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Akie Abe (安倍昭恵)
Akie Abe (安倍昭恵), born 1962, Japanese public figure, Morinaga heiress, wife and widow of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; first lady 2006–07 and 2012–20, izakaya Uzu owner, outspoken critic of her husband's cabinet policies, now Shinwa-kai leader.
Akiem Hicks
Akiem Jamar Hicks, born 1989, is a former NFL defensive lineman (6'5", 332 lbs) from Sacramento City College and the University of Regina; drafted 89th overall by the Saints in 2012, a 2018 Pro Bowl and PFF All-Pro with the Bears, later Patriots and Buccaneers.
Akif Bey
Akif Bey is an 1874 five-act prose play by the Ottoman writer Namık Kemal, the first work of Turkish literature to take the sea as its subject.
Akif Tezcan
F. Akif Tezcan is an American bioinorganic chemist, professor and Leslie Orgel Faculty Scholar at UC San Diego, known for designing metalloproteins and studying nitrogenase.
Akihabara (秋葉原)
Akihabara (Akiba, 秋葉原) is a central Tokyo district around JR Akihabara Station, famous first as Electric Town for postwar electronics retail and since the 1990s as the hub of otaku culture: anime, manga, retro games, maid cafes, and AKB48's birthplace.
Akihiko Kondo (近藤顕彦)
Akihiko Kondo (近藤顕彦), Japanese civil servant known for his 2018 non-legally-binding wedding ceremony to virtual singer Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) using Gatebox hologram technology; later founded the Association of Fictosexuality in 2022.
Akihiko Kudo
Akihiko Kudo (工藤昭彦) is a Japanese solid-state chemist and professor at Tokyo University of Science known for developing visible-light photocatalysts that split water and reduce carbon dioxide.
Akihiko Yoshida (吉田明彦)
Akihiko Yoshida (吉田明彦) is a Japanese game character designer and art director: Ogre Battle and Tactics Ogre at Quest (from 1989), Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, FFXII, Bravely Default, NieR: Automata, later CyDesignation director, known for a nose-less, detailed line style.
Akihiko Yoshimura
Akihiko Yoshimura (吉村昭彦, born 1958) is a Japanese immunologist and professor at Tokyo University of Science, known for discovering the CIS/SOCS and SPRED families of cytokine signaling inhibitors.
Akihiro Yamaguchi
Akihiro Yamaguchi (山口観弘), born 1994, Japanese breaststroke swimmer; set the 200m breaststroke world record of 2:07.01 in September 2012 at age 18, breaking Daniel Gyurta's Olympic mark, and held it over four years without ever reaching an Olympics.
Akihisa Inoue
Akihisa Inoue (井上明久) is a Japanese materials scientist who founded the field of bulk metallic glasses and served as president of Tohoku University from 2006 to 2012.
Akihito (明仁)
Akihito (明仁), Emperor Emeritus of Japan, reigned 1989–2019 as the Heisei Emperor, married commoner Shoda Michiko in 1959, published gobiid fish research, and abdicated in 2019, the first Japanese abdication in two centuries.
Akiho Yoshizawa (吉沢明歩)
Akiho Yoshizawa (吉沢明歩, "Acky"), born 1984 in Tokyo, is a Japanese actress and former AV performer active 2003–2019 with 351 exclusive titles, over 10 million copies sold, Ebisu Muscats founding member, and 2020 autobiographer.
Akika bhasma
Akika bhasma (अकीक भस्म), also Akik bhasma, is an Ayurvedic calcined agate (silica) preparation in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India, dosed 125–500 mg for heartburn, heart disease, cough, and bleeding disorders, distinct from metallic bhasmas.
Akika Pisti
Akika Pisti (Akīka piṣṭī, Akik Pishti) is an Ayurvedic pishti preparation of purified agate with Aloe vera and other herbs, dosed 125-250 mg per the Ayurvedic Formulary of India, used traditionally for heart, pitta, and bleeding disorders.
Akiko Iwasaki
Akiko Iwasaki is a Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale and an HHMI Investigator who developed the "prime and pull" vaccine strategy and identified immune mechanisms of long COVID.
Akiko Kumagai
Akiko Kumagai is a molecular biologist and Research Professor of Biology at Caltech, known for work on cdc25, the ATR checkpoint kinase, and DNA replication initiation.
Akiko Yano
Akiko Yano (矢野顕子) is a Japanese singer, pianist, and composer born in Tokyo in 1955 who debuted in 1976, toured with Yellow Magic Orchestra, and has released more than 50 albums.
Akilah Weber Pierson
Akilah Weber Pierson is an American politician and obstetrician serving as a Democratic California State Senator from the 39th district, elected in 2024 after serving in the State Assembly.
Akilan
Akilan (அகிலன்) was the pen name of P. V. Akilandam (1922–1988), a Tamil novelist and freedom fighter who won the Jnanpith Award in 1975 for Chithirapavai.
Akili Interactive
Akili Interactive Labs, Inc. was a digital therapeutics company founded in 2011 that developed EndeavorRx, the first FDA-cleared treatment delivered through a video game, for ADHD.
Akili Smith Jr.
Akili Smith Jr. is an Oregon Ducks quarterback and son of 1999 NFL Draft third pick Akili Smith; a four-star 2025 recruit from Lincoln High School, San Diego, he is a redshirt freshman depth QB.
Akimasa Masuda
Akimasa Masuda (増田彰正, 1931–2011) was a Japanese geochemist who founded rare-earth element geochemistry, known for the Masuda-Coryell diagram, the lanthanide tetrad effect, and professorships at the University of Tokyo.
Akimel Oʼodham
Akimel O'odham (Pima), "River People", are an Indigenous people of Arizona's Gila and Salt Rivers, descendants of the Huhugam (Hohokam) canal farmers, now living mainly in the Gila River Indian Community and Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.
Akimiski Island
Akimiski Island, largest island in James Bay, Nunavut, Canada (Cree 'the land across'); uninhabited 3,001 km² wetland island, Migratory Bird Sanctuary since 1941, disputed Cree Aboriginal title.
AKin (restaurant)
aKin is a one-Michelin-starred fine-dining restaurant in Toronto serving a blind tasting menu of modern Asian cuisine, founded by chefs Alvin Leung and Eric Chong in November 2024.
Akin Mabogunje
Akin Mabogunje, full name Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje (1931–2022), was a Nigerian geographer called the father of African geography, who wrote Urbanization in Nigeria (1968) and led the survey that located Nigeria's capital at Abuja.
Akin osteotomy
The Akin osteotomy is a closing wedge osteotomy of the big toe's proximal phalanx, described by O.F. Akin in 1925, used to correct hallux valgus.
Akinao Nose
Akinao Nose (能瀬 聡直) is a Japanese neuroscientist at the University of Tokyo known for work on cell adhesion and synaptic target recognition in Drosophila.
Akinfy Demidov
Akinfy Demidov (Акинфий Демидов) was a Russian ironmaster of the Tula Demidov family, born in 1678, who expanded his father's Ural iron enterprise into an industrial complex reaching from Tula to the Altai.