Amphibious warfare
Amphibious warfare: military operations launched from the sea by an amphibious force to land forces within the littorals. Covers assault, raid, withdrawal types; Gallipoli-to-Normandy history; OMFTS doctrine; US 31-ship fleet and PLA brigades.
Amphitrite (Ἀμφιτρίτη)
Amphitrite (Ἀμφιτρίτη), Greek sea goddess and wife of Poseidon, a Nereid in Hesiod but a sea metonym in Homer; queen of the sea, mother of Triton, worshiped with Poseidon at Tenos.
Ampleforth College
Ampleforth College: independent Roman Catholic Benedictine co-educational boarding and day school in North Yorkshire, founded 1803, run by St Laurence Education Trust, ages 11-19, recent Ofsted 'Good' 2023.
Amplience
Amplience is a London-based commerce experience platform, founded in 2008 by James Brooke and Rory Dennis, providing headless content management and digital asset management software for retail.
Amplifi Capital
Amplifi Capital was a London-based consumer-credit fintech, incorporated in 2013, that ran the broker My Community Finance and lender Reevo Money before entering administration in June 2026.
Amplify Partners
Amplify Partners is a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California, founded by Sunil Dhaliwal in 2012 to make concentrated early-stage investments in infrastructure, developer tools, data, AI, and cybersecurity software.
Amplify Trading
Amplify Trading, now operating as AmplifyME, is a London-based financial services company founded in 2009 by traders Will de Lucy and Piers Curran, which began as a proprietary trading firm and now runs finance career simulations.
AmplifyBio, LLC
AmplifyBio, LLC was a cell and gene therapy contract research and manufacturing organization in West Jefferson, Ohio, spun out of Battelle in 2021 and led by CEO J. Kelly Ganjei.
Amplyx Pharmaceuticals
Amplyx Pharmaceuticals was a privately held San Diego biotechnology company developing therapies for immunocompromised patients, known for the antifungal drug fosmanogepix; Pfizer acquired it in 2021.
Ampol
Ampol Limited is an Australian transport fuel company founded in 1936, operating the Lytton refinery in Brisbane, about 2,200 retail sites, and the Z Energy business in New Zealand.
Amr al-Naqid
Amr al-Naqid (عمرو الناقد) was a Sunni hadith transmitter and critic of Baghdad who settled in al-Raqqa, taught al-Bukhari and Muslim, and died in 846 or 847.
Amr ibn Adi
Amr ibn Adi (عمرو بن عدي) was the founder of the Lakhmid dynasty, ruling the kingdom of al-Hira in central Iraq in the late third century.
Amr ibn al-As
Amr ibn al-As (عمرو بن العاص) was an Arab commander and statesman of the Quraysh who conquered Byzantine Egypt for the Rashidun caliphate between 640 and 642 and governed it.
Amr ibn al-Harith al-Ansari
Amr ibn al-Harith al-Ansari (عمرو بن الحارث الأنصاري), also called Abu Umayya, was an Egyptian hadith narrator, Quran reader, jurist, and mufti who died about 148 AH.
Amr ibn al-Layth
Amr ibn al-Layth (عمرو بن الليث) was the second amir of the Saffarid dynasty of Sistan, reigning from 879 until his defeat and capture by the Samanids at Balkh in 900.
Amr ibn Ali al-Fallas
Amr ibn Ali al-Fallas (عمرو بن علي) was a Sunni hadith scholar of Basra who died in 249 AH and transmitted to all six canonical Sunni collection authors.
Amr ibn Harith al-Makhzumi
Amr ibn Harith al-Makhzumi (عمرو بن حريث المخزومي) was a companion of Muhammad of the Banu Makhzum who settled in Kufa and died around 705.
Amr ibn Hind
Amr ibn Hind (عمرو بن هند) was a sixth-century Lakhmid king of al-Hira in central Iraq, a Sasanian client who reigned from 554 until about 570.
Amr ibn Khalid al-Tamimi
Amr ibn Khalid al-Tamimi was a 10th-generation Sunni hadith transmitter who settled in Egypt, dying there in 229 AH; al-Bukhari and Ibn Majah narrated from him.
Amr ibn Kulthum
Amr ibn Kulthum (عمرو بن كلثوم) was a sixth-century pre-Islamic Arab poet and chieftain of the Taghlib tribe in Mesopotamia, whose qasidah is one of the seven Mu'allaqat.
Amr ibn Luhay
Amr ibn Luhay (عمرو بن لحي), Khuza'a chief of pre-Islamic Mecca, whom Islamic tradition credits with bringing the idol Hubal from Syria, instituting bahira and sa'iba rituals, and first introducing idolatry to the Kaaba; modern scholarship questions the legend's historicity.
Amr ibn Said al-Ashdaq
Amr ibn Said al-Ashdaq (عمرو بن سعيد الأشدق) was an Umayyad prince and governor of Mecca and Medina, designated heir to Caliph Marwan ibn al-Hakam in 684.
Amr ibn Ubayd
Amr ibn Ubayd (عمرو بن عبيد) was an early Mu'tazilite theologian of Basra, a disciple of Hasan al-Basri who succeeded Wasil ibn Ata as head of the movement.
Amr ibn Uthman al-Himsi
Amr ibn Uthman al-Himsi was a Sunni hadith transmitter of Homs, Syria, born in 778 and died in 864, who transmitted to three of the six canonical Sunni compilers.
Amra Ram
Amra Ram, born in 1955, is an Indian Communist Party of India (Marxist) politician serving in the Lok Sabha for Sikar, Rajasthan, since 2024, after four terms in the state assembly.
Amrakardava
Amrakardava (अम्रकर्दव) was a military officer of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II, known from a Sanchi inscription of 412 CE recording his victories and a Buddhist donation.
Amram (עַמְרָם)
Amram (עַמְרָם), also called Amrom, is a Levite of the Hebrew Bible, son of Kohath and father of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam, known in the Quran as 'Imran.
Amran Tablets
The Amran Tablets are Sabaean bronze dedicatory plaques from the temple of Almaqah of Hirrān at ʿAmrān, Yemen, dated by palaeography to the fourth to first centuries BC.
Amrapali
Amrapali, also known as Ambapali, was a courtesan of Vaishali who hosted the Buddha during his final journey and donated her mango grove to the monastic community.
Amri-Nal culture
The Amri-Nal culture, also called the Amri or Nal culture, is an Early Harappan Chalcolithic culture of Sindh and Balochistan, Pakistan, known for its painted pottery.