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An Yin

An Yin (1959–2023) was a Chinese-born structural geologist and UCLA professor, regarded as the world's leading authority on the Indo-Asian collision that formed the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau.

An Yu

An Yu, also known as An Hyang (안향), was a Goryeo civil official and Confucian scholar (1243–1306) who brought Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism to Korea from Yuan in 1289, laying the groundwork for Joseon's Confucian order.

An Yu-jin

An Yu-jin (안유진, born 2003) is a South Korean singer, IVE's leader and former IZ*ONE member from Produce 48, also an MC of SBS Gayo Daejeon and Earth Arcade cast member.

An Zhisheng

An Zhisheng (安芷生, born 1941) is a Chinese Quaternary geologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Xi'an, known for his work on the Chinese loess and the Asian monsoon.

AN-94 (АН-94 «Абака́н»)

The AN-94, also known as the AN-94 Abakan, is a Russian 5.45×39 mm service rifle designed by Gennadiy Nikonov, with a distinctive high-rate two-round burst.

An-Chang Shi

An-Chang Shi is a Canadian theoretical physicist and professor at McMaster University, known for work on self-assembly in soft matter, especially the phases and phase transitions of block copolymers.

An-My Lê

An-My Lê is a Vietnamese American photographer, born in Saigon in 1960, whose large-format work examines war through reenactments, military training grounds, and the Museum of Modern Art's 2023 survey Between Two Rivers.

An-Nasir Yusuf

An-Nasir Yusuf (الناصر يوسف) was the last Ayyubid ruler of Syria, governing Aleppo from 1236 and Damascus from 1250, and unifying the Syrian Ayyubid principalities before his death in 1260.

An-Nisa, 34

An-Nisa 34 (Quran 4:34), the contested verse on qawwamah, nushuz, and daraba: classical tafsir read it as permitting a husband to strike a rebellious wife, while modern exegetes and feminist scholars reinterpret its key terms.

An‐Wen Chan

An-Wen Chan is a Canadian clinical epidemiologist and dermatologist at the University of Toronto known for research on outcome reporting bias in trials and for chairing the SPIRIT protocol guidelines.

An'ei eruption of Mount Sakurajima

The An'ei eruption of Mount Sakurajima (安永噴火) was a large flank eruption that began in 1779 in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, killing about 150 people and creating the An'ei Islands.

AN/FPQ-16 PARCS

AN/FPQ-16 PARCS (Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System) is a phased-array radar at Cavalier Space Force Station, North Dakota, providing missile warning and tracking over half of orbiting objects.

AN/PEQ-15

The AN/PEQ-15, also known as the Advanced Target Pointer Illuminator Aiming Laser (ATPIAL), is a weapon-mounted laser with infrared aiming beams for use with night vision devices.

AN/PEQ-16

The AN/PEQ-16, formally the Integrated Pointer/Illuminator Module, is a US military laser aiming and illumination module by Insight Technology that succeeded the AN/PEQ-15, with over 250,000 units produced.

AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System

The AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System, or LaWS, is a 30-kilowatt US Navy laser that in 2014 became the first deployed aboard a Navy ship, on USS Ponce.

AN/SPY-1

The AN/SPY-1 is a US Navy S-band phased-array radar serving as the primary sensor of the Aegis Combat System, first deployed in 1983 on Ticonderoga-class cruisers and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.

AN/SPY-6

AN/SPY-6, also called SPY-6, is a family of Raytheon-built shipboard radars the United States Navy uses for air and missile defense on seven ship classes.

AN/TWQ-1 Avenger

The AN/TWQ-1 Avenger, also known as the Avenger missile system, is an American short-range air defense system carrying eight Stinger missiles and a .50-caliber machine gun on a HMMWV, fielded since 1990.

AN21

AN21, the professional name of Antoine Josefsson (born 1989), is a Greek-Swedish DJ and producer who released the album People of the Night (2012) with Max Vangeli.

Ana Anderson

Ana Anderson, who publishes as Ana C. Anderson, is an immunologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard known for identifying Tim-3 as a regulator of T cell dysfunction in cancer.

ANA Avatar XPRIZE

The ANA Avatar XPRIZE was a $10 million global competition run by XPRIZE and sponsored by All Nippon Airways from 2018 to 2022, won by NimbRo of Bonn, Germany.

Ana Bárbara

Ana Bárbara (Altagracia Ugalde Motta, born 1971), Mexican singer-songwriter called La Reina Grupera; 1990s grupero star, 2005 Latin Grammy for Loca de Amar, hit Bandido, 2026 career pause.

Ana Bárbara y Sonora Santanera

Ana Bárbara y Sonora Santanera was a 2025 double bill pairing the grupera singer Ana Bárbara with the cumbia orchestra Sonora Santanera at the Feria de San Marcos.

Ana Belén

Ana Belén, born María del Pilar Cuesta Acosta, is a Spanish singer, actress, and director from Madrid whose career spans more than sixty years of pop music and film.

Ana Brenda Contreras

Ana Brenda Contreras (born 1986, McAllen, Texas) is a Mexican-American actress and singer, T'detila pop group member from Pop Stars, known for Teresa, La que no podía amar, Corazón indomable, and Dynasty's Cristal Jennings.

Ana Brnabić (Ана Брнабић)

Ana Brnabić (Ана Брнабић), Serbian SNS politician, prime minister 2017–2024, National Assembly Speaker, and acting President of Serbia since 28 September 2026 after Aleksandar Vučić's resignation.

Ana C. Reyes

Ana Cecilia Reyes, born 1974 in Uruguay, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the District of Columbia since 2023, appointed by President Biden.

Ana Cabrera

Ana Cabrera (born 1982, Denver) is an American TV news anchor, Emmy winner for 2012 High Park Fire coverage, CNN correspondent and anchor 2013-2022, and MSNBC/MS NOW host of Ana Cabrera Reports from April 2023 to June 2026.

Ana Castela

Ana Castela, born Ana Flávia Castela and known as Boiadeira, is a Brazilian sertanejo and agronejo singer from Mato Grosso do Sul who broke through with "Pipoco" in 2022.

Ana Catarina Mendes

Ana Catarina Mendes, born in Coimbra in 1973, is a Portuguese Socialist Party politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2024.