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Amanda Arcuri

Amanda Arcuri (born 1997, Toronto) is a Canadian actress of Argentine and Italian descent, known as Lola Pacini in Degrassi: The Next Generation and Degrassi: Next Class, and for Fingernails (2023), Do Not Reply (2019), and as Skye Fraley in CBS's Sheriff Country. Distinct from the Toronto photographer of the same name.

Amanda Ashworth

Amanda Ashworth is an American research soil scientist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Fayetteville, Arkansas, who received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

Amanda Askell

Amanda Askell is a Scottish philosopher who leads character training of the Claude AI model at Anthropic and is the primary author of Claude's Constitution, released in 2026.

Amanda Barrie

Amanda Barrie (Shirley Anne Broadbent, born 14 September 1935), English actress of Carry On Cleo, Coronation Street's Alma Baldwin, Bad Girls and Benidorm; married Hilary Bonner, memoirs It's Not a Rehearsal and I'm Still Here.

Amanda Beard

Amanda Beard (Amanda Ray Beard-Brown, born 1981), American breaststroke swimmer, four-time Olympian (1996-2008) with 7 Olympic medals including 2004 200m breaststroke gold in world record time; later model and memoirist.

Amanda Bearse

Amanda Bearse, American actress and director born 1958 in Winter Park, Florida; played Marcy D'Arcy on Married... with Children (1987-1997) and Amy in Fright Night (1985), then directed over 30 sitcom episodes and came out in The Advocate in 1993.

Amanda Blake

Amanda Blake (Beverly Louise Neill, 1929–1989), American actress, played Miss Kitty Russell, Long Branch Saloon owner on CBS's Gunsmoke from 1955 to 1974; also cheetah breeder and American Cancer Society Courage Award recipient.

Amanda Bledsoe

Amanda Mays Bledsoe is an American politician and Republican member of the Kentucky Senate from the 12th district, formerly on the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council.

Amanda Brugel

Amanda Brugel (Amanda Ellen Baker), Canadian actress born 1978 in Pointe Claire, Québec; York University scholarship graduate. Known for Rita Blue in The Handmaid's Tale (2017–2025), Kim's Convenience, Orphan Black, Dark Matter; won 2026 Canadian Screen Award Spotlight Award.

Amanda Burden

Amanda Burden, American urban planner, NYC planning commissioner 2002–2013 under Mayor Bloomberg; rezoned 124 neighborhoods (about 40% of the city), championed the High Line and waterfront, now a principal at Bloomberg Associates.

Amanda Burton

Amanda Burton (born 1956, Derry) is a Northern Irish actress known as Heather Haversham in Brookside, Beth Glover in Peak Practice, and Sam Ryan in Silent Witness (1996–2004, returning 2022), also The Commander and Waterloo Road.

Amanda Bynes

Amanda Bynes (born 1986, Thousand Oaks, California) is a retired American actress, Nickelodeon star of All That and The Amanda Show, later films What a Girl Wants, Hairspray, Easy A; conservatorship ended 2023.

Amanda Byram

Amanda Byram (born 1973, Dublin) is an Irish TV presenter and former model who hosted Ireland AM, The Big Breakfast, The Swan, Paradise Hotel, and Total Wipeout with Richard Hammond, co-hosted Dancing with the Stars Ireland, and wrote The Switch.

Amanda Cappelletti

Amanda Cappelletti is an American politician and Democratic member of the Pennsylvania Senate from the 17th district, known for 2025 legislation barring law enforcement officers from wearing masks on duty.

Amanda Carpenter

Amanda Carpenter is an American political commentator, author of Gaslighting America, and former Ted Cruz communications director and Jim DeMint speechwriter, now a writer and editor at the anti-authoritarian nonprofit Protect Democracy.

Amanda Cavallaro

Amanda Cavallaro is a Drosophila geneticist and scientific-resource builder at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, co-author of four widely used fly resource papers.

Amanda Crew

Amanda Crew (born 1986, Langley, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress known as Monica Hall on HBO's Silicon Valley (2014-2019) and for films Sex Drive (2008), Charlie St. Cloud (2010), and Freaks (2018).

Amanda de Cadenet

Amanda de Cadenet (born 1972, London) is a British photographer, TV host, and entrepreneur; former The Word presenter, Vogue-cover photographer, creator of The Conversation, and founder of Girlgaze.

Amanda Donohoe

Amanda Donohoe (born 1962, London) is an English actress trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, a Golden Globe winner as C.J. Lamb on L.A. Law, known for The Lair of the White Worm, The Madness of King George, Emmerdale, and Mrs Robinson in The Graduate.

Amanda Elmore

Amanda Elmore (born 1991) is an American rower from West Lafayette, Indiana, who won gold in the 2016 Olympic women's eight in the stroke seat and the 2015 world quadruple sculls title, later a USADA educator.

Amanda Fisher

Amanda Fisher, also known as Amanda G. Fisher, is a British cell biologist and epigenetics researcher who holds the Whitley Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford.

Amanda Fix

Amanda Fix (born 2001, Vancouver) is a Canadian actress: Cea in North of Normal (2022), Jules Lee in Orphan Black: Echoes, Maya in High School, young Billy in Camp Miasma (2026), young Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring: First Communion (2027).

Amanda Frances

Amanda Frances is an American money mindset coach and self-help author, known for the book Rich As F*ck and for joining The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in 2025.

Amanda Freed

Amanda Louise Freed (born 1979) is an American former softball pitcher and utility player, 2004 Athens Olympic gold medalist, 2000 team alternate, UCLA's all-time winningest pitcher with 97 wins, and later an ESPN softball analyst.

Amanda Freitag

Amanda Freitag (born 1972) is an American chef, CIA-trained cookbook author, and Food Network personality, a Chopped judge since 2009, runner-up on The Next Iron Chef: Redemption and Tournament of Champions season 1.

Amanda Fuller

Amanda Fuller (born 1984, Sacramento) is an American actress and director, known as Kristin Baxter on Last Man Standing and Badison Murphy on Orange Is the New Black, with film credits including Red White & Blue.

Amanda G. Paulovich

Amanda G. Paulovich is an American physician-scientist and professor at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center who develops standardized mass spectrometry assays for measuring proteins in tissue and blood.

Amanda Gorman

Amanda Gorman (born 1998) is an American poet, first National Youth Poet Laureate, and youngest inaugural poet, who read "The Hill We Climb" at Biden's 2021 inauguration and wrote Call Us What We Carry.

Amanda Green

Amanda Marie Green is an American Democratic politician and 2026 nominee for the U.S. House in Florida's 2nd District, a former USAID contractor facing Republican Austin Rogers.

Amanda Hale

Amanda Hale (born 1982) is a British RADA-trained actress known for Margaret Beaufort in The White Queen, Emily Reid in Ripper Street, Laura in The Glass Menagerie, and Officer Tishra Kandia in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.