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Amadori

Amadori is an Italian food group based in Cesena, founded in 1969 by Francesco and Arnaldo Amadori, with about 30% of Italian poultry meat sales.

Amadori rearrangement

The Amadori rearrangement is an organic reaction that converts a reducing sugar condensed with an amine into a ketosamine, the key early step of the Maillard reaction.

Amadou & Mariam

Amadou & Mariam, the blind Malian husband-and-wife duo of Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia, blended Malian blues, rock, and pop; their Manu Chao-produced 2004 album Dimanche à Bamako made them international stars.

Amadou Bamba

Amadou Bamba, known as Khadimou Rassoul, was a Senegalese Muslim scholar and Sufi master (1853–1927) who founded the Mouride order, one of Senegal's most powerful religious movements.

Amadou Hampate Ba

Amadou Hampâté Bâ was a Malian writer and historian who collected West Africa's oral traditions, campaigned at UNESCO for their preservation, and served as Mali's ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire.

Amadou Koné (footballer, born 2005)

Amadou Koné (born 2005, Bamako) is an Ivorian defensive midfielder for NEOM SC in the Saudi Pro League and Ivory Coast, formerly of Stade de Reims; Ligue 1 debut 2023, Coupe de France finalist 2025, senior cap 2026.

Amadou Koufa

Amadou Koufa (Amadou Kouffa, Hamadoun Kouffa, Amado Diallo) is a Malian Fulani jihadist preacher, founder and emir of the Macina Liberation Front (Katibat Macina), the most active faction of al-Qaeda-linked JNIM, operating from central Mali into Burkina Faso under Iyad ag Ghali.

Amadou Onana

Amadou Onana (born 2001, Senegal) is a Belgian defensive midfielder, 195 cm, for Aston Villa and Belgium; ex-Hamburg, Lille, Everton; joined Villa 2024 for about £50m; ACL rupture at the 2026 World Cup.

Amadou Toumani Touré

Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT), Malian general and statesman (1948-2020), led the 1991 coup ending Moussa Traoré's rule, ran Mali's democratic transition, and was elected president in 2002 and 2007 before a 2012 coup deposed him.

Amadu III of Masina

Amadu III of Masina, also known as Ahmadu III, was the last caliph of Hamdallahi in Mali, ruling from 1853 until his state's conquest in 1862.

Amae (甘え)

Amae (甘え) is a Japanese concept of indulgent dependence introduced by psychiatrist Takeo Doi in his 1971 book Amae no Kozo (The Anatomy of Dependence). Distinct from attachment; observed cross-culturally and debated in psychology.

Amagami (アマガミ)

Amagami (アマガミ) is a 2009 PlayStation 2 romance simulation game by Enterbrain, successor to True Love Story and KimiKiss, with six heroines, an action-map schedule system, conversation topic mode, and later Ebikore+ ports on PSP and PS Vita.

Amagandha

Amagandha (अमगन्ध) is the brahmin ascetic of the Amagandha Sutta in the Sutta Nipata, whose dialogue with Kassapa Buddha teaches that evil conduct, not meat, defiles.

Amagasaki

Amagasaki (尼崎市) is a dense commuter and industrial city in Hyogo Prefecture between Osaka and Kobe, with about 458,000 residents, a rebuilt 1617 castle, Chikamatsu Monzaemon's grave, and an ECO Future City environmental program.

Amager Bakke

Amager Bakke, publicly known as CopenHill, is a waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Bjarke Ingels and topped by a public ski slope and climbing wall.

Amagi Brilliant Park (甘城ブリリアントパーク)

Amagi Brilliant Park (甘城ブリリアントパーク) is a light novel series by Shoji Gatoh and Yuka Nakajima (Fujimi Fantasia Bunko, 2013) about rebuilding a failing magical amusement park, adapted into a 2014 Kyoto Animation TV anime.

Amagi Media Labs

Amagi Media Labs is a Bengaluru-based software-as-a-service company founded in 2008 by Baskar Subramanian and two batchmates, providing cloud playout and streaming software to broadcasters; it listed on India's National Stock Exchange in 2026.

Amagi-class battlecruiser

Amagi-class battlecruiser (天城型巡洋戦艦): four Imperial Japanese Navy battlecruisers, Amagi, Akagi, Atago, Takao, designed 1919 by Hiraga with ten 410mm guns and 30-knot speed; cancelled by the 1922 Washington Treaty, Amagi wrecked in the 1923 earthquake, Akagi completed as a carrier.

Amago Haruhisa

Amago Haruhisa (尼子晴久, 1514–1561) was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyo, fifth head of the Amago clan, who at his height held the shugo post for 8 of the 11 Chūgoku provinces.

Amago Tsunehisa

Amago Tsunehisa (尼子経久, 1458–1541) was a Japanese warlord of the Sengoku period who turned the deputy governorship of Izumo Province into an independent domain, contending with the Ōuchi and Mōri clans.

Amagumo tea bowl

The Amagumo tea bowl (雨雲茶碗, "Rain cloud") is a black raku tea bowl made by Hon'ami Kōetsu in the 17th century, held in the Mitsui Memorial Museum in Tokyo.

AMAI

AMAI (AMAL, CVCL_E455) is an EBV-transformed human B-lymphoblastoid cell line from an Algerian male donor, part of the 10th International Histocompatibility Workshop panel, used as an HLA typing reference.

Amaidhi Padai (அமைதிப்படை)

Amaidhi Padai (அமைதிப்படை) is a 1994 Tamil political satire directed and written by Manivannan, starring Sathyaraj as corrupt politician Amavasai and his policeman son Thangavel; music by Ilaiyaraaja, remade in Telugu and Hindi, re-released in 4K in 2026.

Amaju Pinnick

Amaju Pinnick is a Nigerian football administrator from Warri who led the Nigeria Football Federation from 2014 to 2022, also serving on the CAF Executive Committee and the FIFA Council.

Amajuba District Municipality

Amajuba District Municipality (DC25) is a category C district municipality in north-western KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, comprising Newcastle, eMadlangeni, and Dannhauser local municipalities; 6,911 km²; manufacturing-led economy; seat at Madadeni near Newcastle.

Amakasu Incident

The Amakasu Incident (甘粕事件) was the murder of anarchists Ōsugi Sakae, Itō Noe, and Ōsugi's nephew by military police under Captain Amakasu Masahiko in Tokyo in September 1923.

Amakusa Shirō (天草四郎)

Amakusa Shirō (天草四郎), whose real name was Masuda Tokisada, led the Shimabara–Amakusa Rebellion of 1637–1638 and died at about 16 when Hara Castle fell to the shogunate.

Amakye Dede (musician)

Amakye Dede, born Daniel Amakye Dede in 1958 in Agogo, Ghana, is a highlife singer known as "Iron Boy" who formed the Apollo High Kings in 1980.

Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney, born Amal Alamuddin in Beirut in 1978, is a British-Lebanese barrister at Doughty Street Chambers specializing in international human rights, criminal, and public international law, former UK Special Envoy for Media Freedom, and Clooney Foundation for Justice co-founder.

Amal Dunqul

Amal Dunqul (أمل دنقل) was an Egyptian poet from Upper Egypt and a leading modernist voice in Arabic free verse, famous for his 1976 poem "La Tusalih".