time, spun in an oil patch and cr..
Alfredo Poveda
Alfredo Ernesto Poveda Burbano (1926 1990) was President of Ecuador 11 January 1976 to 10 August 1979. He was a military officer who came to power in a military coup and declared himself chairman of the Supreme Council. As early as December of 1973, as confided to the U.S. Air Attache, Admiral Poved..
Alfredo Ramos
For two another Brazilian footballer nicknamed Alfredo , see Alfredo Ramos dos Santos and Alfredo Mostarda Filho. For another people with name Alfredo, see Alfredo. Alfredo Ramos, full name Alfredo Ramos de Oliveira and nicknamed Alfredo or Polvo by fans (born in Jacareí, October 27, 1924) was a b..
Alfredo Ramos dos Santos
For another two Brazilian footballers nicknamed Alfredo , see Alfredo Ramos de Oliveira and Alfredo Mostarda Filho. ''For another people with this name, see Alfredo. Alfredo Ramos dos Santos, best known as Alfredo (born in Rio de Janeiro, January 1, 1920) was a Brazilian footballer in striker role...
Alfredo Reinhado
Alfredo Alves Reinhado (c.1967 – ), sometimes spelt Reinado, is a former major in the military of East Timor, the FDTL. He deserted on 4 May 2006 to join approximately 600 former soldiers who had been sacked in March 2006 after complaining of regional discrimination in promotions, sparking..
Alfredo Rocco
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Alfredo Rocco (1875-1935) was an Italian politician and jurist. Rocco was born in Naples. His political career..
Alfredo Rojas
--> Alfredo Hugo "El Tanque" Rojas (born February 20 1937 in Lanús, Buenos Aires Province) is a former professional Argentine football player. Rojas started playing with Club Atlético Lanús in 1958, but his participation in the 1958 FIFA World Cup opened him a door to Europe. He joined Atlétic..
Alfredo Sadel
Alfredo Sadel (Alfredo Sánchez Luna) (b. Caracas, Venezuela. February 22, 1930, d. Caracas, Venezuela, June 28, 1989.) Alfredo Sadel, was a lyric and popular venezuelan singer, film actor, known also like “the Favorite Tenor of Venezuela”. Baptized like Alfredo Sanchez Luna, he adopted his..
Alfredo Salazar Southwell
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since July 2006. } Alfredo Salazar Southwell was a Peruvian aviator, ce..
Alfredo Sinclair
Alfredo Sinclair (born 8 December 1915 in Panama City) is a Panamanian artist. He was the first to explore abstraction. He studied with Humberto Ivaldi at the National School of Painting and later in Argentina, between 1947 and 1951. In spite of the fact that the Panamanian public did not understan..
Alfredo Stroessner
Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (born November 3, 1912) is a former politician and general from Paraguay who served as President of that country from 1954 to 1989. Contents 1 Early life2 Politics3 Downfall4 Source Early life Stroessner was born in Encarnación; his father, Hugo,..
Alfredo Talavera
Alfredo Talavera Díaz (born September 18 1982 in La Barca, Jalisco) is currently the back-up goalkeeper for Chivas de Guadalajara, wearing jersey #28. He stands at 6'1 and weighs 187 lbs. Despite his lack of playing time and young age, the agile Talavera has exceeded the expectations of fans and c..
Alfredo Tena
Alfredo Tena Garduño (born November 21, 1956, in Mexico City, Mexico) also known by his nickname "Capitán Furia" (Captain Fury), is a Mexican football coach and former player. Tena is a symbol for Club América, the team he played with for his entire career and later coached after his retirement f..
Alfredo Vasconcelos
Alfredo Vasconcelos is a Brazilian city in the state of Minas Gerais. As of 2004 its population is estimated to be 5,244. ..
Alfredo Volpi
Alfredo Volpi (1896 - 1988), was a famous painter of the artistic and cultural brazilian modernist movement. He was born in Lucca, Italy but, less than two years later, he was brought by his parents to São Paulo, Brazil, where he lived for most part of his life. Volpi was a self-taught painter, pr..
Alfredo Yabrán
Alfredo Yabrán (d. 1998) was a powerful businessman in Argentina, with deep links with the government, in particular with the Carlos Menem administration. Among other things, he owned the private courier company OCASA, and the immense (253,000m² or 2,723,269 sq ft of which 60,000 m² or 645,834 ..
Alfredo Yu
Alfredo Yu is a fictional character in David Weber's Honor Harrington series of novels. A native of the People's Republic of Haven, Alfredo Yu first appeared as an officer in the Havenite Navy in the series' second novel, The Honor of the Queen. Unlike many of the senior officers of the People's ..
Alfredo Zardini
Alfredo Zardini (c. 1941 - March 20, 1971) was an Italian immigrant who was attacked and killed in Zurich, Switzerland. Like many other Italians in the 20th century, Zardini came to Switzerland to work — in 1970, 17% of the inhabitants of Zurich were foreigners, half of them Italians. Zardini..
Alfredo Zayas y Alonso
Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso (1861 - 1934) was a Cuban lawyer, poet and political figure. He served as prosecutor, judge, mayor of Havana, Secretary of the Constitutional Convention, Senator 1905, President of the Senate 1906, Vice-President 1908-13 and President of Cuba from May 20, 1921 to May 20, 1925..
Alfredrick Hughes
Alfredrick Hughes (born July 19, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois), is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the San Antonio Spurs in the 1st round (14th overall) in the 1985 NBA Draft. A 6'5" shooting guard from Loyola University Chicago, Hughes played in only one NBA seaso..
Alfrēds Riekstiņš
Arm shield, Latvian SS Volunteer Legion Born January 30, 1913 in Matkule, Tukuma county, Latvia. On June 17, 1940 Communist Soviet Union commenced occupation of Latvia, which was followed by Nazi Germany's occupation June, 1941. In 1942, similar to tens of thousands of Latvian citizens ..
Alfredton, Victoria
Alfredton is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. It is located along Burrumbeet Road, west of Lake Wendouree. ..
Alfred "Centennial" Johnson
Alfred "Centennial" Johnson (1846–1927) was a Danish-born fisherman from Gloucester, Massachusetts. In 1876, in a 20-foot (6.1-m) sailing dory, he made the first recorded single-handed crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, as a celebration of the first centennial of the United States. Conception Alf..
Alfred (town), New York
Alfred is a town in Allegany County, New York, USA. The population was 5,140 at the 2000 census. The Town of Alfred has a village named Alfred in the center of the town. Alfred University and Alfred State College are located in the Village of Alfred. Contents 1 History2 Geography..
Alfred (village), New York
Alfred is a village located in the Town of Alfred in Allegany County, New York, USA. The population was 3,954 at the 2000 census. The village is named after Alfred the Great. The Village of Alfred lies in the north-central part of the Town of Alfred on the eastern edge of Allegany County. ..
Alfred A. Cohn
Alfred A. Cohn (March 26 1880—February 3 1951) was an author, journalist and newspaper editor, Police Commissioner, and screenwriter of the 1920s and 1930s. He is best remembered for his work on The Jazz Singer, which was nominated for (but did not win) an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Scr..
Alfred A. Foucher
Alfred Foucher (1865-1952), a French scholar, identified the Buddha image as having Greek origins. He made his first trip to northeastern India in 1895. In 1922 he was asked by the governments of France and Afghanistan to organize an archeological co-operative which became the Délégation Archéo..
Alfred A. Hart
Alfred A. Hart (1816-1908) was a 19th century American photographer for the Central Pacific Railroad. Hart was the official photographer of the western half of the first transcontinental railroad, for which he took 364 historic stereoviews of the railroad construction in the 1860s. Hart sold his n..
Alfred A. Knopf
''This page is about the publishing house. For the person see Alfred A. Knopf (person). Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house, founded by Alfred A. Knopf in 1915. It was acquired by Random House in 1960 and is now part of the Knopf Publishing Group at Random House. The publishing hou..
Alfred A. Knopf (person)
Alfred A. Knopf photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, March 31, 1935 Alfred A. Knopf (September 12, 1892 – August 11, 1984) was a leading American publisher of the 20th century, founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.. His contemporaries included the likes of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, and (o..
Alfred A. McKethan Stadium
Alfred A. McKethan Stadium is the baseball stadium for the Florida Gators. It is located in Gainesville, Florida, near the basketball stadium, the Stephen C. O'Connell Center, and the football stadium, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Gainesville is also, of course, the home to the University of Florida it..
Alfred A. Sanelli
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Alfred A. Taylor
Alfred Alexander Taylor (August 6, 1848 – November 25, 1931) was Governor of Tennessee from 1921 to 1923. He was born in the Happy Valley community of Carter County, Tennessee. He was the older brother of former Democratic Governor Robert Love Taylor who served from 1887 to 1891 and 1897 to ..
Alfred A. Tomatis
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Alfred Ablett (VC)
150px Alfred Ablett, VC, DCM (3 August, 1830—12 March, 1897) was an English Crimean War recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Details Ablett was 25 years old, and..
Alfred Ackroyd
Alfred Ackroyd (born August 29, 1858 in Oakroyd Hall, Birkenshaw, Leeds, Yorkshire, England and died October 3, 1927 in Eccles, Lancashire, England) was an English cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. He only ever made two..
Alfred Adam
Alfred Adam (4 April 1908 – 7 May 1982) was a French character actor, who usually played weak or villainous roles. Partial filmography La Kermesse Héroique (1935)Carnet de Bal (1937)Boule de Suif (1945)La Ferme du Pendu (1946)The Witches of Salem (1956)Maigret Sets a Trap (1957)Le Président..
Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler (February 7 1870 – May 28 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor and psychologist, founder of the school of individual psychology. Contents 1 Education and studies2 Early career3 Adler's approach to human personality4 On homosexuality5 Adler becomes a we..
Alfred Agache
Alfred Agache may refer to: Alfred-Pierre Agache (1843-1915), a French painterDonat-Alfred Agache (1875-1959), a French architect and urban desigtner This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may..
Alfred Agache (architect)
Donat-Alfred Agache, sometimes called Alfredo Agache, formally planned the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, Recife, Porto Alegre and Curitiba in the 1940s and 1950s, supported by the Estado Novo fascist regime in Brazil. Although his plans were often too expensive to be completed, they formed th..
Alfred Agache (painter)
Alfred-Pierre Joseph Agache (b. 29 August, 1843; d. 15 September, 1915), also known simply as Alfred Agache, was a French academic painter. Little is known of Agache. He was born in Lille, France, and exhibited his work frequently in Paris until his death. He seems to have specialized in portraits..
Alfred Aho
Dr. Alfred V. Aho is a computer scientist. He is the Lawrence Gussman Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, where he is also vice-chair of undergraduate education for the computer science department. He served as chair of the department from 1995 to 1997, and again in the spring of 2..
Alfred Ainger
Canon Alfred Ainger, by Leslie Ward, 1892. Alfred Ainger (February 9, 1837 - February 8, 1904) was an English biographer and critic. The son of an architect in London. He was educated at University College School and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, entered the Church, and, after ho..
Alfred Alexander Burt
Alfred Alexander Burt was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Contents 1 Details2 Further information3 The medal4 References5 See ..
Alfred Amonn
Alfred Amonn (June 1, 1883, Bruneck/Brunico (now South Tirol) - November 2, 1962, Bern) was an Austrian economist (Nationalökonom). He taught as a professor at the Czernowitz University (1917-1920), Prague University (1920-1926), Tokyo University (1926-1929), University of Berne (1929-1938). Lite..
Alfred Andersch
Alfred Hellmuth Andersch (February 4, 1914 — February 21, 1980) was a German writer, publisher and radio editor. The son of a conservative East Prussian army officer, he was born in Munich, Germany and died in Berzona, Ticino, Switzerland. Contents 1 Life1.1 1914 to 19451.2 1..
Alfred Anderson
Alfred Anderson (June 25 1896 – November 21 2005) was a Scottish joiner and veteran of the Great War. He was: The last known holder of the Mons Star (the Old Contemptibles).The last known combatant to partake in the 1914 WWI Christmas truce.Scotland's last known World War I veteran.Scotland's olde..
Alfred Andriola
Alfred J. Andriola (May 24, 1912-March 29, 1983) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Kerry Drake, for which he won a Reuben Award in 1970. Andriola was born in New York City and grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey. He studied at Cooper Union and Columbia University, intending t..
Alfred and Arthur
Alfred and Arthur is a book by Garrett Jones. The full title of this book [ISBN 0755200551] is Alfred and Arthur: an historic friendship, 2001. It is the story, told largely in their own words, of the love between Alfred Tennyson and his undergraduate friend, Arthur Hallam. Arthur was engag..
Alfred and Plantagenet, Ontario
Map of Prescott and Russell with Alfred and Plantagenet highlighted. Alfred and Plantagenet is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada, in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the South Nation River. It is located within Canada's National Capital..
Alfred Archer
Alfred ArcherEngland (Eng) Batting style Right-handed batsman (RHB) Bowling type Tests First-class Matches 1 12 '''Runs scored 31 231 Batting average 31.00 11.00 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 Top score 24* 43 Balls bowled 0 0 Wickets 0 0 Bowling avera..
Alfred Ashford
Alfred Ashford is a fictional character in the video game, [[Resident Evil Code: Veronica]]. He is the seventh master of the Ashford clan and the younger twin brother of Alexia Ashford. He and Alexia are both the grandchildren of Edward Ashford, one of the founders of the Umbrella Corporation along..
Alfred Atheling
Alfred Atheling or Aetheling was the son of Aethelred II. He was a brother of Edward the Confessor. King Canute was their stepfather. He and his brother were caught in the power struggle following Canute's death. Alfred Aetheling died in 1036 or 1037. The account given in the Wikipedia article on..
Alfred Atherton
The Iranian Shah meeting with Ambassador Atherton, Sullivan, Vance, Carter and Brzezinski, 1979 Alfred Leroy Atherton Jr. (born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania on November 22 1921 – 30 October 2002) was a career United States Foreign Service officer. He served as United States Ambass..
Alfred Atkinson
Photo submitted by Franklyncards Alfred Atkinson ( 6 February 1874 - 21 February 1900) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 26 years old, and..
Alfred Austin
Alfred Austin Alfred Austin (May 3, 1835 – 1913) was an English poet, who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Tennyson. Contents 1 Life2 Poetry3 A Poem -- ''To England''4 References5 Notes Life Alfred Austin was born at Headingley, near Le..
Alfred Ayer
"Ayer" redirects here. For the town in Massachusetts, see Ayer, Massachusetts. For the municipality in Spain also called Ayer, see Aller, Asturias Sir Alfred Jules Ayer (October 29, 1910 – June 27, 1989), better known as A. J. Ayer (or Freddie by his friends), was a British philosopher know..
Alfred B. Kittredge
Alfred Beard Kittredge (March 28, 1861 - May 4, 1911) was a United States Senator from South Dakota. Born in Nelson, New Hampshire, he attended the public schools and graduated from Yale College in 1882 and from the Yale Law School in 1885. He was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice i..
Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park
The Alfred B. Maclay State Gardens is a 28 acre Florida State Park, botanical garden and historic site, located in Tallahassee, in northwestern Florida. The address is 3540 Thomasville Road. Contents 1 History2 Biology3 Recreational Activities4 Hours5 External li..
Alfred B. Meacham
Alfred B. Meacham (1826–1882) was an American reformer and historian who served as Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the state of Oregon. Meacham was born in Indiana, where his family had moved from North Carolina because of their objection to slavery. He traveled to California during the..
Alfred B. Mullett
Alfred Bult Mullett (1834—1890) was a British-born American architect. His family emigrated to Glendale, Ohio near Cincinnati when Alfred was 11. He began working a few years later in the Cincinnati architectural office of Isaiah Rogers. Mullett later relocated to Washington, DC and in 1863..
Alfred Bader
Dr. Alfred Bader was born on April 28, 1924 in Vienna, Austria. Founder of what would later become Sigma-Aldrich chemical company, he is well known as an art-collector and generous donor to his alma maters. Born into a family of Czech Jewish descent, he fled from Austria to England at age 14 to es..
Alfred Baeumler
Alfred Baeumler (born November 19 1887, Neustadt an der Tafelfichte, Northern Bohemia - died March 19 1968, Eningen unter Achalm, near Reutlingen) was a German philosopher and pedagogue. He was one of the most important philosophers in Nazi Germany. ..
Alfred Bailey
Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey, OC , Ph.D , FRSC (March 18, 1905 – April 21, 1997) was a Canadian educator, poet, anthropologist, ethno-historian, and academic administrator. Born in Quebec City, Quebec, the son of Loring Woart and Ernestine Valiant (Gale), he received his BA degree in 1927 fr..
Alfred Baldwin
Alfred Baldwin was the "shadow man" in the Watergate first break-in and the ensuing Watergate scandal, but he played an important role. A former FBI agent, Baldwin had been hired by James McCord for a variety of purposes, one of which became to monitor electronic bugs purportedly planted by McCord i..
Alfred Baldwin, MP
Alfred Baldwin (b. 4 June 1841; d. 13 February 1908) was the twelfth and posthumously-born child of George Pearce Baldwin and Sarah Chalkey Stanley. He started work at the Wilden Iron and Tin Plate Company at Wilden (near Stourport, Worcestershire), which, in 1840, had been taken over by his uncle..
Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo
Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo (1925-2000) was a South African black political figure. Nzo served as the secretary-general of the African National Congress (ANC) between 1969 and 1991. He then served as the South African minister of foreign affairs from 1994 to 1999. ..
Alfred Barnes
Rt. Hon. Alfred J. Barnes (1887-1974) was a British Labour and Co-operative politician. Barnes worked originally as an artist in gold and silver. He was heavily involved in the co-operative movement. He was chairman of the London Co-operative Society for nine years until 1923 and was a founder of..
Alfred Barry
Dr. Alfred Barry, born 15 January 1826 was the Third Bishop of Sydney and founded several prominent Anglican schools. He was the son of Charles and Sarah Barry. He had three brothers; Charles Barry (junior), Edward Middleton Barry and John Wolfe-Barry. From King's College, London, he went to ..
Alfred Bates
Alfred Bates (born 8 June 1944) is a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Bebington and Ellesmere Port from 1974 to 1979, when he lost his seat to the Conservative Barry Porter by 486 votes (a margin of just 0.7%). Bates had served as a government whip from 1976 to 1979..
Alfred Bate Richards
Alfred Bate Richards (1820–1876) was an English journalist and author. He turned from law to literature and was the author of a number of popular dramas, volumes of poems, essays, etc. He was the first editor of the Daily Telegraph, and afterwards of the Morning Advertiser. He took an active inter..
Alfred Beit
Alfred Beit (1853-16 July 1906) was a South African diamond magnate. Born in Hamburg, he emigrated to Cape Colony in 1875 during the "diamond rush" at Kimberley. He became one of a group of financiers who gained control of the diamond-mining claims in the Central, Dutoitspan, and De Beers mines an..
Alfred Bello
The introduction to this biographical article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help Wikipedia by improving the introduction. Alfred Patrick Bello was a petty criminal, a burglar and thief and would be completely unknown today, but for the fact th..
Alfred Belpaire
Alfred Belpaire Alfred Jules Belpaire (26 September 1820 — 27 January 1893) was a Belgian locomotive engineer credited with introducing the Belpaire firebox. Belpaire was born in Ostend, Belgium, and talent saw him go to university in Paris (Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures). In ..
Alfred Berg
--> Alfred Berg is a Nordic investment bank and today a wholly owned subsidiary of the dutch banking group ABN AMRO. The base company was founded in 1863, same year the Stockholm stock exchange opened its doors , but was renamed to Alfred Berg in 1901 when acquired by Mr. Alfred Berg. Until the m..
Alfred Berger
Alfred Berger (born August 25, 1894, died June 11, 1966) was an Austrian figure skater. In 1922 and 1924 he and Helene Engelmann were pair skating world champions. They were Olympic champions in 1924. Contents 1 Results1.1 ..
Alfred Berkeley
Alfred R. Berkeley is an American businessman who served as President and later Vice-Chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc., from June 1996 until August 2003. Before Nasdaq, Berkeley was a General Partner and then a Managing Director of Alex. Brown & Sons, an investment bank. He was a Captain in ..
Alfred Bessell-Browne
Brigadier-General Alfred Joseph Bessell-Browne, CB, CMG, DSO, DSM, MM (3 September 1877 – 3 August 1947) was an Australian Army colonel and temporary Brigadier-General in World War I. He retired as a Brigadier-General in 1942. Contents 0.1 Early life and career0.2 World War I0.3..
Alfred Bester
This article is about the science fiction author. For the character on Babylon 5, see Alfred Bester (Babylon 5). --> Alfred Bester (born December 18, 1913 in New York City, died September 30, 1987) was a science fiction author and the winner of the first Hugo Award in 1953 for his novel The Demoli..
Alfred Bester (Babylon 5)
Alfred Bester Affiliated with Psi Corps Race Human Home planet Mars First appearance Mind War Last appearance The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father Portrayed by Walter Koenig Alfred Bester is the name of a fictional character in the television series Babylon 5, played b..
Alfred Bickel
Alfred Bickel, also referred as Fredy Bickel (May 12, 1918 in Eppstein, Germany — August 18, 1999) was a Swiss footballer and coach. He played for Grasshopper-Club Zürich and the Switzerland national football team, for whom he appeared in the 1938 and 1950 World Cups. He played 405 matches and ..
Alfred Binet
Alfred Binet Alfred Binet (July 8, 1857 – October 18, 1911), French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test, the basis of today's IQ test. Born in Nice, Binet was a French psychologist who published the first modern intelligence test, the Binet-Simon intelligenc..
Alfred Binns
Alfie BinnsWest Indies (WI) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type - Tests First-class Matches 5 25 '''Runs scored 64 1,446 Batting average 9.14 37.07 100s/50s 0/0 4/4 Top score 27 157 Balls bowled 0 0 Wickets 0 0 Bowling average - ..
Alfred Bird
Alfred Bird senior was born in Digbeth, Birmingham in 1811. He is the inventor of a series of food products mostly now taken for granted. Alfred Bird registered as a pharmacist in Birmingham in 1842, having served an apprenticeship to Phillip Harris of that city. He was a qualified chemist and dru..
Alfred Birnbaum
Alfred Birnbaum is one of the major translators into English of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. Alfred Birnbaum was born in the U.S. in 1955 and raised in Japan from age five. He studied at Waseda University, Tokyo, under a Japanese Ministry of Education scholarship, and has bee..
Alfred Bitini Xuma
Alfred Bitini Xuma (1893? - 1962), South African leader & activist; president of African National Congress (ANC) from 1940 to 1949. ..
Alfred Blalock
Alfred Blalock (1899-1964) circa 1944 Alfred Blalock (April 5, 1899 – September 15, 1964) was a 20th century American innovator in the field of medical science most noted for his research on the medical condition of shock and the development of the Blalock-Taussig Shunt, surgical relief ..
Alfred Bloom
Alfred (Al) Bloom is currently the president of Swarthmore College. In the 1970s, he conducted psychological research investigating the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and concluded that the Chinese language's lack of counterfactual words resulted in a reduced ability to think counterfactually. The premise..
Alfred Bohrmann
Asteroids discovered: 9 1455 Mitchella June 5 1937 1470 Carla September 17 1938 1531 Hartmut September 17 1938 1733 Silke February 19 1938 1998 Titius February 24 1938 2016 Heinemann September 18 1938 2226 Cunitza August 26 1936 2350 von Lüde February 6 1938 2665 ..
Alfred Boucher
A French sculptor, Alfred Boucher (1850-1934) won the Grand Prix du Salon in 1881, and moved to Italy the following year. He also served as a mentor to Camille Claudel. ..
Alfred Boultbee
Alfred Boultbee (March 5 1829 – December 29 1901) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented York North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1871 to 1874 and York East in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1879 to 1882. He was born in Hampshi..
Alfred Boyd
Alfred Boyd (c. 1836 – August 16, 1908) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He is usually considered to have been the first Premier of Manitoba (1870-1871), but he was not recognized by that title at the time and was not the real leader of the government. He is more correctly referred to a..
Alfred Brehm
Alfred Edmund Brehm Alfred Edmund Brehm (born February 2, 1829 in Unterrenthendorf, now called Renthendorf; died November 11, 1884 in Renthendorf) was a German zoologist and writer, the son of Christian Ludwig Brehm. Through the book title Brehms Tierleben, his name became a synonym for popul..
Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel (born January 5, 1931) is an Austrian pianist, born in Czechoslovakia. He is widely regarded as one of the great classical pianists of the second half of the 20th century. Brendel was born in Vízmberk (German Wiesenberg, now Loučná nad Desnou), Czechoslovakia ..
Alfred Broughton
Sir Alfred Davies Devonsher Broughton (18 October 1902 - 2 April 1979) was a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Batley and Morley from a 1949 by-election until he died in office shortly before the 1979 general election. Sources: Times Guide to the House of Commons Oct..
Alfred Bruneau
Louis-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau (3 March 1857, in Paris-15 June 1934, in Paris) was a French composer who played a key role in the introduction of realism in French opera. As a youth, Bruneau studied the cello at the Paris Conservatory, and played in the Pasdeloups orchestra. He soon bega..
Alfred Brunswig
Alfred Brunswig (June 13, 1877 - June 22, 1929) was a German philosopher. He taught at University of Münster. Literary works Das Grundproblem Kants, 1914Hegel, 1922Leibniz, 1922 External links [] See also Brunswig ..
Alfred Bryan
Alfred Bryan (September 15, 1871 - April 1, 1958) was a United States songwriter. His hits included "Peg O' My Heart", "Come, Josephine, In My Flying Machine" and "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier". ..
Alfred Bryan Bonds
Alfred Bryan Bonds, was a public servant, educator, and college administrator. He served as the fifth president of Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio from 1955 to 1981. Contents 1 Early Childhood and Education2 Career3 Political Appoinments and Career4 Accomplishments5&nb..
Alfred Budner
Alfred Budner (born August 30, 1950 in Tomaszew) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 16075 votes in 37 Konin district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list. He was also a member of Sejm 2001-2005. See also Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2..
Alfred Bulltop Stormalong
Alfred Bulltop Stormalong was an American folk hero and the subject of numerous nautical-themed tall tales originating in Massachusetts. Stormalong was said to be a sailor and a giant, some 30 feet tall; he was the master of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the Courser or the T..
Alfred Bunn
Alfred Bunn (born April 8, 1796 in London; died December 20, 1860 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) was an English theatrical manager. He was appointed stage-manager of Drury Lane theatre, London, in 1823. In 1826 he was managing the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, and in 1833 he undertook the joint management of Dr..
Alfred Burke
Alfred Burke (born 28 February 1918, Peckham, London, UK) is a British actor. In films since the mid 1950s, Burke has built a solid reputation across a wide range of character roles, prominently in television. His tall, gangly frame and by turns intense or benevolent demeanour has enabled him to s..
Alfred Burne
Alfred Burne is a British military historian who specialised in medieval warfare. He invented the concept of Inherent Military Probability, ie in battles and campaigns where there is some doubt over what action was taken Burne believes that the action taken was one which a trained staff officer of t..
Alfred Burt
Alfred Burt (born April 22, 1920) was an American jazz musician who composed fifteen now famous Christmas carols between 1942 and 1954. Burt studied both theology and music theory and was an officer in the United States Army during World War II. His most famous carol, "Caroling Caroling", is often..
Alfred Bussell
Alfred Pickmore Bussell Alfred Pickmore Bussell (21 June 1816–18 October 1882) was an early settler in Western Australia. Alfred Bussell was born at Portsea, Hampshire in England on 21 June 1816. He was educated at Winchester College in England, but after the death of his father the fa..
Alfred Byrne
Alfred Byrne (17 March 1882–13 March 1956), also known as Alfie Byrne, was an Irish politician, who served as both an MP in the United Kingdom House of Commons and as a Teachta Dála in Dáil Éireann. He was known as the "shaking hand of Dublin". He was born in Dublin in 1882. He was the son..
Alfred C. Gimson
Alfred Charles Gimson (7 June 1917 - 22 April 1985) was an English phonetician. The surname is pronounced ['gimsn] (with a hard, or velar, g, as in Gilbert ['gɪlbət]). He became a professor at London's University College London in 1966 and was head of its Department of Phonetics..
Alfred C. Harmer
Alfred C. Harmer (August 8, 1825 - March 6, 1900) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Alfred Crout Harmer was born in Germantown, PA. Began work as a shoe manufacturer. He became a member of the city council of Philadelphia, serving from 1856-1860 and t..
Alfred C. Haynes
Alfred C. "Al" Haynes (born 1932 in Dallas, Texas) is a former airline pilot and a regular guest speaker at social events. Haynes gained international fame in 1989, when he successfully crash-landed United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10 jetliner, at Sioux City Airport. Haynes attended Texas A&M Unive..
Alfred C. Redfield
Alfred Clarence Redfield (born November 15, 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died March 17, 1983 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts) was an American oceanographist. He is especially known for having discovered the Redfield ratio, which describes the ratio between nutrients in ocean water. External li..
Alfred C. Richmond
Alfred Carroll Richmond (January 18, 1902-March 15, 1984), He served as Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from 1954 to 1962. Contents 1 Early life and career2 Post-World War II career3 Retirement4 External links Early life and career Alfred Richmond was born in Wat..
Alfred Cahill
Alfred Cahill is a fictional character from [[Highlander: The Series]], portrayed by actor Martin Kemp. He is an Immortal. History Cahill was a mentaly unstable Englishman who had served in the British Army in the early 1970s, but had soon been discharged due to failing his psychological exam. Hi..
Alfred Campanelli
Alfred Campanelli (July 9, 1925 - April 9, 2003) was a suburban housing mogul who was responsible for much of the early suburban-style housing in the Chicago, Illinois suburb of Schaumburg. In 1959, Alfred Campanelli began construction of the first large residential subdivision in Schaumburg, known..
Alfred Canning
Alfred Wernam Canning (February 21 1860 - 1936) was a Western Australian government surveyor. Born at Campbellfield north of Melbourne, he started work in New South Wales as a cadet surveyor and in 1893 joined the Western Australian Department of Lands and Survey. In 1901 a royal commission..
Alfred Capus
Alfred Capus (November 25, 1858 - November 1, 1922), French author, was born at Aix-en-Provence. In 1878 he published, in collaboration with L Vonoven, a volume of short stories, and in the next year the two produced a one-act piece, Le Mari malgre lui, at the Théâtre Cluny. He had been educated ..
Alfred Carlton Gilbert
Alfred Carlton Gilbert (February 13, 1884 – January 24, 1961) was an American inventor, athlete, toy-maker and businessman. Born in Salem, Oregon and died in New Haven, Connecticut, Gilbert is best known as the inventor of the Erector Set. Gilbert financed his education at Yale University b..
Alfred Carpenter
Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter (September 17, 1881 - December 27, 1955) (VC, Croix de Guerre and Legion d'Honneur (France)) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth..
Alfred Carroll
Alfred H. Carroll (March 2, 1846—?) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1903 to 1914, as a member of the Conservative Party. Carroll was born in the township of West Zorra, Oxford County, Canada West (now Ontario). He was educated at Wood..
Alfred Cecil Herring
Alfred Cecil Herring was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Contents 1 Details2 Further information3 The medal4 References5 See a..
Alfred Cellier
Alfred Cellier (1844–1891), English musical composer, was born at Hackney on the 1st of December 1844. From 1855 to 1860 he was a chorister at the Chapel Royal, St. James', under the Rev. Thomas Helmore, where Arthur Sullivan was one of his youthful colleagues. His first appointment was that..
Alfred Chakin
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Abraham Alfred "Chick" Chakin (December 25, 1904 - March, 1938) was an American volunteer in the International B..
Alfred Chapman
Alfred Beck Chapman, one of the founders of Orange, was born September 6 1829 in Greensboro, Alabama. His grandfather, Robert Hett Chapman, was born in Orange, New Jersey, studied theology and was a pastor from 1796 to 1812, at which time he became president of the University of North Carolina at Ch..
Alfred Charles Bossom
Alfred Charles Bossom, Baron Bossom FRIBA (6 October 1881–4 September 1965) was a British architect and politician. Bossom was educated at Charterhouse School, Regent Street Polytechnic and the Royal Academy of Arts before leaving for the United States in 1903 to work for Carnegie Steel in Pi..
Alfred Charles Hobbs
Alfred Charles Hobbs (1812 - 1891) was a famous American lockpicker. He was the first one to unlock Bramah's lock and the Chubb detector lock at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and forced the lock manufacturers to improve their designs. Afterwards he started his own successful lock factory that was lat..
Alfred Charles South
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Alfred Charles South of Cockspur St. London was a British tattoo artist and inventor at the turn of the 20th ce..
Alfred Charles True
Alfred Charles True, Ph.D., Sc.D. (1853-1929) was an American educator and agriculturist, a son of C. K. True. He was born at Middletoen, Conn., and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1873. He was a teacher at Westfield normal school in Westfield, Massachusetts for several years, studied at..
Alfred Chester Beatty
Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875 – 19 January 1968)[Seanad Éireann - Volume 110 - 19 December, 1985] - Date of death; some sources give this as 20 January was born in New York City; he graduated from Columbia University as a mining engineer. He made his fortune mining in Cripple Creek, C..
Alfred Chicken
Alfred Chicken is an action-adventure game originally created by Twilight Games. It was released in the United Kingdom in 1993 for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy. It was released in the United States in February 1994 for the Game Boy and the Super Nintendo Ente..
Alfred Chopin
Alfred Chopin (1846–October 1902) was a convict transported to Western Australia. He became one of the colony's first portrait photographers. Nothing is known of Alfred Chopin's early life, but on 4 December 1865 both he and his brother William were convicted in the Manchester courts and sentence..
Alfred Christopher Picard
Alfred Christopher Picard was a New Zealand politician. He represented the Motueka and Massacre Bay electorate in the 1st New Zealand Parliament, but did not serve in any subsequent Parliaments. ..
Alfred Claud Hollis
Sir Alfred Claud Hollis, GCMG, CBE (1874-1961) was British administrator who served as British Resident to the Sultan of Zanzibar between 1923 and 1929 and Governor of Trinidad and Tobago between 1930 and 1936 and author of a historical account of Spanish Trinidad. Hollis came into conflict with Ar..
Alfred Clebsch
Alfred Clebsch (1832–1872) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. His collaboration with Paul Gordan led to the introduction of Clebsch-Gordan coefficients for spherical harmonics, which are now widely used in quantum mechanics. To..
Alfred Cliff
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Alfred Cobban
Alfred Cobban (1901–1968) was a Professor of French History at University College, London, who along with prominent French historian Francois Furet held a 'Revisionist' view of the French Revolution. They believed the Revolution did little to change French society, in direct contrast to the Or..
Alfred Cogniaux
Alfred Celestin Cogniaux (7 April 1841 - 15 April 1916) was a Belgian botanist. The genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named for him. In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium. Publications (with G. Grignan) Les orchidées exotiques et leur cultur..
Alfred Comyn Lyall
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (January 4 1835 - April 11 1911) was a British civil servant, literary historian and poet. He was born at Coulsdon in Surrey. He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1856, and served a long career in India, fighting in the Indian Mutiny. He was knighted in 1881, and was made..
Alfred Conkling
Alfred Conkling (October 12, 1789–February 5, 1874) was a lawyer, statesman and jurist from New York. Alfred Conkling was born in Amagansett, New York to Benjamin Conkling of East Hampton, Long Island, and Esther Hand. He graduated from Union College in 1810 and read law in 1812. He was in..
Alfred Conlon
Colonel Alfred Austin Justin (Alf) Conlon (1908-1961) the creative force behind, and head of the Australian World War Two Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs (DORCA). Conlon is a controversial figure, whose influence has been felt throughout the Pacific region in the second half of the 20th c..
Alfred Cooper
Sir Alfred Cooper (1838 - 3 March 1908) was a fashionable English surgeon and clubman of the late 19th century, whose clients included The Prince of Wales. His specialty in venereal disease gave him an unusual access to and perspective on late Victorian aristocratic morality. He was devoted to his..
Alfred Cooper (cricketer)
Alfred CooperSouth Africa (RSA) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm medium Tests First-class Matches 1 37 '''Runs scored 6 1788 Batting average 3.00 31.92 100s/50s -/- 4/8 Top score 6 171* Balls bowled - - Wickets - 15 Bowl..
Alfred Coppel
Alfred Coppel, Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel (1929-2004) an American author. In 1974 he had a best seller with the suspense thriller Thirty-Four East about the Arab-Israeli crisis, however he had a long career writing for a variety of pulps and later slick publishers. Using the pseudonym Rob..
Alfred Corning Clark
Alfred Corning Clark (d. 1896) was the son of Edward Clark, a founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Alfred Corning Clark was the father of Edward Severin Clark and Stephen Carlton Clark. Between 1888 and 1891, Clark built the first gymnasium in Cooperstown, New York. Although very success..
Alfred Cortot
Alfred Denis Cortot (September 26, 1877 – June 15, 1962) was a French pianist and conductor. He is one of the most popular 20th century musicians, renowned for his poetic insight in Romantic period piano works. Born in Nyon in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, Cortot studied at the Par..
Alfred Cort Haddon
Alfred Cort Haddon (May 241855-April 201940) was an influential British anthropologist. Initially a biologist, he did field work by the Torres Strait. He returned to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he had been an undergraduate, and effectively founded a school of anthropology. He influenced Caro..
Alfred Cove, Western Australia
This page is about the suburb and Swan River feature Alfred Cove. For the Western Australian electoral district, see Electoral district of Alfred Cove. Alfred Cove ..
Alfred Cowles
Alfred Cowles (15 September 1891, 28 December 1984) was an American economist, businessman and founder of the Cowles Commission. He graduated from Yale in 1913. Cowles's primary concern in 1932 was to elevate economics into a more precise science using mathematical and statistical techniques. Alfr..
Alfred Cumming
Alfred Cumming could refer to: Alfred Cumming (governor), governor of UtahAlfred Cumming (researcher), researcher at the Congressional Research Service This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you m..
Alfred Cumming (governor)
Alfred Cumming (1802–1873) was appointed governor of the Utah territory in 1858 replacing Brigham Young following the Utah War. He served as governor until 1861. He is an ancestor of actor Alan Cumming. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Alfred Cumming (researcher)
Alfred Cumming is a researcher at the Congressional Research Service in the United States, with the title Specialist in Intelligence and National Security. He gained notoriety when he authored a memo, at the request of Democratic committee membership, that described the George W. Bush administratio..
Alfred Cunningham
redirect[[Template:Portal]] Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Austell Cunningham, (8 March 1882 - 27 May 1939) was a United States Marine Corps officer who became the first Marine Corps aviator and the first Director of Marine Corps Aviation. His military career included service in the Spanish-American W..
Alfred Cuthbert
Alfred Cuthbert (December 23, 1785 - July 9, 1856) was a United States Representative and Senator from Georgia. Born in Savannah, he was instructed by private tutors and graduated from Princeton College in 1803. He studied law and was admitted to the bar about 1805 but did not practice. In 1809, he ..
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. (born 15 September 1918). Born in Guyencourt, Delaware, he is a professor of business history at Harvard Business School, who has written extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. Professor Chandler graduated from Harvard College in..
Alfred D. Herger
Alfred D. Herger (born November 4, 1942) is a famous former Puerto Rican television show host and a psychologist. He is considered by many to be the Ed Sullivan of Puerto Rico. He was born in Arecibo. Herger was an essential part of the Nueva Ola music revolution of the 1960s in Puerto Rico. He hel..
Alfred Deakin
Alfred Deakin (3 August 1856–7 October 1919), Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later second Prime Minister of Australia. Deakin was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of English immigrants. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and g..
Alfred Delbello
Alfred DelBello is a former Lieutenant Governor of New York. He served as lieutenant governor from January 1983 to February 1985 during the administration of former Gov. Mario Cuomo. Del Bello served as the Mayor of Yonkers and Westchester County Executive prior to being elected lieutenant governo..
Alfred Deller
Alfred Deller (born May 31, 1912, died July 16, 1979) was an English singer, one of the main figures in popularising the use of the countertenor voice in renaissance and baroque music. Deller was born in Margate, and as a boy sang in his local church choir. When his voice broke, he continued singin..
Alfred Delp
Alfred Delp Alfred Delp (born 15 September 1907 in Mannheim; died 2 February 1945 in Berlin) was a German priest who took part in the resistance to the Nazi régime in Germany. Contents 1 Life2 Literature3 Quotes4 See also5 External links6 Sources Life Alfred ..
Alfred Dennis
Alfred Dennis was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. ..
Alfred Des Cloizeaux
Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux (October 17, 1817 - May 6, 1897) was a French mineralogist. Des Cloizeaux was born at Beauvais, in the department of Oise. He studied with Jean-Baptiste Biot at the Collège de France. He became professor of mineralogy at the École Normale Supérieure and..
Alfred de Bougy
Alfred James Louis Joseph de Bougy (November 5 1814 - September 4 1874), French poet and author was born in Grenoble. He died in Évian-les-Bains. Works Histoire de la Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris: Comon, 1847Les Bourla-Papei ou brûleurs de papiers, 1988Un million de rimes gauloises: Fl..
Alfred de Grazia
This article lacks information on the [Importanceimportance] of the subject matter. If you are familiar with it, please expand the article, or discuss its significance on the talk page. Bold textAlfred de Grazia, born at Chicago in 1919, has been active as a philosopher, educator, poet, pl..
Alfred de Musset
Tomb of Alfred de Musset in Le Père Lachaise cemetery. French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:..
Alfred de Rothschild
Alfred Charles de Rothschild (20 July, 1842 - 31 January, 1918) was the second son of Lionel de Rothschild and Baroness Charlotte von Rothschild of the prominent Rothschild family. As a young man, Alfred attended Trinity College, Cambridge, England, to study Mathematics. It was at Trinity Colle..
Alfred de Vigny
French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: [ view] •..
Alfred Dipper
Alfred DipperEngland (ENG) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm medium Tests First-class Matches 1 481 '''Runs scored 51 28,075 Batting average 25.50 35.27 100s/50s 0/0 53/147 Top score 40 252* Balls bowled 0 8,8821 Wickets 0 ..
Alfred Dobbs
Alfred James Dobbs (1882, Wellingborough-27 July, 1945) was a British Labour politician and trade unionist. He is most notable for being the Member of Parliament who served the shortest term - just one day. Dobbs was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. He served as a Rushden Urban District Co..
Alfred Döblin
Alfred Döblin (August 10, 1878 – June 26, 1957) was a German expressionist novelist, best known for Berlin Alexanderplatz. He was born in Stettin, Pomerania, now Szczecin in Poland, the son of a Jewish merchant. Contents 1 Life1.1 1878 - 19181.2 1919 - 19331.3 1933 - 19..
Alfred Dock
The Alfred Dock is a dock at Birkenhead, United Kingdom. It was built in 1866 and provides access to the Great Float from the River Mersey. Of the two lock entrances, only the north locks remain operational. Named after Prince Alfred, second son of Queen Victoria. External link http://www.diduk..
Alfred Dockery
Alfred Dockery, (1797 - 1875) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Rockingham, North Carolina, December 11, 1797; attended the public schools; engaged in planting; member of the State house of commons in 1822; member of the State constitutional convention in 1835; served..
Alfred Dock (Runcorn)
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Alfred Domett
Alfred Domett, CMG (20 May, 1811 – 2 November, 1887) was an English colonial statesman and poet. He was born at Camberwell Grove, Surrey; his father was a ship-owner. He entered St John's College, Cambridge, but left the university in 1833. He published one or two volumes of poetry from 1833,..
Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton
Alfred Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton (6th March 1862–16th March 1940). Born at Shanklin, Isle of Wight. Married Nina Mary Benita Poore. Died at Ferne. References http://genealogy.euweb.cz/hamilton/hamilton20.htmlhttp://www.rcahms.gov.uk/hamilton/family15.html |- style="tex..
Alfred Douglas Adrian
Alfred Douglas Adrian CB KC MC (1845 - 1922) was a legal adviser to the British Local Government Board. He married Flora Lavinia Barton, daughter of Charles Howard Barton. They had three sons but no daughters. The eldest son, Harold, lived only for a few days, the middle son died aged 22 and the..
Alfred Downing Fripp
There have been two notable men named Alfred Downing Fripp: Alfred Downing Fripp (artist)Alfred Downing Fripp (surgeon) ..
Alfred Downing Fripp (artist)
Alfred Downing Fripp (April 22, 1822 - 1895) was a British artist. A grandson of the artist Nicholas Pocock, Fripp studied at the Royal Academy of Arts. He held his first exhibition in 1842 and later became secretary of the Royal Watercolour Society. ..
Alfred Downing Fripp (surgeon)
Sir Alfred Downing Fripp (September 12, 1865 - 1930) was a surgeon at Guy's Hospital, London. He was born in Dorset, the son of the artist Alfred Downing Fripp. His godfather was royal tutor John Neale Dalton. After studying at the Merchant Taylors' School in London, he took up medicine, and duri..
Alfred Drake
Alfred Drake was born Alfred Capurro in New York City of Italian extraction on October 7, 1914. He was a Broadway leading man best known for his leading roles in the original Broadway productions of such seminal American musicals as Oklahoma!, and Kiss Me, Kate; also for playing the role of Marsha..
Alfred Dregger
Alfred Dregger (10 December 1920 in Münster - 29 June 2002 in Fulda) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Dregger served from 1956 to 1970 as Oberbürgermeister or mayor of Fulda and from 1982 to 1991 Chairman of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag. After graduating ..
Alfred Dreyfus
Alfred Dreyfus (9 October, 1859 – 12 July, 1935) was a French military officer best known for being the focus of the Dreyfus affair. Born in Mulhouse, Alsace, France, Dreyfus was the youngest of seven children in the family of a Jewish textile manufacturer who stayed in France and kept Fr..
Alfred Dudley Ward
General Sir Alfred Dudley Ward, GCB, KBE, DSO, 27 January 1905—28 December 1991), was a British Army officer during the Second World War and Governor of Gibraltar. Educated at Wimborne Grammar School, Ward went onto serve in the army as an other rank for three-years before entering Sandhurst. He..
Alfred Duggan
Alfred Duggan (1903 - 1964) was an English historian, archeologist and best-selling historical novelist during the 1950s. His novels are known for being grounded on meticulous historical research. He also wrote some excellent popular histories of Ancient Rome and the Middle Ages. Knight With Armour ..
Alfred Dundas Taylor
Alfred Dundas Taylor was born August 30th, 1825 in England, son of George Ledwell Taylor (1788-1873), a civil architect to the Admiralty in the UK. Taylor's last published book was The India Directory for the Guidance of Steamers and Sailing Vessels (London: Smith Elder, 1891). He retired as Command..
Alfred Dunhill, Ltd.
Alfred Dunhill, Ltd. is a British-based company, specializing in leather goods, writing implements, timepieces and clothing. The business was developed by Alfred Dunhill after he inherited his father's saddlery business on London's Euston Road. Dunhill, responding to the growing demand for automob..
Alfred Dunhill Cup
The Alfred Dunhill Cup was a team golf tournament which ran from 1985 to 2000. It was for three man teams of professional golfers, one team representing each country, and was promoted as the "World Team Championship". It was a "special approved event" on the European Tour, which means that it was su..
Alfred Duraiappah
Alfred Duraiappah was a former MP and mayor of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, whose murder by the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran marks the beginning of violent phase of the Sri Lankan civil war Contents 1 First political murder2 Revenge Killing?3 His tenure and Jaffna prosperity4 Not ..
Alfred Duvaucel
Alfred Duvaucel (1793-1825) was a French naturalist. Duvaucel was the stepson of Georges Cuvier. In 1817 Cuvier sent him to India with Pierre-Médard Diard, to collect for the Paris Museum. They established a botanical garden in Chandannagar in 1818. In 1819 they spent some time collecting in Sumat..
Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin
Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin, A.M., L.H.D. (1855-09-05–1926) was an American architect, born at Istanbul, Turkey as the son of Cyrus Hamlin. He graduated at Amherst in 1875, studied architecture at Boston and Paris, and afterward began teaching architecture at Columbia in its School of Enginee..
Alfred Dyke Acland
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Alfred E. Driscoll
Alfred Eastlack Driscoll (October 25, 1902–March 9, 1975) of Haddonfield, New Jersey, was a New Jersey State Senator (1939-1941) representing Camden County, who served as the 44th Governor of New Jersey, and as president of Warner-Lambert (now a part of Pfizer). As governor (1947-1954), Drisc..
Alfred E. Kahn
Alfred E. Kahn is the Robert Julius Thorne Professor, Emeritus, of Political Economy at Cornell University. He was Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, 1977-78 and advisor to President Jimmy Carter on deregulation. He was a former Chairman of the New York Public Service Commission. He is the a..
Alfred E. Mann
Alfred E. Mann (born 1925, Portland, OR), who also goes by Al Mann, is a billionaire American entrepreneur and philanthropist. Born and raised in Portland, his dad was English and mother Polish. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1946 and remained there ever since. He received his B.S. and M...
Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering
The Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering, commonly known as the Alfred Mann Institute, AMI or Mann Institute of Biomedical Engineering, is located on the University Park campus of the University of Southern California (USC). A business incubator for medical device development in prep..
Alfred E. Neuman
What, Me Worry? --> Alfred E. Neuman [Alfred Inhuman] is the fictional mascot of EC Publications' Mad magazine. The face had drifted through American pictography for decades before being claimed by MAD editor Harvey Kurtzman. Neuman's likeness, distinguished by jug ears, a missin..
Alfred E. Pease
Sir Alfred Edward Pease, 2nd Bt (29 June 1857-22 April 1939), MP. Pease, a member of the Darlington Peases, was the elder son of Joseph W. Pease, 1st Bt and his wife Mary Fox. His younger brother was Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford. Between 1885 and 1982 Pease was member of parliament for..
Alfred E. Reames
Alfred Evan Reames (1870-1943) was a United States Senator from the state of Oregon for nine months in the year 1938. He was a Democrat. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Alfred E. Smith Building
The Alfred E. Smith Building, officially known as the Alfred E. Smith State Office Building and sometimes called simply the Smith Building, is a structure located in downtown Albany, New York across the street from the New York State Capitol. The building's namesake, Alfred E. Smith, was a four-te..
Alfred E. Steele
Alfred E. Steele (born January 22, 1954) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has serves in the New Jersey General Assembly since 1996, where he represents the 35th legislative district. He has been the Assembly's Deputy Speaker since 2002 and was the Assistant Minority Leader from 1998-..
Alfred East
This article is about the British artist. For the New Zealand politician, see Alfred William East. Sir Alfred East (December 15, 1849 - September 28, 1913), was a British painter. He was born in Kettering in Northamptonshire and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. His romantic landscapes show th..
Alfred Edersheim
Alfred Edersheim (1825-1889) was a Jewish convert to Christianity and a Biblical Scholar, known especially for his book "The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah". Contents 1 Early Life and Education2 Conversion and Christian Ministry3 Death4 Literary Works5 References Ea..
Alfred Edwards
Alfred Edwards was the founder of Associazione Calcio Milan (AC Milan). He was a British national. ..
Alfred Edward Durrant
Alfred Edward Durrant (VC, ISM) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Contents 1 Details2 Further information3 The medal4 References5..
Alfred Edward Gaby
Alfred Gaby's grave in Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France Alfred Edward Gaby (25 January 1892 - 11 August 1918) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth fo..
Alfred Edward Newton
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Alfred Edward Sephton
Alfred Edward Sephton was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Contents 1 Details2 Further information3 The medal4 References5 Exte..
Alfred Edwin Eaton
Alfred Edwin Eaton (1845 - 1929) was an English clergyman and entomologist. He served as the vicar of Shepton Montague in Somerset. His main interests among insects were the Diptera and Ephemeroptera. ..
Alfred Eichner
Alfred Eichner is a post-Keynesian economist who has challenged the neo-classical price mechanism and asserted that prices are not set through supply and demand but rather through mark-up pricing. He died on February 10, 1988. ..
Alfred Einstein
Alfred Einstein (December 30, 1880 – February 13, 1952), was a German-American musicologist and music editor. He was noted as one of the widest-ranging music historians in the first half of the 20th century. He was born in Munich. Though originally he studied law, he quickly realized his pr..
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Eisenstaedt's magnum opus, the V-J Day kiss. Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6 1898, Dirschau, West Prussia (now Tczew, Poland) - August 24 1995, Jackson Heights, Queens, New York) was a photographer and photojournalist, best remembered for his photograph capturing the celebration of V-J Day. Ei..
Alfred Elementary School
Alfred Elementary School is a public school in Alfred, Maine operated by MSAD 57. The school provides for the education of pupils in grades K through 6. As of October 1 2004, the school serves 235 students. The school was opened in 1987. Alfred Elementary School is classified as a "Primary School...
Alfred Elis Törnebohm
Alfred Elis Törnebohm (1838 – 1911) was a Swedish geologist, best known today for his study of the overthrust of the Caledonian range. External links [Nordisk familjebok entry (public domain)][Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon entry (public domain)] ..
Alfred Elmore
Alfred Elmore (1815-1881) was a Victorian history and genre painter. He was born in Cork, Ireland, the son of Dr. John Richard Elmore, a surgeon who retired from the British Army to Clonakilty. His family moved to London, where Elmore studied at the Royal Academy of Arts. His early works were in ..
Alfred Ely Beach
Alfred Ely Beach (September 1, 1826 – January 1, 1896) was an inventor, publisher and patent lawyer. Beach was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and was the son of a prominent publisher, Moses Beach. Alfred Beach worked for his father until he and a friend decided to buy Scientific American, a re..
Alfred Enneper
Alfred Enneper earned his PhD from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in 1856 for his dissertation about functions with complex arguments. He studied minimal surfaces and parametrized Enneper's minimal surfaces in 1863. A contemporary of Karl Weierstrass, the two created a whole class of param..
Alfred Enoch
Alfred "Alfie" Enoch (born December 2, 1988 in London) is a British actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Dean Thomas in the Harry Potter films. Alfred is the son of British actor, William Russell and a Brazilian physician. He attends Westminster School, a public school in London. External..
Alfred Ernest Ind
Alfred Ernest Ind (September 16 1872-November 29 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 29 years old, and a Shoeing Smith in the Royal Horse Ar..
Alfred Escher
Alfred Escher (February 20 1819 in Zurich – December 6 1882) was a Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur. Member of the Swiss National Council from 1848 to his death 1882, he presided the council three times (1849/50, 1856/57 and 1862/63). Escher was endorsing an idea of building and ru..
Alfred Evans
Alfred Thomas Evans (24 February 1914 - 13 April 1987) was British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Caerphilly from a 1968 by-election until 1979, when he retired. His successor was Ednyfed Hudson Davies. Sources: Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974. ..
Alfred Evensen
Alfred Evensen (1883-1942) was a Norwegian musician who in 1918 became leader of the Norwegian Army Band after Lt. Peter Jøsvold retired from the position. References Johansen, Vegar (2006). [The Norwegian Army Band, Harstad.] ..
Alfred F. Beiter
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since May 2006. BEITER, Alfred Florian, a Rep..
Alfred F. Horrigan
Monsignor Alfred F. Horrigan was born in 1914. He is notable for being the founding president of Bellarmine University. He also has headed Louisville, Kentucky Human Relation's commission. He was a friend of Thomas Merton. Msgr. Horrigan has been involved in peace and justice issues. The preschool a..
Alfred Felton
Alfred Felton (November 8 1831 - January 8 1904) was an Australian entrepreneur, art collector and philanthropist. Biography Alfred Felton was born at Maldon, Essex, England on 8 December 1831. He travelled to Victoria on the ship California in 1853, intending to search for gold. In 1857 he wa..
Alfred Finnigan
Alfred Benjamin Finnigan (September 18 1896 – May 11 2005) was a British soldier who fought in World War I and gained fame because of his longevity. At the time of his death at age 108, he was one of only 14 known British survivors of that war. Finnigan’s family emigrated to Australia when ..
Alfred Fischer
There have been several people named Alfred Fischer: Alfred Fischer (architect) (1881–1950), a noted German architectAlfred Fischer (judge) (1919–2004), a judge on the Federal Administrative Court of GermanyAlfred Fischer (politician) (1942–2003), a member of the Animal Rights Party of Germany..
Alfred Fischer (architect)
Alfred Fischer (born 29th August 1881 in Stuttgart, died 10th April 1950 in Murnau am Staffelsee) was a German architect. Alfred Fischer studied from 1900 to 1904 at the Stuttgart Technical University of Architecture under Professor Theodor Fischer (no relation). In 1904 he defered the 1st State ..
Alfred Fischer (judge)
Alfred Fischer (1919-12-14–2004-06-17) was a German judge. He served on the Federal Administrative Court from 1967 until 1987. ..
Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton
Alfred William Maitland FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton (March 3 1850–January 10 1930) was the son of Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton and Anna Balfour. He married, firstly, Margaret Rose Smith (1855–1913), on 27 April 1875 and had three children: Lillian Rose FitzRoy (1876–196..
Alfred Flatow
Alfred Flatow Alfred Flatow (3 October 1869–28 December 1942) was a German gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Flatow was a successful competitor in 1896. He won the parallel bars, was the runner-up in the horizontal bar, and was a member of the German team that..
Alfred Fournier
Jean Alfred Fournier, French dermatologist and syphilographer, born March 12, 1832; died February, 1914, Paris. According to some authors he died in 1915. Fournier commenced his medical studies in Paris in 1852 at the age of 20. He became an intern at the Hôpital du Midi with Philippe Ricord (1800..
Alfred Fowler
For other people named , see {{{1. Alfred Fowler (March 22 1868 – June 24 1940) was a British astronomer. He was an expert in spectroscopy, being one of the first to determine that the temperature of sunspots was cooler than that of surrounding regions. Honours Awards Gold Medal of the Roy..
Alfred Fowler (disambiguation)
Alfred Fowler can be: Alfred Fowler (1868–1940), British astronomer.William Alfred Fowler (1911–1995), American astrophysicist. ..
Alfred Francis Russell
Alfred Francis Russell was born in Kentucky, USA on August 25, 1817. He immigrated to Liberia in 1833 with his mother and four siblings. He served as a Methodist missionary and later owned a large coffee and sugarcane farm. Russell remained in the ministry and served in the Senate as well. He ..
Alfred Freiherr von Henikstein
Alfred Freiherr von Henikstein (* August 11, 1810 in Oberdöbling near Vienna; † January 29, 1882 in Vienna). He was the highest ranking Jewish officer in the Austrian army and chief of staff before the battle of Königgrätz in the Austro-Prussian War. 1835 he married the sister of the major ge..
Alfred Freiherr von Oppenheim
Alfred Paul Ernst Freiherr von Oppenheim (b. May 5, 1934 in Cologne, Germany – d. January 5, 2005) was a German banker. Oppenheim was a descendent of Salomon Oppenheim, who founded the Credit Institute in Bonn and moved to Cologne in 1798. He studied at Amherst and Harvard until 1960. In 1964, he ..
Alfred Frenzel
Alfred Frenzel (1899-1968) was a Czechoslovak spy who was given the code name Anna by the StB. He was the most important StB spy during the entire Cold War. During World War II, after the invasion of his homeland by Nazi Germany, Frenzel worked as an agent for the government in exile in the United..
Alfred Fuller
Alfred C. Fuller (January 13, 1885 - December, 1973) was a Canadian businessman. Fuller was born on an Annapolis Valley farm in Welsford, King's County, Nova Scotia, Canada. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1903, at the age of 18, to live with his sister. A few years later, with a $75.00 inve..
Alfred G. Gilman
Alfred Goodman Gilman (born July 1, 1941) is an American scientist. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Martin Rodbell for their discoveries regarding G-proteins. G-proteins are a vital intermediary between the activation of receptors on the cell membrane and actions with..
Alfred G. Holtum
Alfred G. "Bud" Holtum Ph.D. (August 26, 1918- October 18, 2000) was a noted American Electrical Engineer and Scientist. Bud Holtum was born to Alfred and Gunda Marie Holtum nee Hovden in Freeport, Illinois. He has one sister, Phyllis Joyce ("Sister, or Sis.") Schauer of Freeport, Illinois. Du..
Alfred G. Knudson
Alfred G. Knudson Jr. PhD (born in Los Angeles, 1922) is a geneticist specialised in the genetics of cancer. Probably the most important one his many contributions to the field was the formulation of the Knudson hypothesis in 1971, which explains the effects of mutation on carcinogenesis (the develo..
Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap
The Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses. The race is set at a distance of six furlongs on the dirt at Saratoga Race Course. The race is open to three year olds and up and carries a purse of $200,000. The race is a Grade II event. Past winners Winners of the Vanderbilt in..
Alfred G. Vanderbilt II
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr. (September 22, 1912 - November 12, 1999) was a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family, a son of the frist Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who died a hero in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. His mother, Margaret Emerson, was one of America's wealthies women and most sought-a..
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (1850 – 1921) was a Swedish Arctic explorer and geologist. ..
Alfred Gardyne de Chastelain
Alfred George Gardyne de Chastelain DSO OBE was born in London, England in February 1906, of Anglo-Scots parents and of Huguenot background. He was educated at Dollar Academy in Scotland and the Battersea Polytechnic in London, from which he received a degree in Petroleum Engineering. On graduatio..
Alfred Gell
Alfred (Antony Francis) Gell (June 12, 1945-January 28, 1997) was a British social anthropologist whose most influential work concerned art, language, symbolism and ritual. He was trained by Edmund Leach (MPhil, Cambridge University) and Raymond Firth (PhD, London School of Economics)Anthrobase--Di..
Alfred George Al-Babilly
Alfred George Al-Babilly (born 1937) is an Iraqi lute artist, currently residing in London. ..
Alfred George Drake
Drake's grave in La Brique Military Cemetery No.2, Ieper, Belgium. (Plot I. C.2.) Alfred George Drake was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 2..
Alfred George Edwards
Alfred George Edwards (1848-1937) was elected the first Archbishop of the disestablished Church in Wales. The son of a minister of the Church of England, he was born in Llanymawddwy in Gwynedd. He studied at Jesus College, Oxford before being appointed Warden of Llandovery College in 1875. In that s..
Alfred Gibson
Alfred Gibson (? - 1874) was an Australian explorer who perished in a 1874 expedition organised by Ernest Giles that sought to cross the deserts of Western Australia from east to west. The Gibson Desert, into which he disappeared, was named after him by his fellow explorer Giles. ..
Alfred Gilbert
This is an article about the sculptor; see also Alfred Carlton Gilbert for the inventor and toymaker. Sir Alfred Gilbert (August 12, 1854 – November 4, 1934) was an English sculptor and goldsmith who enthusiastically experimented with metallurgical innovations. He was the son of Alfred Gilber..
Alfred Giles
Alfred Giles was a 19th Century Australian explorer, drover and pastoralist. More information will be provided soonish. External links: http://www.springvalehomestead.org.au/ http://members.iinet.net.au/~jjackson1/springvale/historypage_navimages/history_Alfred%20Giles.htm http://www.southaustra..
Alfred Gilks
Alfred Gilks (1891 - 1970) was a cinematographer from 1920 through to 1956. He worked on a slew of silent films in the 1920s (his most prodigious period). Among the more famous sound films he worked on were "Ruggles of Red Gap" in 1935, several of the Dr. Kildare movies, and of course his Oscar-winn..
Alfred Gilpin Jones
The Honourable Alfred Gilpin Jones PC (September 28 1824 – March 15 1906) was a Canadian businessman, politician, and Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia. Born in Weymouth, Nova Scotia, the son of Guy Carleton Jones and Frances Jones, he was a merchant and established his own firm, A. G. Jo..
Alfred Gockel
Alfred Alexander Gockel was born in Ludinghausen, Germany in 1952. From his earliest days on, he was fascinated by the magic of colors on paper. This talent and enthusiasm resulted in the release of this first art work by a German publisher at the age of 8. After he graduated from high school, he co..
Alfred Gomolka
Alfred Gomolka (born 21 July 1942 in Wrocław) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party. ..
Alfred Gough
Alfred Gough III (born c.1968 in Leonardtown, Maryland) is an American screenwriter and producer. He grauated from St. Mary’s Ryken High School in 1985 and The Catholic University of America in 1989. With his writing partner Miles Millar, he wrote the Jackie Chan vehicles Shanghai Noon and Shang..
Alfred Goulding
Alfred Goulding (b. 1896, Melbourne, Australia, d. 1972),was a film director in the United States who mainly directed short comedies. His best known work was a Laurel and Hardy feature film, A Chump at Oxford. He later worked uncredited on their final film Atoll K,a project which was marred by Stan ..
Alfred Graf von Schlieffen
Alfred Graf von Schlieffen Field Marshal Alfred, Graf von Schlieffen (February 28, 1833 - January 4, 1913), German field marshal and strategist, served as Chief of the German Imperial General Staff from 1891 to 1905. His name lived on in the meticulously conceived Schlieffen Plan for the defe..
Alfred Graf von Waldersee
Warning: this article is based primarily on information from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica and does not reflect modern scholarship. There may be errors of fact, anachronisms, and omissions. Use at your own risk. Alfred Graf von Waldersee (April 8, 1832 - March 5, 1904) was a Prussian generalfel..
Alfred Grandidier
right Alfred Grandidier (December 20 1836–September 13 1921) was a French naturalist and explorer. From a very wealthy family, he and his brother, Ernest Grandidier (1833-1912), undertook a voyage around the world. At first they were led by the astronomer and physicist Pierre Jules Cé..
Alfred Gray
Alfred Gray (October 22, 1939 - October 27, 1998) was an American mathematician whose main research interests were in differential geometry. He equally contributed to fields as complex variables and differential equations. In the broad area of differential geometry, he made specific contributions i..
Alfred Green
Alfred Greene (b. Perris, California on July 11, 1889 - d. Hollywood, California September 4, 1960) was a prolific movie director and assistant director. Greene entered film in 1912 as an actor for the Selig Polyscope Co.. He became an assistant to director Colin Campbell. He then started to direct ..
Alfred Grenander
Alexanderplatz, 1913 Alfred Grenander Architect (Born 1863 in Skövde, Sweden; died 14 March 1931 in Berlin) , was one of the most prominent Architects during the first building period of the Berlin U-Bahn, during the first half of the Twentieth century. List of Grenanders Berlin U-Bahn Stat..
Alfred Gruenther
Alfred Maximilian Gruenther (1899-1983) was the youngest World War II Major General and after the war, as a four-star General, served as the Supreme Allied Commander ((SACEUR) in Europe from 1953 to 1956. Gruenther was born in Platte Center, Nebraska. He attended St. Thomas Academy in Mendota Hei..
Alfred Grünberg
Alfred Grünberg (born 18 February 1902 in Magdeburg; died 21 May 1942 in Berlin) was a worker, a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. Life Alfred Grünberg got involved quite early in the Communist youth movement, and in 1928, he joined ..
Alfred Grünfeld
Alfred Grünfeld (born at Prague July 4, 1852 - 1924) was an Austrian pianist. He studied under Höger, under Krejci at the Prague Conservatorium, and under Kullak at the Neue Akademic der Tonkunst, Berlin. In 1873 he settled at Vienna, where he received the title of "Kammervirtuos". He made tours ..
Alfred Grünwald
Alfred Grünwald can refer to: Alfred Grünwald (1884-1951), Austrian librettist; or Johannes Theodor Baargeld, pseudonym of Alfred Emanuel Ferdinand Grünwald (1892-1927), German painter and poet. See also Grünwald ..
Alfred Grünwald (librettist)
See also the Alfred Grünwald disambiguation page. Alfred Grünwald (16 February 1884 - 24 February 1951) was an Austrian author, librettist, and lyricist. Some of his better-known works were written in conjunction with composer Emmerich Kalman. Born in Vienna, after the Anschluss the family emig..
Alfred Gudeman
Alfred Israel Gudeman (August 26 1862 - 1942) was an American classical scholar. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, graduated at Columbia University in 1883 and studied under Hermann Diels at the University of Berlin. From 1890 to 1893 he was reader in classical philology at Johns Hopkins University,..
Alfred Guillaume
Alfred Guillaume was a known Islamic scholar. Alfred Guillaume is the translator of Ibn Ishaq's "Sirat Rasul Allah" (The Life of Muhammad) - the earliest and most important source of historical information about the life of Muhammad. See also List of Islamic scholars ..
Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay
Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay (September 4, 1801–August 4, 1852) was a French amateur artist, dandy, and man of fashion in the early- to mid-nineteenth century. He was born in Paris, the son of General D'Orsay, a Bonapartist officer. Through his mother he was grandson by a morganat..
Alfred Gusenbauer
Alfred Gusenbauer on May Day, 2006 Alfred Gusenbauer (born February 8, 1960) has been the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) since 2000. External link [Official page (in German)] ..
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, born October 20, 1877 - died May 7, 1915, was a sportsman and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family. Alfred Vanderbilt Born in New York City, he was the third son of Alice Claypoole Gwynne and Cornelius Vanderbilt II. Alfred Vanderbilt was educat..
Alfred H. Colquitt
Senator Alfred H. Colquitt Alfred Holt Colquitt (April 20, 1824 – March 26, 1894) was a lawyer, preacher, soldier, Governor of Georgia and two term U.S. Senator from Georgia where he died in office. He served as an officer in the Confederate army, reaching the rank of major general. Col..
Alfred H. Love
Alfred Henry Love (1885 — 1913) of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania founded the Universal Peace Union in Providence, Rhode Island in 1866 and served as its president until his death. In 1888 he was the Vice Presidential nominee of the National Equal Rights Party as the running mate of Belva Ann Lockwoo..
Alfred H. Moses
Alfred H. Moses (born 1929) is an American attorney and diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Romania. Alfred Moses was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. After graduating from Baltimore City High School, he attended Dartmouth College from which he received his B.A. degree in 1951. He ..
Alfred H. Rzeppa
Alfred H. Rzeppa was an engineer working at Ford Motor Company who invented a version of constant velocity joint in 1926. He proposed an improved design in 1936. It uses six balls, and an inner and outer race to provide constant velocity torque transfer regardless of the joint angle. The joint work..
Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge
The Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge carries rail lines across the Hudson River at Castleton-on-Hudson, New York. ..
Alfred H. Thiessen
Alfred H. Thiessen was an American meteorologist who invented Thiessen polygons. ..
Alfréd Haar
Alfréd Haar (October 11, 1885 - March 16, 1933) was a Hungarian mathematician. The Haar measure, Haar wavelet, and Haar transform are named in his honor. Together with Frigyes Riesz, he made the University of Szeged a centre of mathematics. External links John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson..
Alfréd Hajós
Alfréd Hajós (February 1, 1878 – November 12, 1955) was an Hungarian swimmer and architect. He was the first modern Olympic swimming champion. Hajós in Athens 1896 He was born in Budapest, Hungary as Arnold Guttmann. He was 13 years old when he felt compelled to become a good swi..
Alfred Hall
Alf HallSouth Africa (RSA) Batting style Left-hand bat Bowling type Left-arm fast-medium Tests First-class Matches 7 46 '''Runs scored 11 134 Batting average 1.83 3.72 100s/50s -/- -/- Top score 5 22 Balls bowled 2361 - Wickets 40 234 Bowl..
Alfred Hall-Davis
Alfred George Fletcher Hall-Davis (21 June 1924 - 20 November 1979) was a British Conservative Party politician. Hall-Davis was educated at Terra Nova School, Birkdale and Clifton College, Bristol. He was a director of brewery, hotel and other companies and served on the Conservative Party executi..
Alfred Hamish Reed
Alfred Hamish Reed (1875-1975) was a New Zealand publisher, author and entrepreneur. A. H. Reed, who was born at Hayes, Middlesex, England, on 30 December 1875, the son of James William Reed and Elizabeth Reed, came to New Zealand with his parents in 1887. After some experience in Northland as a ka..
Alfred Hammacher
Alfred Hammacher was the founder of A. Hammacher & Company. He founded A. Hammacher & Company in 1848 in New York City, thirteen years before the American Civil War began, offering mechanic's tools and builder's hardware. Today the company is known as Hammacher Schlemmer & Company. ..
Alfred Harker
For the British geologist, see Alfred Harker (petrologist) Alfred Harker was the first man to successfully determine the distance between the Earth and the moon to within a tenth of a mile. This discovery is important because it allowed for weight/fuel conservation for the original Apollo missions...
Alfred Harker (petrologist)
Alfred Harker (February 19, 1859 - July 28, 1939), FRS was a British geologist who specialised in petrology and interpretive petrography. He worked for the Geological Survey of Scotland and conducted extensive surveying and geological studies of western Scotland and the Isle of Skye. He and other Br..
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (July 15, 1865, Dublin - August 14, 1922, London) was an influential and successful newspaper owner with his brother Harold, Lord Rothermere. Harmsworth was the son of a barrister, one of several overachieving children, and embarked on a..
Alfred Harrison Joy
Alfred Harrison Joy (September 23 1882 – April 18 1973) was an American astronomer. After graduating, he spent ten years teaching at the American University of Beirut. When World War I prevented his return to Beirut, he joined the staff of Mount Wilson Observatory and remained there nearly si..
Alfred Harth
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Alfred Hartley
Alfred Hartley, born at New Orleans, Louisiana, on April 11, 1879 and died near Maissemy, France on October 9, 1918, was a cricketer who played for Lancashire. Hartley was a solid, defensive right-handed opening batsman from the West Indies who had a fairly brief career in English county cricket. ..
Alfred Harvey
Alfred Harvey (1913-1994) is the founder of comic book publisher Harvey Comics and the creator of comic book characters Little Dot and Adam Awards. Harvey once worked for Fox Publications with Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. ..
Alfred Hayes
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Alfred Hayes (August 1928 – July 21, 2005) was a professional wrestler, manager, and later World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) commentator. Born in Windermere, Cumbria, England, he was a sidekick to Vince McMahon on Tuesday Night Titans, a WWF-style t..
Alfred Hayes (disambiguation)
Alfred Hayes is the name of: Alfred Hayes (1928–2005), professional wrestler.Alfred Hayes (writer) (1911–1985) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link t..
Alfred Hayes (writer)
Alfred Hayes (18 April 1911 – 14 August 1985) was a screenwriter, television writer, novelist and poet, who worked in Italy and the United States. He is perhaps best known for his poem Joe Hill ("I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night…"), later set to music by Earl Robinson. Born in Londo..
Alfred Heaton Cooper
Alfred Heaton Cooper was a British landscape artist who worked in watercolours. He was born in 1864 in Manchester and brought up in Bolton, Lancashire. As a student, he studied European art under George Clausen in London, but finished his studies prematurely to embark on a period of travelling. Whi..
Alfred Heinz Reumayr
Alfred Heinz Reumayr of New Westminster, British Columbia, was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on August 18, 1999 for plotting to blow up the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. He was charged with six counts of explosive-related offenses. His arrest was the culmination of an 18-month inves..
Alfred Henry
Alfred Henry was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. ..
Alfred Henry Hook
Hook pictured with his Victoria Cross Alfred Henry "Harry" Hook, VC (1850 – 12 March 1905) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Contents 1 ..
Alfred Henry Maurer
Alfred Henry Maurer (1868 – August 4, 1932) was an American painter born in New York City. He was the son of German-born Louis Maurer, a lithographer. At age sixteen, Maurer quit school to work at his father's lithographic firm. In 1897, after studying with the sculptor John Quincy Adams War..
Alfred Henry Scott
Alfred Henry Scott (c. 1840 – 28 May 1872) was a bartender and clerk at the Red River Settlement community of Saint Boniface, Manitoba, and was noted for having been selected as a delegate to represent the provisional government of Louis Riel in negotiations with the Government of Canada durin..
Alfred Henry Thesiger
Alfred Henry Thesiger (1838–1880). Alfred Thesiger was the third son of Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford. He was made a Lord Justice of Appeal and a privy councillor in 1877, at the early age of 39, but died only three years later. ..
Alfred Hermann Fried
Alfred Hermann Fried - Austrian stamp 6 Schillings Alfred Hermann Fried (November 11, 1864 in Vienna, Austria- May 5, 1921 in Vienna), was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and winner (with Tobias Asser) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in..
Alfred Herrhausen
Alfred Herrhausen (30 January 1930 - 30 November 1989) was a German banker and Chairman of Deutsche Bank. From 1971 onwards he was a member of the bank's board of directors. Herrhausen fell victim to a terrorist bomb shortly after leaving his home in Bad Homburg on 30 November 1989. He was being ch..
Alfred Hershey
Alfred Day Hershey (December 4, 1908 – May 22 1997) was an American Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist. He was born in Owosso, Michigan and received his B.S. in chemistry at Michigan State University in 1930 and his Ph.D. in bacteriology in 1934, taking a position shortly thereafter at the De..
Alfred Hertz
Alfred Hertz (born July 15, 1872 in Frankfurt, died April 17, 1942 in San Francisco, was a German-American conductor. Hertz first came to prominence conducting Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He later became music director of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. External links &..
Alfred Hill
Alfred Francis Hill (16 December 1870 - 30 October 1960) was an Australian composer, conductor and teacher. He was born in Melbourne, but spent most of his early life in New Zealand. He studied in Leipzig at the Royal Conservatorium of Music between 1887 and 1891, under Gustav Schreck, Hans Sitt an..
Alfred Hindmarsh
Alfred Humphrey Hindmarsh (18 April 1860 - 13 November 1918) was a New Zealand politician and unionist. Hindmarsh was born in Port Elliot, Australia, and was the grandson of John Hindmarsh, the first Governor of South Australia. He moved with his family to Napier, New Zealand, in 1878. Hindmarsh tr..
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British director and producer, a master of the suspense thriller genre. He began directing in the United Kingdom before working mostly in the United States from 1939 onwards, taking dual citizenship in 1956. The Master ..
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine is a monthly fiction digest magazine specializing in crime and detective fiction. AHMM is named for Alfred Hitchcock, the famed director of suspense films and television. AHMM was begun in 1956 by HSD Publications. In 1976 it was taken over by Davis Publication..
Alfred Hitchcock Edition Clue
Alfred Hitchcock Edition Clue is a version of the board game Cluedo (Clue in North America) themed using elements from the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Contents 1 Game contents2 The suspects3 Possible murder weapons4 The rooms5 External Links Game contents InstructionsA g..
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Screenshot of opening sequence of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Alfred Hitchcock Presents was a half-hour anthology television series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured both mysteries and melodramas. By the premiere of the show on October 2, 1955, Hitchcock had been directing films fo..
Alfred Hoche
Alfred Erich Hoche /ˈalfrɛt ˈeːrɪç ˈhoːxɐ/ (August 1, 1865 in Wildenhain (Torgau) - May 16, 1943 in Baden-Baden.) was a German psychiatrist well-known for his writings about eugenics and euthanasia. Contents 1 Life2 Publications and Ideas3 Jahresringe: Innenansicht eines M..
Alfred Horn
Alfred Horn (February 17, 1918 - April 16, 2001) was an American mathematician notable for his work in lattice theory and universal algebra. His 1951 paper "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras" described Horn clauses and Horn sentences, which later would form the foundation of l..
Alfred Hörtnagl
Alfred Hörtnagl (born September 24, 1966 in Matrei am Brenner) is an Austrian football player. He played mostly for Tirol Innsbruck, Rapid Wien and Sturm Graz. He played for Austria national football team (27 caps/1 goal) and was a participant at the 1990 FIFA World Cup. ..
Alfred Hrdlicka
Alfred Hrdlicka [ˌalfʁeːt ˈhʁdlɪtʃka] (born 27 February 1928 in Vienna) is an Austrian sculptor, draughtsman, painter and artist of Czech origin. His last name is sometimes also written Hrdlička. After learning to be a dental technician from 1943 to 1945, Hrdlicka studied paint..
Alfred Hugenberg
Alfred Hugenberg (June 19, 1865 - March 12, 1951) was an influential German businessman and politician. Born as the son of Karl Hugenberg, a member of the Prussian parliament, he studied Law in Göttingen, Heidelberg, and Berlin, as well as Economics in Strasbourg. In 1900, Hugenberg married his ..
Alfred Hulme
Photo by Terry Macdonald Alfred Clive Hulme (January 24, 1911-September 2, 1982) was a New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Contents 1 Details2..
Alfred Humphreys Pease
Alfred Humphreys Pease was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1838 and died in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1882. He studied at Kenyon College and later in Germany under music professors Theodor Kullak, Richard Wuerst, Wieprecht, and Hans von Bülow. Pease was a popular composer and pianist in the 19th cent..
Alfred Hunt
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Alfred (Nathaniel) Hunt is a former dean and professor..
Alfred Hutchinson Dymond
Alfred Hutchinson Dymond (August 21, 1827 - May 11, 1903) in Croydon, England. He emigrated to Canada in 1869. He was an editorial writer for the Toronto Globe (now the Toronto Globe and Mail after amalgamation). In 1874 he was elected to sit for York North in the Canadian Parliament. He was re-ele..
Alfred I. du Pont
Alfred Irénée du Pont (1864-1935) was another key player in modern day du Pont. He along with his cousins engineered the 1902 rescue of the family business. Orphaned son of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, II, Alfred left MIT in 1884 to work at the family's manufacturing powder plant in the Brandywine..
Alfred Irving Hallowell
Alfred Irving Hallowell pronounced [hăl'uwel"] (1892 – 1974) was an American anthropologist, archaeologist and businessman. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania receiving his BS degree in 1914, his AM in 1920..
Alfred Iverson
Wikipedia has several articles about people named Alfred Iverson: Alfred Iverson, Sr., U.S. Senator from Georgia.Alfred Iverson, Jr., Confederate general during the American Civil War. ..
Alfred Iverson, Jr.
Alfred Iverson, Jr. (February 14 1829 – March 31 1911) was a lawyer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Iverson was born in Clinton, Jones County, Georgia. He was the son of Alfred Iverson, Sr., United States Senator for Georgia and a fierce proponent of secession, and Caroli..
Alfred Iverson, Sr.
Alfred Iverson, Sr. (December 3, 1798 - March 4, 1873) was a United States Representative and Senator from Georgia. Born in Liberty County, he attended private schools and graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1820. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1822 a..
Alfred Izuruha
Alfred Izuruha (Al) is a major character from the anime, Gundam 0080. Al is an 11 year old boy when Gundam 0080 begins. He has a distant relationship with his father who works for the Earth Federation, gets mediocre grades in school and misbehaves in front of his mother and teachers. [Spoile..
Alfred J. Billes
Alfred Jackson Billes (December 1, 1902 - April 3, 1995) was a Canadian businessman and co-founder of Canadian Tire. Born in Toronto, Ontario, at age sixteen, he went to work as a clerk at a branch of the Dominion Bank. In 1922 he used his savings to team up with his brother William to buy Hamilton..
Alfred J. Eggers
Alfred Eggers became Assistant NASA Administrator and devoted efforts to determine the influence of aviation technology in world peace and lectured widely. His assistant, C. Syvertson became Director of NASA Ames Research Center during probably its most productive years. A close friend of both was..
Alfred J. Elliott
Alfred James Elliott (June 1, 1895- January 17, 1973) was a Democratic Representative from California. He was born in Guinda, California, and moved with his parents to Winters, California, in 1901 and to Tulare, California, in 1910, where he resided until his death in 1973. He worked as a farmer an..
Alfred J. Gross
Alfred J. Gross (February 22, 1918 – December 21, 2000) was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He invented and patented many important communications devices, including the first walkie-talkie, CB radio, the telephone pager and the cordless telephone. In spite of the successes of the..
Alfred J. Kwak
[Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Alfred Jodocus Kwak is a Dutch-Japanese- German children's cartoon character created in 1989, based on a Dutch theatre show by Herman van Veen. Alfred J. Kwak is the main character in the self-titled cartoon series pri..
Alfred J. Lewy
Alfred J. Lewy, M.D., Ph.D. graduated from University of Chicago, in 1973 after studying Psychiatry, Pharmacology, Ophthalmology. He is currently among the faculty at OHSU, Oregon Health and Science University, in the Neuroscience graduate program. He currently has, as of December 2005, 94 publicati..
Alfred J. Lotka
Alfred James Lotka (March 2, 1880 - December 5, 1949) was a US mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics. Contents 1 Life2 Energetics of evolution3 Honors4 Obituary5 See also6 References Life Born in ..
Alfred James Broomhall
Alfred James Broomhall (December 6, 1911 – May 11,1994), Christian missionary to China, and author & historian of the China Inland Mission (renamed as Overseas Missionary Fellowship, OMF International [link] in 1964 and based in Singapore). He was the great-nephew of James Hudson Tay..
Alfred James Ewart
Alfred James Ewart (Feburary 12 1872 - September 12 1937) was an English-Australian botanist. Ewart, son of Edmund Brown Ewart, B.A. and his wife, Martha Williams, was born at Liverpool. Educated at the Liverpool institute and University College, Liverpool, Ewart graduated Ph.D. at Leipzig and D.Sc..
Alfred Janes
Alfred Janes (1911 - February, 1999) was a Welsh artist, best known as a member of the circle of Dylan Thomas. Janes was born in Swansea, and first met Thomas, who was a few years his junior, at Swansea grammar school. A mutual friend was the composer Daniel Jones. Janes studied art at the Royal ..
Alfred Jansa
Feldmarschalleutnant Alfred Johann Theophil Jansa von Tannenau, (born July 16, 1884, Stanislawow - December 20, 1963, Vienna) was an Austrian Army Officer. During World War I he held different positions on the Serbian, Italian and Russian fronts, to include being Austrian liaison officer to the ..
Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: �..
Alfred Jewel
The Alfred Jewel is an Anglo-Saxon ornament dating from the late 9th century, first discovered in 1693. The Alfred Jewel The Alfred Jewel was made in the reign of King Alfred the Great and is inscribed "AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN", meaning "Alfred ordered me made". The Alfred Jewel is about 2..
Alfred Jodl
Generaloberst Alfred Jodl Alfred Jodl (May 10, 1890 – October 16, 1946) was a Wehrmacht leader. During WWII he was Chief of the Operations Staff of the armed forces high command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, OKW) and deputy to Wilhelm Keitel. General Jodl was one of the most brilliant minds ..
Alfred Johnson Brooks
The Honourable Alfred Johnson Brooks, PC , QC , BA , BCL , LL.D (November 14 1890 - December 7 1967) was a Canadian parliamentarian. A teacher and barrister by training, Brooks first won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1935 general election as the Conservative Member of Parliament f..
Alfred John Jukes-Browne
Alfred John Jukes-Browne (16 April 1851 - 14 August 1914) was a British invertebrate palaeontologist and stratigrapher. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1909. ..
Alfred John North
Alfred John North (1855 - 1917) was an Australian ornithologist. North wrote a List of the Insectiverous Birds of New South Wales (1897) and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Nests and Eggs of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania (1889). He described a number of birds for the first time, many..
Alfred John Shout
A.J. Shout at Quinn's Post, Gallipoli, 7 June, 1915. Alfred John Shout (VC, MC) (7 August, 1882–11 August, 1915) was the most highly decorated Australian soldier to serve during the Battle of Gallipoli, 1915, being awarded the Military Cross during the landing at Anzac Cove in April and..
Alfred Jones
Alfred Charles Jones (born 6 June 1859, died 10 February 1949 at New South Wales) was a cricket Test match umpire. He umpired 7 Test matches, involving Australia, six against England and one against South Africa. His first match, at Sydney on 11 December to 17 December 1903 was won comfortably b..
Alfred Joseph Knight
Alfred Joseph Knight, VC, MBE, (August 24, 1888 in Birmingham - December 4, 1960, also in Birmingham) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He is currently ..
Alfred Joseph Naquet
Alfred Joseph Naquet (1834-1916), French chemist and politician, was born at Carpentras (Vaucluse), on the 6th of October 1834. He became professor in the faculty of medicine in Paris in 1863, and in the same year professor of chemistry at Palermo, where he delivered his lectures in Italian. He lo..
Alfred Joseph Richards
Alfred Joseph Richards (June 21, 1879–May 21, 1953) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 35 years old, and a Sergeant in the 1st Bn., The Lanca..
Alfred Józef Potocki
Alfred Józef Potocki Noble Family Potocki Coat of Arms Piława Parents Alfred Wojciech PotockiJózefina Maria Czartoryska Consorts Maria Klementyna Sanguszko Children with Maria Klementyna SanguszkoRoman PotockiJulia PotockaKlementyna PotockaJózef Mikołaj Potocki Date of Bir..
Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée
Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée (October 18, 1838 - 1912), French philosopher, was born at La Pouëze. He held several minor philosophical lectureships, and from 1864 was professor of philosophy at the lycées of Douai, Montpellier and Bordeaux successively. In 1867 and 1868 he was crowned by the Aca..
Alfred Junge
German-born production designer Alfred Junge (1886 - 1964) had wanted to be an artist from childhood. Dabbling in theatre in his teenage years he joined the Gorlitz Stadttheater at eighteen and was involved in all areas of production, he worked in the theatre for over fifteen years. Along with many ..
Alfred Kälin
Alfred Kälin is a former Swiss cross country skiier who competed in the early 1970's. He won a bronze in the 4 x 10km cross-country skiing relay at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. External links [Max Bardone Fan Club on the 1972 4 x 10km bronze (Switzerland)] () ..
Alfred Kastil
Alfred Kastil [ka:stil] (May 12, 1874, Graz - July 20, 1950, Schönbühel/Donau, Niederösterreich) was an Austrian-German philosopher. He taught as a professor at the Innsbruck University (1912-1933). Literary works Die Frage nach der Erkenntnis des Guten bei Aristoteles und Thomas, 1900..
Alfred Kastler
Alfred Kastler (May 3, 1902 - January 7, 1984) is a French (German-born) physicist, born in Guebwiller, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1966. Kastler went to the Lycée Bartholdi in Colmar, Alsace, and entered at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1921. After his studies, in 1926 he f..
Alfred Kazin
Alfred Kazin (June 5 1915 – June 5 1998) was an American writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America. Kazin is regarded as one of "The New York Intellectuals", and like many other members of this group he was born in B..
Alfred Kennerley
Alfred Kennerley (born, Islington, 1810; died Hobart, 15 November 1897) was an Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania from 4 August, 1873 until 20 July, 1876. References [Parliamentary Library profile] |- style="text-align: center;" Premiers of Tasmania ..
Alfred Keogh
Sir Alfred Keogh (1857–1936) (GCB, GCVO, CH, LLD) was a medical doctor in the British Army. Born in Dublin on 3 July 1857, the son of Henry Keogh, barrister and magistrate of Roscommon. He was educated at Queen's College, Galway, and Guy's Hospital, London. Received his M.D. from the Queen's ..
Alfred Kerr
Alfred Kerr (25 December 1867 – 12 October 1948) was an influential German-Jewish theatre critic and essayist, nicknamed Kulturpapst (culture Pope) . He was born Alfred Kempner into a prosperous family in Breslau (now Wrocław in Poland), taking the surname Kerr in 1887, and making the change off..
Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Kinsey Born June 23, 1894 Hoboken, New Jersey, the United States Died August 25, 1956 Bloomington, Indiana, the United States Dr. Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956), was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology who in 1947 founded..
Alfred Kirke Ffrench
Alfred Kirke Ffrench was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. 150px Ffrench was twenty-two years old, and a Lieutenant in the 53rd Regiment of Foot (later The Kin..
Alfred Knopf
Alfred Knopf can have two meanings: Alfred A. Knopf (1892-1984) was the founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., the publishing company.Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. or Knopf Publishing Group is a subsidiary of Random House. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated wi..
Alfred Kordelin
Alfred Kordelin (b. November 6, 1868, Rauma - d. November 7 , 1917, Lammi) was a Finnish entrepreneur. Kordelin was one of the best-known Finnish entrepreneurs of his time. Kordelin was not a very educated person. He was the son of a poor seaman from Rauma. Kordelin created a thriving business inv..
Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Korzybski Alfred Korzybski was born on July 3, 1879 in Warsaw, Poland, and died on March 1, 1950 in Lakeville, Connecticut, USA. He is probably best-remembered for developing the theory of general semantics. Contents 1 Early life and career2 General semantics3 Korzybsk..
Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture
The distinguished Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture (AKML) series was begun in 1952. It is an annual event sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics in honor of Alfred Korzybski. Each year the Institute invites some prominent scholar or otherwise notable individual to give the lecture. Lecture..
Alfred Kreymborg
Alfred Francis Kreymborg (1883–1966) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist. Contents 1 Early life and associations2 1920s3 1930's and later4 Other interests5 Critical views6 Works7 References8 Notes9 External ..
Alfred Kropp
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Alfred Kubel
Alfred Kubel (25 May 1909, Braunschweig – 22 May 1999, Bad Pyrmont) was a German socialist politician. In 1928, after attending Middle School, he became an industrial clerk. He had, in 1925, joined a trade union and the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund, a left-wing political party, an..
Alfred Kubin
Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (April 10, 1877 – August 20, 1959) was an Austrian Expressionist illustrator and occasional writer of Czech ancestry. Kubin was born in Bohemia in the town of Leitmeritz, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. From 1898 to 1901, Kubin studied at the ar..
Alfred L. Kroeber
Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876–October 5, 1960) was one of the most influential figures in American anthropology in the first half of the twentieth century. Kroeber was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. He received his doctorate under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, basing his dis..
Alfred L. Werker
Alfred L. Werker (December 2, 1896 - July 28, 1975) was a film director whose work in movies spanned from 1917 through 1957. After a number of film production jobs, Werker directed his first film in 1925. Most of Werker work is unremarkable, but a few were well received by critics. Those films in..
Alfred L. Yarbus
Alfred L. Yarbus (sometimes spelled Iarbus) was a Russian psychologist who studied eye movements in the 1950's and 1960's. Yarbus pionneered the study of saccadic exploration of complex images, by recording the eye movements performed by observers while viewing natural objects and scenes. In this v..
Alfred Lagarde
The late Alfred Lagarde performed the original voice of Telly on Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street. After a few brief appearances, Telly became a main character in the late 1980s. His Dutch name is Teevee Monster, or simply Teevee ('tay-vay'). When Alfred passed away on January..
Alfred Landé
Alfred Landé (13 December, 1888–30 October 1976) was a German-American physicist known for his contributions to quantum theory. He is responsible for the Landé g-factor and an explanation of the Zeeman Effect. Life and Achievements Alfred Landé was born on 13 December 1888 in Elberfeld, G..
Alfred Lanning
Dr. Alfred Lanning is a fictional character from the books and movie of I, Robot. In the movie he is played by James Cromwell. Lanning is the Director of Research at U.S. Robots, the creator of modern robots and inventor of the Three Laws of Robotics. In the stories he played a prominent role. In t..
Alfred Lansing
Alfred Lansing was a journalist and writer. He died in 1975. Lansing was a native of Chicago, Illinois. After serving more than five years in the Navy, he enrolled at Northwestern University, and majored in journalism. Until 1949 he edited a weekly newspaper. Thereafter he joined the United Press a..
Alfred Laubin
Alfred Laubin (1906 - 1976) was the most accomplished oboe maker in America. Alfred was born in 1906 in Detroit, where his father Carl was a charter member of that city's orchestra, playing the oboe and the clarinet. Al's early oboe studies were in Boston with Lenom, DeVergie, and Gillet, who exerc..
Alfred Lawson
Alfred William Lawson (1869-1954) was a professional baseball player from 1887 through 1908 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing an early aviation trade journal. During this time he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fant..
Alfred LeConey
Jeremiah Alfred "Al" LeConey (November 3, 1901 - November 11, 1959) was an American athlete, winner of the gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Alfred LeConey won the AAU championships in the 220 yd in 1922 and won, as a Lafayette College student, the IC4A championships in..
Alfred Lee
Alfred "Butch" Lee (born December 5, 1956 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is the first Puerto Rican national to play in the NBA (National Basketball Association). Lee, born in the area of Santurce in San Juan is the son of an American couple. Lee's family moved to the Bronx, when he was a young child. ..
Alfred Leete
British illustrator (1882- 1933). Born in Northampton, he studied at Weston-super-Mare Grammar School before becoming a printer. In 1905 Punch magazine used one of his drawings. He then became a full time ilustrator. He is famous for the Lord Kitchener poster design which first appeared on the c..
Alfred Lee Loomis
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since June 2006. Alfred Lee Loomis (November ..
Alfred Leland Crabb
Alfred Leland Crabb (born Plum Springs, Kentucky, January 22 1884, died Lexington, Kentucky, October 1 1979) was an American author of historical novels. Life History Crabb was the son of James Wade, a farmer, and Annie Arbuckle Crabb. He spent his elementary years in a one-room school at Plum Spr..
Alfred Lemmnitz
Alfred Lemmnitz (born 27 June 1905 in Taucha; died 23 September 1994) was East Germany's National Education Minister. Lemmnitz completed training as a typesetter and studies in economics at the University of Leipzig. From 1927 to 1931, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)..
Alfred Léon Gérault-Richard
Alfred Léon Gérault, known as Gérault-Richard (1860-1911), was a French journalist and socialist politician, born at Bonnétable (in the départment of Sarthe) of a peasant family. He began life as a working upholsterer, first at Le Mans, then at Paris (1880), where his peasant and socialist so..
Alfred Lepine
Alfred "Pit" Lepine (born July 30, 1901 in St. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec - August 2, 1955) was a head coach and player of the Montreal Canadiens. Centre Alfred Pierre "Pit" Lepine played over 500 games for the Montreal Canadiens in the 20s and 30s. He was an excellent goal scorer who could also ch..
Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, The University of Delaware
Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics is a School of Business at the University of Delaware. The school was named after Alfred Lerner, who was a CEO of MBNA, one of the largest credit card issuers in the world. External links [Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics Website ..
Alfred Lewis Jones
Sir Alfred Lewis Jones (1845 - December 13, 1909), British ship-owner, was born in Carmarthenshire. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to the managers of the African Steamship Company at Liverpool, making several voyages to the west coast of Africa. By the time he was twenty-six he had risen t..
Alfred Lichtenstein (philatelist)
Alfred F. Lichtenstein (6 August 1876 - 24 February 1947, both in New York City) is one of the most famous American philatelists. Biography Alfred Lichtenstein's classic stamp collections were one of the most complete, with a passion for stamps issued before 1870. He has collected stamps issued by ..
Alfred Lion
Alfred Lion (left) with Blue Note Records co-founder Francis Wolff Alfred Lion (1909-1987), along with his childhood friend, Francis Wolff, was the founder of Blue Note Records in 1939. Alfred began his lifelong fascination with jazz at the age of 16 when he ran across a jazz concert in his nat..
Alfred Loisy
Alfred Firmin Loisy (February 28 1857–June 11940) was a French Roman Catholic priest, professor and theologian who became the intellectual standard bearer for Biblical Modernism in the Roman Catholic Church. He was a critic of traditional views of the biblical accounts of creation, and argued tha..
Alfred Lowenstein
Alfred Lowenstein (March 11, 1877 - July 4, 1928) was a Belgian soldier, aviator, sportsman, and one of the most powerful businessmen during the early decades of the 20th century. Contents 1 Early life and business career2 Business successes, disappearance, and theories2.1 Business..
Alfred Ludlam
Alfred Ludlum was a New Zealand politician. He represented the electorate of Hutt in the 1st Parliament, 2nd Parliament, and the 4th Parliament, although resigned before the conclusion of both the 1st and 2nd. He also served on the Wellington Provincial Council. ..
Alfred Lunt
Alfred Lunt photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1932 Alfred Lunt (August 12, 1892 – August 3, 1977) was an American actor. Contents 1 Lunt the actor2 \"The Lunts\"3 Ten Chimneys4 References5 External links Lunt the actor Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he rece..
Alfred Luseno
Alfred LusenoKenya (KEN) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm medium Tests ODIs Matches - 6 '''Runs scored - 17 Batting average - 17.00 100s/50s -/- -/- Top score - 8* ..
Alfred Lynch
Alfred Cornelius Lynch (26 January 1931–December 16 2003) was a gay British actor on stage, film and television. Lynch was born in Whitechapel, London, the son of a plumber. After attending a Roman Catholic school, he worked in a draughtsman's office before entering national service. Then, whilst..
Alfred Lyttelton
Alfred Lyttelton, the first man to represent England at both football and cricket, was regarded by contemporaries as perhaps the most gifted sportsman of his generation. In later life he was an influential Liberal Unionist politician. Alfred LytteltonEngland (Eng) Batting style Right-..
Alfred M. Best
Alfred M. Best (Caldwell, 1876–1958) was an American actuary. At the age of 15, Best began his career in the insurance industry as a junior clerk with the Queen Insurance Company of America in New York. He continued to work in the insurance field for various companies over the next six years...
Alfred M. Gray, Jr.
redirect[[Template:Portal]] General Alfred M. Gray, Jr. (born June 22, 1928) is a former Commandant of the Marine Corps, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C. General Gray enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1950. He served overseas with Fleet Marine Force (FMF), Pacific, attainin..
Alfred M. Monfalcone
Alfred M. Monfalcone was the mayor of Newport News, Virginia from January 16, 1956 to September 1, 1956. His is the shortest term of any mayor of the city. It is not clear why he was appointed to such a short term, but the fact that his predecessor, R. Cowles Taylor, has a term expiring December 20,..
Alfred M. Pride
Alfred Melville Pride (1897 - December 24, 1988) was a U.S. Navy admiral and pioneer Naval aviator, who distinguished himself during World War II as an aircraft-carrier commander. He served during the late 1940s as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics and during the Korean War as Commander of the U.S..
Alfred M. Waldron
Alfred Marpole Waldron(September 21, 1865-December 10, 1952) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania. Alfred Waldron was born in Philadelphia, PA. He became engaged in the insurance business. He was a member of the Philadelphia Select Council from ..
Alfred M. Wilson
redirect[[Template:Portal]]Alfred Mac Wilson (1948-1969) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam in March 1969. While returning from a reconnaissance mission, Wilson's platoon was ambushed, and their machine gunner and assistant were wounde..
Alfred Machin
Alfred Machin (born April 20, 1877 in Westhove, died June 16, 1929 in Nice, France) is one of the rare French film director whose films expressed progressivist tendencies before World War I. Ironically it turns out during this war his films of the current events were of cinematographic service to th..
Alfred Mahlau
Alfred Mahlau (January 21, 1894 - January 22, 1967) German painter, illustrator and teacher, born in Berlin and died in Hamburg. He was best known for his graphical work and illustrations, and for the large stained glass window, Dance of Death,[link] in the Lübeck Marienkirche (St. Mary'..
Alfred Malherbe
Alfred Malherbe (1804 – 1866) was a French magistrate and amateur naturalist. He was the administrator of the Museum of Metz. Malherbe was the author of Monographie des picidées (1859-62, 4 vols.). He identified Levaillant's Woodpecker, which was named for another French scientist, François..
Alfred Malone
Alfred Malone (born in Frisco City, Alabama) is a professional American Football player. He went to Frisco City High School, Frisco City, Alabama and played on the Frisco city's Football team as a (WHIPPET). After his graduation from highschool he is now a professional football player for the Houst..
Alfred Marie-Jeanne
Alfred Marie-Jeanne (born November 15, 1936) is a French politician in Martinique, recognized as the primary leader in the Martinican Independence Movement (MIM) since 1978. He served as mayor of the commune of Rivière-Pilote from 1971 to 2000 and became President of the Regional Council of Martini..
Alfred Marmaduke Hobby
ALFRED MARMADUKE HOBBY was a famous Texas merchant, politician, Confederate officer, and poet. He was born in Macon, Georgia in 1836, the son of Martin and Anna Elizabeth (Slade) Hobby. Hobby was also related to William P. Hobby, governor of Texas from 1917 to 1921. In the 1850s Marmaduke Hobby..
Alfred Marr
Alfred MarrAustralia (AUS) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm medium Tests First-class Matches 1 14 '''Runs scored 5 304 Batting average 2.50 11.25 100s/50s 0/0 0/1 Top score 5 69 Balls bowled 48 1272 Wickets 0 14 Bowling ..
Alfred Marshall
Alfred Marshall Alfred Marshall (July 26 1842–July 13 1924), born in Bermondsey, London, England, became one of the most influential economists of his time. His book, Principles of Economics (1890) bring in the ideas of supply and demand, of marginal utility and of the costs of product..
Alfred Marston Tozzer
Alfred Marston Tozzer (1877-1954) was an American anthropologist, archaeologist, linguist, and educator. His principal area of interest was Mesoamerican, especially Mayan, studies. He was married to Margaret Castle of Honolulu. Tozzer was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and graduated in Anthropology..
Alfred Martin Madsen
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Alfred Martin Madsen (1888-1962) was the Norwegian Min..
Alfred Maseng
Alfred Maseng Nalo (died November 18, 2004) was a politician from Vanuatu. He served as foreign minister of Vanuatu from 1995 until 1996. He was also the president of Vanuatu for two brief periods lasting about a month each, during 1994 and 2004. Maseng had been acting president of Vanuatu from Jan..
Alfred Matthew Hubbard
Alfred Matthew Hubbard (1901–August 31, 1982) became a 'freelance' apostle for the drug LSD in the early 1950s after supposedly receiving an angelic vision telling him that something important to the future of mankind would soon be coming. When he read about LSD the next year, he immediately s..
Alfred Maudslay
Alfred Maudslay (1850-1931) was a British colonial diplomat, explorer and archaeologist. He was one of the first Europeans to study Maya ruins. Alfred Percival Maudslay was born into a wealthy engineering family in 1850. He studied natural sciences at Cambridge in 1868-72 and was acquainted with J..
Alfred Maurice Toye
Alfred Maurice Toye (VC, MC) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 20 years old, and an Acting Captain in the 2nd Bn., The Middlesex Regiment (Duke ..
Alfred McAlpine
Alfred McAlpine plc is a British construction firm. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. It is a major road builder, and has constructed over 10% of Britain's motorways, including the M6 Toll (as part of the CAMBBA consortium). In recent years Alfre..
Alfred McClelland
Alfred McClelland was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. His son, Doug McClelland, and grandson Robert McClelland, have both been members of the Australian federal parliament. ..
Alfred McCune Home
Alfred McCune Home in 2002. The Alfred McCune Home is one of the turn-of-the-century mansions on Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City, Utah. Built for Alfred W. McCune on the inclined south side of Capitol Hill at the northeast corner of 200 North and Main Street, the mansion has 21 rooms. McCune, ..
Alfred Meebold
''' -->''' Alfred Karl Meebold (Heidenheim, a.d. Brenz, September 29 1863 – January 6 1952, Havelock North) was a botanist, writer, and anthroposophist. Life He worked at his father's factory, in the Württembergische Cattunmanufactur. He travelled to India three times, first in 1904, and to Ne..
Alfred Menezes
Alfred Menezes is co-author of several books on cryptography, most notably the Handbook of Applied Cryptography. Menezes is a professor in the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo. He is also the Managing Director of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research...
Alfred Metraux
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Alfred Meyer
--> Dr. Alfred Meyer (October 5, 1891 - April 11, 1945) was a Nazi official, achieving the rank of Staatssekretär and Deputy Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (Reichministerium für die Besetzten Ostgebiete or Ostministerium). He was born in Göttingen, the..
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, KG, GCB, GCMG, PC (March 23, 1854–May 13, 1925), was a controversial British statesman and colonial administrator. He was noted for Milner's Kindergarten, a group of young men he mentored and who in some cases became important figures in running the Britis..
Alfred Mineo
Alfred "Al Mineo" Manfredi (? - November 5, 1930) was a Mafia Godfather, leader of the family that became the Gambino crime family. Mineo was the head of one of the five major families in New York City prior to the Castellammarese War. He was put in charge of the Salvatore D'Aquila family in 1928,..
Alfred Mirsky
Alfred Ezra Mirsky (October 17, 1900—June 19, 1974) was an American pioneer in molecular biology. Mirsky graduated from Harvard College in 1922, after which he studied for two years at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University until 1924, when he moved to the University of Cam..
Alfred Moes
Mother Mary Alfred Moes (born 1828 - died December 18, 1899) was instrumental in establishing the Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota and in founding St. Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. Born Maria Catherine Moes in Luxembourg, she emigrated to Illinois and later settled in Mi..
Alfred Moisiu
Alfred Spiro Moisiu (December 1, 1929, born in Shkoder), has been President of Albania since July 24, 2002. His father was Spiro Moisiu. During 1943-1945 he took part in the war for Albania's Liberation against German occupation. In 1946 he was sent to the Soviet Union as a student. In 1948 he gr..
Alfred Molina
Molina as Dr. Octopus in Spiderman 2 (2004) Alfred Molina (born 24 March, 1953) is an English actor. Molina was born in London to a Spanish father and an Italian mother. He has made an impact as a film, television and stage actor. He made his film debut in the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, bu..
Alfred Mombert
Alfred Mombert (1872- ) was a German poet, born in Karlsruhe, and educated at the universities of Heidelberg, Leipzig, Munich, and Berlin. He practiced law for six years and then devoted himself to his literary work. His works include: Der Sonnengeist (1905)Aeon, der Weltgesuchte (1907)Aeon vor ..
Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett
The Iconoclart Sir Alfred Mond. "I'm sorry to have to disturb Your Majesty, but, owing to the shortage of sites—" George III. "Shortage of sights, indeed!" [It is understood that a number of London statues, including that of George III in Cockspur Street, are to be removed by the Office of..
Alfred Monnin
Alfred Maurice Monnin (born 1920) is a retired judge in Manitoba, Canada. In 1998, he oversaw a commission of inquiry into a vote-splitting scandal in the 1995 provincial election. He had previously served as Chief Justice of Manitoba. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he received a Bachelor of Arts ..
Alfred Montero
Alfred P. Montero is an associate professor of political science at Carleton College, specializing in comparative politics. He has also done in-depth studies of Brazil and Spain. He is also the faculty director of an off-campus studies program at Carleton that focuses on the European Union as well..
Alfred Moore
200px Alfred Moore (May 21, 1755 - October 15, 1810) was a distinguished North Carolina judge who became a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Family and early education His father, Maurice, preceded him in the practice of law and served as a colonial judge in North Carolina...
Alfred Moore Gatlin
Alfred Moore Gatlin (1790 - 1841) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in Edenton, North Carolina, April 20, 1790; pursued classical studies at New Bern, North Carolina; graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1808; lawyer, private practice; elected as..
Alfred Moore Scales
Gov. Alfred Scales Alfred Moore Scales (November 26, 1827 – February 9, 1892) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War and the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1885 to 1889. Contents 1 Early life2 Pre-War public service3 Civil Wa..
Alfred Moore Waddell
Alfred Moore Waddell (16 September 1834 - 17 March 1912) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1871 and 1879 and later mayor of Wilmington, North Carolina. Born in Hillsboro, North Carolina, Waddess attended Bingham’s School and Caldwell Institute before enrolling in the U..
Alfred Moquin-Tandon
Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (May 7, 1804 - April 15, 1863) was a French naturalist and doctor. Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseilles from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850 he was se..
Alfred Morel-Fatio
Alfred Paul Victor Morel-Fatio (1850–1924) was the leading French Hispanist of his time, born at Strasbourg and educated at Ecole des Chartes, Paris. From 1875 to 1880 he was attaché of the department of manuscripts of the Bibliothèque Nationale, during which period he prepared his ..
Alfred Mosher Butts
Alfred Mosher Butts (April 13, 1899 - April 4, 1993) was a U.S. architect. He was the inventor of the board game Scrabble in 1938. In the early 1930s, unemployed architect Alfred Mosher Butts set out to design a board game. After studying existing games, he realized that games fell into three cate..
Alfred Moussambani
Alfred Moussambani (born February 25, 1974) is a sprinter from Cameroon. External link *IAAF profile for [Alfred Moussambani] ..
Alfred Mouton
Alfred Mouton, full name Jean Jacques Alfred Alexandre Mouton, was born on February 10, 1829 and killed at the battle of Mansfield on April 8, 1864. Alfred Mouton was a graduate of the United States Military Academy and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He was the son of former Loui..
Alfred Müller-Armack
Alfred Müller-Armack (* 28 June 1901 Essen, Germany; † 16 March 1978 Köln) was a German economist and politician. He was professor of economics at University of Münster and University of Cologne. Müller-Armack coined the term "social market economy" in 1946. Müller-Armack was a central figu..
Alfred Mulock Bentley
Alfred Jocelyn Mulock Bentley (1878 - 1956) was a British-born financier who founded the Rhodesian Stock Exchange in Bulawayo in 1946. ..
Alfred Munnings
Alfred James Munnings (1878-1959) was known as one of England's finest painters of horses. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several prestigious post-world war commissions that made him wealthy. Alfred Munnings was born at Mendham, Suffolk, on October 8, 1878...
Alfred Musema
Alfred Musema (22 August, 1949- ) is a Rwandan businessperson. On 27 January, 2000, he was found guilty of three counts of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the Rwandan genocide, where he committed acts of rape and murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. ..
Alfred Mynn
Alfred Mynn (1807 - 1861) was arguably the greatest cricketer of the first half of the nineteenth century. He was immensely popular and was one of those cricketers who, like W. G. Grace and Ian Botham, seem to be larger than life. In his case it was literally as well as figuratively true, for he sto..
Alfred Naess
Alfred Naess (April 26, 1877 – July 6, 1955) also written as Alfred Næss, was a Norwegian speedskater. He set the men's world record for 500 meters lowland skating on February 5, 1893 at 49.4 seconds in Hamar, Norway. He then broke his own record 21 days later on February 26, 1893 at ..
Alfred Naqqache
Alfred Georges Naqqache was a Lebanese statesman, prime minister and head of state during the French Mandate of Lebanon. He was serving as Prime Minister when he was appointed President by the French authorities after the resignation of Emile Edde. Pierre-Georges Arlabosse served as acting Presiden..
Alfred National Park
Alfred National Park colspan="2" Nearest town/city: Cann River Coordinates: [37°34′17″S, 149°21′37″E] Area: 30.5 km² Established: 1925 Visitation: (in [[]]) Managing authorities: Parks Victoria Official site: [Alfred National Park] Alfre..
Alfred Naujocks
Alfred Naujocks Born in 1911, SS-Sturmbannführer Alfred Helmut Naujocks was, according to some historians, ultimately responsible for the Second World War in Europe. On August 31st, 1939, he led the attack on Gleiwitz radio station, which led to the false reports of Poles overrunning the stat..
Alfred Neubauer
Alfred Neubauer (born March 29, 1891 in Maehrisch-Ostrau; died August 22, 1980 in Stuttgart) was the legendary racing manager of the Mercedes Grand Prix team from 1926 to 1955. Neubauer was involved in the repair of motor vehicles while an officer in the Imperial Austrian army. After the First Worl..
Alfred Neumann
Alfred Neumann may refer to: Alfred Neumann (East Germany) (1909–2001), politicianAlfred Neumann (writer) (1895–1952) See also: Alfred Newman (1900–1970), film score composerAlfred E. Neuman, fictional mascot of Mad magazine ..
Alfred Neumann (East Germany)
Alfred "Ali" Neumann (born 15 December 1909 in Berlin-Schöneberg; died 8 January 2001) was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, and for a short time, he was East German Minister of Materials Management. Contents 1 Life1.1 Second Wo..
Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was a major American composer of music for films. He received 45 Academy Award nominations (a record in the music categories, now shared with John Williams), winning 9 times; in 1940 he was nominated for 4 different films. He also composed ..
Alfred Newton
For the SOE field agent, see Alfred Newton (SOE). Alfred Newton (Geneva, June 11, 1829 – June 7, 1907) was an English zoologist and ornithologist. In 1854 he was elected travelling fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he had been an undergraduate, and subsequently visited many parts..
Alfred Newton Richards
Alfred Newton Richards (born March 22, 1876 in Stamford, New York; died March 24, 1966) was an American pharmacologist, Richards served as chairman of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology from 1910 to 1946; thereafter he became Professor Emeritus. He also ..
Alfred Nicolas Rambaud
Alfred Nicolas Rambaud (2 July 1842 - 10 November 1905) was a French historian. He was born in Besançon. After studying at the École Normale Supérieure, he completed his studies in Germany. He was one of that band of young scholars, among whom were also Ernest Lavisse, Gabriel Monod and Gaston P..
Alfred Niezychowski
Alfred Niezychowski (1888-1964) was a Polish noble (szlachta), a German Count, lieutenant commander of a commerce raider ship during World War I, an author and lecturer, and a Michigan political candidate for public office. Contents 1 Childhood2 Career3 American citizenship4 ..
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel [Alfred Bernhard Nobel] ([Media helphelp]·[info]) (October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden – December 10, 1896, Sanremo, Italy) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a ma..
Alfred Noble Prize
The Alfred Noble Prize is an award presented by the combined engineering societies of the United States, given each year to a person not over thirty-five for a paper published in one of the journals of the participating societies. The prize was established in 1929 in honor of Alfred Noble, Past P..
Alfred North
Alfred North may refer to: Alfred John North (1855–1917), ornithologist See also: Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), mathematician ..
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead, OM (February 15 1861 – December 30 1947) was a British mathematician who became a philosopher. He was born in Ramsgate, Kent, UK, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysi..
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes (September 16, 1880 – June 28, 1958) was an English poet, best known for his ballads [[s:The Highwayman|The Highwayman]] and The Barrel Organ. Born in Wolverhampton, England, he was the son of Alfred and Amelia Adams Noyes. Noyes attended Exeter College, Oxford, leaving before he..
Alfred Nutt
Alfred Trubner Nutt (1856-1910) was a British publisher, now known for his writing as folklorist and Celticist. He was the son of David Nutt, a London publisher. He was educated at University College London School and College de Vitry-le-Francais, in Maine, France. He then took over the business of..
Alfred Nu Steele
Alfred Nu Steele (1901 - 1959) was a U.S. drink businessman. He was the CEO of Pepsi-Cola Company from 1950 until 1959. He was the husband of Joan Crawford. ..
Alfred Nzo District Municipality
Alfred Nzo is one of the 7 districts of Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of Alfred Nzo is Mount Ayliff. The majority of its 550 392 people speak IsiXhosa (2001 Census). The district code is DC44. Contents 1 Geography1.1 Neighbours1.2 Local municipalities2 De..
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