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Ahmednagar (अहमदनगर)

Ahmednagar (अहमदनगर), also Ahilyanagar, is a city in central Maharashtra, India, founded in 1494 by Ahmad Nizam Shah I as capital of the Nizam Shahi sultanate.

Ahmer

Ahmer, born Ahmer Javed, is a rapper from Srinagar, Kashmir, best known for his debut album Little Kid, Big Dreams, released in 2019 by Azadi Records.

Ahmes

Ahmes, Egyptian Ahmose, was an ancient Egyptian scribe who copied the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus in year 33 of King Apepi, around 1537 BCE, and is known from nothing else.

Ahmet Ayık

Ahmet Ayık, born in 1938 in Sivas, Turkey, is a Turkish freestyle wrestler who won Olympic silver in 1964 and gold in 1968 at 97 kg.

Ahmet Bilek

Ahmet Bilek (1932–1970), Turkish freestyle wrestler, flyweight ≤52 kg; Olympic gold at Rome 1960, world silver 1953 (Greco-Roman) and 1959, Mediterranean Games gold 1955; died in Germany.

Ahmet Burak Erdoğan

Ahmet Burak Erdoğan, born 1979, is a Turkish shipping businessman, eldest son of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and owner of the shipping company MB Denizcilik.

Ahmet Davutoğlu

Ahmet Davutoğlu (born 1959, Konya), Turkish scholar-politician, author of Strategic Depth, foreign minister 2009–2014, prime minister 2014–2016, founder of the Future Party, which he dissolved on July 29, 2026.

Ahmet Erhan

Ahmet Erhan, pen name of Erhan Bozkurt, was a Turkish poet, story writer, and essayist born in Ankara in 1958, a leading name of the socially realist 1980-generation poetry.

Ahmet Ertegun

Ahmet Ertegun (1923-2006), Turkish-American co-founder of Atlantic Records with Herb Abramson in 1947; signed Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin; founded New York Cosmos and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1901–1962) was a Turkish novelist, poet, essayist, and literary historian at Istanbul University, known for the novels A Mind at Peace and The Time Regulation Institute.

Ahmet Haşim

Ahmet Haşim, also known as Ahmed Hâşim, was a Turkish poet and essayist, the leading poet of the Fecr-i Ati movement and a founder of modern Turkish poetry.

Ahmet Karahisari

Ahmet Karahisari, full name Ahmed Şemseddin Karahisârî, was an Ottoman calligrapher (c. 1469 to 1556) who revived the classical style of Yaqut al-Musta'simi, working mainly for Sultan Süleyman I.

Ahmet Kirecci

Ahmet Kireççi (Mersinli Ahmet, 1914-1979), Turkish wrestler; won Turkey's first Olympic medal, freestyle 79 kg bronze at Berlin 1936, and Greco-Roman heavyweight gold at London 1948.

Ahmet Koç

Ahmet Koç is a Turkish bağlama player, arranger, and composer born in Istanbul in 1968, known for Paradoks, accompanying Turkey's third-place Eurovision 1997 entry, and arranging over 400 albums.

Ahmet Kusoglu

Ahmet Kusoglu is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who studies ion-conducting polymers for hydrogen fuel cells and electrolyzers, winning the 2025 PECASE award.

Ahmet Muhip Dıranas

Ahmet Muhip Dıranas, who died in 1980 in Ankara, was a Turkish poet and playwright best known for the poem "Fahriye Abla" and his small, carefully polished body of syllabic verse.

Ahmet Tevfik Pasha (أحمد توفيق پاشا)

Ahmet Tevfik Pasha (Ahmet Tevfik Paşa, Okday, 1845–1936), last grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire; long-serving foreign minister under Abdülhamid II, Berlin ambassador 1885–1895, three-time grand vizier, resigned 4 November 1922 after abolition of the sultanate.

Ahmet Ümit

Ahmet Ümit (born 1960) is a Turkish novelist, poet, and short-story writer, one of the most widely read authors of crime fiction in Turkish literature, known for Sis ve Gece and the Chief Inspector Nevzat series.

Ahmet Yıldız

Ahmet Yıldız is a Turkish-born biophysicist and professor of physics at UC Berkeley who studies motor proteins and telomeres, known for the 2003 kinesin hand-over-hand finding and the FIONA technique.

Ahmet Zappa

Ahmet Emuukha Rodan Zappa (born 1974, Los Angeles) is Frank Zappa's youngest son: musician in band Z with Dweezil, New York Times bestselling author, producer of The Odd Life of Timothy Green and the 2020 Zappa documentary, and Zappa Family Trust trustee.

Ahmose (fan-bearer)

Ahmose, also written Ahmes, was an Egyptian court official under Akhenaten who served as true scribe of the king and fan-bearer on the king's right hand.

Ahmose (wife of Thutmose I)

Ahmose was a Great Royal Wife of Thutmose I, an 18th Dynasty king of Egypt's New Kingdom, best known as the mother of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut.

Ahmose called Si-Tayit

Ahmose called Si-Tayit is an early 18th Dynasty figure named in connection with the first viceroy (king's son) of Kush, though the Met names Ruiu instead.

Ahmose Humay

Ahmose Humay was an Egyptian official of the 18th Dynasty who managed the granaries of the God's Wife of Amun under Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.

Ahmose I

Ahmose I (Nebpehtyre), c. 1550–1525 BCE, first pharaoh of Egypt's 18th Dynasty who expelled the Hyksos and founded the New Kingdom; his Abydos pyramid complex, debated tomb, and queen Ahmose-Nefertari distinguish him.

Ahmose I's campaign against Kerma

Ahmose I's campaign against Kerma was a series of Egyptian military operations into Nubia in the early Eighteenth Dynasty, around 1550 to 1525 BC, targeting the Kingdom of Kush.

Ahmose Pen-Nekhbet

Ahmose Pen-Nekhbet, also written Ahmose-Pennekhbet, was an Egyptian official and soldier of the early 18th Dynasty who served Thutmose I, Thutmose II, and Hatshepsut and was buried at El-Kab.

Ahmose son of Ebana

Ahmose son of Ebana was an Egyptian naval officer from Elkab who served under Ahmose I, Amenhotep I, and Thutmose I in the early Eighteenth Dynasty.

Ahmose Turo

Ahmose Turo, also known as Turi, was an official of Egypt's early 18th Dynasty who served as Viceroy of Kush, the crown's top administrator of Nubia, under Amenhotep I and Thutmose I.

Ahmose-Henuttamehu

Ahmose-Henuttamehu was a royal princess of the late 17th Dynasty at Thebes, in the family of Seqenenre Tao, whose mummified relatives were reburied in the Deir el-Bahari royal cache.