Robert N. Allsopp was born in April 1937 in Leicester, England.

He is a landscape architect, urban planner, and architect. He studied architecture at the Leicester College of Art and Technology. He became a registered architect in 1961 and completed his first major architectural commission in 1963. He then pursued graduate studies in Civic Design at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, followed by two years as a Visiting Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Kansas, USA, under the auspices of the Fulbright Scholarship Program. Returning to London, UK, he worked as an Architect/Planner on planning a New Town and major urban regeneration projects in London and Cardiff. Allsopp moved to Canada in 1968 to take up the position of Director of Campus Planning at the University of Manitoba and subsequently became involved (with Alex Rattray) in establishing the graduate Landscape Architecture Program there. In 1979, he joined Roger duToit Architects/du Toit Associates in Toronto and began teaching in the Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Toronto. The partnership, du Toit Allsopp Hillier, was formed in 1985, and it continues as DTAH, a much-expanded, multi-dimensional design practice. His best-known work is in campus planning, urban neighbourhoods, and a wide range of projects in Canada’s National Capital, recognized nationally and internationally. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) and a member of The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP). He is the recipient of the RIBA’s Soane Medallion, a Fulbright Scholarship, a Canada Council ‘Residency in Barcelona’ Award, the OALA’s Pinnacle Award and the CSLA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2023, he established the Robert N. Allsopp Urban Design Fellowship with the Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation (LACF).

Captain S. W. Allworthy, M.D., was a physician at the Belfast Hospital for Skin Diseases in Ireland (late 1800s and early 1900s), the Royal Army Medical Corps (Liverpool Regiment) and author writing articles about public health, hygiene, sanitation, and venereal diseases of field soldiers during World War I. He was a Fellow of the Chemical Society and the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (1893).

Jan Alm was born in 1955.

He is a Swedish composer, musician, and educator. He studied double bass with Ferdinand Lipa, in Göteborg, Sweden and Klaus Stoll, in Berlin. After working in Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Norway, as assistant principal for one year, he joined the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 1984, becoming assistant principal in this orchestra in 1986. The same year, he was appointed teacher of double bass at the University of Gothenburg, Academy of Music and Drama. He's been teaching the summer course of Bass Club in England since 1999. In 2006, he wrote pieces for electric bass and orchestra, performed by Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Stockholm Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Gävle Symfoniorkester. He completed a cycle of fourteen settings of poems by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson in 2007. Scored for piano, string quartet and harp, the songs have been performed in Sweden and Warsaw, Poland. A new edition of Quartet No. 1 for double basses is available from February 2012.

Patrícia Sucena de Almeida was born in 1972 in Coimbra, Portugal.

She is a Portuguese composer, researcher, and music teacher. She studied electroacoustic music and composition at the University of Aveiro (1997). She attended the University of Edinburgh (M.Mus. in composition, 1998), the City University of London and the University of Southampton (PhD in composition, 2004). From 2007 to 2013, she worked on the post-doctoral project Transversal Multi-Art on the interconnection between music and other forms of communication. Almeida has participated in “IRCAM’s Académies d’été,” the “40th International en Ferenkursen fur Neue Musik — 2000” in Darmstadt, the “Cours du Centre Acanthes” 2002 and 2003 at the Chartreuse de Villeneuve-les-Avignon and 2004 in Metz, The I, II and III Gulbenkian’s Workshop for Portuguese Young Composers and several other seminars and workshops. Her work “Fatum Hominis” was selected for the ISCM World Music Days 2005 during the 23rd Music Biennale Zagreb 2005.

Alpha Omega Alpha, founded in 1902, is the national medical honor society

The Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Medical Fraternity was organized at the College of Medicine, University of Illinois, in 1902. In 1934 its name was changed to Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Medical Society. The McGill Chapter (Alpha of Québec) was established in 1911. The Society is formed of undergraduate medical students of high scholastic achievement, alumni and faculty members, and honorary members, and its major activity on the local chapter level is attending lecture-discussions on topics of medical interest.

Jewish French songwriter, arranger and conductor Siegfried Alex Stein, also known under the pseudonyms Gaston Lecoque and Alex Alstone, was born in Hamburg and lived and worked in France. In 1952-1957 he toured in the United States.
Throughout his career, he collaborated with Tino Rossi, Maurice Chevalier, Tommy Dorsey, Joe Reisman, Charles Aznavour, Dean Martin, and Perry Como.