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Akbaruddin Owaisi

Akbaruddin Owaisi, AIMIM floor leader and MLA from Chandrayangutta, Hyderabad, since 1999; younger brother of party president Asaduddin Owaisi; son of Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi.

Oct 20, 2026

Akbou des Beni Chénacha is a Roman-period villa site about 2 km southwest of Tadmaït (former Camp-du-Maréchal) in Algeria's Tizi Ouzou province, recorded by Gsell (AAA 6.20) and Barrington Atlas map 30, distinct from the Akbou mausoleum in Béjaïa province.

Akbou mausoleum

Akbou mausoleum (Mausolée romain d'Ausium, Piton d'Akbou): a 3rd-4th century AD Roman-period square tomb with pyramidion roof at Akbou, Bejaia Province, Algeria, attributed to a Romanized Numidian notable, nationally classified heritage in 2024.

Akcea Therapeutics

Akcea Therapeutics was a biopharmaceutical company organized by Ionis Pharmaceuticals in 2014 to develop antisense drugs for cardiometabolic diseases, and was reacquired by Ionis in 2020.

Sep 19, 2026

Akcent

Akcent is a Romanian dance-pop band formed in 1999 in Bucharest by singer and producer Adrian Sînă, known across Europe for the hits "Kylie" (2005) and "That's My Name" (2010).

Akchakhan-Kala

Akchakhan-Kala (Kazakly-yatkan), ancient Chorasmian royal seat in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan; two fortified enclosures of c. 42.6 ha, occupied c. late 3rd century BCE to 2nd century CE, famed for wall paintings and Zoroastrian imagery.

Akchâr

Akchâr (Akchar) is a large active erg, or sand sea, in northwestern Mauritania: a 400 km northeast-southwest dune belt from the Adrar cliffs to the Atlantic, the western continuation of the Erg Chech.

Ake Arts and Book Festival

The Ake Arts and Book Festival is an annual literary and cultural festival held each November in Nigeria, founded in 2013 by the writer Lola Shoneyin.

Ake Bergqvist

Åke Bergqvist (1900–1975), Swedish Olympic sailor, won gold in the Three-Person Keelboat 6 metre class at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics aboard Bissbi with Tore Holm, Martin Hindorff, and Olle Åkerlund; distinct from Erik and Jonas Bergqvist.

Sep 21, 2026

Åke Gustafsson

Åke Gustafsson (1908–1988) was a Swedish geneticist known as the father of mutation breeding; his Svalöf program produced high-yielding induced barley mutants, and he later taught genetics at Lund University.

Ake Hager

Åke Häger (1897–1968), Swedish artistic gymnast with Stockholms GF, Täby; won gold in the men's team Swedish system event at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, distinct from hockey player Mark Hager and beach volleyballer Axel Hager.

Ake Jansson

Åke Jansson (Åke Gilbert Jansson, Spångert), Swedish distance runner for Spånga IS, 1936 Berlin Olympian in the 5,000 m; three Swedish 1,500 m titles and a 4x1500 m relay world record in 1941.

Sep 21, 2026

Åke Lernmark

Åke Lernmark is a Swedish medical scientist and professor emeritus at Lund University in Malmö, known for discovering islet-cell antibodies and developing the radiobinding assay for type 1 diabetes.

Aké Loba

Aké Loba (Gérard Ake-Loba) was an Ivorian novelist and diplomat whose 1960 debut novel Kocoumbo, l'étudiant noir made him the first winner of the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique noire.

Oct 20, 2026

Ake Lundeberg

Åke Lundeberg (1888–1939), Swedish sport shooter for Örebro SF; won two golds and a silver in running deer shooting at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, plus 1914 Baltic Games titles.

Oct 20, 2026

Åke Seyffarth

Åke Seyffarth (Karl Åke Seyffarth, 1919–1998), Swedish speed skater and cyclist; 1948 Olympic 10,000 m gold and 1,500 m silver at St. Moritz, world records at 3,000 m and 5,000 m, decade-long Adelskalender leader.

Åke Thelning

Åke Thelning (Bendt Hans Åke Thelning, 1892–1979), Swedish equestrian rider; won team jumping gold on Loke at Paris 1924, sixth individually; Scandinavian high-jump record 1.90 m in 1927.

Aké: The Years of Childhood

Aké: The Years of Childhood is a 1981 autobiographical memoir by the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, recounting his boyhood before and during World War II in Aké, a Yoruba town in western Nigeria.

Akebono Tarō (曙太郎)

Akebono Tarō (曙太郎), born Chad Rowan, 64th yokozuna and first foreign-born sumo grand champion, promoted 1993; 11 tournament titles, retired January 2001, later K-1 and pro wrestling; died 2024.

Akechi Mitsuhide (明智光秀)

Akechi Mitsuhide (明智光秀) was the Sengoku warlord who killed Oda Nobunaga at Honnōji in Kyoto on June 2, 1582, then fought Toyotomi Hideyoshi and died defeated. Recent research ties his motive to Nobunaga's reversed Shikoku policy and a plan to restore Ashikaga Yoshiaki's shogunate.

Akechi Mitsuhide's three-day rule

Akechi Mitsuhide's three-day rule, or mikka tenka, names the eleven to thirteen days in 1582 between Akechi Mitsuhide's assassination of Oda Nobunaga and his own defeat.

Sep 23, 2026

Akedun

Akedun (阿克敦) was a Manchu official of the Qing dynasty who served the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong emperors, rising to Minister of Justice before his death in 1756.

Akeelah and the Bee

Akeelah and the Bee is a 2006 American drama film, Doug Atchison's directorial debut, starring Keke Palmer as an 11-year-old South Los Angeles spelling prodigy coached by Laurence Fishburne's Dr. Larabee to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Sep 19, 2026

Akeem Lawal

Akeem Olujinmi Lawal is a Nigerian fintech executive who has been at Interswitch from its 2002 inception and serves as Managing Director of Payment Processing & Switching (Interswitch Purepay).

Akela (अकेला) (The Jungle Book)

Akela (Akelā, अकेला) is a fictional wolf, the aging leader of the Seeonee pack in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894), whose fading authority drives "Mowgli's Brothers".

Akeldama

Akeldama (Aramaic חקל דמא, Aceldama, Field of Blood) is the Jerusalem site on the Hinnom Valley slope tied to Judas Iscariot's betrayal money, a Second Temple-period burial ground of rock-cut tombs, the Tomb of the Shroud, and the St. Onuphrius monastery.