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Aika Ohno
Aika Ohno (大野愛果, born 1977) is a Japanese composer and occasional singer, an exclusive Giza Studio writer whose hits include Mai Kuraki's million-selling "Love, Day After Tomorrow".
Aikaterini Stefanidi
Aikaterini (Katerina) Stefanidi, Greek pole vaulter born 1990; 2016 Olympic champion, 2017 world champion, 2016 and 2018 European champion, Greek record holder at 4.91 m.
Aiken County
Aiken County is a county in western South Carolina created in 1871 from parts of four counties during Reconstruction and named for railroad president William Aiken; its seat is Aiken.
Aiken, South Carolina
Aiken, South Carolina: city of about 33,800 in Aiken County, near Augusta, Georgia. Known for the Winter Colony resort era, equestrian sports and polo since 1882, Hitchcock Woods, and the nearby Savannah River Site.
Aikhylu Chasma
Aikhylu Chasma, a 300 km rift system (chasma) on Venus at 32°N, 292°E in the Beta Regio quadrangle V-17; IAU-named 1997 after a Bashkir moon-daughter myth; Venera 9 landed nearby.
Aikido (合気道)
Aikido (合気道), modern Japanese martial art founded by Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969); name adopted 1942. Non-competitive practice of throws, joint locks, and pins using the attacker's force; led by the Aikikai Foundation, practiced in over 140 countries.
aiko
aiko (Aiko Yanai, 柳井愛子) is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter born in 1975 in Osaka who debuted in 1998 and has released more than forty singles and 16 albums.
Aiko, Princess Toshi
Aiko, Princess Toshi (Toshi-no-Miya), born 2001, is the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako of Japan. A Gakushuin University graduate working at the Red Cross, she is barred from the throne by male-only succession law despite majority public support.
Aikon Bio (Aikenuo)
Aikon Bio (爱科诺生物) is a clinical-stage Chinese biotechnology company founded in Suzhou in 2017 that develops small-molecule drugs targeting regulated cell death for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
Aikucun (爱库存)
Aikucun (爱库存) was a Chinese social-commerce platform founded in Shanghai in 2017 by Wang Min and Leng Jing, linking brands' excess inventory with small online resellers.
Ailanthus
Ailanthus is a genus of six tree species in Simaroubaceae, native from tropical Asia to northern Australia; its best-known member, Ailanthus altissima (tree-of-heaven), is a major invasive tree in Europe, North America, and elsewhere.
Ailanthus altissima
Ailanthus altissima, tree-of-heaven, is an invasive Simaroubaceae tree from China, introduced to Europe in 1751 and North America in 1784, known for ailanthone allelopathy, clonal root suckers, and heavy seeding.
Ailee
Ailee (에일리), stage name of Amy Lee (Lee Ye-jin), is a Korean-American singer-songwriter born 1989 who debuted in Korea in 2012 with "Heaven"; known for four consecutive MAMA Best Female Vocal Performance awards, the 2017 ballad "I Will Go to You Like the First Snow," and agency moves from YMC to A2Z Entertainment.
Aileen Cannon
Aileen Mercedes Cannon (born 1981, Cali, Colombia) is a Trump-appointed U.S. district judge in Fort Pierce, Southern District of Florida, confirmed November 2020, known for the 2022 special master ruling and her July 2024 dismissal of the Trump classified documents case on Appointments Clause grounds.
Aileen Meagher
Aileen Meagher (1910-1987), "The Flying Schoolmarm", Canadian sprinter from Halifax; 1936 Berlin Olympic 4x100m relay bronze, five British Empire Games medals, later teacher and artist.
Aileen Quinn
Aileen Quinn (born 1971, Yardley, Pennsylvania) is the American actress, singer, and dancer who played Annie in John Huston's 1982 film Annie, cast at age 9 from over 8,000 girls; also known for her Broadway swing-orphan role, her band Aileen Quinn and the Leapin' Lizards, and teaching at Monmouth University.
Aileen Riggin
Aileen Riggin (Aileen Riggin Soule, 1906-2002), American diver and swimmer; first Olympic women's springboard champion, Antwerp 1920, at 14 years 119 days; 1924 silver and backstroke bronze.
Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Wuornos, born Aileen Carol Pittman (1956-2002), was an American serial killer and Florida sex worker who murdered seven men along central Florida highways between 1989 and 1990, confessed after her January 1991 arrest, lost her appeals, waived them, and was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002, in Starke, Florida, at age 46; her case inspired Monster (2003) and later Netflix documentaries.
Aileron
An aileron is a hinged control surface on the outboard trailing edge of an aircraft wing that controls roll, the rotation about the aircraft's longitudinal axis.
Aileron Therapeutics
Aileron Therapeutics, a NASDAQ-listed biopharmaceutical company renamed Rein Therapeutics in 2025, was based in Waltham, Massachusetts, and developed LTI-03 for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis after acquiring Lung Therapeutics in 2023.
Ailín Pérez
Ailín Pérez, nicknamed "Fiona", is an Argentine UFC women's bantamweight fighter, born 1994, ranked #3 with a 14-2 pro record, 7-1 in the UFC, and a seven-fight win streak built on takedowns and top control.
Ailing Xue
Ailing Xue (born 1979) is a Chinese race walker, not the skier Gu Ailing. She set the women's 20,000 m track walk world record of 1:37:19.1 in Xi'an in 1999 and won 1998 World Junior bronze in the 5000 m walk.
Ailong Ke
Ailong Ke is a structural biologist and biochemist known for determining molecular structures of CRISPR-Cas immune systems and riboswitches; he moved from Cornell to Yale in 2024.
Ailsa Craig
Ailsa Craig is an uninhabited volcanic microgranite island in the Firth of Clyde, 16 km west of Girvan, Scotland, source of Blue Hone and Common Green curling stone granite, site of an 1886 Stevenson lighthouse, and an RSPB seabird reserve with a major gannet colony.
Ailsa Davidson
Ailsa Davidson, Scottish actress from Ellon, Aberdeenshire, trained at Guildford School of Acting; known as Veronica Sawyer in Heathers the Musical West End and film, and as Marie Curie in the 2024 Charing Cross Theatre premiere.
Ailsworth
Ailsworth, a limestone conservation village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority, about 4.5 miles west of Peterborough, adjoining Castor; Domesday manor, four scheduled ancient monuments including Roman villas and a bowl barrow.
Ailuridae
Ailuridae (red panda family), Gray 1843, a monotypic carnivoran family in Caniformia whose sole living species is Ailurus fulgens, the endangered bamboo-eating red panda, sister to Musteloidea with a rich Oligocene-Miocene fossil record.
Ailurophobia
Ailurophobia, also called felinophobia or gatophobia, is the persistent fear of cats, classified as DSM-5 specific phobia, animal type. Coined 1905 from Greek ailouros; treated mainly with graded exposure therapy.
Aily Labs
Aily Labs is a Munich-based artificial intelligence startup founded in 2020 by Bianca Anghelina, who serves as CEO, building an AI decision intelligence platform for large enterprises.
Ailymas
Ailymas was a North African ruler called king of the Libyans by Diodorus Siculus, who allied with Agathocles of Syracuse in 310 BC, deserted him, and was killed in battle.