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Amália Rodrigues
Amália Rodrigues (Amália da Piedade Rodrigues, 1920-1999), Portuguese fado singer called the Rainha do Fado; debuted professionally in 1939, recorded first in Brazil in 1945, and pioneered singing Camões in fado.
Amalia Williamson
Amalia Williamson is a Canadian actress, writer, and director from Oakville, Ontario, known for Maddie West in Northern Rescue, Lola Gunderson in Sullivan's Crossing, and Andi Walker opposite Brooke Shields in Acorn TV's You're Killing Me (2026). Birth year sources conflict (1994 vs 1999).
Amalia Yoo
Amalia Yoo (Amalia Emma Lola Yoo, born 2002, New York City) is an American actress of Korean, Puerto Rican, and Greek descent, known for Leila Kwan Zimmer in Grand Army and her Drama Desk-winning Broadway debut as Raelynn Nix in John Proctor is the Villain.
Amalie Arena
Amalie Arena, now Benchmark International Arena, is Tampa's downtown arena, opened 1996 as Ice Palace; home of the Tampa Bay Lightning since 1996, three Stanley Cups, renamed August 2025.
Amalie Skram Prize
The Amalie Skram Prize (Amalie Skram-prisen) is a Norwegian literary prize awarded each year to a female fiction writer who writes in the spirit of author Amalie Skram.
Amalie Wilhelmine Sieveking
Amalie Wilhelmine Sieveking (1794–1859) was a Lutheran philanthropist in Hamburg who in 1832 founded the Weiblicher Verein für Armen- und Krankenpflege, the first Protestant voluntary society in Germany organized and led by a woman.
Amalienborg
Amalienborg is the residence of the Danish royal family in Copenhagen, four Rococo palaces built 1750-60 around an octagonal square and royal home since the 1794 Christiansborg fire.
Amalija Knavs
Amalija Knavs (born Amalija Ulčnik, 1945–2024), Slovenian textile pattern maker at the Jutranjka factory in Sevnica, mother of former first lady Melania Trump and of Ines; immigrated to the U.S. on family sponsorship, naturalized 2018.
Amalio Telenti
Amalio Telenti is a Spanish-born infectious diseases physician and genomic scientist known for HIV genomics, tuberculosis drug-resistance research, and SARS-CoV-2 variant studies, with senior roles at Human Longevity and Vir Biotechnology.
Amalric I of Jerusalem
Amalric I of Jerusalem, also known as Amaury I de Jerusalem, was king of Jerusalem from 1163 until his death in 1174, after succeeding his brother Baldwin III.
Amalthea (moon)
Amalthea is the largest of Jupiter's small inner moons, a dark red body about 270 km long that orbits closer to Jupiter than Io. It was discovered in 1892.
Amaltheenton Formation
Amaltheenton Formation, Upper Pliensbachian (Lias delta) mudstone unit of the German Jurassic, below the Posidonia Shale; dark-grey pyritic claystones with siderite concretions, shallow-marine, organic-lean.
Amaltheus
Amaltheus, also written Amaltheus margaritatus group, an extinct late Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) ammonoid genus of family Amaltheidae; index fossil defining the margaritatus Zone, with pan-Boreal species recorded in Europe, Japan, and North America.
Amalya L. Kearse
Amalya L. Kearse is an American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.
Amami Ōshima
Amami Ōshima (奄美大島) is the largest island (712.4 km²) of the Amami archipelago, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, between Kyushu and Okinawa; subtropical, home of the Amami Rabbit, and part of the 2021 UNESCO World Heritage serial site.
Aman Andom (አማን ሚካኤል አንዶም)
Aman Mikael Andom (አማን ሚካኤል አንዶም), 1924–1974, Eritrean-born Ethiopian lieutenant general, first post-imperial acting head of state and Derg/PMAC chairman, killed 23 November 1974.
Aman Arora
Aman Arora is an Indian politician of the Aam Aadmi Party, a Punjab cabinet minister and two-time MLA from Sunam, named the party's Punjab president in November 2024.
Aman Gandhi (actor)
Aman Gandhi, Indian television actor (born 1993, Delhi), known as Daksh Munshi in Naagin 3, Ayush in Bhagya Lakshmi (2021-2025), and Hrithik Virani in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2; Bigg Boss 20 contestant evicted after five weeks in October 2026.
Aman Gupta (अमन गुप्त)
Aman Gupta (अमन गुप्त) is an Indian chartered accountant turned entrepreneur who co-founded boAt in 2013, built it into India's leading branded audio company, and appears on Shark Tank India.
Aman Resorts
Aman Resorts is an ultra-luxury hospitality group founded in Phuket, Thailand, in 1988 by Adrian Zecha, operating 36 small, design-led hotels and resorts in 21 countries under chairman Vlad Doronin.
Aman Verma (अमन यतन वर्मा) (actor)
Aman Yatan Verma (अमन यतन वर्मा), Indian television actor and anchor known for Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, hosting Khullja Sim Sim, films Baghban and Ra.One, and Bigg Boss 9.
Amana
Amana (Honda, 1935), East Asian tulips, a Liliaceae genus of bulbous herbs native to China, Korea, and Japan; about 13 species, sister to Erythronium, formerly placed in Tulipa.
Amana Colonies
The Amana Colonies are seven villages in east-central Iowa founded from 1855 by the Community of True Inspiration, a German Pietist group that lived communally there until 1932.
Amanat alasimah
Amanat al-Asimah (أمانة العاصمة), the Capital Secretariat, is Yemen's exclusively urban governorate covering Sana'a city. Created 1983, ten districts, 385 km2, about 3.52 million people, Houthi-held since 2014.
Amanat Khan
Amanat Khan (امانت خان), born Abd al-Haqq in Shiraz, was a Persian calligrapher and royal librarian of the Mughal court who designed the Taj Mahal inscriptions under Shah Jahan.
Amanchu! (あまんちゅ!)
Amanchu! (あまんちゅ！, 蓝海少女) is Kozue Amano's scuba-diving slice-of-life manga (2008–2021, 17 volumes, Mag Garden) set in Izu, Japan, about Futaba Ooki and Hikari Kohinata; adapted into two J.C.STAFF anime seasons (2016, 2018).
Amancio Ortega
Amancio Ortega Gaona (born 1936) is a Spanish retail entrepreneur who founded Zara in 1975 and built its parent company Inditex into the world's largest fashion retailer.
Amanda
Amanda: feminine given name from Latin amanda, 'worthy of love', revived by 17th-century authors including Cibber's Love's Last Shift (1696). Peaked at #2 for US girls in 1980 (41,909 births in 1987), now #493 in 2025; rare in Poland.
Amanda Abbington
Amanda Abbington (born Amanda Jane Smith, 1974) is an English actress known for Miss Mardle in Mr Selfridge and Mary Watson in Sherlock; a 2023 Strictly contestant whose complaints against Giovanni Pernice were partly upheld by the BBC.
Amanda Anisimova
Amanda Anisimova, American tennis player born 2001; 2025 Wimbledon and US Open finalist, four WTA titles (Bogota, Melbourne, Doha, Beijing), career-high WTA ranking No. 3 in January 2026 after a 2023 mental health break.