Famous People with Name Alan

Alan Menken            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alan Menken: is an American Broadway and an eight-time Academy Award winning composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman (1950-1991), Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz.

Alan Rosenberg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alan Rosenberg: an American actor of both stage and screen, and current president of the Screen Actors Guild, the principal motion picture industry on-screen performers' union.Rosenberg is perhaps best known for his character Eli Levinson which appeared in both the series Civil Wars and the popular L.A. Law. He is also well known for his character Ira Woodbine in the sitcom, Cybill. More recently he was seen in the legal drama The Guardian as "Alvin Masterson".

Alan Harvey Guth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alan Harvey Guth: a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory (and how particle theory is applicable to the early universe).He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968 in physics and stayed to receive a master's and a doctorate, also in physics.As a junior particle physicist, Guth first developed the idea of cosmic inflation in 1979 at Cornell after attending a Big Bang lecture by Robert Dicke, and gave his first seminar on the subject in January 1980.[1] Moving on to Stanford University Guth formally proposed the idea of cosmic inflation in 1981, the idea that the nascent universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion that was driven by a positive vacuum energy density (negative vacuum pressure). The results of the WMAP mission in 2006 made the case for cosmic inflation very compelling.

Alan Stuart Blinder            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alan Stuart Blinder: an American economist, a chair professor in the Economics Department of Princeton University and co-director of Princeton’s Center for Economic Policy Studies, which he founded in 1990.Blinder received his undergraduate degree in economics from Princeton, graduating summa cum laude in 1967. He subsequently attended the London School of Economics and then received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971.Blinder has served as the Deputy Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office, on President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, and as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1994 to 1996. He was an adviser to John Kerry during Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.

Alan Stanley Kornacki            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alan Stanley Kornacki: an American geologist and retired Army colonel, currently the Senior Staff Geochemist at Shell International Exploration and Production Inc[1]. He received a B.S. in Geology from University of Missouri–Rolla in 1974, before completing his M.S. and Ph.D. in Geology at Harvard University in 1984, on a Graduate Research Fellowship. His dissertation focused on refractory inclusions in Carbonaceous Chondrites. He began a career in the petroleum industry in 1985 when he joined Shell USA. In 1981, he was awarded the Nininger Meteorite Award, and in 2008 he was awarded a professional degree by University of Missouri–Rolla [2]. Alan Kornacki is most known for his characterization of wax from deep water crude oil, an important obstacle in modern drilling and refining technology, and his research on new sources of hydrocarbons such as oil shale.