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Amy (2015 film)

Amy is a 2015 British documentary by Asif Kapadia about singer Amy Winehouse, built from archival footage; it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Amy Acker

Amy Acker (Amy Louise Acker, born 1976) is an American actress from Dallas, known as Fred on Angel, Root on Person of Interest, Kate Strucker on The Gifted, and Beatrice in Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing.

Amy Acton

Amy Acton is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio in 2026, her first race for the office, with a campaign focused on public education, jobs, and health care.

Amy Adams

Amy Adams (Amy Lou Adams, born 1974 in Italy) is an American actress known for Junebug, Enchanted, American Hustle, and Arrival; six Oscar nominations without a win and two Golden Globes.

Amy Allen (songwriter)

Amy Allen is an American songwriter and record producer. She won the 2025 Grammy for Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical, and co-wrote hits for Sabrina Carpenter.

Amy Aquino

Amy Aquino (born 1957) is an American actress known as Lt. Grace Billets on Bosch, Dr. Janet Coburn on ER, and Phyllis Berger Silver on Brooklyn Bridge; Harvard biology graduate, Yale MFA, SAG-AFTRA Secretary-Treasurer.

Amy Archer-Gilligan

Amy Archer-Gilligan (Amy Duggan, 1873-1962) ran the Archer Home for the elderly in Windsor, Connecticut, and was convicted in 1917 of arsenic-poisoning boarder Franklin Andrews; suspected of up to two dozen deaths, she inspired Arsenic and Old Lace.

Amy Ashwood Garvey

Amy Ashwood Garvey was a Jamaican Pan-Africanist and feminist who helped found the UNIA in 1914, served as its first secretary, and married Marcus Garvey in 1919.

Amy Bailey (actress)

Amy Marina Bailey (born 1975, Texas) is a US/UK actress and former ballerina, known as Queen Kwenthrith in Vikings (2014-2016), Clementine in Dominion, Joanna in The Chosen, and Kayla in the VR game Blood & Truth; distinct from the producer Amy Bailey.

Amy Berman Jackson

Amy Berman Jackson (born 1954, Baltimore) is a senior U.S. district judge in Washington, D.C., appointed by Obama in 2011 and confirmed 97-0, known for the Manafort and Stone cases, Mueller report FOIA rulings, and Strzok and SNAP decisions.

Amy Berrington de González

Amy Berrington de Gonzalez is a cancer epidemiologist who studies cancer risks from ionizing radiation, leading the UK Pediatric CT Scans Cohort, the first study linking childhood CT scans to cancer risk.

Amy Bohnert

Amy Bohnert is an American health services researcher and epidemiologist at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor who studies opioid safety and overdose risk.

Amy Boleyn

Amy (Amata) Boleyn, Lady Calthorpe (died c. 1543), English noblewoman, sister of Thomas Boleyn and aunt of Queen Anne Boleyn; married Sir Philip Calthorpe in 1518, governess to Princess Mary from 1521, often misnamed Jane in pedigrees.

Amy Brenneman

Amy Brenneman (Amy Frederica Brenneman, born 1964) is an American actress and producer known for NYPD Blue's Janice Licalsi, co-creating and starring in Judging Amy, and roles in Private Practice, The Leftovers, and The Old Man.

Amy C. Rosenzweig

Amy C. Rosenzweig, also published as A. C. Rosenzweig, is an American bioinorganic chemist and structural biologist at Northwestern University known for her studies of methane-oxidizing enzymes.

Amy Carlson

Amy Lynn Carlson, American actress born 1968 in Glen Ellyn, Illinois; played Josie Watts on Another World, Alex Taylor on Third Watch, and Linda Reagan on Blue Bloods, later Jackie Ward on FBI: Most Wanted and Captain Pearson on Smoke.

Amy Carlson (religious leader)

Amy Carlson, known as Mother God, was an American who founded the new religious movement Love Has Won in Colorado; her mummified remains were found in 2021.

Amy Carmichael

Amy Carmichael, fully Amy Beatrice Carmichael, was a Belfast-born Protestant missionary who spent 55 years in south India, founding the Dohnavur Fellowship to shelter children.

Amy Carter

Amy Lynn Carter (born 1967, Plains, Georgia), only daughter of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, White House child 1977-1981, Senate page 1982, anti-apartheid and CIA-recruiting protester arrested 1985 and 1986, later art historian in Atlanta.

Amy Chai

Amy Chai is an American physician and Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Connecticut's 1st District in 2026, facing Democrat Luke Bronin; she previously ran as an Independent in 2022.

Amy Childs

Amy Childs, English reality TV personality and beauty entrepreneur born 1990 in Brentwood, Essex; original TOWIE cast member 2010, salon, clothing and tanning businesses, Amy Child's Academy, TOWIE return 2020, married Billy Delbosq.

Amy Chow

Amy Yuen-Yee Chow (born 1978), American gymnast of the Magnificent Seven, 1996 Olympic team gold and bars silver medalist, 2000 retroactive team bronze, later a Stanford-trained pediatrician.

Amy Chua

Amy Chua (born 1962) is the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School and author of World on Fire and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, the 2011 memoir that popularized 'Tiger Mom' parenting and sparked global debate.

Amy Coney Barrett

Amy Coney Barrett, US Supreme Court associate justice since October 2020 (Ginsburg seat), former Notre Dame Law professor and Seventh Circuit judge, Scalia clerk, originalist and textualist, confirmed 52–48.

Amy Cuddy

Amy Cuddy, American social psychologist, Princeton PhD 2005, Harvard Business School 2004–2016. Co-developer of the Stereotype Content Model; known for power posing, her 2012 TED talk, and the replication debate over its hormonal claims.

Amy D. Klion

Amy D. Klion is an American physician-scientist at NIH's NIAID who studies eosinophils and hypereosinophilic syndromes, and led the 2019 New England Journal of Medicine benralizumab trial.

Amy Dapper

Amy Dapper is an American evolutionary geneticist and Associate Professor at Mississippi State University who studies how genetic variation and recombination evolve across animal species.

Amy De Bhrún

Amy De Bhrún (born 1984, Dublin) is an Irish actress and writer, known as Steph Corbett in Line of Duty, DI Aoife Regan in Borderline, and Abigail Whithall in Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale, plus Jason Bourne and six one-woman stage shows.

Amy Dowden

Amy Dowden (born 1990, Caerphilly) is a Welsh professional ballroom and Latin dancer, first Welsh professional on Strictly Come Dancing from 2017, runner-up with Karim Zeroual in 2019, and an MBE-recognized Crohn's disease and breast cancer advocate.

Amy Dunne

Amy Elliott Dunne is the fictional antagonist of Gillian Flynn's 2012 novel Gone Girl and its 2014 David Fincher film, played by Rosamund Pike; she fakes her disappearance to frame husband Nick, and her Cool Girl monologue shaped domestic noir fiction.