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Akinidad
Akinidad was a royal figure of the Kingdom of Kush who served as viceroy of Lower Nubia and general under Queens Amanirenas and Amanishakheto, dying around 24 BC.
Akinlolu Ojo
Akinlolu Ojo is a Nigerian-born American nephrologist and epidemiologist, Executive Dean of the University of Kansas School of Medicine, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.
Akinori Nakayama
Akinori Nakayama (中山彰規), Japanese artistic gymnast (1943-2025), six-time Olympic champion with 10 Olympic medals from 1968 and 1972, seven world titles, and the rings skill named the Nakayama in the Code of Points.
Akinwumi Isola
Akinwumi Isola (Akínwùmí Ìṣọ̀lá; 1939 to 2018) was a Nigerian playwright, novelist, actor, and professor who wrote principally in Yoruba, known for Efunsetan Aniwura and films adapted by Tunde Kelani.
Akio Morita (盛田昭夫)
Akio Morita (盛田昭夫), a Japanese engineer and business executive, co-founded Sony in 1946, launched Japan's first transistor radio and the Walkman, and died in 1999 at 78.
Akio Nitori
Akio Nitori (似鳥昭雄), born in Hokkaido in 1944, is a Japanese retail entrepreneur who founded Nitori in Sapporo in 1967 and remains its chairman and CEO.
Akio Sugino
Akio Sugino (杉野 明雄) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for identifying DNA polymerase epsilon in yeast, and for early work on DNA gyrase and DNA chain growth in E. coli.
Akio Toyoda (豊田章男)
Akio Toyoda (豊田章男) is a Japanese business executive and grandson of Toyota's founder who served as Toyota's president from 2009 to 2023 and has been its chairman since 2023.
Akio Usami
Akio Usami (宇佐美彰郎), Japanese marathon runner born 1943 in Tsubame, Niigata; three-time Olympian (1968, 1972, 1976) and 1970 Fukuoka Marathon winner in a Japanese best 2:10:37.8.
Akio Yamamoto
Akio Yamamoto (山本明夫, 1930–2017) was a Japanese organometallic chemist at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Waseda University, known for stable metal alkyls and Yamamoto coupling.
Akira (1988 film)
Akira (アキラ) is Katsuhiro Otomo's 1988 cyberpunk anime film, adapted from his manga, about Kaneda and Tetsuo in Neo-Tokyo 2019; Toho, July 16, 1988, ~1 billion yen budget, US release December 25, 1989.
Akira (2016 Hindi film)
Akira (Naam Hai Akira) is a 2016 Hindi action thriller directed by A. R. Murugadoss, starring Sonakshi Sinha as a college student targeted by corrupt police officers.
Akira (musician)
Akira is the stage name of Kin Wing Lam, born 1971 in Hong Kong, a Netherlands-based hardcore, speedcore, and breakcore DJ who owns the label Hong Kong Violence.
Akira (ransomware)
Akira is a ransomware-as-a-service operation first observed in March 2023 that steals data, encrypts systems, and threatens to leak files unless victims pay in Bitcoin.
Akira (アキラ)
Akira (アキラ) is Katsuhiro Otomo's 1988 cyberpunk anime film, adapted from his manga, set in Neo-Tokyo 2019; a record ¥1 billion budget, 160,000 hand-painted frames, and the film that globalized anime.
Akira (アキラ) (franchise)
Akira (アキラ) is Katsuhiro Otomo's media franchise: a 1982–1990 Kodansha manga in six volumes, the landmark 1988 anime film set in Neo-Tokyo 2019, games, and a canceled Warner Bros. live-action adaptation whose rights reverted to Kodansha in 2025.
Akira (アキラ) (manga)
Akira (アキラ) is Katsuhiro Otomo's science fiction manga serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine from December 1982 to June 1990, collected in six volumes, set in postwar Neo-Tokyo, winner of the 1984 Kodansha Manga Award, and adapted into the 1988 anime film.
Akira Endō
Akira Endō (遠藤章; 1933–2024) was a Japanese biochemist who discovered mevastatin, the first statin cholesterol-lowering drug, from a fungus while working at the pharmaceutical company Sankyo.
Akira Failing in Love
Akira Failing in Love (百瀬アキラの初恋破綻中。) is a Shinta Harekawa rom-com manga running in Weekly Shonen Sunday since August 2024, about scripted, failing courtship; licensed in English by VIZ from March 2026.
Akira Fujishima
Akira Fujishima (藤嶋昭, born 1942 in Tokyo) is a Japanese chemist who, with Kenichi Honda, discovered in 1969 that light on titanium dioxide splits water, founding modern photocatalysis.
Akira Furusawa
Akira Furusawa (古澤 明) is a Japanese physicist at the University of Tokyo who achieved the first unconditional quantum teleportation in 1998 and works on optical quantum computing.
Akira Harada
Akira Harada (原田 明) is a Japanese supramolecular and polymer chemist at Osaka University, known for the molecular necklace polyrotaxane reported in Nature in 1992.
Akira Hasegawa
Akira Hasegawa (長谷川晃; 1934–2025) was a Japanese theoretical physicist at Osaka University and Bell Laboratories who created the Hasegawa–Mima equation and the 1973 optical soliton theory.
Akira Ifukube (伊福部昭)
Akira Ifukube (伊福部昭, 1914-2006), self-taught Japanese composer from Hokkaido; Cherepnin Prize winner for Japan Rhapsody (1935); scored over 300 films including Godzilla (1954) and the Heisei Godzilla series; teacher of Akutagawa and Mayuzumi.
Akira Ishihama
Akira Ishihama (石浜 明) was a Japanese molecular biologist known for mapping how transcription is regulated in E. coli through decades of work on RNA polymerase.
Akira Jacobs (ジェイコブス 晶)
Akira Jacobs (ジェイコブス 晶, Tajon Akira Jacobs, born 2004) is a Japanese forward from Yokohama playing for Fordham after Hawaii, a Paris 2024 Olympian and 2023 FIBA U19 World Cup standout, NBA draft eligible 2027.
Akira Kamiya (神谷明)
Akira Kamiya (神谷明, Kamiya Akira), born 1946 in Yokohama, is a Japanese voice actor and singer; original voice of Kenshiro, Kinnikuman, Ryo Saeba, and Kogoro Mouri, with his own agency Saeba Shoji.
Akira Kobata
Akira Kobata is a Japanese biochemist, a pioneer of N-linked sugar chain glycobiology who developed methods for analyzing their structures and linked them to disease.
Akira Kurosawa (黒澤明)
Akira Kurosawa (黒澤明, 1910–1998), Japanese director of Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Ikiru, and Ran; won the 1951 Venice Golden Lion, founded Kurosawa Production, and influenced Lucas, Coppola, and Spielberg. Not the horror director Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Akira Miyawaki
Akira Miyawaki (宮脇昭, 1928–2021) was a Japanese plant ecologist who developed the Miyawaki method of dense native-forest restoration and received the 2006 Blue Planet Prize.