Innovative African-American dance choreographer.

Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964), also known by his rank as Sergeant York, was an American soldier who was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, gathering 35 machine guns, killing at least 25 enemy soldiers and capturing 132 prisoners.

Alvin Hoar Adams (June 16, 1804 – September 1, 1877) was the founder of Adams and Company, a forerunner to Adams Express, one of the first companies to act as a carrier for express shipments by rail in the United States.

(born December 13, 1938) an American composer, performer, improviser, sound artist, and writer.

World War I American hero.

(June 11, 1882 – November 23, 1966) an early 20th-century photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism.

Alvin Eliot Roth (born December 18, 1951) is an American academic.

Alvin Carl Plantinga (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology (particularly on issues involving epistemic justification), and logic.