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Anand Ram Mukhlis
Anand Ram Mukhlis (آنند رام مخلص) was a Khatri courtier, secretary, poet, and historian of Mughal Delhi who died in 1751 and wrote in Persian under the pen name Mukhlis.
Anand Sahib
Anand Sahib (ਅਨੰਦ ਸਾਹਿਬ), the hymn of bliss, is a Sikh liturgical prayer of 40 stanzas composed by Guru Amar Das, recited to conclude ceremonies from birth to death.
Anand Satyanand
Sir Anand Satyanand (born 1944) is a New Zealand lawyer, judge, and ombudsman who served as the 19th Governor-General from 2006 to 2011, the first of Indian and Pacific ancestry.
Anand Subbaraj
Anand Subbaraj is a technology executive who leads Zuper, a field service management software company, as CEO since 2020 after 13 years at Microsoft, where he led Azure Data product work.
Anand Swaroop
Anand Swaroop is a vision researcher who discovered the NRL gene and serves as Chief of the Neurobiology-Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory at the National Eye Institute, NIH.
Anand Tiwari (आनंद तिवारी)
Anand Tiwari (आनंद तिवारी), born 1983 in Mumbai, is an Indian actor, director and producer known for Love Per Square Foot, Bandish Bandits, Maja Ma, Bad Newz, and acting roles in Go Goa Gone and Udaan.
Anand Vihar Terminal railway station (आनंद विहार टर्मिनल रेलवे स्टेशन)
Anand Vihar Terminal railway station (code ANVT) is a Northern Railway terminal station in East Delhi, inaugurated in December 2009 to relieve congestion at New Delhi and Old Delhi.
Ananda
Ananda (आनन्द), a first cousin of the Buddha, served as his personal attendant for 25 years and recited the Sutta Pitaka at the First Council after the Buddha's death.
Ananda Chandra Agarwala
Ananda Chandra Agarwala (আনন্দ চন্দ্ৰ আগৰৱালা, 1874–1940) was an Assamese poet known as Bhangoni Kunwor, the "Prince of Translation", and a leading Jonaki Era writer.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
Ananda Coomaraswamy, also known as Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, was a Ceylonese-born geologist, art historian, and philosopher who pioneered the study of Indian art in the West.
Ananda Devi
Ananda Devi is a Mauritian novelist and poet who writes in French and won the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, awarded in October 2023.
Ananda Goldrath
Ananda Goldrath is an American immunologist known for her work on memory CD8 T cells, a professor at UC San Diego and, from 2023, leader of the Allen Institute for Immunology.
Ananda Krishnan (தத்பராநந்தம் ஆநந்தகிருஷ்ணன்)
Ananda Krishnan, also known as Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan, was a Malaysian billionaire businessman who founded Maxis, Astro, and MEASAT and died in Switzerland in 2024 at 86.
Ananda L. Roy
Ananda L. Roy is a molecular biologist who discovered the transcription factor TFII-I, reported in Nature in 1991, and manages NIH programs on cellular senescence and the 4D Nucleome.
Ananda Lewis
Ananda Lewis (1973–2025), American TV host and journalist, hosted BET's Teen Summit, was an MTV veejay on TRL and Hot Zone, led The Ananda Lewis Show in 2001, and died of breast cancer at 52.
Ananda Mahidol (อานันทมหิดล)
Ananda Mahidol (อานันทมหิดล), King Rama VIII of Thailand, reigned 1935–1946 after Prajadhipok's abdication, mostly from Switzerland. He died of a gunshot on 9 June 1946; three servants were executed in a flawed trial.
Ananda Marga
Ananda Marga, or Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgha, is a socio-spiritual movement founded by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar in Bihar, India, in 1955, combining tantric meditation with the PROUT philosophy.
Ananda Puraskar
Ananda Puraskar (আনন্দ পুরস্কার) is a private Bengali literary award instituted in 1958 by the Anandabazar Patrika group of Calcutta, honoring one notable work of fiction, non-fiction, memoir, or essays by leading Bengali writers.
Ananda Temple
The Ananda Temple, known in Sanskrit as Anantapanni, is a Buddhist temple at Old Bagan, Myanmar, built under King Kyansittha in the late 11th or early 12th century.
Ānanda Vanaratana
Ānanda Vanaratana (आनन्दवनरतन), also Vanaratana Tissa, was a Theravada elder of Ceylon who headed the Vanavāsi forest fraternity, wrote the Mūlatīkā on Buddhaghosa's Abhidhamma commentaries, and taught Culla-Dhammapāla.
Ananda Vikatan
Ananda Vikatan (ஆனந்த விகடன்) is a Tamil-language weekly magazine published in Chennai, begun in 1926 and relaunched by S.S. Vasan, who made it a model for Tamil journals.
Anandabhairava rasa
Anandabhairava rasa (Anand Bhairav Ras), a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral Kharaliya formulation from Bhaishajya Ratnavali containing purified cinnabar and Aconitum ferox, used mainly for fever and diarrhea, with 12 recorded variants.
Ānandagiri
Ānandagiri (आनन्दगिरि), also known as Ānandajñāna, was an Advaita Vedanta scholar of about 1300 who wrote subcommentaries on Shankara's commentaries on the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-gita, and the Brahma-sutra.
Anandamath (আনন্দমঠ)
Anandamath (আনন্দমঠ), Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1882 Bengali historical novel set in the 1770 Bengal famine and Sannyasi rebellion; source of Vande Mataram, India's National Song, and a foundational text of Indian nationalism.
Anandamayi Ma (আনন্দময়ী মা)
Anandamayi Ma (আনন্দময়ী মা), born Nirmala Sundari in 1896 in what is now Bangladesh, was a Bengali holy woman revered as a divine embodiment until her death in 1982.
Anandamide
Anandamide (AEA, N-arachidonoylethanolamine), the first discovered endocannabinoid (1992), is a lipid partial agonist of CB1/CB2 and TRPV1, made from NAPE via NAPE-PLD and degraded by FAAH.
Anandamohan Bose
Anandamohan Bose (আনন্দমোহন বসু, 1847–1906) was an Indian lawyer, educator, and nationalist leader, the first Indian Wrangler at Cambridge and a co-founder of the Indian Association.
Anandapala
Anandapala (آنندپال) was a Hindu Shahi ruler of the Kabul Valley and Punjab from about 1002 to 1011 who led the dynasty's last great coalition against Mahmud of Ghazni, losing the Battle of Chach in 1008–09.
Anandaraj (ஆனந்தராஜ்)
Anandaraj (ஆனந்தராஜ்), Anandaraj Selvaraj, Indian Tamil film actor known for villain roles; debuted in Oruvar Vaazhum Aalayam (1988), known for Baashha, Suryavamsam, later comedy character roles and politics.
Anandavardhana
Anandavardhana (आनन्दवर्धन) was a ninth-century Kashmiri poet and critic at the court of King Avantivarman, whose Dhvanyaloka founded the dhvani theory of suggestion in Sanskrit poetics.