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Andoni Iraola

Andoni Iraola Sagarna, Spanish manager and ex-Athletic right-back; coached Rayo Vallecano and Bournemouth, taking the Cherries to Europe, before becoming Liverpool head coach in June 2026, succeeding Arne Slot.

Andoni Zubizarreta

Andoni Zubizarreta (born 1961), Spanish goalkeeper and sporting director; 126 Spain caps, 622 La Liga games, 1992 European Cup with Barcelona; later sporting director of Barcelona, Marseille, and Porto.

Andor

Andor is a Disney+ Star Wars political thriller created by Tony Gilroy, starring Diego Luna as Cassian Andor; a two-season prequel to Rogue One (2022, 2025) that won five Emmys and a Peabody Award.

Andorra

Andorra (Principat d'Andorra) is a Pyrenean microstate between France and Spain, a parliamentary co-principality headed by the Bishop of Urgell and France's president, founded by the 1278 pariatge, with a 1993 constitution and a tourism- and banking-based euroized economy.

Andorra la Vella

Andorra la Vella, capital of the Principality of Andorra and Europe's highest capital (about 1,023–1,050 m), most populous parish (24,860 in 2026), seat of the historic Casa de la Vall parliament and a Pyrenean shopping hub.

Andorra national football team

Andorra national football team (Selecció de futbol d'Andorra): men's team of the Pyrenean microstate, FAF founded 1994, FIFA/UEFA member 1996, first competitive win 1-0 over North Macedonia in 2004, never qualified for a major tournament.

Andorran peseta

The Andorran peseta was a 1936 issue of banknotes authorized by Andorra's General Council, in a country using Spanish and French money until the euro in 2002.

Andot

Andot ("manure pellets") is a two-row mancala board game of the Bega (Beja) people of the Red Sea Hills in Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea; 2x6 board, four camel-dung counters per hole, first described by T. R. H. Owen in 1938.

Andouille

Andouille: a French cooked pork charcuterie of intestines and stomach (Vire, Guémené) and, in Louisiana, a coarse smoked, garlic-and-cayenne pork sausage central to Cajun gumbo and jambalaya.

Andouillette

Andouillette is a French cooked charcuterie sausage made from pork or veal intestines and stomach, strongly associated with Troyes, Cambrai, and Lyon and usually served grilled.

Andover, Hampshire

Andover, Hampshire: market town in the Test Valley on the River Anton, Saxon royal site from 950, Domesday six mills, home of the Museum of the Iron Age and Danebury finds.

Andover, Massachusetts

Andover, Massachusetts: Essex County town about 23 miles north of Boston, population 36,569 (2020), incorporated 1646, home of Phillips Academy (1770), governed by open town meeting with a town manager.

Andøya Space

Andøya Space, formerly the Andøya Rocket Range and later Andøya Space Center, is a Norwegian aerospace company founded in 1962 that operates sounding-rocket launches and the Andøya Spaceport.

Andra

Andra, stage name of Alexandra Irina Mihai, is a Romanian pop singer born in 1986 who has released 11 albums since 2001 and won Best Romanian Act at the 2016 MTV Europe Music Awards.

Andra Day

Andra Day, born Cassandra Monique Batie (1984), is an American soul/R&B singer and actress. Known for "Rise Up" (2015) and her Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated Billie Holiday in The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021); albums Cheers to the Fall and CASSANDRA (cherith).

Andra Soni

Andra Soni is an Indonesian politician who has served as Governor of Banten since 2025, elected in 2024 with running mate Achmad Dimyati Natakusumah for the 2025 to 2030 term.

Andrade El Idolo

Andrade El Idolo (Manuel Alfonso Andrade Oropeza, born 1989) is a Mexican luchador, formerly La Sombra in CMLL and Los Ingobernables founder; NXT and WWE United States Champion, now in AEW's Don Callis Family and reigning AEW National Champion.

Andradite

Andradite is a calcium-iron garnet mineral, Ca₃Fe₂(SiO₄)₃, named in 1868 for José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva and best known for its green gem variety, demantoid.

Andraé Crouch

Andraé Crouch (1942–2015), American gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, and pastor; pioneer of contemporary gospel; seven Grammys, Oscar nomination for The Color Purple, vocal arranger for Man in the Mirror and Like a Prayer, pastor of Christ Memorial COGIC in Los Angeles.

Andragogy

Andragogy, or adult learning theory, is the art and science of helping adults learn. Coined by Alexander Kapp in 1833 and popularized by Malcolm Knowles from 1968, it rests on assumptions that adults are self-directed, experienced, and internally motivated learners.

Andrall E. Pearson

Andrall E. Pearson was an American business executive, president of PepsiCo from 1971 to 1984, who came out of retirement to found Tricon Global Restaurants, later Yum! Brands.

Andranik Ozanian

Andranik Ozanian (Անդրանիկ Օզանյան), known simply as Andranik, was an Armenian fedayi commander and national hero, born in 1865 and active until his death in 1927.

András Baka

András Baka (Baka András, born 1952) is a Hungarian jurist, former first Hungarian judge at the European Court of Human Rights (1991-2008) and Supreme Court president removed early in 2012, whose ECtHR case became a landmark; President of Hungary since 19 August 2026.

András Bàrdossy

András Bárdossy, born 1954 in Budapest, is a Hungarian hydrologist, professor at the University of Stuttgart since 1995, and winner of the 2006 Henry Darcy Medal.

Andras Baronyi

András Baronyi (1892–1944), Hungarian swimmer and athlete, set the first official 100 m breaststroke world record in 1907 and a 100 m backstroke record in 1911; not the runner András Bárány or the footballer.

Andras Bodnar

Andras Bodnar (born 1942) is a Hungarian water polo player and surgeon who won four Olympic medals, including gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and was later inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

András Fáy

András Fáy, born Fáy András (1786–1864), was a Hungarian writer, lawyer, and politician of the Reform Era, known as the Hungarian Aesop and founder of Hungary's first savings bank.

András Gyárfás

András Gyárfás is a Hungarian mathematician and Research Professor Emeritus at the HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics in Budapest, known for founding χ-boundedness and the Gyárfás–Sumner conjecture.

András Hadik

András Hadik (1710–1790) was a Hungarian field marshal in Habsburg service, best known for his 1757 raid that seized and ransomed Berlin during the Seven Years' War, and later President of the Vienna Hofkriegsrat.

András Hajnal

András Hajnal (1931–2016) was a Hungarian mathematician widely viewed as a founder of combinatorial set theory, known for the Erdős–Hajnal conjecture and the Hajnal–Szemerédi theorem.