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Anastasius III

Anastasius III, a Roman and son of Lutianus, was the 120th pope, reigning from 911 until his death in 913; his one accepted authentic act was a 912 pallium grant to the bishop of Vercelli.

Anastasius IV

Anastasius IV, born Corrado, was the 168th pope, reigning from July 1153 to December 1154; he settled the Magdeburg and York disputes and restored the Pantheon.

Anastasiya Davydova

Anastasiya Davydova is a Russian former synchronized swimmer who won five Olympic gold medals from 2004 to 2012 and later became a coach and sports administrator.

Anastasiya Kozhenkova

Anastasiya Kozhenkova (Анастасія Коженкова), Ukrainian rower born 1986 in Kovel; Olympic champion women's quadruple sculls London 2012; world champion 2009; competed at Rio 2016 and Paris 2024.

Anastasiya Maksimova

Anastasiya Maksimova (Анастасия Ивановна Максимова), born 1991 in Petrozavodsk, is a retired Russian rhythmic gymnast, group specialist: Olympic gold Rio 2016 and silver Tokyo 2020, world all-around champion 2015 and 2019.

Anastasiya Nazarenko

Anastasiya Nazarenko (Анастасия Назаренко), born 1993, Russian rhythmic gymnast; Olympic group all-around gold at London 2012, world and European group medalist, later a coach in New York.

Anastasiya Pavlova

Anastasiya Pavlova (Анастасія Павлова), Ukrainian recurve archer born 1995 in Nova Kakhovka; two-time Olympian (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020), 2016 European team champion, 2023 European Games record holder, 7th at 2025 Worlds.

Anastasiya Spas

Anastasiya Spas (Анастасія Юріївна Спас), born 1993 in Artemivsk, Ukraine, is a modern pentathlete; 2010 Youth Olympic mixed relay gold and individual bronze, 2014 European champion with Tereshchuk, 29th at Rio 2016.

Anastasiya Tatareva

Anastasiya Tatareva (Анастасия Татарева), born 1997 in Yekaterinburg, Russian rhythmic group gymnast; Olympic gold Rio 2016 and silver Tokyo 2020, three-time world and two-time European group all-around champion.

Anastasiya Tsyganova

Anastasiya Tsyganova (Анастасия Владимировна Цыганова), Russian skeleton athlete born 2003 in Shchyokino; won girls' skeleton gold at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics; junior world champion, Master of Sports of Russia; distinct from the tennis player of the same name.

Anastasiya Yermakova

Anastasiya Yermakova is a Russian synchronized swimmer, born in Moscow in 1983, who won four Olympic golds in duet and team at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.

Anastassia Alexandrova

Anastassia N. Alexandrova is an American theoretical and computational chemist at UCLA, where she holds the Charles W. Clifford Jr. Chair and directs an NSF center on molecular qubits.

Anastazja Kuś

Anastazja Kuś (born 2007, Olsztyn) is a Polish 400 m sprinter for AZS UWM Olsztyn, world U20 champion 2026 (51.06 Polish U20 record), European U18 champion 2024, and youngest Polish Olympian at Paris 2024.

Anastomosing hemangioma

Anastomosing hemangioma (anastomosing haemangioma) is a rare benign capillary-type vascular tumor first described in 2009, occurring mainly in the kidney, retroperitoneum, and ovary, with GNAQ/GNA14 mutations and an angiosarcoma-like histology.

Anastomosis

Anastomosis: a surgical connection between tubular structures such as blood vessels or intestine. Covers types (intestinal, vascular), end-to-end/side-to-side/end-to-side configurations, complications, history from Carrel to robotics.

Anastomotic urethroplasty

Anastomotic urethroplasty, also called excision and primary anastomosis (EPA), treats urethral stricture by cutting out the narrowed segment and joining the healthy urethral ends without tension.

Anastrepha fraterculus

Anastrepha fraterculus, the South American fruit fly (Wiedemann, 1830), is a tephritid pest complex of eight cryptic morphotypes ranging from southern Texas to Argentina, attacking over 160 crop species and managed with toxic baits, mass trapping, SIT, and parasitoids.

Anastrepha ludens

Anastrepha ludens, the Mexican fruit fly (mexfly), a tephritid fruit fly pest of citrus and mango from Mexico to Panama; quarantined in Texas and California, controlled by sterile insect releases.

Anastrepha obliqua

Anastrepha obliqua, the West Indian fruit fly (West Indian fruit fly, Antillean fruit fly), is a tephritid fruit fly from Mexico and the West Indies to northern Argentina, a major mango and Spondias pest, EPPO A1 quarantine pest, distinguished by aculeus serrations on over two-thirds of the tip.

Anastrepha suspensa

Anastrepha suspensa (Caribbean fruit fly) is a West Indies tephritid fruit fly whose larvae develop inside tropical and subtropical fruits. It is an economic and quarantine pest in central America, the Caribbean, and Florida.

Anastrozole

Anastrozole (Arimidex) is a nonsteroidal third-generation aromatase inhibitor, 1 mg daily, approved in the US in 1995 for postmenopausal hormone receptor-positive breast cancer and studied for prevention.

Anasuya (अनसूया)

Anasuya (अनसूया), also Anusuya or Sati Anusuya, is a revered sage's wife in Hindu tradition, wife of the sage Atri and mother of the gods Dattatreya, Durvasa, and Soma.

Anasuya Bharadwaj (అనసూయ భరద్వాజ్)

Anasuya Bharadwaj (అనసూయ భరద్వాజ్), born 1985 in Hyderabad, is a Telugu television presenter and actress known for Jabardasth hosting, Kshanam, Rangasthalam, and the Pushpa films, with Filmfare, SIIMA, and Zee Cine awards.

Anasuya Sarabhai (અનસૂયા સરાભાઈ)

Anasuya Sarabhai (અનસૂયા સરાભાઈ, 1885–1972), 'Motaben', Ahmedabad-born pioneer of India's women's labour movement; led the 1917–18 textile strikes and founded the Majoor Mahajan Sangh (Textile Labour Association) in 1920, not to be confused with other Sarabhai family members such as Vikram Sarabhai.

Anasyrma

Anasyrma (ἀνάσυρμα), the ritual lifting of the skirt to expose the genitals, an apotropaic and fertility gesture in Greek, Egyptian, and Near Eastern religion, known from the Baubo myth, Herodotus's Bubastis account, and anasyromene figurines.

Anat

Anat (Anath, Anatu; Ugaritic 'nt) is a Northwest Semitic goddess of war and love, sister and consort of Baal in the Ugaritic myths, adopted into Egypt under Ramesses II, later fused into Atargatis.

Anat Ashkenazi (ענת אשכנזי)

Anat Ashkenazi (ענת אשכנזי) is a corporate finance executive who served as Eli Lilly's CFO from 2021 to 2024 and became Alphabet and Google's CFO in July 2024.

Anat Stemmer‐Rachamimov

Anat Stemmer-Rachamimov, also published as Anat O. Stemmer-Rachamimov, is a neuropathologist and Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for research on neurofibromatosis.

Anat-her

Anat-her, also written Anat-har or Anather, is a poorly attested ruler of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, known from a single scarab and possibly the first 16th Dynasty king.

Anatase

Anatase is a tetragonal mineral form of titanium dioxide, named in 1801, metastable at large grain sizes and transforming to rutile on heating around 600–700 °C.