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Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón de Angelis), Spanish actress born in Rome in 1968; star of Bajarse al moro, La camarera del Titanic, and Volavérunt; first woman president of Spain's Film Academy (1998-2000), Silver Shell 1999, Gold Medal 2015, Honorary Goya 2025.

Aitareya Brahmana

The Aitareya Brahmana (ऐतरेयब्राह्मण) is the ritual explanatory text attached to the Rigveda's Shakala Shakha, traditionally ascribed to Mahidasa Aitareya, covering the Soma sacrifice and royal consecration.

Aitareya Mahidasa

Aitareya Mahidasa (ऐतरेय महिदास) is the Vedic sage, son of Itara, to whom the Aitareya Brahmana and the greater portion of the Aitareya Aranyaka of the Rigveda are traditionally attributed.

Aitch (rapper)

Aitch (Harrison James Armstrong, born 1999) is an English rapper from New Moston, Manchester, known for "Straight Rhymez", "Taste (Make It Shake)", the album Close to Home, and a 2023 BRIT Award.

Aiteke Bi

Aiteke Bi (Әйтеке би) was a Kazakh judge and statesman of the Junior Juz who helped compile the Zheti Zhargy, the first codification of Kazakh law.

Aiteo Group

Aiteo Group is a privately held, Lagos-based Nigerian integrated energy company founded by Benedict Peters, with operations in oil and gas production, storage, trading, and electrical power.

Aithe (ఐతే)

Aithe (ఐతే), alternative title 50 Lakhs, is a 2003 Telugu thriller and Chandra Sekhar Yeleti's directorial debut, in which gangster Irfan Khan hires four clean-record men to hijack a Hyderabad–Kathmandu flight; it won the 2004 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu.

Aitken Creek Oil and Gas Field

Aitken Creek Oil and Gas Field is an onshore gas field in northeastern British Columbia, discovered in 1959 and home to the province's largest underground gas storage facility.

AITO

AITO (问界) is a Chinese brand of premium intelligent electric vehicles built by Seres Group in cooperation with Huawei, which supplies software and retail sales.

AITO M9

The AITO M9 (问界 M9) is a full-size luxury SUV built by Seres with Huawei and launched in China in December 2023 as the flagship AITO model.

Aitor Cantalapiedra

Aitor Cantalapiedra (Aitor Cantalapiedra Fernández), Spanish left-footed attacking midfielder born 1996 in Barcelona; ex-Barcelona academy, Twente, Panathinaikos (two Greek Cups), AEK Larnaca, Vitória, now OFI Crete.

Aitor Karanka

Aitor Karanka (Aitor Karanka de la Hoz, born 1973, Vitoria-Gasteiz) is a Spanish coach and former Real Madrid defender (149 games, three European Cups). He assisted Mourinho at Real Madrid 2010-2013, won promotion with Middlesbrough in 2016, and since July 2025 serves as RFEF Technical Director of Development for Spain's men's team.

Aitraaz (ऐतराज़)

Aitraaz (ऐतराज़) is a 2004 Hindi thriller by Abbas-Mustan, produced by Subhash Ghai, starring Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, and Priyanka Chopra; a man falsely accused of harassment by his boss's wife fights back in court, adapted from Disclosure (1994).

Aitys

Aitys (Kazakh: айтыс; Kyrgyz: айтыш) is a Central Asian contest in which akyns improvise sung poetry to dombra accompaniment, jointly inscribed by UNESCO for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in 2015.

Aitys of Birzhan and Sara

The aitys of Birzhan and Sara (Біржан мен Сара айтысы) is a celebrated Kazakh improvised poetic contest, commonly dated 1871, remembered for raising Kazakh women's freedom.

Aitzaz Hasan

Aitzaz Hasan Bangash (اعتزاز حسن بنگش) was a Pakistani ninth-grade student who died on 6 January 2014 stopping a suicide bomber at his school's gate in Ibrahimzai, Hangu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; posthumously awarded Sitara-e-Shujaat and named Herald Person of the Year 2014.

Aivan-e Mada'in

Aivan-e Mada'in is a celebrated Persian qasida by the 12th-century poet Khaghani Shirvani, written after he saw the ruined Sasanian palace of Taq-i Kisra at Mada'in, Iraq.

Aivars Eipurs

Aivars Eipurs, who publishes his poetry under the pen name Eduards Aivars, is a Latvian poet and publicist born in 1956, known for a poetry of paradox and irony.

Aiven

Aiven is a Helsinki-based software company, founded in 2016, that runs open source data technologies such as Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse as fully managed cloud services.

Aiwa (アイワ)

Aiwa (アイワ) was a Japanese consumer electronics company founded in 1951, best known for audio equipment, especially cassette tape decks, and later a brand name revived by unrelated companies.

Aiwass

Aiwass, also known as Aiwaz, is the intelligence Aleister Crowley said dictated The Book of the Law to him in Cairo over three days in April 1904.

Aiwujiwu

Aiwujiwu (爱屋吉屋) was a Shanghai internet real estate brokerage founded in 2014 by three former Tudou executives, China's first brokerage without stores, which closed in 2019.

Aix

Aix (Boie, 1828) is a genus of Anatidae perching ducks with two species: the Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata) of East Asia and the Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) of North America, both crested, tree-cavity-nesting ducks.

Aix-en-Diois

Aix-en-Diois (Occitan Ais de Diés), a former commune in the Drôme, France, named from Latin aqua for its springs; Roman baths, a medieval castle, merged into Solaure-en-Diois in 2016.

Aix-en-Provence

Aix-en-Provence (Ais de Provença), historic capital of Provence in southern France, founded as Roman Aquae Sextiae in 122 BC; 149,695 inhabitants (2026), university and judicial city at the foot of the Sainte-Victoire, part of the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis.

Aixa

Aixa, also known as Fátima al-Ḥurra, was a wife of emir Abū l-Ḥasan of Granada and mother of Boabdil, the last Muslim king of Granada.

AIXI

AIXI, also written AIξ, is a theoretical mathematical model of an optimal reinforcement learning agent, constructed by Marcus Hutter by combining Solomonoff induction with sequential decision theory.

Aixinjueluo Zairun

Aixinjueluo Zairun (爱新觉罗载润), born in 1878, was a Qing imperial clansman and beile who held court and banner offices under the Guangxu and Xuantong Emperors and lived on into the Republic.

Aixtron

Aixtron SE is a German manufacturer of deposition equipment, chiefly metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems for compound semiconductors, founded in 1983 and headquartered in Herzogenrath near Aachen.

Aiyaary (ऐय्यारी)

Aiyaary (ऐय्यारी) is a 2018 Hindi action thriller directed by Neeraj Pandey, starring Sidharth Malhotra and Manoj Bajpayee as a rogue army intelligence officer and his mentor. Released 16 February 2018 after censorship delays, it flopped with about ₹18 crore net in India and 17% on Rotten Tomatoes.