* List of Washington University faculty and staff: economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Douglass North ; husband and wife biochemists and co-Nobel Prize winners Carl and Gerty Cori ; physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton ; novelists Stanley Elkin and William Gass ; poets Carl Phillips and Mary Jo Bang ; architect Fumihiko Maki ; neurologist and Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini ; sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson ; Poets Laureate Howard Nemerov and Mona Van Duyn ; sociologist and " outlaw Marxist " Alvin Ward Gouldner ; attorney, former Counsel to Vice-President Al Gore and former Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson ; writer and culture critic Gerald Early ; Economist, and former Chair of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, Murray Weidenbaum ; chemist Joseph W. Kennedy, co-discoverer of the element plutonium ; computer scientist Jonathan S. Turner, internationally renowned expert in computer networking ; computer scientist Raj Jain, pioneer in the field of network congestion ; and Law Professor Troy A. Paredes, currently on leave as a commissioner of the SEC.

As of 2007, no other track and field athlete has won more gold medals in a single Olympics, although Alvin Kraenzlein ( 1900 ), Jesse Owens ( 1936 ) and Carl Lewis ( 1984 ) have also won four gold medals in one Olympics.

He has a tracker named Sundog Brown ( Carl Weathers ), and a new constable named Alvin Adams ( Andrew Stevens ), plus a new lover in Vanessa McBride ( Angie Dickinson ).

* Science and Religion ( Oxford University Press 2010 ) ( ISBN 0-199-73842-4 ), co-authored with Alvin Plantinga

Some foundationalists, such as St. Augustine of Hippo and Alvin Plantinga, hold that all of our beliefs rest ultimately on beliefs accepted by faith.

* Alvin Plantinga

The professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame Alvin Plantinga criticises it, and the Emiritus Regius Professor of Divinity Keith Ward suggests that materialism is rare amongst contemporary UK philosophers: " Looking around my philosopher colleagues in Britain, virtually all of whom I know at least from their published work, I would say that very few of them are materialists.

The philosopher Alvin Plantinga has shifted his focus to justifying belief in God ( that is, those who believe in God, for whatever reasons, are rational in doing so ) through Reformed epistemology, in the context of a theory of warrant and proper cognitive function.

The collapse of logical positivism renewed interest in philosophy of religion, prompting philosophers like William Alston, John Mackie, Alvin Plantinga, Robert Merrihew Adams, Richard Swinburne, and Antony Flew not only to introduce new problems, but to re-open classical topics such as the nature of miracles, theistic arguments, the problem of evil, ( see existence of God ) the rationality of belief in God, concepts of the nature of God, and many more.

Moreover, a similar account can be given ( and an elaborate version of this has been given by Alvin Plantinga ) for such notions as ' warranted belief ' or ' epistemically rational belief '.

Leading proponents of reliabilist theories of knowledge and justification have included Alvin Goldman, Marshall Swain, and more recently, Alvin Plantinga.

One greater good that has been proposed is that of free will, famously argued for by Alvin Plantinga in his free will defense.

As an example of the latter, Alvin Plantinga has famously suggested that natural evils are caused by the free choices of supernatural beings such as demons.

American philosopher Alvin Plantinga presented a version of the free will defence which argued that the coexistence of God and evil is not logically impossible, and that free will further explains the existence of evil without threatening the existence of God.

American philosopher Alvin Plantinga offers a free will defence which argues that human free will sufficiently explains the existence of evil while maintaining that God's existence remains logically possible.

* Reformed epistemology-Beliefs are warranted by proper cognitive function, proposed by Alvin Plantinga.

Together with Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and Robert Adams, Alston helped to found the journal Faith and Philosophy and the Society of Christian Philosophers.

* Naturalism Defeated A recent transcendental argument by Alvin Plantinga.

In 2006, the University of Notre Dame's Center for Philosophy of Religion renamed its Distinguished Scholar Fellowship as the Alvin Plantinga Fellowship.

* Baker, Deane-Peter ( ed ), Alvin Plantinga ( Contemporary Philosophy in Focus Series ).

* Mascrod, Keith, Alvin Plantinga and Christian Apologetics.

* Crisp, Thomas, Matthew Davidson, David Vander Laan ( eds ), Knowledge and Reality: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga.

* Sennet, James ( ed ), The Analytic Theist: An Alvin Plantinga Reader.

* Tomberlin, James and Peter van Inwagen ( eds ), Alvin Plantinga ( Profiles V. 5 ).

*" Self-profile " in Alvin Plantinga, James Tomberlin and Peter van Inwagen ed., ( Dordrecht: D. Riedle Pub.

* Daniel C. Dennett and Alvin Plantinga, Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?

* Alvin Law, radio broadcaster, born without arms

* Alvin Singleton ( born 1940 ), American composer

* Alvin Stardust ( born 1942 ), English pop singer and stage actor

They have Wanda buried with a headstone bearing the name she was born with, Alvin Mann, dressed in a suit and with her hair cut short.

Alvin York ( 1887 – 1964 ), a hero at the Meuse-Argonne Offensive during World War I, was born and lived in Fentress County.

The first settler in Lapeer was Alvin N. Hart, who was born in Cornwall, Connecticut on February 11, 1804.

* Alvin M. Strauss, architect, born to German immigrant parents in Kendallville, best known for Lincoln Bank Tower

* Alvin Straight, who inspired The Straight Story, was born here.

* Alvin Dark ( born 1922 ), Major League Baseball player

Alvin C. York was born, raised and died in Fentress County.

* Joe Ferguson, former NFL football player for the Buffalo Bills, was born in Alvin in 1950.

* Nolan Ryan, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher and was born in Refugio ; his family moved to Alvin when he was six weeks old

Theodore Alvin Holtzberg was born in Far Rockaway, New York City to a devout jewish couple.

Alvin Cullum York was born in a two-room log cabin near Pall Mall, Tennessee, on December 13, 1887, the third of eleven children born to Mary Elizabeth Brooks ( 8 August 1866-21 May 1943 ) and William Uriah York ( 15 May 1863 – 17 November 1911 ).

Alvin Law born 1960 in Yorkton is a motivational speaker and former radio broadcaster.

Alvin Lucier ( born May 14, 1931 ) is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception.

* Alvin Lee, born Graham Barnes, guitarist and singer

* Alvin Stardust, born Bernard Jewry, English pop singer

John Alvin Ray was born in Dallas, Oregon, spending part of his childhood on a farm, lived in Dallas, Polk County, Oregon with parents Elmer and Hazel Ray and older sister Elma Ray, and attended grade school there, eventually moving to Portland, Oregon where he attended high school.

Composer Alvin Curran ( born December 13, 1938 ), is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student of Elliott Carter.

* Alvin Law ( born 1960 ), Canadian motivational speaker

Biggert was born Judith Gail Borg in Chicago on August 15, 1937, the second of four children of Alvin Andrew Borg and Marjorie Virginia ( Mailler ) Borg.

Orson Scott Card's series " The Tales of Alvin Maker ", features Alvin Miller ( the seventh son of a seventh son ) which was born with a caul that foretold of his extraordinarily strong magical gifts in the first book of the series " Seventh Son ".