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Amanda Warren
Amanda Warren (Amanda Mason Warren) is an American actress, BFA NYU and MFA Yale, known for Lucy Warburton on The Leftovers, Deputy Inspector Regina Haywood on East New York, Betty on Dickinson, and Catherine Weaver on The Night Agent.
Amanda Weir
Amanda Weir (Amanda Jo Weir-Davis), American sprint freestyle swimmer born 1986 in Davenport, Iowa; three-time Olympian (2004, 2012, 2016) with 4 Olympic relay medals (3 silver, 1 bronze) and 22 total AQUA/Olympic medals.
Amanda Wyss
Amanda Wyss (born 1960) is an American actress from Manhattan Beach, California, known as Tina Gray, Freddy Krueger's first victim in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and for Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Better Off Dead, Silverado, and Highlander's Randi MacFarland.
Amanda Young
Amanda Young is a fictional character in the Saw franchise, Jigsaw's first surviving test subject. Portrayed by Shawnee Smith, she appears in Saw (2004), becomes John Kramer's apprentice in Saw II, dies in Saw III, and returns in Saw X (2023).
Amanda Zurawski
Amanda Zurawski is an American reproductive rights activist from Austin, Texas, best known as lead plaintiff in Zurawski v. State of Texas, a 2023 lawsuit challenging exceptions in Texas's abortion bans.
Amandaland
Amandaland is a BBC One sitcom (2025-present) spun off from Motherland, starring Lucy Punch as divorced influencer Amanda Hughes, relocated from Chiswick to "SoHa" (South Harlesden), with Joanna Lumley as her mother Felicity; it won the 2026 BAFTA for best scripted comedy.
Amander Clark
Amander Clark is an Australian-born American stem cell biologist at UCLA, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology and founding director of its Center for Reproductive Science, Health, and Education.
Amandine Buchard
Amandine Buchard, French judoka born 1995 in Noisy-le-Sec, –52 kg. Four Olympic medals: mixed-team gold Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, –52 kg silver and bronze. Since 2024 also pursuing rugby sevens for LA 2028.
Amandine Leynaud
Amandine Leynaud is a French former handball goalkeeper, born in 1986, who won Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020, the 2017 World Championship, and retired in 2022.
Amandla Stenberg
Amandla Stenberg (born 2000, Los Angeles) is an American actor and activist, breakout as Rue in The Hunger Games (2012), star of The Hate U Give (2018) and The Acolyte (2024), known for the viral 2015 video Don't Cash Crop My Cornrows.
Amandus
Amandus (died c. 676) was a seventh-century missionary bishop from Aquitaine who evangelized the Schelde region of Gaul, founded the monastery of Elnone, and is styled the Apostle of Belgium.
Amane Kanata (天音かなた)
Amane Kanata (天音かなた) was a hololive 4th-generation VTuber, active December 27, 2019 to December 27, 2025; an angel character and singer of Unknown DIVA and Trigger who held the solo live LOCK ON, then graduated.
Amanece, que no es poco
Amanece, que no es poco: 1988 Spanish surrealist comedy by José Luis Cuerda, released January 1989, about an Oklahoma professor and his father in an absurd mountain village; cult classic with 'amanecistas' fans, three Goya nominations, filmed in Ayna, Liétor, and Molinicos.
Amanecer (TV series)
Amanecer (2025) is a Mexican TelevisaUnivision telenovela produced by Juan Osorio, starring Fernando Colunga and Livia Brito, adapted from Monte Calvario and Delia Fiallo's La mujer que no podía amar; 80 episodes on Las Estrellas, July 7 to October 24, 2025, also on Univision and ViX.
Amangkurat I
Amangkurat I, also known as Sunan Amangkurat I and born Raden Mas Sayyidin, was king of the Mataram Sultanate on Java from 1646 to 1677.
Amangkurat II of Mataram
Amangkurat II of Mataram, born Raden Mas Rahmat and known as Sunan Amral, was the fifth Susuhunan of Mataram, reigning from 1677 to 1703 and ruling from Kartasura.
Amangkurat III
Amangkurat III was the susuhunan (ruler) of Mataram from 1703 until the First Javanese War of Succession, after which he was exiled to Dutch Ceylon.
Amangkurat IV
Amangkurat IV, also known posthumously as Sunan Jawi, was the Susuhunan of Mataram at Kartasura from 1719 to 1726, holding the throne against rival brothers in the Second Javanese War of Succession with VOC support.
Amani
Amani, born Cecilia Wairimu in Thika, Kenya in 1980, is a Kenyan singer and songwriter who popularized the Kapuka style and won the 2009 MTV Africa Music Award for Best Female Artist.
Amaniastabarqa
Amaniastabarqa, also spelled Amaniastabarqo, was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, buried in pyramid Nu. 2 at Nuri and conventionally assigned a reign of about 510–487 BC.
Amanibakhi
Amanibakhi was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, placed in the late 5th to 4th century BC between Akhraten and Nastasen; no dated text of his reign survives.
Amanikhabale
Amanikhabale was a king of Kush during the Meroitic period, known from a bronze cartouche found at Kawa and conventionally placed before Natakamani and Amanitore.
Amanikhalika
Amanikhalika is a kandake, or queen, of Kush, known only from the pyramid at Meroe (Beg. N 32) speculatively attributed to her, since Meroitic chronology rests on a relative sequence of royal pyramids.
Amanikhareqerem
Amanikhareqerem was a king of Kush in the Meroitic period, now dated to the late 1st century AD and known from inscribed objects and temples at el-Hassa and Naga.
Amanikhatashan
Amanikhatashan was a kandake, or ruling queen, of Kush at Meroë who reigned in the 1st or 2nd century CE, conventionally c. 62–c. 85 CE.
Amanimalel
Amanimalel, also spelled Amanimalil, was a queen of Napata in Kush who flourished in the 7th century BC, presumed consort of King Senkamanisken and known from two statues, one found at Gebel Barkal in 1916.
Amaninatakilebte
Amaninatakilebte was a king of Kush of the Napatan dynasty, ruling in the sixth century BC between Analmaaje and Karakamani and buried in a pyramid at Nuri.
Amanineteyerike
Amanineteyerike, also written Aman-nete-yerike, was a king of Kush who reigned in the late fifth century BC and left inscriptions at Kawa and a pyramid at Nuri.
Amanipilade
Amanipilade is the name attached to the last kandake, or ruling queen, of Kush, ruling from Meroe in what is now Sudan until the city was deserted around 350 CE.
Amanirenas
Amanirenas, also known as Amanirena, was a kandake, or queen, of Kush who reigned from about 40 to 10 BC and led the war against Roman-occupied Egypt.