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Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim is a Mauritian organic chemist known for research on medicinal plants and for serving as the 6th and first female President of Mauritius, 2015 to 2018.
Ameer Abdullah
Ameer Abdullah, NFL running back (born 1993, Homewood, AL), Nebraska star and 2015 second-round Lions pick; career third-down back and kick returner for Lions, Vikings, Panthers, Raiders, Colts, Jaguars.
Ameer Vann
Ameer Vann (born 1996) is an American rapper from Houston, Texas, a founding member of BROCKHAMPTON, removed from the group in May 2018 over sexual misconduct allegations; solo EP EMMANUEL (2019), album WOOF (2024).
Ameera al-Taweel
Ameera al-Taweel (أميرة بنت عيدان بن نايف الطويل), Saudi philanthropist born 1983, ex-wife of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, former vice chair of Alwaleed Philanthropies, women's rights advocate, now CEO of TimeAgency.
Ameera Shah
Ameera Shah is an Indian businesswoman and Executive Chairperson of Metropolis Healthcare, a Mumbai-based diagnostics chain she joined in 2001 and took public in 2019.
Ameesha Patel (अमीषा पटेल)
Ameesha Patel (अमीषा पटेल), Indian actress born Amisha Amit Patel in Mumbai (1975 or 1976), debuted in Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000), played Sakeena in Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001) and its 2023 sequel Gadar 2, and runs Ameesha Patel Productions.
Ameghino Formation
Ameghino Formation, also called Nordenskjöld Formation, a Kimmeridgian–Berriasian (Upper Jurassic–lowermost Cretaceous) radiolarian-rich mudstone and tuff sequence, oldest marine unit of the Larsen Basin, Antarctic Peninsula; type locality Longing Gap; yields ammonites, fishes, ichthyosaurs, and a plesiosaur.
Amêijoas à Bulhão Pato
Amêijoas à Bulhão Pato is a Portuguese clam dish of clams opened in olive oil with garlic, coriander, and lemon, named for poet Raimundo António de Bulhão Pato; white wine is common but debated, and it ranked 18th in Taste Atlas's 2025 world ranking.
Ameiurus melas
Ameiurus melas, the black bullhead (synonym Ictalurus melas), is a North American ictalurid catfish native from the Great Lakes to northern Mexico, invasive in Europe, identified by dark chin barbels, no mottling, and weak pectoral-spine serrae.
Ameiurus nebulosus
Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead (barbotte brune), is a North American ictalurid catfish with mottled sides, 5-8 pectoral spine teeth, and a notched tail, native from Nova Scotia to Louisiana and widely introduced to Europe, California, and New Zealand.
Ameiva
Ameiva is a genus of teiid lizards (jungle runners) of South America, southern Central America, and the SE West Indies, about 13-14 species including the giant ameiva Ameiva ameiva, active insectivorous foragers with a taxonomically split former genus.
Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective
Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective (天久鷹央の推理カルテ) is a Japanese medical mystery series by physician-author Mikito Chinen with Noizi Ito illustrations, starring diagnostician Takao Ameku; adapted as a 2025 Project No.9 anime and TV Asahi drama.
Amel Larrieux
Amel Larrieux, American R&B and neo-soul singer-songwriter, one half of Groove Theory with Bryce Wilson (1995 hit "Tell Me"), later an independent solo artist on Blisslife Records with albums Infinite Possibilities, Bravebird, Morning, Lovely Standards.
Amel-Marduk
Amel-Marduk, also Awil-Marduk or Evil-Merodach, was the third king of the Neo-Babylonian dynasty, son of Nebuchadnezzar II, who ruled 561–560 BC and was murdered after just over two years on the throne.
Amelanchier
Amelanchier (serviceberry, juneberry, saskatoon, shadbush) is a Rosaceae genus of about 20 species of North American, European, and Asian shrubs and small trees with white flowers and edible sweet pomes; taxonomy is complicated by polyploidy, apomixis, and hybridization.
Amelanchier alnifolia
Amelanchier alnifolia, the saskatoon berry or Saskatoon serviceberry, is a North American Rosaceae shrub grown for sweet purple pomes rich in anthocyanins, fiber, and minerals; distinct from other serviceberries by alder-like leaves and western prairie range.
Amelanchier ovalis
Amelanchier ovalis (snowy mespilus, garden serviceberry), Medik. 1793, syn. Mespilus amelanchier L., a Rosaceae shrub native from Europe to the Caucasus and NW Africa, with diploid 2n=34 and tetraploid 2n=68 cytotypes and edible bluish-black fruits.
Amelia (airline)
Amelia, the commercial brand of the French airline group Regourd Aviation, was introduced in 2019 and specializes in ACMI leasing, charter flights, scheduled regional routes, and medical evacuation.
Amelia (film)
Amelia is a 2009 biographical drama film directed by Mira Nair, starring Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, tracing her fame to her 1937 disappearance over the Pacific Ocean.
Amelia (opera)
Amelia is a two-act opera by American composer Daron Hagen, premiered by Seattle Opera in 2010 about a woman haunted by her father's loss in Vietnam.
Amelia Bedelia
Amelia Bedelia is a literal-minded housekeeper from the 1963 Peggy Parish children's book series, continued by nephew Herman Parish since 1995, with over 35 million copies sold and classroom use for teaching idioms.
Amelia Boultbee
Amelia Boultbee, BC MLA for Penticton-Summerland since October 2024; elected as a BC Conservative, sat as an Independent from 2025, joined the BC NDP on July 3, 2026, and will not run in the October 24, 2026 election.
Amelia Boynton Robinson
Amelia Boynton Robinson (1911-2015), also known as Amelia Platts Boynton, was a Selma voting rights organizer, DCVL co-founder, first woman to run for Congress from Alabama, and Bloody Sunday victim beaten unconscious on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Amelia Bullmore
Amelia Bullmore, English actress and playwright born 1964 in London, known for Coronation Street's Steph Barnes, DCI Gill Murray in Scott & Bailey, Twenty Twelve, and her plays Mammals and Di and Viv and Rose.
Amelia De La Rama
Amelia De La Rama, born Amelia Amante (1927), was a Filipina actress from Bulacan whose films included Pangarap Ko'y Ikaw Rin (1947), Bulakenyo (1949), and The Steel Claw (1961), and who married Indonesian President Sukarno in 1964.
Amelia Dimoldenberg
Amelia Dimoldenberg (born 1994) is a British comedian and creator of the YouTube series Chicken Shop Date, founder of Dimz Inc, and the Academy's Oscars red carpet correspondent for 2024–2026.
Amelia Dyer
Amelia Dyer (1837/1838–1896), English baby farmer and serial killer, hanged at Newgate for murdering infant Doris Marmon; convicted on one charge though estimated 200–400 victims, case led to 1897 and 1908 child protection acts.
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was an American aviator, the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic in 1932, who disappeared over the Pacific during her 1937 around-the-world flight attempt.
Amelia Edwards
Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (1831-1892), English novelist, travel writer, and Egyptologist; author of A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877), co-founder of the Egypt Exploration Fund (1882), and benefactor of UCL's first Egyptology chair.
Amelia Heinle
Amelia Heinle (born 1973), American actress; Victoria Newman on The Young and the Restless since March 2005, replacing Heather Tom; two-time Daytime Emmy Supporting Actress winner (2014, 2015); earlier roles Steffi Brewster on Loving and Mia Saunders on All My Children.