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Ambler (robot)
Ambler was a six-legged walking robot built at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute as a NASA-funded prototype rover for exploring Mars-like terrain in the early 1990s.
Ambleside (film)
Ambleside is the original title of Prisoners of Paradise, a 2025-2026 British period romance directed by Mitch Jenkins, adapted from Romesh Gunesekera's novel, set in 1925 Mauritius, starring Ellie Bamber and Mehdi Dehbi, filmed in 2020 and premiered at the Boston Film Festival.
Amblin Entertainment
Amblin Entertainment, founded 1981 by Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall and named after Spielberg's 1968 short Amblin', is a Universal City, California film and TV production company with over 200 films and Universal and Netflix partnerships.
Amblin Partners
Amblin Partners (Storyteller Distribution Co., LLC) is Steven Spielberg's independent film and TV production company, formed December 16, 2015 from DreamWorks Studios, Participant, Reliance, and eOne, with Universal distributing four to seven films yearly.
Ambloplites rupestris
Ambloplites rupestris, the rock bass or goggle-eye, is a North American freshwater sunfish (Centrarchidae) with 5-7 anal spines, a red eye, and rock-and-gravel stream habitat; males guard nests, IUCN Least Concern.
Amblyomma
Amblyomma is a genus of hard ticks erected by Koch in 1844, whose large, often brightly ornamented species parasitize mammals, birds, and reptiles across the tropics.
Amblyomma americanum
Amblyomma americanum, the lone star tick, is an aggressive human-biting hard tick of the eastern and central United States, identified by the female's white dorsal spot. It vectors ehrlichiosis and tularemia, causes alpha-gal red meat allergy, and does not transmit Lyme disease.
Amblyopia
Amblyopia, or lazy eye, is childhood vision loss from abnormal brain-eye development, with refractive, strabismic, and deprivational types; treated by patching, atropine, and newer binocular therapies.
Amblypygi
Amblypygi, whip spiders or tailless whip scorpions, are an arachnid order of about 260 species with sensory antenniform first legs and raptorial pedipalps, sister to Thelyphonida and Schizomida, with a 313.7-million-year fossil record and the relict genus Paracharon.
Amblyseius
Amblyseius is a large genus of Phytoseiidae predatory mites (Berlese, 1914; about 359 valid species) of Type III generalist habit; its flagship species A. swirskii, the Swirski mite, is commercially reared in Europe and North America for thrips and whitefly control.
Ambohidratrimo District
Ambohidratrimo District, a district of Analamanga region, Madagascar, northwest of Antananarivo; district 1 of 119, population 442,244, 319 fokontany, part of Grand Antananarivo.
Ambonese revolt
The Ambonese revolt, known in Dutch historiography as the Great Ambon War (Grote Ambonse Oorlog), was an uprising against the Dutch East India Company from 1651 to 1656.
Amborn Ambaro, Somdet Phra Ariyavongsagatanana (สมเด็จพระอริยวงศาคตญาณ (อัมพร อมฺพโร))
Amborn Ambaro (อัมพร อมฺพโร), born in 1927, is a Thai Theravada monk and former abbot of Wat Ratchabophit who has served as the 20th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand since 2017.
Amboseli National Park
Amboseli National Park is a 392 km² park in Kajiado County, Kenya, at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, gazetted in 1974, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1991, famed for about 1,800 elephants and the world's longest-running wild elephant study.
Amboy, California
Amboy, California: a near-ghost town on former Route 66 (National Trails Highway) in the Mojave Desert, founded as an 1858 mining camp and 1883 railroad station, best known for Roy's Motel & Café and nearby Amboy Crater.
Ambrae
Ad Ambrae (Ambrae, Ambre), a Roman mansio in Raetia named in the Antonine Itinerary 27 Roman miles from Augsburg, identified with Schöngeising, Bavaria; military finds from 1992.
Ambrault
Ambrault is a commune in the Indre department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of central France, southwest of Issoudun, known for its oolitic limestone quarries at the hamlet of Boisramier.
Ambresbury Banks
Ambresbury Banks is a slight univallate Iron Age hillfort in Epping Forest, Essex, near Theydon Bois; a Scheduled Monument with a single bank, ditch, and northwest entrance, excavated from 1881 by Pitt-Rivers.
Ambri
Ambri was an American company, founded in 2010 as an MIT spinout, that developed liquid metal batteries for grid-scale energy storage before winding down in 2025.
Ambrisentan
Ambrisentan (Letairis, Volibris) is an oral, ETA-selective endothelin receptor antagonist approved in 2007 for pulmonary arterial hypertension WHO FC II-III; once-daily 5-10 mg dosing, low liver toxicity, edema risk, REMS removed 2025.
Ambrish Patel
Ambrish Patel, known as A.J. Patel, is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur best known as the founder of TiE, the global nonprofit network for entrepreneurship, started in December 1992.
Ambrogio Levati
Ambrogio Levati (1894–1963), Italian artistic gymnast from Milan; won team all-around gold at Antwerp 1920 Olympics; reserve (DNS) at Paris 1924; later official and coach.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (died 1348/49) was an Italian painter of the Sienese school and younger brother of Pietro Lorenzetti, known for the Good and Bad Government frescoes in Siena.
Ambrose
Ambrose, also known as Saint Ambrose of Milan, was bishop of Milan from 374 to 397 and one of the four original Doctors of the Latin Church.
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842–1914?), American short story writer, journalist, and satirist, author of The Devil's Dictionary, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, and 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'; Union Civil War veteran who disappeared in Mexico in 1913.
Ambrose Burnside
Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824–1881), Union major general, IX Corps commander, and Army of the Potomac chief at Fredericksburg; also Rhode Island governor, U.S. senator, and namesake of sideburns.
Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick
Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick (c.1528/1530–1590), Tudor nobleman, son of the Duke of Northumberland and brother of the Earl of Leicester; Master of the Ordnance, commander at Newhaven 1562–63, lieutenant against the 1569 Northern Rebellion, died childless after a leg amputation.
Ambrose Kenny-Smith
Ambrose Thomas Kenny-Smith (born 1992), Australian musician of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard (harmonica, vocals, keyboards, since 2011) and frontman of The Murlocs; also records as GUM collaborator on Ill Times.
Ambrose Maréchal
Ambrose Maréchal (Ambroise Maréchal) was a French Sulpician priest who became the third Archbishop of Baltimore in 1817, fled revolutionary France in 1792, and completed the Baltimore Cathedral.
Ambrose of Optina
Ambrose of Optina (Амвросий Оптинский), born Alexander Grenkov, was a Russian Orthodox starets, or spiritual elder, of Optina Pustyn monastery from 1860 until his death in 1891.