List of people by name, A

Subset of List of people by name

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 * (Anonymous)
 * 2 Chainz
 * 50 Cent

Aa–Ac

 * A, Tod
 * Aagaard, Jacob
 * Aaliyah
 * Aalto, Alvar
 * Aaron, Hank
 * Aaronovitch, Ben
 * Aaronovitch, David
 * Abagnale, Frank
 * Abani, Chris
 * Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad
 * Abbas, Mahmoud
 * Abbensetts, Michael
 * Abbey, Edward
 * Abbey, Henry
 * Abbot, Andrew
 * Abbot, Bernice
 * Abbott, Charles, 1st Baron Tenterden
 * Abbot, Derek
 * Abbot, Diane
 * Abbot, Edwin
 * Abbot, Jack
 * Abbott, Shirley
 * Abbott, Tony
 * Abdel-Fattah, Randa
 * `Abdu'l-Bahá
 * Abdulbaki, Sabit Damulla
 * Abdul Kalam
 * Abdul Sattar Edhi
 * Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
 * Abdul-Azeez ibn Abdullaah Aal ash-Shaikh
 * Abdullah, Omar
 * Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
 * Abdusamatov, Khabibullo
 * Abel, Reuben
 * Abelard, Peter
 * Abella, Isaac
 * Abelson, Hal
 * Abelson, Philip
 * Abercrombie, Lascelles
 * Aberjhani
 * Abernethy, George
 * Abernathy, Ralph
 * Abiola, Hafsat
 * Abish, Walter
 * Abnett, Dan
 * Abourezk, James
 * Abraham
 * Abraham, Daniel
 * Abrams, M. H.
 * Abrikosov, Alexei Alexeyevich
 * Abse, Dannie
 * Abssi, Shaker
 * Abu-Ghazaleh, Talal
 * Abu-Jaber, Diana
 * Abu-Jamal, Mumia
 * AbuKhalil, As'ad
 * Abzug, Bella
 * Accius, Lucius
 * Acconci, Vito
 * Ace, Goodman
 * Acevedo, Elizabeth
 * Acharya, Manmohan
 * Achebe, Chinua
 * Acheson, Dean
 * Acker, Kathy
 * Ackerman, Diane
 * Ackman, Bill
 * Ackoff, Russell L.
 * Acosta, Oscar Zeta
 * Ackroyd, Peter
 * Acton, Eliza
 * Acton, John (Lord Acton)

Ad

 * Adair, Robert
 * Adam
 * Adam, Corinna
 * Adam, Thomas
 * Adams, Abigail
 * Adams, Ansel
 * Adams, Brooks
 * Adams, Bryan
 * Adams, Charles Francis, Sr.
 * Adams, Charles Follen
 * Adams, Douglas
 * Adams, Franklin Pierce
 * Adams, Gerry
 * Adams, Henry
 * Adams, James Truslow
 * Adams, John
 * Adams, John Bodkin
 * Adams, John Quincy
 * Adams, Nehemiah
 * Adams, Patch
 * Adams, Ryan
 * Adams, Samuel
 * Adams, Sarah
 * Adams, Scott
 * Adams, William
 * Adbhutananda, Swami
 * Addams, Jane
 * Adderley, Cannonball
 * Addison, Joseph
 * Addleshaw, Percy
 * Ade, George
 * Adebayo, Ayobami
 * Adele (singer)
 * Adenauer, Konrad
 * Adeyemi, Tomi
 * Adi Da
 * Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
 * Adu, Sade
 * Aduba, Uzo
 * Adiga, Aravind
 * Adityanath, Yogi
 * Adjani, Isabelle
 * Adler, Felix
 * Adler, Freda
 * Adler, Hermann
 * Adler, Mortimer
 * Adorno, Theodor
 * Adler, Alfred
 * Adler, Renata
 * Adler, Stella
 * Adunis
 * Adyashanti

Ae–Ak

 * Aerts, Diederik
 * Aeschines
 * Aeschylus
 * Aesop
 * Aesop Rock
 * Afek, Yochanan
 * Affleck, Ben
 * Aflaq, Michel
 * Africanus, Scipio
 * Aga Khan III
 * Aga Khan IV
 * Aga Khan, Begum Inaara
 * Agamben, Giorgio
 * Agase, Alex
 * Agassiz, Louis
 * Agate, James
 * Agathon
 * Agayants, Ivan
 * Agha, Riyad Naasan
 * Aghazadeh, Gholam-Reza
 * Agis II
 * Agis IV
 * Agnew, Jonathan
 * Agnew, Spiro
 * Agre, Peter
 * Agresta, Robert
 * Aguilar, Grace
 * Aguilera, Christina
 * Aguirre, Esperanza
 * Ahbez, Eden
 * Ahern, Bertie
 * Ahiqar
 * Akhenaten
 * Ah Koy, James
 * Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
 * Ahmed, Fakhruddin Ali
 * Ahmed, Israr
 * Ahmed, Samira
 * Ahtisaari, Martti
 * Aide, Charles Hamilton, see Hamilton Aide, Charles
 * Aiken, Clay
 * Aiken, Conrad
 * Aiken, George
 * Aiken, Howard H.
 * Ailes, Roger
 * Ainger, Alfred
 * Airy, George Biddell
 * Aitken, Jonathan
 * Aitkenhead, Decca
 * Akbar
 * Akef, Mahdi
 * Akenside, Mark
 * Akerlof, George
 * Akerman, Chantal
 * Akhavan-Sales, Mehdi
 * Akhmatova, Anna
 * Akhromeyev, Sergei
 * Akhtar, Begum
 * Akiba ben Joseph
 * Akihito
 * Akin, Todd
 * Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Adewale
 * Akinola, Peter Jasper (Archbishop)
 * Akpan, Uwem

Al–Ale

 * al-Abidin, Ali Zayn
 * Al-Din, Iyad Jamal
 * al-Askari, Hasan
 * al-Assad, Bashar
 * al-Assad, Hafez
 * al-Baqir, Muhammad
 * al-Bashir, Omar
 * al-Basri, Hasan
 * Al-Afghani, Jamal al-Din
 * al-Dulaimi, Adnan
 * Al-Farabi
 * Al-Ghalib, Muhammad Asadullah
 * al-Hadi, Ali
 * Al-Hallaj
 * Al-Ansari, Abd Al-Hamid
 * Al-Hariri, Wahbi
 * Al-Husseini, Haj Amin
 * al-Kadhim, Musa
 * Al-Khalili, Jim
 * al-Maliki, Nouri
 * Alameddine, Rabih
 * al-Misri, Dhul-Nun
 * Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid
 * al-Ouda, Salman
 * Al-Maktoum, Mohammed bin Rashid
 * Al-Rodan, Nayef
 * Al-Sudais, Abdul Rahman
 * al-Walid, Khalid ibn
 * al-Zahar, Mahmoud
 * al-Zawahiri, Ayman
 * Alagiah, George
 * Alarcón, Francisco X
 * AlArrayed, Thuraya
 * Alas, Leopoldo
 * Alba, Jessica
 * Albee, Edward
 * Albers, Josef
 * Albert, Prince Consort
 * Alberti, Scipione
 * Albom, Mitch
 * Albright, Madeleine
 * Alcorn, Randy
 * Alcott, Amos Bronson
 * Alcott, Louisa May
 * Alcuin
 * Alda, Alan
 * Alden, Henry Mills
 * Alder, Kurt
 * Alderson, Edward Hall
 * Aldington, Richard
 * Aldiss, Brian
 * Aldrich, Henry
 * Aldrich, Howard E.
 * Aldrich, James
 * Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
 * Aldrin, Buzz
 * Alekhine, Alexander
 * Aleksander, Igor
 * Alexander I of Macedon
 * Alexander II of Russia
 * Alexander the Great
 * Alexander, Amir R.
 * Alexander, Archibald
 * Alexander, Cecil Frances
 * Alexander, Christopher
 * Alexander, Claudia
 * Alexander, F. Matthias
 * Alexander, Harold
 * Alexander, James Waddel
 * Alexander, Lloyd
 * Alexander, Michelle
 * Alexander, Shana
 * Alexander, William
 * Alexandrova, Larisa
 * Alexie, Sherman

Alf–Alk

 * Alfano I, Archbishop of Salerno
 * Alfaro, Luis
 * Alfassa, Mirra
 * Al-Fayed, Mohamed
 * Alfieri, Vittorio
 * Alfonso X of Castile
 * Alford, Henry
 * Alfred the Great
 * Alfvén, Hannes
 * Alger, William R.
 * Algren, Nelson
 * Al-Hathloul, Loujain
 * Ali ibn Abi Talib
 * Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
 * Ali, Hasan ibn
 * Ali, Husayn ibn
 * Ali, Ibrahim
 * Ali, Leila Ben
 * Ali, Muhammad
 * Ali, Tariq
 * Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin
 * Alighieri, Dante
 * Alinsky, Saul
 * Alison, James
 * Alito, Samuel
 * Aliyev, Heydar
 * Alizadeh, Javad
 * Alkan, Charles-Valentin
 * Alkobaisi, Mohammed
 * Allais, Alphonse
 * Allais, Maurice
 * Allan, Jani
 * Allee, W. C.
 * Alleine, Joseph
 * Alleine, Richard
 * Allen, Lily
 * Allen, Dave
 * Allen, David
 * Allen, Elizabeth Chase
 * Allen, Ethan
 * Allen, Fred
 * Allen, Frederick Lewis
 * Allen, Gracie
 * Allen, H. Stanley
 * Allen, James
 * Allen, James Van
 * Allen, Patrick
 * Allen, Ray
 * Allen, Steve
 * Allen, Tim
 * Allen, Woody
 * Allende, Isabel
 * Allende, Salvador
 * Aller, Lawrence H.
 * Alley, Kirstie
 * Alliluyeva, Svetlana
 * Allin, GG
 * Allingham, Margery
 * Allingham, William
 * Allington, Edward
 * Allison, Dorothy
 * Allott, Kenneth
 * Allred, Bill
 * Allred, Gloria
 * Allston, Washington

Alm–Am

 * al-Mahdi, Muhammad
 * Almaraz, Carlos
 * Almodóvar, Pedro
 * Alonso, Fernando
 * al-Qaisi, Fakhri
 * al-Rida, Ali
 * Als, Hilton
 * al-Sadiq, Ja'far
 * Muqtada al-Sadr see Sadr, Muqtada
 * al-Sahhaf, Muhammed Saeed
 * Alsop, Marin
 * al-Taqi, Muhammad
 * Alther, Lisa
 * Althusser, Louis
 * Altizer, Thomas J. J. Altizer
 * Alvanly, Richard Arden, 1st Baron
 * Alvarado, Mando
 * Alvarez, Al
 * Alvarez, Bryan
 * Alvarez, Julia
 * Álvarez-Gaumé, Luis
 * Amacher, Maryanne
 * Amaechi, John
 * Amat, Nuria
 * Ambani, Dhirubhai
 * Ambani, Mukesh
 * Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji
 * Amber (pop star)
 * Ambler, Scott
 * Ambrose
 * Ambrosio, Alessandra
 * Amdahl, Gene
 * Amelina, Victoria
 * Ames, Fisher
 * Ames, Frances
 * Ames, Mark
 * Amiel, Henri-Frédéric
 * Amin, Hafizullah
 * Amin, Idi
 * Amini, Ebrahim
 * Amis, Kingsley
 * Amis, Martin
 * Amos, James F.
 * Amos, Tori
 * Ampère, André-Marie
 * Amr, Suhayl ibn
 * Amritanandamayi, Mata
 * Amstell, Simon
 * Amte, Baba
 * Amundsen, Roald

An

 * Anacharsis
 * Anand, Mulk Raj
 * Anand, Viswanathan
 * Anastacia
 * Anaxagoras
 * Anaximander
 * Anaya, Rudolfo
 * Anda, Géza
 * Andersen, Larry
 * Anderson, Beth
 * Anderson, Christina (playwright)
 * Anderson, Carl David
 * Anderson, Chris (writer)
 * Anderson, Gillian
 * Andersen, Hans Christian
 * Anderson, Ian
 * Anderson, John
 * Anderson, John B.
 * Anderson, Jon
 * Anderson, Laurie
 * Anderson, Lee
 * Anderson, Loni
 * Anderson, Margaret Caroline
 * Anderson, Pamela
 * Anderson, Perry
 * Anderson, Phillip Warren
 * Anderson, Poul
 * Anderson, Robert (playwright)
 * Anderson, Sherwood
 * Anderson, Theodore Wilbur
 * Andersson, Benny
 * Andrade, Edward
 * Andre, Carl
 * Andreessen, Marc
 * Andreou, Constantine
 * Andreski, Stanislav
 * Andrésen, Björn
 * Andretti, Mario
 * Andrew, Keith
 * Andrew, Duke of York
 * Andrewes, Lancelot
 * Andrews, Julie
 * Andrews, Mary Kay
 * Andrews, Roy Chapman
 * Andrić, Ivo
 * Andrieux, François
 * Aneirin
 * Angela of Foligno
 * Angelis, Barbara De
 * Angell, Norman
 * Angelou, Maya
 * Angle, Sharron
 * Angleton, James Jesus
 * Anglund, Joan Walsh
 * Anielewicz, Mordechai
 * Aniston, Jennifer
 * Ankier, Jo
 * Annan, Kofi
 * Anne of Great Britain
 * Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom
 * Añó, Núria
 * Anscombe, G. E. M.
 * Anouilh, Jean
 * Anselm of Canterbury
 * Anshen, Ruth Nanda
 * Ansip, Andrus
 * Anslinger, Harry J.
 * Anstey, F., pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie
 * Antheil, George
 * Anthony of Padua
 * Anthony the Great
 * Anthony B
 * Anthony, Marc
 * Anthony, Piers
 * Anthony, Susan B.
 * Antin, Mary
 * Antisthenes
 * Antognazza, Maria Rosa
 * Antonioni, Michelangelo
 * Antoniou, Laura
 * Antrobus, Raymond
 * Antunes, António Lobo
 * Anzaldúa, Gloria E.

Ap–Ash

 * Apollinaire, Guillaume
 * Apollonius of Tyana
 * Appel, Karel
 * Appel, Jacob M.
 * Apple, Fiona
 * Applegate, Christina
 * Appleton, Jon
 * Appleton, Thomas Gold
 * Apuleius
 * Aquinas, Thomas
 * Aquino, Benigno, III
 * Arabin, William
 * Araeen, Rasheed
 * Arafat, Yasser
 * Arago, François
 * Aragón, Francisco
 * Arakawa, Hiromu
 * Araki, Sadao
 * Arany, János
 * Arbuckle, Roscoe
 * Arbuthnot, John
 * Arceneaux, Michael
 * Archer, Jeffrey
 * Archilochus
 * Archimedes
 * Archpoet
 * Archytas
 * Arden, Don
 * Ardrey, Robert
 * Arellano, Elvira
 * Arenas, Reinaldo
 * Arendt, Hannah
 * Aretino, Pietro
 * Arif, Abdul Rahman
 * Ariosto, Ludovico
 * Argenson, René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'
 * Argüelles, José
 * Argyris, Chris
 * Aristophanes
 * Aristotle
 * Arius
 * Ariyaratne, A. T.
 * Arkwright, Richard
 * Arlott, John
 * Armatrading, Joan
 * Armey, Dick
 * Armitage, Simon
 * Armour, Richard
 * Armstrong, Billie Joe
 * Armstrong, Edwin Howard
 * Armstrong, Hilary
 * Armstrong, John
 * Armstrong, Karen
 * Armstrong, Lance
 * Armstrong, Louis
 * Armstrong, Neil
 * Arnault, Antoine-Vincent
 * Arnaut Daniel
 * Arnett, Will
 * Arnheim, Gus
 * Arnim, Bettina von
 * Arnold, Benedict
 * Arnold, Dana
 * Arnold, Edwin
 * Arnold, George
 * Arnold, Matthew
 * Arnold, Thomas
 * Arnold, Vladimir
 * Arp, Hans
 * Arrau, Claudio
 * Arrian
 * Arrow, Kenneth
 * Arroyo, Stephen
 * Arrupe, Pedro
 * Arslan, Alp
 * Artaud, Antonin
 * Arthur, Beatrice
 * Arthur, Chester A.
 * Arthur, William (minister)
 * Artsimovich, Lev
 * Arudou, Debito (born David Christopher Aldwinckle)
 * Aryabhata
 * Asad, Muhammad
 * Ashbery, John
 * Asch, Sholem
 * Asch, Solomon
 * Ascham, Roger
 * Ascherson, Neal
 * Ascott, Roy
 * Ashcroft, John
 * Ashcroft, Richard
 * Ashe, Arthur
 * Ashdown, Paddy
 * Ashford, Daisy
 * Ashjian, Scott
 * Ashlag, Baruch
 * Ashlag, Yehuda
 * Ashley, Maurice
 * Ashley, Robert
 * Ashley Cooper, Anthony, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
 * Ashley-Cooper, Anthony, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
 * Ashoka the Great
 * Ashton, Dore
 * Ashurst, William Henry
 * Ashurst, Henry Fountain

Asi–Az

 * Asimov, Isaac
 * Aslaksen, Elias
 * Aspect, Alain
 * Asquith, Herbert
 * Asquith, Margot
 * Assa, Alberto
 * Assange, Julian
 * Asselineau, François
 * Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de
 * Astaire, Fred
 * Astell, Mary
 * Astley, Jacob
 * Astley, Rick
 * Aston, Richard
 * Astor, Brooke
 * Astor, John Jacob
 * Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
 * Atchison, Tex
 * Athanasius of Alexandria
 * Athavale, Pandurang Shastri
 * Athenaeus
 * Atkins, Peter
 * Atkyns, Robert
 * Atran, Scott
 * Atrios
 * Atta, Mohamed
 * Attali, Jacques
 * Attar of Nishapur
 * Attell, Dave
 * Attenborough, David
 * Attlee, Clement
 * Attila the Stockbroker
 * Atwan, Abd al-Bari
 * Atwater, Lee
 * Atwood, Margaret
 * Auber, Harriet
 * Aubigné, Jean-Henri Merle d'
 * Aubrey, John
 * Auden, Wystan Hugh
 * Audubon, John James
 * Auerbach, Erich
 * Auerbach, Red
 * Augier, Émile
 * Augustine of Hippo
 * Augustus
 * Aulenti, Gae
 * Aumann, Robert
 * Aung San Suu Kyi
 * Aurangzeb
 * Aurobindo, Sri
 * Ausonius
 * Austen, Jane
 * Auster, Paul
 * Austin, Alfred
 * Austin, Benjamin Fish
 * Austin, J. L.
 * Avanzini, John
 * Avi (author)
 * Avicenna
 * Avila, Lixion
 * Avlon, John
 * Avnery, Uri
 * Avram, Henriette
 * Awan, Ameer Muhammad Akram
 * Aweys, Hassan
 * Awkwafina
 * Axelrod, Alan
 * Axelrod, Robert
 * Axton, Hoyt
 * Ayalon, Ami
 * Ayckbourn, Alan
 * Ayer, Alfred Jules
 * Aykroyd, Dan
 * Ayoob, Massad F.
 * Ayres, Pam
 * Aytoun, W. E.
 * Azalea, Iggy
 * Azania, Malcolm
 * Azikiwe, Nnamdi
 * Aziz, Tariq
 * Aznar, José María
 * Azurmendi, Joxe
 * Azzam the American
 * Azzam, Abdullah
 * Azzopardi, John G.