List of Famous people named Alvin

Alvin Elliot Roth is an American academic. He is the Craig and Susan McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University and the Gund professor of economics and business administration emeritus at Harvard University. He was President of the American Economics Association in 2017.

Arthur Alvin A. Aguilar is a Filipino martial artist and mixed martial arts promoter better known as "Alvin Aguilar". He was born on April 28, 1974 in Bacolod, Philippines. He is the president and founder of the Universal Reality Combat Championship ; He is also the founder and head coach of DEFTAC Ribeiro Jiu-jitsu Philippines and is currently serving as the president of the Wrestling Association of the Philippines. He started training in martial arts at the age of 9, first in karate, Arnis and Greco-Roman wrestling. Having spent over 30 years of his life to the study of multiple martial arts forms including Sari-an, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Yaw-Yan, Pekiti etc., he has developed his own unique fighting style specialized in grappling, knife and street fighting. He is also known for being the first home-grown Filipino Brazilian jiu-jitsu Black belt.

Alvin Curran is an American composer, performer, improviser, sound artist, and writer. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and lives and works in Rome, Italy. He is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student of Elliott Carter. Curran's music often makes use of electronics and environmental found sounds. He was a professor of music at Mills College in California until 2006 and now teaches privately in Rome and sporadically at various institutions.

Alvin Rakoff is a Canadian director of more than 100 film, television and theatre productions. Now in his 10th decade and still active, He has worked with some of the world’s most prestigious leading actors, including Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers, Sean Connery, Judi Dench, Rex Harrison, Rod Steiger, Henry Fonda and Ava Gardner.

Colonel Benjamin Alvin Drew is a United States Air Force officer and a former NASA astronaut. He has been on two spaceflights; the first was the Space Shuttle mission STS-118 to the International Space Station, in August 2007. Drew's second spaceflight took place in March 2011 on STS-133, another mission to the International Space Station. STS-133 was Space Shuttle Discovery's final mission. Drew took part in two spacewalks while docked to the station. Drew was the final African-American to fly on board a Space Shuttle, as the final two Space Shuttle missions, STS-134 and STS-135, had no African-American crew members. He also is currently the latest African-American Astronaut to fly in space.

Alvin Nitura Morada is a Filipino badminton player.

Alvin Lie, MSc. is a member of People's Representative Council of Indonesia as the representative of National Mandate Party.