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From "Jane the Virgin", Alba Villanueva.

Danish - Swedish actress Alba August: the daughter of director Bille August. She portrays Astrid Lindgren in Becoming Astrid.

Alba Calderón de Gil (1908–1992) was an Ecuadorian social realist painter, leftist activist, and feminist. She founded the movement for the recognition of women's rights in Ecuador. Alba Calderón was born in Esmeraldas and died in Guayaquil.

Alba Caterina Rohrwacher (born 27 February 1979) is an Italian actress. Alba Rohrwacher was born in Florence, the daughter of a German father and an Italian mother. From the age of 17 to 21 she studied medicine, intending to be a doctor. At the age of 21 she moved to Rome to study acting at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.Her younger sister is director Alice Rohrwacher.

Alba de Céspedes y Bertini (11 March 1911 – 14 November 1997) was a Cuban-Italian writer. De Céspedes was the daughter of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (a Cuban ambassador to Italy) and his Italian wife, Laura Bertini y Alessandri. Her grandfather was Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, who is the father of the nation of Cuba, and a distant cousin was Perucho Figueredo. She was married to Francesco Bounous of the Italian foreign service.

Alba Arnova (15 March 1930 – 11 March 2018) was an Italian-Argentine ballerina and film actress. Born in Buenos Aires as Alba Fossati, daughter of two Italian emigrants, Arnova studied piano at the Conservatory and enrolled in the university at the medical faculty. She became the principal classical dancer of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and changed her surname first to Ars Nova and then to Arnova.

Thought I'd mention that the Gaelic word 'Alba', meaning Scotland is pronounced 'al-a-pa'. In the Spanish/Italian first name form it was also the name of Lord Byron's daughter (1817-1822), given to her by her mother Claire Clairmont, although Byron changed it to Clara Allegra. Don't know why Byron didn't like it though- I think it's lovely!

In "The House of the Spirits (La Casa de los Espíritus)" a novel written by Isabel Allende, born 1942, Alba is Blanca's daughter and Clara's granddaughter. Together with her grandfather Esteban she tells the story using Clara's diary.

In Audrey Niffenegger's novel 'The Time Traveler's Wife', Alba DeTamble is the daughter of the novel's two protagonists, Clare Abshire DeTamble and Henry DeTamble. Like her father, she is a CDP (Chrono-Displaced Person), who finds herself transported back and forth in time to different points in her life seemingly randomly.

Is also a last name like actress Jessica Alba.