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Aidan Hubbard

Aidan Hubbard, born 2003, is an NFL linebacker and edge rusher, Seattle Seahawks #93, signed as a 2026 undrafted free agent from Northwestern, where he recorded 20.5 career sacks, fifth in program history.

Aidan Hutchinson

Aidan Hutchinson, Detroit Lions edge rusher, No. 2 pick of the 2022 NFL Draft, Michigan Heisman runner-up, 2024 broken leg, four-year $180M extension through 2030.

Aidan J. Doherty

Aidan J. Doherty (A.J. Doherty) is a biochemist and structural biologist, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Sussex since 2009, known for identifying bacterial NHEJ DNA repair.

Aidan Kearney (journalist)

Aidan Kearney, aka Turtleboy (@DoctorTurtleboy), is a Massachusetts blogger who founded Turtleboy Sports/TB Daily News in 2013, drove Karen Read case coverage, and faces witness intimidation indictments and a defamation suit.

Aidan Madigan-Curtis

Aidan Madigan-Curtis is a Canadian-born venture capitalist and former operations executive who joined Eclipse Ventures as a partner in 2021, investing in physical AI, robotics, manufacturing, and defense after careers at Apple and Samsara.

Aidan McArdle

Aidan McArdle (born 1970, Dublin) is an Irish stage, film and television actor, RADA graduate and RSC associate artist known for playing Dudley Moore, Albert Einstein and Igor Stravinsky in TV biopics, Richard III for the RSC, and Lord Loxley in Mr Selfridge.

Aidan O'Brien

Aidan O'Brien, Irish racehorse trainer at Ballydoyle, private trainer to Coolmore's John Magnier since 1996; record 28 Group 1 wins in 2017, nine Epsom Derbys, 4,000+ winners, champion Irish trainer since 1999.

Aidan O'Connell

Aidan O'Connell, NFL quarterback for the Las Vegas Raiders, drafted 135th overall in 2023 from Purdue, where he walked on in 2017 and left as the school's all-time leader in completion percentage (66.7%) and passing efficiency.

Aidan of Lindisfarne

Aidan of Lindisfarne, also known as Saint Aidan, was an Irish monk from Iona who became the first bishop of Lindisfarne, serving Northumbria from 635 until his death in 651.

Aidan Quinn

Aidan Quinn (born 1959, Chicago) is an American actor of Irish descent, known for Desperately Seeking Susan, Avalon, Legends of the Fall, and Michael Collins, with Emmy nominations for An Early Frost and dual US-Irish citizenship.

Aidan Turner

Aidan Turner (born 1983, Clondalkin, Dublin) is an Irish actor known as Mitchell in Being Human, Kíli in The Hobbit, Ross Poldark in Poldark (2015–2019), and Declan O'Hara in Rivals.

Aidan Zamiri

Aidan Zamiri (born 1995) is a Glasgow-born Scottish photographer and director known for Charli xcx's '360' and 'Guess' videos, fashion campaigns, and his A24 feature debut The Moment (2026).

AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo

AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo (經國號戰機), Taiwan's first indigenous twin-engine multirole fighter, developed under the 1983 An-Hsiang Program after the 1979 US relations severance; 131 built, TFE1042-70 engines, Mach 1.7, served ROCAF from 1994.

Aide-de-camp

Aide-de-camp (ADC): a confidential officer on a general's or head of state's personal staff, historically carrying battlefield orders, now handling scheduling, protocol, and liaison; French origin, honorary in many countries.

Aiden Fisher

Aiden Fisher, Houston Texans linebacker (No. 59), 2026 seventh-round pick (No. 243) from Indiana after James Madison; two-time first-team All-American on Indiana's 16-0 national championship team.

Aiden Markram

Aiden Markram (born 1994, Centurion) is a South African right-hand top-order batter and off-break bowler, T20I captain, 2014 U19 World Cup-winning captain, and SA20 title-winning leader with Sunrisers Eastern Cape.

Aiden McGeady

Aiden McGeady (born 1986), Scottish-born Republic of Ireland winger; Celtic, Spartak Moscow, Everton, Sunderland. 93 Ireland caps, 5 goals, Euro 2012 and 2016; the 'McGeady spin'; retired October 2024.

Aiden Pearce

Aiden Pearce is the fictional hacker-vigilante protagonist of Ubisoft's Watch Dogs (2014), set in ctOS-controlled Chicago; criticized as bland, he returned as lead of the Watch Dogs: Legion Bloodline DLC (2021).

Aiden Ross (singer)

Aiden Ross, College Station, Texas-born pop-soul singer (born 2005), won The Voice season 28 in December 2025 under Niall Horan, the first Aggie to win, earning $100,000 and a Republic Records deal.

Aidepsos (spa)

Aidepsos (Αιδηψός, Edipsos, Loutra Aidipsou) is Greece's best-known thermal spa town, on northwestern Euboea, with over 80 springs up to 84 °C used since the 4th century BC and patronized by Sulla and modern celebrities.

Aider (software)

Aider is a free, open-source command-line tool for AI pair programming, created by Paul Gauthier in 2023, which edits code and commits changes to git automatically.

Aider LLM Leaderboards

The Aider LLM Leaderboards are independent coding benchmarks built by Paul Gauthier around his Aider pair-programming tool, ranking large language models on editing code until unit tests pass.

Aiding and abetting

Aiding and abetting: criminal liability for knowingly assisting or encouraging another's crime, treated as a principal under 18 U.S.C. § 2; requires an affirmative act plus intent to facilitate, per Peoni and Rosemond.

Aidite (爱迪特)

Aidite (爱迪特) is a Chinese maker of dental zirconia ceramics and digital dental equipment in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, founded in 2007 and listed on ChiNext in 2024.

AIDS

AIDS (ISSN 0269-9370) is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal on HIV and AIDS published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in London since 1987, distinct from the disease itself; ranked first in HIV research output with a 2.9 impact factor.

AIDS care

AIDS Care, full title AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV, is an international peer-reviewed journal on HIV/AIDS published by Taylor & Francis since 1989.

AIDS literature

AIDS literature is the body of fiction, poetry, drama, and memoir written in response to HIV and AIDS, beginning in the United States in the early 1980s.

AIDS Serodiagnosis

AIDS serodiagnosis: laboratory and point-of-care diagnosis of HIV infection by antibody or p24 antigen testing, from the 1985 ELISA to fourth-generation Ag/Ab assays, CDC algorithms, and rapid-test sensitivity limits.

AIDS wasting syndrome

AIDS wasting syndrome, also called slim disease or HIV wasting disease, is an AIDS-defining condition of involuntary weight loss over 10 percent with diarrhea or fever, added to CDC surveillance in 1987.

Aiduo

Aiduo (爱多) was a Chinese VCD player brand founded in 1995 in Zhongshan, Guangdong, by Hu Zhibiao and Chen Tiannan; sales reached 1.6 billion yuan in 1997 before bankruptcy in 1999.