Alan John Birchenall MBE (born 22 August 1945) is an English former footballer who played during the 1960s and 1970s as a forward. Born in East Ham he made his Football League debut with Sheffield United and went on to have a varied career, spending time at Chelsea and Leicester City as well as playing in the NASL and representing England at Under-23 level.

Alan Blair Thompson

Alan Douglas Black

South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner

Alan D. Berg (born February 18, 1932) is an American international development authority, most notable for his advocacy and large-scale implementation of strategies to address malnutrition, especially among children and pregnant women. Berg's professional focus on nutrition spans more than half a century and has earned him wide recognition for stimulating a new policy approach to international nutrition assistance. His work has helped to transform the way development agencies and national governments think about the problem of malnutrition as a fundamental component of economic growth. His innovative planning and multisectoral operational work, particularly during his long tenure as the senior nutrition officer at the World Bank (1972–95), have modeled a number of practices that other donor institutions and countries now often incorporate into their own projects. Furthermore, Berg’s efforts to transform development assistance for nutrition have prompted a number of academic training programs for nutritionists to expand their curriculum to include coursework in nutrition policy, planning, and implementation, creating a new career path for graduates. In a 1997 survey of the international nutrition community, Berg was the one most often cited as a role model for young persons entering the field. In 2008, the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition honored Berg as one of the first recipients of the United Nations Achievement Award for Lifelong Service to Nutrition, citing him at the presentation as "a global giant in nutrition history.

Alan Birkinshaw, FRGS (born 15 June 1944, in Auckland, New Zealand) is a British film director, writer, and television and film producer.The son of two physicians, his first job was as a jackaroo in the Australian outback, before becoming a horse breaker and rodeo rider. Travelling to England, he joined the camera department of Lew Grade's Associated TeleVision on his 20th birthday.

Alan Benson

Alan Bennett

Alan Bible

Alan Berney Fisher

Alan Blackburn (4 August 1935 – January 2014) was an English footballer. He played outside-left professionally for West Ham United and Halifax Town between 1954 and 1961, making a total of 139 Football League appearances. Blackburn died in January 2014.

Alan Bluechel

Alan Bird

Alan Bond

Alan Belkin (born July 5, 1951) is a Canadian composer, organist, pianist as well as a pedagogue.

Playwright, screenwriter, actor, author

Alan Bishop is an American musician, most famous for being the bassist and vocalist of experimental rock band Sun City Girls. He has also released solo material under the aliases Alvarius B. and Uncle Jim. In the early 1980s Bishop played in the short-lived band Paris 1942 with Maureen Tucker of the Velvet Underground, and was briefly a member of skate punk group JFA. Bishop is now a member of the Cairo-based band The Invisible Hands. He is the co-founder, along with Hisham Mayet, of Sublime Frequencies, a Seattle-based record label focused on collating esoteric music and imagery from all over the world, most notably Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East.

Alan Beards (born 19 October 1932) was an English professional footballer who played as a Winger. He made over 40 appearances in the Football League playing for Bolton Wanderers, Swindon Town and Stockport County.

Alan Baxter (disambiguation)

Alan Blundell (born 18 August 1947) is an English footballer, who played as a wing half in the Football League for Tranmere Rovers. He also spent one season at Wigan Athletic, playing 35 games and scoring five goals in the Cheshire League.

Alan Richard Bell (born 10 June 1957) is a British sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Alan D. Bersin (born October 15, 1946) served as the acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Acting Commissioner Bersin was placed by President Barack Obama on March 27, 2010 as a recess appointment. As Acting Commissioner, Mr. Bersin oversaw the operations of CBP’s 57,000-employee work force and managed an operating budget of more than $11 billion.

Alan Bond (disambiguation)

Alan Bloomfield (born 12 February 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Bloomfield played as a utility. He was recruited from Ainslie Football Club in the Australian Capital Territory.

Alan Bircher (born 21 September 1981) is a British former long-distance swimmer. After finishing a long international career he entered into coaching, following successful coaching posts at West Suffolk where he coached his wife Stefanie Bircher to the World Championships 7th-place finish (Rome 2009) and had multiple national champions. He then went on to coach at Wyre Forest Swimming Club in Worcestershire.

Alan Leonel Bonansea (born 6 May 1996) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Primera B Nacional side Almagro, on loan from Argentine Primera División side Lanús.

Alan Bluechel (August 28, 1924 – August 20, 2013) was an American politician in the state of Washington. He served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1967 to 1975 and in the Senate from 1975 to 1995. He was also a former president pro tempore of the Senate. He was a Republican.

Alan Bell

Alan Bergman (Dancer)

Uncle Jim

Alan Birch

Alan Alex Symington Bennett (born 29 September 1949) was a Scottish footballer who played for Crystal Palace, Morton, Hamilton, Dumbarton and East Stirling.

Alan Max Benítez Dominguez

Alan John Birchenall

Alan Black

Filmmaker

Alan Albert Antisdel Blakeway (1898 - 9 October 1936) was a British archaeologist who was director of the British School at Athens.

Alan Blake

Alan Bond (engineer)

Alan Black is an Australian former professional basketball player and coach. He is most notable for coaching both the Perth Wildcats and the Cairns Taipans in the Australian National Basketball League.Black has three children, sons Stephen (former NBL player) and Andrew, and daughter Marissa.

Alan Blencowe (born 22 October 1976) is a British Racing driver. He started racing in the 750MC Stock Hatch Series in 1999, winning one race and finishing 4th in the championship driving a Peugeot 205 GTI. In 2000 he raced in the Ford Fiesta Zetec Championship finishing 5th in the championship and also becoming the winter series champion. He stayed in the series for another year, this time finishing 4th in the championship.For 2002 he made the move up to the BTCC with Gary Ayles Motorsport in the Production class. His debut weekend didn't turn out well when the second driver on the team collided with him in race 1 and was taken out of race two by another competitor while running in 3rd place. Over the course of the season he picked up four Production class podiums, his best result a second place at Thruxton and eventually finishing 7th in the Production class championship. He moved to the Barwell Motorsport team in 2003 and despite only taking one Production class win, his consistency of 18 podiums and only one DNF took him to 2nd in the Production class championship.In 2004 he had to make the move over to the Britcar Endurance season as sponsorship was hard to find and again driving for Barwell Motorsport in a Honda Civic Type-R, taking two class wins in the four races he competed in also always being the fastest driver out of the two or sometimes three drivers that competed in the same car. For 2005 he moved to the SEAT Cupra Championship, finishing 3rd four times and taking 5th in the championship. In 2006 he finished 2nd in the championship, again his consistency playing part with only one win but 10 podium finishes and one lap record at Knockhill. At the end of 2006 Blencowe was asked to test for the Seat factory team at Rockinham. He stayed at Triple R for one more year driving the new SEAT León, winning two races before he left the series after a huge accident at Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit caused by the pole sitter.In 2008 Blencowe was asked to drive for Synchro Motorsport ( Honda factory Swindon ) which he did for two races until the car caught fire at Snetterton after an oil leak and burnt the car out.He now works as a professional driver for Lamborghini when required.

Alan Esmond Bollard (born 1951) is the executive director of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat for the period of 2013-2015. He fully assumed the role on 1 January 2013, which was also the official commencement of Indonesian APEC year of 2013. He was previously the Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, having been appointed on 23 September 2002.

Alan Beaumont (footballer)

Alan Bloch

Alan Bissett

Alan Bell (cricketer)

Actor

Alan Bennett (footballer, born 1949)

Alan Berliner

Alan Bloor

Film director,screenwriter,producer

Alan Bevan

Alan David Blakley (1 April 1942 – 10 June 1996) was an English guitarist and record producer, who was a member of the Tremeloes from its inception until January 1975, where he started writing for other bands. His credits include writing various hits for the Tremeloes and co-producing the UK No. 42 hit "She's Gonna Win", with Bilbo Baggins.

Alan Beetle

Alan Bennett (born 1962) is an American lyric tenor known mostly for his performances in concert and oratorio work. He is particularly admired for his interpretations of the works of Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Mozart.

Alan Bloom (plantsman)

(MBE)

Alan Leonel Bonansea

Alan Berg

Alan Bennett (footballer)

Alan B. Berg (August 27, 1916 – July 31, 1989) was an American politician and forestry professor at Oregon State University. Berg served on the city council of Corvallis, Oregon, from 1973 until 1978. He later served as the Mayor of Corvallis for two terms from 1979 until 1986.Berg married his wife, statistician Helen Berg, in 1983. The couple remained married until his death in 1989. Helen Berg would later be elected as Corvallis' first female mayor from 1994 until 2006.

Alan Michael Blow (born 3 December 1949) is an Australian judge who is the current Chief Justice of Tasmania.After graduating from the University of Sydney with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees, he practised as a barrister in civil litigation, criminal and family law, before being appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania in 2000. He has also a long time lecturer in Supreme Court Advocacy at the University of Tasmania's Centre for Legal Studies, teaching postgraduate legal practice students.On 8 April 2013, Blow was appointed Chief Justice of Tasmania, replacing Ewan Crawford who had reached the mandatory retirement age of 72.In 2018 Blow was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to the judiciary and to the law, particularly as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, to legal education and professional standards, and to the community".

Alan Boisragon

Alan Bennett (English footballer)

Alan D. Bersin (born October 15, 1946) served as the acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Acting Commissioner Bersin was placed by President Barack Obama on March 27, 2010 as a recess appointment. As Acting Commissioner, Mr. Bersin oversaw the operations of CBP’s 57,000-employee work force and managed an operating budget of more than $11 billion. Bersin formerly served as the Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Representative for Border Affairs, informally known as the "Border Czar." Bersin currently serves as Assistant Secretary of International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Officer for the Department of Homeland Security, a position he assumed on January 3, 2012. According to the Department of Homeland Security website, in this position Bersin "oversees the Department's international engagement and serves as the principal advisor to Secretary Janet Napolitano on all international affairs".Bersin is a former Secretary of Education for California, as well as a former superintendent of San Diego City Schools, past federal Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) and United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, and former Attorney General’s Southwest Border Representative. He previously served as the chair of the executive committee of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority.

Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. He was born in Leeds and attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with the Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame.

Alan Beaumont

Alan Bennett (footballer, born 1981)

Alan Bennett (footballer, born 1954)

Alan Blackburn

Alan Bellows

Alan Charles Bird (28 September 1906 – 21 July 1962) was an Australian politician. Born in Launceston, Tasmania, he was educated at state primary schools in Melbourne and at Melbourne High School before becoming an engineer. As an official with the Amalgamated Engineers' Union, he was associated with the Australian Labor Party.Bird was elected to Northcote City Council in 1930 at the age of only twenty-four and served continuously on the Council for the remainder of his life.

Alan Roy Billings

Alan Benes

Alan Bishop

Alan Blakeway

Alan Boesak

Alan Paul Benes (born January 21, 1972) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched for three teams over the course of eight seasons.Benes attended Lake Forest High School in Illinois and Creighton University, where he was part of Creighton's NCAA College World Series appearance (1991). He began his major league career in 1995, pitching in three games for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Alan Bernard

Alan Herbert Vauser Bloom (19 November 1906 – 31 March 2005) was a British horticulturist and steam engine enthusiast. During his life he created over 170 new varieties of hardy perennial plants. These and Alpine plants and conifers were his specialities. He invented the garden feature of freestanding island beds, set in open lawn. He wrote some 30 books and appeared on radio and television. He was the founder of Bressingham Steam and Gardens.

Alan Blakley

Alan Beer (born 11 March 1950) is a Welsh-born former footballer who played as a forward in the Football League during the 1970s, most notably with Exeter City.He started his career with home-town's West End F.C., before progressing to play for Swansea's senior team Swansea City. After 15 league appearances he moved into non-league football with Weymouth F.C.

Alan Blyth (fl. 1921 – 1953) was an English artist who primarily painted landscape and botanical paintings, predominantly in the oil medium.

Alan Birch (born 12 August 1956) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger, making over 400 career appearances.

Alan Charles Nelson Borg (born 21 January 1942) is a former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and Librarian of the Order of St John.He was educated at Westminster School before Brasenose College, Oxford (MA) and the Courtauld Institute of Art (PhD).Having begun his career at the Tower of London's Royal Armouries, in 1978, he became the first Director of the University of East Anglia's Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts.

Alan Bevan is a piper and current pipe major of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band.

Alan Bernstein

Alan Bolloev

Alan Bennett (5 November 1931 – 17 January 2006) was an English footballer who played on the left-wing. He made 133 league appearances in a nine-year career in the Football League. He played for Port Vale between 1949 and 1957, and was a member of the Third Division North winning side in 1953–54. He retired in 1958, following one season with Crewe Alexandra.

Alan Blayney

Admiral Alan Lee Beaumont (24 December 1934 – 21 September 2004) was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy, whose career culminated with his appointment as Chief of the Defence Force from 1993 to 1995.

Alan Blumenfeld

Alan Beswick

Alan David Bleviss (August 6, 1941 - December 30, 2017) was a Canadian born voice actor who had been a resident of the United States since 1976. In 1991, he was described as one of the "top names" in the business. His voice over career spanned nearly four decades. He was a past president of the Civil War Token Society.

Alan Beaumont (9 January 1927 – 1999) was an English footballer.Beaumont made five appearances in The Football League during 1948–49 for Chester but did not play for the club again. He had previously played for South Liverpool and later joined New Brighton.

Alan Bean a mild mannered white former minister working to uncover injustice and organize black opposition, in the racial controversies surrounding the Tulia 46 drug sting in Tulia, Texas and the Jena Six controversy in Jena, Louisiana. In 1999, Dr. Alan Bean founded the organization, Friends of Justice, an alliance of community members to advocate for criminal justice reform.

Alan Bleviss

Alan Billings

Alan Bern (Bloomington, Indiana, 1955) is an American composer, pianist, accordionist, educator and cultural activist, based in Berlin since 1987. He is the founding artistic director of Yiddish Summer Weimar and the Other Music Academy (OMA). He is internationally recognized for his contributions to the research, dissemination and creative renewal of Jewish music with Brave Old World, The Other Europeans and the Semer Ensemble, among others.

Alan Blaikley

Alan Bernstein, (born June 25, 1947) is President and CEO of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Alan Bollinger

Alan Blackshaw OBE (7 April 1933 – 4 August 2011) was an English mountaineer, skier and civil servant who was President of the Alpine Club from 2001 to 2004 and President of the Ski Club of Great Britain from 1997 to 2003.

Alan Bern (Bloomington, Indiana, 1955) is an American composer, pianist, accordionist, educator and cultural activist, based in Berlin since 1987. He is the founding artistic director of Yiddish Summer Weimar and the Other Music Academy (OMA). He is internationally recognized for his contributions to the research, dissemination and creative renewal of Jewish music with Brave Old World, The Other Europeans and the Semer Ensemble, among others. He is the creator of Present-Time Composition, a musical and educational approach informed by cognitive science that integrates the methods of improvisation and composition. In 2016 he received the Weimar Prize in recognition of major cultural contributions to the city of Weimar.

Alan Lee Beaumont

Alan Herbert Vauser Bloom

Mechanical Engineer

Alan Douglas Black (born 4 June 1943) is a Scottish former professional football player. Black, a left back, started and finished his career with Dumbarton. In between, he played for Sunderland and Norwich City. At Norwich, he was a member of the team that won the Second Division championship in 1972.

Alan Birkinshaw

Alan Beer

Alan Blackwell

Alan Best (born 2 May 1959 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian animation director and producer.

Alan Bonansea

Alan Bircher (born 21 September 1981) is a British former long-distance swimmer. After finishing a long international career he entered into coaching, following successful coaching posts at West Suffolk where he coached his wife Stefanie Bircher to the World Championships 7th-place finish (Rome 2009) and had multiple national champions. He then went on to coach at Wyre Forest Swimming Club in Worcestershire. After a highly successful 2011/2012 season, Alan moved to his current coaching position at Ellesmere College Titans (ECTM).Bircher won two senior international medals a brace of silvers in 2004: World Championships Dubai 10 km and European Championships Madrid 5 km. He also narrowly missed out on medals in the Open Water Swimming at the 2005 / 2006 / 2007 World Aquatics Championships in the 10 km open water swim, finishing in 4th / 7th / 7th respectively.

Alan Bones

Alan Alikovich Bolloyev (Russian: Алан Аликович Боллоев; born 11 June 1983) is a Russian professional football player.

Alan Bersin

Alan Bloomfield

Alan Michael Blow

Vice Chief of the Defence Force(1989–92)

Alan Bolton (1 July 1939 – 1 January 2003) was an English cricketer active from 1956 to 1963 who played for Lancashire. He was born in Darwen and died in Keighley. He appeared in 40 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm off break. He scored 1,223 runs with a highest score of 96 and held 15 catches. He took two wickets with a best analysis of one for 13.

Alan Blaikley (born 23 March 1940) is an English songwriter and composer. He is best known for writing a series of international hits in the 1960s and 1970s in collaboration with Ken Howard, including the UK number ones "Have I the Right?" and "The Legend of Xanadu". Together with Howard, he has also written two West End musicals and a number of TV themes, including the theme music for the BBC's long-running series of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.

Alan Birchenall

Alan Bissett (born 17 November 1975) is an author and playwright from Hallglen, an area of Falkirk in Scotland. After the publication of his first two novels, Boyracers and The Incredible Adam Spark, he became known for his different take on Scots dialect writing, evolving a style specific to Falkirk, suffused with popular culture references and socialist politics.

Alan Blayney (born 9 October 1981) is a professional footballer from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Ballyclare Comrades.

Alan Benítez

Alan Berg (nutritionist)

Alan Blencowe

Alan Black (broadcaster)

Alan Bond Johnson (born January 14, 1939) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming.

Alan Beeton

Alan Bennett (disambiguation)

10thGovernor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Alan Berger

Alan Berg (politician)

Alan John Bennett

Alan Blumlien

Alan Birch (trade unionist)

Alan Bolloyev

Alan Bern

Alan Esmond Bollard (born 1951) is the executive director of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat for the period of 2013-2015. He fully assumed the role on 1 January 2013, which was also the official commencement of Indonesian APEC year of 2013. He was previously the Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, having been appointed on 23 September 2002. He succeeded Donald Brash in this role.His earlier public service included four years as Secretary to the Treasury (1998–2002), and time as head of the Commerce Commission (1994–1998). He headed the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (1987–1994) and has edited or written at least three books about economic reform in New Zealand.He gained a PhD in Economics from the University of Auckland in 1977 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by the same university in 2007.In the 2013 New Year Honours, Bollard was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the State.Bollard was born in Auckland, the son of scientist Ted Bollard. He is married to venture capitalist Jenny Morel.

Alan Beaven

Alan Bicksler Fowler

Alan Berkman (September 4, 1945 – June 5, 2009) was an American physician and activist in the Students for a Democratic Society and Weather Underground who went to prison for his involvement in a number of robberies staged by the organizations and their offshoots. Released after eight years in prison for armed robbery and explosives possession, Berkman provided medical care to the homeless and founded Health GAP to help provide AIDS pharmaceuticals to some of the world's poorest nations.

Alan Bell (sprinter)

Alan Blundell

Alan Michael Blow (born 3 December 1949) is an Australian judge who is the current Chief Justice of Tasmania.After graduating from the University of Sydney with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees, he practised as a barrister in civil litigation, criminal and family law, before being appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania in 2000.

Alan Bolton

The Talent

Alan Bloor (born 16 March 1943) is an English former footballer and manager. He made 394 league appearances in the Football League for both Potteries teams.He spent eighteen years as a centre-half at Stoke City between 1960 and 1978, helping them to lift the League Cup in 1972, before spending a brief association with Port Vale as a player and manager between 1978 and 1979. He also briefly played for American club Cleveland Stokers in 1967.

Alan D. Berg (born February 18, 1932) is an American international development authority, most notable for his advocacy and large-scale implementation of strategies to address malnutrition, especially among children and pregnant women. Berg's professional focus on nutrition spans more than half a century and has earned him wide recognition for stimulating a new policy approach to international nutrition assistance.

Alan C. Boothe (born November 14, 1945) is an American politician. He is a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from the 89th District, serving since 1998. He is a member of the Republican party.
Alan Boothe

Alan Bible Botanical Garden

Alan Walter Blake (3 November 1922 – 31 October 2010) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A flanker, Blake represented Wairarapa at a provincial level. He played for the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in a single test match in 1949. Despite not having any Māori ancestry, Blake played 26 matches for New Zealand Māori and captained the side in 1950. He had an African American grandfather.During World War II, Blake served as a trooper with the 4th New Zealand Armoured Brigade from 1943, and saw action in Italy. At the end of the war, he toured with the New Zealand Army rugby team, known as the "Kiwis", appearing in 24 matches.

Alan Belkin

Alan Beith, Baron Beith

Executive Director of theAsia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

Alan Tudor Blaikley

Alan Beeton (born 4 October 1978) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Wycombe Wanderers.

Alan Bloom

Alan Beer (born 11 March 1950) is a Welsh-born former footballer who played as a forward in the Football League during the 1970s, most notably with Exeter City.He started his career with home-town's West End F.C., before progressing to play for Swansea's senior team Swansea City. After 15 league appearances he moved into non-league football with Weymouth F.C. but returned to the Football League with Exeter City in 1974/75.He made over 100 league appearances for Exeter, and was part of the team that were promoted from Football League Division Four in 1976–77, including scoring two goals in an amazing 4–3 win at Barnsley, in which Exeter had trailed 3–0 at half time.

Alan David Blakley

Alan Bibey

Alan Blyth (artist)

Alan Bibey is a mandolinist, singer, songwriter, and band leader in the bluegrass tradition.

Alan Blinston (born 15 June 1944) is a British former long-distance runner. He competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics and was a bronze medallist in the 5000 metres at the 1969 European Athletics Championships.He was also a team silver medallist at the 1975 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. He was a three-time runner-up in the 5000 m at the AAA Championships, in 1969, 1970, and 1971.

Alan Berger is an American engineer currently the Leventhal Professor of Advanced Urbanism at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

Secretary to the Treasury of New Zealand

Alan Best

Alan John Bennett (born 4 October 1981) is an Irish professional footballer who plays for Cork City as a defender. He has represented the Republic of Ireland national team.

Alan Blumenfeld (born September 4, 1952) is a veteran American character actor best known for his role in NBC's TV series Heroes as Maury Parkman, the telepath father of Matt Parkman played by Greg Grunberg, and as Bob Buss in the telefilm 2gether. He has played Greg Grunberg's father in both Felicity and Heroes.

Alan Roy Billings (born 7 October 1942) is an Anglican priest who is currently the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner. He has been a parish priest and academic as well as being active in politics.

Alan Black (footballer)

Sir Alan Biley

Alan Bell was an English cricketer who played for Hertfordshire.Bell, who represented Hertfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship between 1957 and 1967, made a single List A appearance for the side, in the 1966 Gillette Cup.Bell scored 105 runs from the opening order in the only innings in which he batted in List A cricket - though this century was not enough to save the team from defeat in the competition.

Alan Bissett (born 17 November 1975) is an author and playwright from Hallglen, an area of Falkirk in Scotland. After the publication of his first two novels, Boyracers and The Incredible Adam Spark, he became known for his different take on Scots dialect writing, evolving a style specific to Falkirk, suffused with popular culture references and socialist politics. He also applied to be rector of Glasgow University in 2014.Bissett used to lecture in creative writing at Bretton Hall College, now part of the University of Leeds, and tutored the creative writing MLitt at the University of Glasgow alongside Janice Galloway and Tom Leonard. He became a full-time writer in December 2007. In March 2012, he became a "Cultural Ambassador" for National Collective, a creative organisation which supports Scottish independence.

Alan Paul Benes (born January 21, 1972) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched for three teams over the course of eight seasons.Benes attended Lake Forest High School in Illinois and Creighton University, where he was part of Creighton's NCAA College World Series appearance (1991). He began his major league career in 1995, pitching in three games for the St. Louis Cardinals. His highlight years included the 1996 and 1997 seasons with the Cardinals, when he won a combined 22 games and struck out 291 batters over 353 innings. His performance during the 1996 season helped the Cardinals reach the playoffs for the first time since 1987. During the 1996 post-season, Alan posted an 0–1 record with a 2.84 ERA.In 1997, batters hit only .219 against him, and Benes had 160 strikeouts in 161.2 innings. His 2.89 ERA would have placed him tied for the sixth-best ERA than year, but he fell just 1/3 of an inning short of the 162 required innings when he had a shoulder injured that ended his season in late July. At the time of this injury he ranked third in the league in strikeouts.Benes sat out the majority of the 1998 and 1999 seasons with an arm injury, which would never allow him to return to top form. From 2000 through 2003, he pitched a combined 123 innings with St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs and Texas Rangers. After various stints in the minor leagues following the 2003 season, Alan retired before the 2007 season and is currently serving as an instructor to the St. Louis Cardinals.He is the younger brother and former teammate of retired major league pitcher Andy Benes, and the older brother of former minor league pitcher Adam Benes and the uncle of minor league pitcher Drew Benes.

Animator

Alan Bollard

Alan Blow

Alan Biley

Alan Harvey Bible (November 20, 1909 – September 12, 1988) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Nevada from 1954 to 1974. He previously served as Attorney General of Nevada from 1942 to 1950.

The Alan Bible Botanical Garden is a desert botanical garden located at the Alan Bible Visitor Center, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, 601 Nevada Highway, Boulder City, Nevada, United States. The garden is named in honor of Senator Alan Bible (1909-1988).The garden is mostly cactus, but also displays some of the area's desert trees and shrubs, and identifies plant communities found throughout the recreation area.

Alan Beards

Alan Alex Symington Bennett

John Alan Belcher (born April 24, 1984) is a retired American mixed martial artist. He competed in the UFC's middleweight division, obtaining an overall record of 9-6 in the octagon.
Alan Belcher

Alan Blinston

Alan Birkinshaw, FRGS (born 15 June 1944, in Auckland, New Zealand) is a British film director, writer, and television and film producer.The son of two physicians, his first job was as a jackaroo in the Australian outback, before becoming a horse breaker and rodeo rider. Travelling to England, he joined the camera department of Lew Grade's Associated TeleVision on his 20th birthday. He worked his way up to directing, firstly in television and then via the world of commercials, into television movies and feature films.He directed several episodes of Space Precinct, at the time the most expensive TV series ever made. One of his early films was Killer's Moon. Killer's Moon was described in the acclaimed Shepperton Babylon as the most tasteless movie in the history of the British Cinema. In spite of comments like this, Killer's Moon won a prize for best Screenplay at the Sitges Horror Film Festival, and has since become a cult film.In the mid 1970s, Birkinshaw’s production of Alice in Wonderland ran into difficulties when the RSPCA banned him from using live flamingos in the croquet scene. In an interview with ITN, the director of the London Zoo described Birkinshaw as ‘barmy’.In 1986, Birkinshaw went to India where he directed an award-winning film on the life of Jawaharlal Nehru, entitled But I Have Promises To Keep, which had been commissioned by Rajiv Gandhi and was made for the Government of India via Doordarshan, the national television network of India.Birkinshaw has also directed the boxing movie Punch. In the last few years, Birkinshaw's passion for telling stories has taken him to the world of sculpture, recreating some of the greatest works by the world's classical sculptors. The Creation of Adam, based on Michelangelo's work in the Sistine Chapel is one, and the story of Alexander the Great’s triumphant march into Babylon, original by the famed neo-classical sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsen, is another.

Alan Black (basketball)

Alan Berkman

Alan Belford Jones AO

Alan Alikovich Bolloyev

Alan Blencowe (born 22 October 1976) is a British Racing driver. He started racing in the 750MC Stock Hatch Series in 1999, winning one race and finishing 4th in the championship driving a Peugeot 205 GTI. In 2000 he raced in the Ford Fiesta Zetec Championship finishing 5th in the championship and also becoming the winter series champion.

Alan Bell (disambiguation)

Alan Beresford B'stard

Alan Bones is a Canadian diplomat. He was previously the Canadian ambassador to Iceland. He used to be the Chargé d'affaires a.i. to Sudan.Bones graduated from Carleton University in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and was hired in 1987 at the Department of External Affairs. Bones has held numerous diplomatic positions including Malaysia and Mexico. He was also senior policy advisor to Canada's Special Envoy to the Sudan Peace Process and served as the ambassador to Sudan between 2005 and 2007.

Alan Black (15 January 1943 – 5 March 2007) was known as one of the presenters of BBC's Sounds of the Seventies.After having worked as a disc jockey for a series of commercial radio stations in the mid-1960s, Black joined the BBC in July 1968, with a programme on BBC Radio 1: Midday Spin. He also presented In Concert, on BBC Radio 2, and the What's New programme with Anne Nightingale.

Alan Bennet

Alan Bircher

Alan Bond (born 1944) is an English mechanical and aerospace engineer, as well as Managing Director of Reaction Engines Ltd and associated with Project Daedalus, Blue Streak missile, HOTOL, Reaction Engines Skylon and the Reaction Engines A2 hypersonic passenger aircraft.

Alan Belford Jones

Alan Berliner (born 1956) is an American independent filmmaker. The New York Times has described Berliner's work as "powerful, compelling and bittersweet... full of juicy conflict and contradiction, innovative in their cinematic technique, unpredictable in their structures... Alan Berliner illustrates the power of fine art to transform life."

Alan Bennett (tenor)

Alan Bernstein, OC Phd

Alan Bergman (dancer)

Alan Blunt

Alan Black (disambiguation)

John Alan Birch (20 December 1909 – 13 December 1961) was a British trade union leader.Born in Warrington, Birch worked in retail and joined the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers (NUDAW) in 1927. He trained in secretarial skills in his spare time, and used this experience to become secretary of his union branch, then area organiser and national organiser.NUDAW merged to form the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers in 1947 and, two years later, Birch was elected as general secretary. While general secretary, he also served on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and chaired the TUC's Economic Committee.In his spare time, Birch sat on a large number of government committees and quangos, including the National Coal Board, Monopolies Commission, Economic Planning Board and Central Price Regulation Committee. He was given a knighthood in June 1961, but died later in the year.

Alan Belcher (footballer)

Alan Bones is a Canadian diplomat. He was previously the Canadian ambassador to Iceland. He used to be the Chargé d'affaires a.i. to Sudan.Bones graduated from Carleton University in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and was hired in 1987 at the Department of External Affairs. Bones has held numerous diplomatic positions including Malaysia and Mexico.

Alan Bergman (died September 24, 2010) was an American ballet dancer, photographer and businessman.He was the product of two generations of Russian/Polish Yiddish actors: Glicka and Morris Balavsky, co founders of Nordska Films, the Actors Studio and his mother, Miriam, a child star in the Yiddish theater.

Alan Walter Blake (3 November 1922 – 31 October 2010) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A flanker, Blake represented Wairarapa at a provincial level. He played for the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in a single test match in 1949. Despite not having any Māori ancestry, Blake played 26 matches for New Zealand Māori and captained the side in 1950.

Alan Bolle

Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. He was born in Leeds and attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with the Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame. He gave up academia, and turned to writing full-time, his first stage play Forty Years On being produced in 1968.His work includes The Madness of George III and its film adaptation, the series of monologues Talking Heads, play and subsequent film of The History Boys, and popular audio books, including his readings of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Winnie-the-Pooh.

Alan Bolton (cricketer)

Alan Charles Nelson Borg (born 21 January 1942) is a former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and Librarian of the Order of St John.He was educated at Westminster School before Brasenose College, Oxford (MA) and the Courtauld Institute of Art (PhD).Having begun his career at the Tower of London's Royal Armouries, in 1978, he became the first Director of the University of East Anglia's Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts. He was then appointed Director-General of the Imperial War Museum, before being Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1995 to 2001.Borg is currently the Order of St John Librarian and a Vice-President of the Foundling Museum.

Alan Blakely

John Alan Birch (20 December 1909 – 13 December 1961) was a British trade union leader.Born in Warrington, Birch worked in retail and joined the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers (NUDAW) in 1927.

Alan Borg

Alvarius B.

Alan Bell (athlete)

Alan Bond (rocket developer)

Alan Blackshaw

Alan Bennett (Irish footballer)

Alan Bergman

Alan Blyth

Alan Bjerga

Geoffrey Alan Blyth (27 July 1929, London – 14 August 2007, Lavenham) was an English music critic, author, and musicologist who was particularly known for his writings within the field of opera. He graduated from the Rugby School before attending the University of Oxford where he studied with Jack Westrup. During the early 1960s he began writing music criticism for The Times and later in The Listener, The Guardian, and Gramophone. He was an associate editor for the magazine Opera between 1967 and 1983, and worked as a staff critic for The Daily Telegraph between 1977 and 1989. A prolific writer, Blyth edited discographic reviews of opera and song, several entries in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and wrote the books Wagner’s Ring: an Introduction (London, 1980) and Remembering Britten (London, 1981) among other publications.

Alan Bishop (disambiguation)

Geoffrey Alan Blyth (27 July 1929, London – 14 August 2007, Lavenham) was an English music critic, author, and musicologist who was particularly known for his writings within the field of opera. He graduated from the Rugby School before attending the University of Oxford where he studied with Jack Westrup. During the early 1960s he began writing music criticism for The Times and later in The Listener, The Guardian, and Gramophone.

Alan Bloor (born 16 March 1943) is an English former footballer and manager. He made 394 league appearances in the Football League for both Potteries teams.He spent eighteen years as a centre-half at Stoke City between 1960 and 1978, helping them to lift the League Cup in 1972, before spending a brief association with Port Vale as a player and manager between 1978 and 1979. He also briefly played for American club Cleveland Stokers in 1967. He is fifth in Stoke's all-time appearances list, and was nicknamed "Bluto" by the club's supporters.

Alan Bjerga (born 1973) is an American journalist, author of the book Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest. He also covers global food policy for Bloomberg News and is a journalism instructor at Georgetown University, where in 2016 he received a department award for dedication to student learning. In 2010 he served as president of the National Press Club and was president of the North American Agricultural Journalists in 2010-2011.

Alan Bennett (footballer, born 1931)

Alan Bennett (footballer born 1981)

Alan Charles Bird (28 September 1906 – 21 July 1962) was an Australian politician. Born in Launceston, Tasmania, he was educated at state primary schools in Melbourne and at Melbourne High School before becoming an engineer. As an official with the Amalgamated Engineers' Union, he was associated with the Australian Labor Party.Bird was elected to Northcote City Council in 1930 at the age of only twenty-four and served continuously on the Council for the remainder of his life. Twice (in 1940–1941, and again in 1958–1959) he served as Northcote's mayor. He was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in 1949 as the Labor member for Batman. The demands made by Bird's concurrent service on both Northcote Council and the federal parliament were certainly prejudicial to his health. He died in July 1962.

Alan Best (filmmaker)

Alan Becher Webb

Alan Bond Johnson

Alan Best (animator)

Alan Bender

Alan Bjerga (born 1973) is an American journalist, author of the book Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest. He also covers global food policy for Bloomberg News and is a journalism instructor at Georgetown University, where in 2016 he received a department award for dedication to student learning. In 2010 he served as president of the National Press Club and was president of the North American Agricultural Journalists in 2010-2011. He has been recognized for his work with awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the New York Press Club, the Kansas Press Association, the North American Agricultural Journalists, and the Overseas Press Club. He has commented on food and agriculture for Bloomberg Television, National Public Radio, the BBC and PBS Newshour, among other programs. Bjerga won the NAAJ's top writing award in 2005 while working for the Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau, where as a Midwest correspondent also covered foreign policy issues including defense contracting and intelligence related to the Iraq war.Bjerga, who grew up on a farm near the town of Motley, Minnesota, went to Concordia College (Minnesota) where he earned a bachelor's degree in history and English literature and edited the student newspaper, The Concordian. He earned a master's degree in mass communication from the University of Minnesota, where he was the managing editor of The Minnesota Daily. In 2012 he was an inaugural winner of the university's award for outstanding journalism alumni under 40, and in 2013 received Concordia College's annual "Sent Forth" award given to an outstanding young alumnus.Bjerga began his career with the St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minn.) and also reported for the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Argus Leader and The Wichita Eagle (Kan.).Alan Bjerga was a contestant on the game show, "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" where he won $50,000. He was a second-place finisher on Jeopardy!' At his National Press Club inaugural on January 30, 2010, he played guitar and sang lead vocals with "Honky Tonk Confidential", a retro/alt country band with songs written by former CBS Face the Nation anchor, Bob Schieffer. He has also competed for the standup comedy title of "DC's Funniest Journalist."

Alan Bean (activist)

Plantsman

Alan Bishop is an American musician, most famous for being the bassist and vocalist of experimental rock band Sun City Girls. He has also released solo material under the aliases Alvarius B. and Uncle Jim. In the early 1980s Bishop played in the short-lived band Paris 1942 with Maureen Tucker of the Velvet Underground, and was briefly a member of skate punk group JFA. Bishop is now a member of the Cairo-based band The Invisible Hands.

Alan Bond (businessman)

Alan Paul Biley