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Ajit Jogi (अजित प्रमोद कुमार जोगी)
Ajit Jogi (1946-2020), Indian IAS officer turned politician, first Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh (2000-2003) in the Congress, later founder of Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J); died in Raipur in 2020.
Ajit Kumar Mohanty
Ajit Kumar Mohanty is an Indian nuclear physicist who has served as Secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission since May 2023.
Ajit Lalvani
Ajit Lalvani (born 1963) is a British physician-scientist and Chair of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College London, known for developing the first rapid T-cell blood test for tuberculosis infection.
Ajit P. Yoganathan
Ajit P. Yoganathan is a biomedical engineer who founded the Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics Lab at Georgia Tech in 1979. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.
Ajit Pai
Ajit Varadaraj Pai is an American attorney and telecom official who chaired the FCC from 2017 to 2021, leading the 2017 repeal of net neutrality and spectrum reallocation for 5G networks.
Ajit Pawar (अजित अनंतराव पवार)
Ajit Pawar, also known as Dada, was a politician from Maharashtra who served as Deputy Chief Minister and led the Nationalist Congress Party after a 2023 split.
Ajit Singh
Ajit Singh, also known as Sahibzada Ajit Singh (ਸਾਹਿਬਜ਼ਾਦਾ ਅਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ), was the eldest of Guru Gobind Singh's four sons, born in 1687 and killed at the battle of Chamkaur in 1705.
Ajit Singh (ਅਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ) (Sikhism)
Sahibzada Ajit Singh, born in 1687, was the eldest of Guru Gobind Singh's four sons, a Khalsa warrior who fell at Chamkaur in 1704 or 1705.
Ajit Singh of Khetri
Ajit Singh of Khetri (1861–1901) was the 8th Raja of Khetri, a Rajput estate under Jaipur, who reigned from 1870 and financed Swami Vivekananda's 1893 Chicago voyage.
Ajit Singh Rathore
Ajit Singh Rathore (अजीतसिंह राठौड़; born 1679, died 1724) was Maharaja of Jodhpur and ruler of Marwar, recovering his kingdom from Mughal occupation after Aurangzeb's death in 1707.
Ajit Singh Sandhawalia
Ajit Singh Sandhawalia (ਅਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੰਧਾਵਾਲੀਆ) was a sardar of the Sandhawalia clan in the Sikh Empire, known for assassinating Maharaja Sher Singh in 1843.
Ajit Varki
Ajit Varki is a physician-scientist at the University of California, San Diego, known for sialic acid biology and the evolutionary glycobiology of the human lineage.
Ajita Kesakambali
Ajita Kesakambali (अजित केशकंबली) was an ancient Indian teacher of the 6th and 5th centuries BC, a contemporary of the Buddha and an early materialist.
Ajitanatha Purana
The Ajitanatha Purana (ಅಜಿತನಾಥ ಪುರಾಣ), also called the Ajita Purana, is a Jain epic in Old Kannada composed by Ranna in 993 on the life of the second Tirthankara, Ajitanatha.
Ajith Kumar (அஜித் குமார்)
Ajith Kumar (அஜித் குமார்), born 1971 in Secunderabad, is a leading Tamil cinema actor nicknamed Thala, an endurance racing team owner, and a 2025 Padma Bhushan recipient.
Ajith Kumar filmography
Ajith Kumar (அஜித் குமார்), Tamil cinema star nicknamed Thala, filmography of 58–65 films from En Veedu En Kanavar (1990) and Amaravathi (1993) to Good Bad Ugly (2025), with three Filmfare Awards and the 2025 Padma Bhushan.
Ajiv Yashwant Patil
Ajiv Yashwant Patil is an Indian Bahujan Vikas Aghadi politician elected Mayor of Vasai-Virar on February 3, 2026, and brother of former mayor Rajiv Patil.
Ajivika
Ajivika (आजीविक) was an ancient Indian ascetic order of wandering mendicants known for its strict doctrine of fate, associated with Makkhali Gosala and flourishing under Mauryan patronage.
Ājīvika (आजीविक)
Ājīvika (आजीविक), an ancient Indian śramaṇa religion founded by Makkhali Gosāla, taught strict determinism (niyati). Known only through hostile Buddhist, Jaina, and Tamil sources; patronized by Bindusara and Aśoka, extinct by about 1400 CE.
AJJ (band)
AJJ, formerly Andrew Jackson Jihad, is an American folk-punk and rock band formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 2004 by Sean Bonnette and Ben Gallaty, known for eclectic instrumentation and the 2016 name change; ninth album Dirty Old Power (2026) on AJJ Unlimited LTD.
Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu
"Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu" is a Punjabi poem by Amrita Pritam, written during the Partition of India in 1947 and addressed to the poet Waris Shah.
Ajjamada B. Devaiah
Squadron Leader Ajjamada Boppayya Devaiah (AB Devaiah, Devayya), IAF No. 1 Squadron Mystère pilot, killed 7 September 1965 over Sargodha after downing a PAF F-104; posthumous Maha Vir Chakra 1988, the IAF's only one.
Ajka alumina plant accident
The Ajka alumina plant accident was a dam failure at an alumina refinery in Ajka, Hungary, on 4 October 2010, whose red sludge flood killed ten people.
Ajla Tomljanović
Ajla Tomljanović, born 1993 in Zagreb, is an Australian tennis player, career-high WTA No. 32, three-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist (Wimbledon 2021, 2022; US Open 2022) who beat Serena Williams in her final match.
Ajlan & Bros Holding
Ajlan & Bros Holding is a Riyadh-based, family-owned Saudi conglomerate that grew from a 1979 fabric shop into real estate, textiles, logistics, mining, and energy across 25 countries.
Ajlan Abdulaziz Alajlan
Ajlan Abdulaziz Alajlan, also written Ajlan bin Abdulaziz Al-Ajlan, is a Saudi businessman who chairs Ajlan & Bros Holding, a family conglomerate founded in 1979.
Ajmal Ameer
Ajmal Ameer, Indian actor and former physician in Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu cinema; born 1985 in Aluva, Kerala. Debut Pranayakalam (2007); known for Anjathey (2008, Filmfare Best Supporting Actor) and Ko (2011).
Ajmal Kasab (محمد اجمل امیر قصاب)
Ajmal Kasab (محمد اجمل امیر قصاب), alias Abu Mujahid, Pakistani Lashkar-e-Taiba gunman and sole survivor of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks; convicted of waging war and murder, sentenced to death, hanged 21 November 2012.
Ajmalicine
Ajmalicine, also known as raubasine, is a monoterpenoid indole alkaloid found in Rauvolfia and Catharanthus plants, first isolated in 1931 and historically used as a vasodilator against high blood pressure.
Ajmaline
Ajmaline is a class 1A antiarrhythmic alkaloid from the roots of Rauvolfia serpentina, used in Europe and Japan to treat and diagnose abnormal heart rhythms.