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Akhilendra Mishra (अखिलेन्द्र मिश्रा)
Akhilendra Mishra (अखिलेन्द्र मिश्रा), Indian film and television character actor from Siwan, Bihar; famous as Kroor Singh in Chandrakanta (1994), Mirchi Seth in Sarfarosh (1999), and Arjan in Lagaan (2001).
Akhilesh K. Gaharwar
Akhilesh K. Gaharwar is an American biomedical engineer and professor at Texas A&M University working on 2D nanomaterials for drug delivery, regenerative medicine, and 3D bioprinting.
Akhilesh Pandey
Akhilesh Pandey is a clinical pathologist and proteomics researcher, professor at Mayo Clinic, known for the SILAC method and the 2014 draft map of the human proteome.
Akhilesh Prasad Singh
Akhilesh Prasad Singh is an Indian National Congress politician and a Rajya Sabha member from Bihar for 2024 to 2030, earlier representing Motihari in the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009.
Akhilesh Yadav (अखिलेश यादव)
Akhilesh Yadav (अखिलेश यादव, born 1973), Samajwadi Party national president and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh 2012–2017; MP for Kannauj (fifth term, since 2024), son of Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Akhimenru
Akhimenru, also written Akhamenru, was a Chief Steward of the God's Wife of Amun at Thebes during the Kushite 25th Dynasty, serving Amenirdis I and Shepenwepet II.
Akhmad Kadyrov (Ахьмад-Хьаж Абдулхьамидович Кадыров)
Akhmad Kadyrov (Ахьмад-Хьаж Кадыров, 1951–2004), Chechen chief mufti who declared jihad against Russia in the First Chechen War, defected to Moscow in 1999, headed the pro-Russian administration from 2000, was elected Chechen president in October 2003, and was assassinated by a bomb at a Grozny Victory Day parade on 9 May 2004.
Akhmed Tazhudinov
Akhmed Tazhudinov (Akhmed Magomedovich Tazhudinov, Ахмед Магомедович Тажудинов), Dagestan-born Bahraini freestyle wrestler at 97 kg; 2023 world champion and Paris 2024 Olympic gold medalist, Bahrain's first Olympic champion outside athletics.
Akhmet Baitursynov
Akhmet Baitursynov (Akhmet Baitursynuly, Kazakh: Ахмет Байтұрсынұлы) was a Kazakh scholar, poet, and reformer of the Kazakh script who co-founded the Alash Party and was executed in 1937.
Akhmim
Akhmim, known to the Greeks as Panopolis, is a city on the east bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt, the chief seat of the god Min.
Akhmim Wooden Tablet
The Akhmim Wooden Tablet is an Egyptian mathematical text from around 2000 BC that divides the grain measure hekat by 3, 7, 10, 11, and 13.
Akhmin Facula
Akhmin Facula is a 245 km bright facula on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, centered at 28.30°N, 189.80°W, named for the Egyptian town where Min was worshipped and approved by the IAU in 1997.
Akhrai
Akhrai (আখড়াই) is a Bengali light-classical song genre, named for the Vaishnava akhṛas of Nadia where it formed, performed as song duels between rival kaviyal parties.
Akhraten
Akhraten, also spelled Akhratan, was a king of Kush in the Napatan period, ruling in the second half of the fourth century BC between Harsiotef and Nastasen.
Akhsitan I
Akhsitan I, also spelled Akhsatan (Georgian Aghsartan), was a Shirvanshah of the Kasranid dynasty who ruled Shirvan from 1160 and temporarily moved his residence from Shamakhi to Baku.
Akhtamar Planitia
Akhtamar Planitia is a 2,700-km-wide volcanic lowland plain on Venus at 27N, 65E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for an Armenian epic heroine; it contains coronae, shield fields, and the 900-km Mardezh-Ava Dorsa.
Akhtar
Akhtar (اختر, "Star") was an influential Persian-language newspaper published in Istanbul from 1876 to 1896, the first Persian newspaper published outside Iran and a voice for reform.
Akhtar Mansour
Akhtar Mansour, also known as Mullah Mansour, was the second leader of the Afghan Taliban. He was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan in 2016.
Akhtar Raza Khan
Akhtar Raza Khan, known as Azhari Miyan, was an Indian Barelvi scholar and head mufti at the Dargah Aala Hazrat in Bareilly until his death in 2018.
Akhurian Reservoir
The Akhurian Reservoir, also known as the Arpaçay Dam, is an irrigation reservoir on the Akhurian River along the Armenia–Turkey border. It is Armenia's largest reservoir, and its water is shared equally between Armenia and Turkey.
Akhyana
Akhyana (આખ્યાન) is a medieval Gujarati narrative poetic genre and musical-storytelling tradition that flourished from the 15th to 17th centuries, its greatest exponent being Premanand Bhatt.
Akhyayika
Akhyayika (आख्यायिका) is one of the two divisions of Sanskrit ornate prose poetry, a historical narrative told by its own hero; Banabhatta's Harshacharita is the best-known example.
Aki Kaurismäki
Aki Kaurismäki (born 1957, Orimattila, Finland) is a Finnish film director known for minimalist, deadpan films about working-class outsiders; winner of the 2002 Cannes Grand Prix for The Man Without a Past and the 2023 Jury Prize for Fallen Leaves.
Aki Rahimovski
Aki Rahimovski (Aleksandar Rahimovski, 1955–2022), Macedonian-Croatian rock singer, frontman of Zagreb band Parni valjak from 1975; hits include Lutka za bal; six Porin awards; died suddenly in Novo mesto.
Aki Rosenthal
Aki Rosenthal (アキ・ローゼンタール) is a Japanese VTuber with Hololive's first generation, debuting in 2018 as a half-elf from another world with an active music career.
Aki Ross
Aki Ross (アキ・ロス) is the fictional scientist protagonist of Square Pictures' 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, voiced by Ming-Na Wen, one of the first photorealistic CGI human characters and an abandoned 'virtual actress' experiment.
Aki Sora (あきそら)
Aki Sora (あきそら), also romanized Aki Sora, is a 2008–2011 romance manga by Masahiro Itosugi serialized in Champion Red Ichigo about sibling incest between Aki and Sora, adapted as OVAs and pulled from print by Tokyo's 2011 youth ordinance.
AKI trial (NCT03897335)
The AKI trial (NCT03897335) is a phase 3 clinical trial at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital testing whether aminophylline prevents acute kidney injury in children after open heart surgery.
Akiane
Akiane Kramarik, also known simply as Akiane, is an American painter and poet born 1994 in Illinois, famous for painting Prince of Peace, a Jesus portrait, at age eight; the stolen painting sold for $850,000 in 2019.
Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed (アキバズトリップ2)
Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed (アキバズトリップ2, Akiba's Trip 2) is Acquire's 2013 action-adventure set in a recreated Akihabara, where Synthisters are defeated by stripping their clothes; 130+ real shops, 600,000+ sales, Director's Cut 2023.