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Ahmose-Inhapy

Ahmose-Inhapy, also written Ahmose-Inhapi, was a Theban queen of Egypt's late 17th Dynasty, probably a wife of Seqenenre Tao II and a daughter of Senakhtenre Tao I.

Ahmose-Meritamon

Ahmose-Meritamon, also Ahmose-Meritamun, was an Egyptian queen of Dynasty 18, daughter of Ahmose I and Great Royal Wife of her brother Amenhotep I, buried in tomb TT358 at Deir el-Bahari.

Ahmose-Nefertari

Ahmose-Nefertari, also known as Ahmose-Nofretari, was an Egyptian queen of the early 18th Dynasty, wife of Ahmose I and mother of Amenhotep I, later deified at Thebes.

Ahmose-Sapair

Ahmose-Sapair, also written Ahmose-Sipair, was a prince of the Theban royal family at the end of Egypt's Seventeenth Dynasty, around 1560 BCE, remembered through a funerary cult lasting five centuries.

Ahmose-Sitamun

Ahmose-Sitamun was a princess of Egypt's early Eighteenth Dynasty, a daughter of pharaoh Ahmose I, known chiefly from a large statue erected for her at Karnak.

Ahmose-Sitkamose

Ahmose-Sitkamose, also written Ahmose Satkamose, was an Egyptian queen of the early 18th Dynasty, most likely a daughter of Kamose and wife of Ahmose I.

Ahmosid family

Ahmose-Nebetta was a royal woman of the Ahmosid family, the Theban house that expelled the Hyksos and founded the 18th Dynasty; she is not among the mummies securely identified in cache TT320.

Ahmudan

Ahmudan (အမှုထမ်း) was the hereditary royal service system of pre-colonial Burma, in place since the Pagan era, under which subjects owed the crown goods, labor, or military service.

Ahn Bo-hyun (안보현)

Ahn Bo-hyun (안보현) is a South Korean actor born 1988 in Busan, a former 64kg amateur boxer and 2007 model who debuted as an actor in 2014, broke out with Itaewon Class (2020), and won Best New Actor at the 2025 Blue Dragon Film Awards for Pretty Crazy.

Ahn Chang-ho

Ahn Chang-ho (안창호), known by the pen name Dosan, was a Korean independence activist and educator who organized Korean communities in the United States and led the secret Sinminhoe.

Ahn Hyo-seop

Ahn Hyo-seop (안효섭, Paul Ahn), born 1995 in Seoul, is a Korean-Canadian actor: Business Proposal CEO Kang Tae-moo, Dr. Romantic's Seo Woo-jin, voice of Jinu in KPop Demon Hunters.

Ahn Jae-hong (actor)

Ahn Jae-hong (안재홍), born 1986 in Busan, is a South Korean actor known for Reply 1988, Fight for My Way, Be Melodramatic, and his award-winning transformation as Ju Oh-nam in Netflix's Mask Girl.

Ahn Jae-hyun (안재현)

Ahn Jae-hyun (안재현), South Korean model and actor born 1987 in Seoul, known for My Love from the Star, You're All Surrounded, Cinderella and the Four Knights, and New Journey to the West; distinct from actor Ahn Jae-hong and table tennis player Ahn Jae-hyun.

Ahn Jae-wook

Ahn Jae-wook (안재욱, also romanized An Jaewook), born 1971 in Seoul, is a South Korean actor-singer and first-generation Hallyu star, famous for Star in My Heart (1997), the nickname Nation's Boyfriend, the hit song Forever, and the 2025 drama For Eagle Brothers.

Ahn Jong-hyun

Ahn Jong-hyun (안종현) is a South Korean materials scientist known for graphene transparent electrodes and flexible electronics, and has been a distinguished professor at Yonsei University in Seoul since 2015.

Ahn Jung-geun

Ahn Jung-geun (안중근, 1879 to 1910) was a Korean independence activist and righteous-army commander who assassinated Ito Hirobumi at Harbin station in 1909 and was executed at Lushun in 1910.

Ahn Jung-hwan (안정환)

Ahn Jung-hwan (안정환), born 1976, South Korean forward; scored the 2002 World Cup golden goal against Italy and 3 World Cup goals in 71 caps; first Korean in Serie A with Perugia; later a broadcaster.

Ahn So-hee (안소희)

Ahn So-hee (안소희), mononym Sohee, born 1992, South Korean actress and singer; former Wonder Girls member (debuted 2007 with "Irony"), known for Train to Busan (2016); distinct from actress Han So-hee.

Ahna Capri

Ahna Capri (Anna Marie Nanasi, 1944–2010) was a Hungarian-born American actress best known as Tania in Enter the Dragon (1973) with Bruce Lee; child TV actress, also in Payday, Piranha, The Brotherhood of Satan; died after a car accident.

AHNAK

AHNAK (desmoyokin, AHNAK1), UniProt Q09666, is a 5,890-aa, 629.1-kDa human scaffolding protein on chromosome 11q12 that the S100A10-annexin A2 heterotetramer recruits for calcium-dependent plasma membrane repair, also regulating L-type calcium channels and acting context-dependently in cancer.

Ahnenerbe

Ahnenerbe ("Ancestral Heritage"), SS research society founded July 1, 1935 by Himmler, Darré, and Wirth to support Nazi Germanic-superiority doctrine; under Wüst and Sievers it looted cultural objects across occupied Europe and ran deadly camp experiments.

Ahney Her

Ahney Her (born 1992, Lansing, Michigan) is a Hmong American actress who debuted as Sue Lor in Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino (2008) and later appeared in Night Club (2011) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).

Aho Vikramaarka (అహో విక్రమార్క)

Aho Vikramaarka (అహో! విక్రమార్క), also written Aho! Vikramarka, is a 2024 Telugu-Marathi bilingual action drama directed by Peta Trikoti, starring Dev Gill in his first lead role as a corrupt cop who reforms; released 30 August 2024, it flopped with about ₹1.08 crore net in India.

Aho-Girl (アホガール)

Aho-Girl (アホガール) is Hiroyuki's gag manga about idiot girl Yoshiko Hanabatake and childhood friend Akuru Akutsu; serialized 2012–2018 in Weekly then Bessatsu Shonen Magazine, 12 volumes, 1.5 million copies, 12-episode 2017 anime by Diomedea.

Aho–Corasick algorithm

The Aho–Corasick algorithm is a string-searching algorithm that locates all occurrences of a set of keywords in a text in a single pass, published by Alfred V. Aho and Margaret J. Corasick in 1975.

AHOF

AHOF (아홉), or All-time Hall Of Famer, is a nine-member K-pop boy group under F&F Entertainment formed on SBS's Universe League; debuted July 1, 2025 with Who We Are, selling 369,850 first-week copies.

Ahold

Ahold, formally Koninklijke Ahold N.V., was a Dutch grocery retail group that grew from one Albert Heijn store, founded in 1887, into a global food retailer before its 2003 accounting scandal.

Ahold Delhaize

Ahold Delhaize (Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V.) is a Dutch food retail group formed by the 2016 merger of Royal Ahold and Delhaize Group, headquartered in Zaandam, with 17 local brands, 9,551 stores, and 77 million weekly customers across the US, Europe, and Indonesia.

Ahom coinage

Ahom coinage (অসমীয়া মুদ্ৰা) is the gold and silver coinage struck by the Ahom kings of Assam, first issued in 1648, mostly as octagonal silver rupees.

Ahom dynasty

Ahom dynasty: Tai-origin ruling house of the Ahom kingdom in Assam, founded by Sukaphaa from Mong Mao in 1228 and ended in 1826. Known for the Charaideo moidams (UNESCO 2024), the paik labor-military system, and resistance to Mughal expansion.