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Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha

Aiyawatt 'Top' Srivaddhanaprabha (born 1985), Thai businessman, Chairman of Leicester City FC and Executive Chairman of King Power; son of Vichai, holds 58.1% of the club, led it through the 2016 title era and 2026 relegation to League One.

Aiyyaa

Aiyyaa (अइय्या) is a 2012 Hindi romantic comedy directed by Sachin Kundalkar, starring Rani Mukerji as Meenakshi Deshpande and Prithviraj Sukumaran as Surya; produced by Anurag Kashyap, released 12 October 2012, music by Amit Trivedi.

Aiza Seguerra

Aiza Seguerra, also known as Ice Seguerra, is a Filipino singer and actor who rose to fame as a child on Eat Bulaga; his 2001 album Pagdating ng Panahon went quintuple platinum.

Aizanoi

Aizanoi (Aezani, Αἰζανοί), ancient Phrygian and Roman city at Çavdarhisar, Kütahya, Turkey; best-preserved Temple of Zeus in Anatolia, unique theatre-stadium complex, and macellum, an early stock exchange.

Aizawa Incident

The Aizawa Incident (相沢事件) was the assassination of Major General Nagata Tetsuzan by Lieutenant Colonel Aizawa Saburō with a sword in Tokyo on August 12, 1935.

Aizawa Seishisai

Aizawa Seishisai (会沢正志斎), personal name Yasushi, 1782–1863, was a Confucian scholar and Mito Domain samurai of late Edo Japan whose 1825 treatise Shinron inspired the sonnō jōi movement.

Aizawl

Aizawl, also known as Aijal, is the capital and most populous city of Mizoram in northeastern India, perched on a ridge roughly 1,132 meters (3,715 ft) above sea level.

Aizkolaritza

Aizkolaritza is a Basque rural sport, one of the herri kirolak, in which aizkolaris race to cut a set number of tree trunks with an axe.

Aizoaceae

Aizoaceae, commonly called the ice plant family, is a family of flowering plants with succulent leaves and capsule fruits, with most of its roughly 2,000 species native to southern Africa.

Aizoon

Aizoon is a genus of succulent herbs and shrublets in the ice plant family, Aizoaceae, established by Linnaeus in 1753 and native from Macaronesia to Pakistan and Eritrea to South Africa.

Aizsargi

The Aizsargi, Latvian for "guards," were a Latvian voluntary paramilitary civil guard founded in March 1919 and liquidated by the Soviet Union after the 1940 occupation.

Aizu Domain

Aizu Domain (会津藩) was a feudal domain of Edo-period Japan based at Wakamatsu in northern Tōhoku, ruled by the Hoshina and later Matsudaira line and loyal to the Tokugawa shogunate.

Aizuwakamatsu Castle (会津若松城)

Aizuwakamatsu Castle (会津若松城), also called Tsuruga Castle (鶴ヶ城), is a Japanese castle in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima. Founded 1384, rebuilt by Gamō Ujisato 1593, besieged 1868, demolished 1874, and reconstructed in 1965; its 2011 red-tiled keep is Japan's only one.

AiZynthFinder

AiZynthFinder is an open-source Python tool for retrosynthetic planning, developed by AstraZeneca and first published in 2020, using Monte Carlo tree search guided by a neural network.

AJ and the Queen

AJ and the Queen is a 2020 Netflix comedy-drama, also called AJ and the Queen season 1, starring RuPaul as drag queen Ruby Red touring America with stowaway AJ (Izzy G.); created with Michael Patrick King, canceled after 10 episodes.

AJ Auxerre

AJ Auxerre (Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise), French football club founded 1905, Ligue 1 champions 1995-96 under Guy Roux, four Coupe de France wins, famed youth academy, Stade Abbé-Deschamps, coached since 2026 by Will Still.

AJ Blubaugh

AJ Blubaugh (Alan Joseph Blubaugh, born 2000) is a right-handed pitcher for the Houston Astros; drafted 7th round 2022 from Wisconsin-Milwaukee, MLB debut April 30, 2025, 2024 Futures Game selection, 2026 Wild Card Game 1 starter.

AJ Hill

AJ Hill (Antwann Hill) is an American college football quarterback for the Arkansas Razorbacks, a four-star 2025 recruit from Warner Robins, Georgia, who redshirted at Memphis in 2025 and transferred to Arkansas in January 2026.

AJ Johnson (basketball)

AJ Johnson (born 2004) is an American NBA guard, drafted 23rd overall in 2024 by the Bucks after playing for the Illawarra Hawks in Australia's NBL Next Stars program; now with the New Orleans Pelicans.

AJ Lee

AJ Lee (April Jeanette Mendez), American WWE wrestler from Union City, NJ; three-time Divas Champion with a record 295-day reign, Raw GM in 2012, #GiveDivasAChance advocate, retired 2015, returned 2025 alongside husband CM Punk.

AJ Loiacono

AJ Loiacono is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded Capital Rx, a New York-based pharmacy benefits technology company, in 2017; rebranded Judi Health in 2025, it was valued at $3.25 billion.

AJ Lucas Group

AJ Lucas Group is an Australian drilling and energy services company headquartered in Brisbane, providing directional drilling and coal mine gas drainage, and listed on the ASX in 1999.

AJ Manas

AJ Manas (Albert James Manas), "Starboy", is a Filipino nineball player from Manila, born in Antipolo. 2025 Reyes Cup MVP for Team Asia; 2023 Hanoi Junior Open winner; highest WNT rank 54.

AJ McLean

AJ McLean (Alexander James McLean, born 1978), American singer and founding member of the Backstreet Boys; solo albums Have It All (2010) and SEX, LOVE & MUSIC (2026), plus TV work on Dancing with the Stars and RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race.

AJ Michalka

AJ Michalka (Amanda Joy Michalka, born 1991, Torrance, California) is an American actress and singer, half of the duo Aly & AJ ('Potential Breakup Song') and star of The Goldbergs, Schooled, and The White Lotus season 4.

AJ Odudu

AJ Odudu, born Onatejiro Odudu, is a British television presenter from Blackburn, Lancashire, known for co-presenting ITV2's Big Brother and for reaching the 2021 Strictly Come Dancing final.

AJ Pritchard

AJ Pritchard (Alex Joseph Pritchard, born 1994) is a British dancer and TV personality, a Strictly Come Dancing professional 2016–2019, later a reality TV contestant and GB News presenter.

AJ Styles

AJ Styles, American professional wrestler (debut 1998), "The Phenomenal One"; inaugural TNA X-Division Champion, two-time IWGP and two-time WWE Champion, Grand Slam Champion; retired against Gunther at Royal Rumble 2026; WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2026.

AJ Surace

AJ Surace is an American college football quarterback for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, a junior from Pennington, New Jersey, who made his first start in 2026.

AJ Tracey

AJ Tracey (Ché Wolton Grant, born 1994) is a West London grime MC turned genre-hopping UK rapper; hits include Thiago Silva, Butterflies, and Ladbroke Grove, with albums AJ Tracey (2019), Flu Game (2021), and Don't Die Before You're Dead (2025).