edgepedia

All articles A–Z

519,064 articles

Andras Hargitay

Andras Hargitay (Hargitay András), Hungarian swimmer born 1956 in Budapest, nicknamed Hares: 1972 Olympic 400 IM bronze, world champion 1973 and 1975, former 400 IM world record holder, later veterinarian and national coach.

András Kármán

András Kármán is a Hungarian economist and Tisza Párt politician serving as Minister of Finance, after careers at the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, the EBRD, and Erste Bank.

András Kis

András Kis, born 1975 in Zagreb, is a Hungarian physicist and electrical engineer who leads the Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures at EPFL in Switzerland.

Andras Nagy

Andras Nagy (András Nagy) is a Hungarian-born Canadian stem cell biologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto who derived Canada's first human embryonic stem cell lines.

András Prékopa

András Prékopa (1929–2016) was a Hungarian mathematician and operations researcher who founded the theory of log-concave probability measures, formulated chance-constrained programming with stochastic dependence, and taught at Rutgers.

András Sárközy

András Sárközy is a Hungarian mathematician in analytic and combinatorial number theory, an emeritus professor at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and winner of the 2010 Széchenyi Prize.

Andras Sike

Andras Sike (Sike András), born 1965 in Eger, is a Hungarian Greco-Roman wrestler, 57 kg bantamweight Olympic champion at Seoul 1988, later Ferencváros coach and Hungarian national Greco-Roman head coach 2015–2021.

Andras Szekely

Andras Szekely (András Székely, born Szmuk András, 1910–1943), Hungarian freestyle swimmer; 1932 Olympic 4x200m freestyle relay bronze, 1931 European relay gold and 100m silver; murdered at Chernihiv labor camp.

András Vasy

András Vasy is a Hungarian-born mathematician at Stanford known for his 2013 microlocal framework for Laplacian resolvents and the 2018 proof of Kerr-de Sitter black hole stability.

Andras Wanie

András Wanié (Wanie), Hungarian swimmer and water polo player (1911–1976) of Szeged; 1932 Olympic 4x200 m freestyle relay bronze medalist, 1931 European champion, world and European record holder, later national head coach 1940–1943.

Andray Blatche

Andray Blatche, born 1986 in Syracuse, is an American basketball forward-center drafted 49th overall by the Wizards in 2005; 9 NBA seasons (Wizards, Nets), then naturalized Filipino Gilas player at the 2014 and 2019 FIBA World Cups.

Andraya Carter

Andraya Nichole Carter, born 1993, is an ESPN basketball host, analyst, and reporter covering NBA, WNBA, NCAAW, and NCAAM, and a former Tennessee Lady Vols guard whose playing career ended in 2016 due to injuries.

André 3000

André 3000 (André Lauren Benjamin, born 1975) is an Atlanta rapper, flutist, and actor, one half of OutKast; debut solo album New Blue Sun (2023) and EP 7 Piano Sketches (2025).

André Aciman

André Aciman (born 1951, Alexandria) is an Egyptian-American novelist, memoirist, and CUNY comparative literature professor, author of Call Me by Your Name and Out of Egypt, known for themes of exile, memory, and desire.

Andre Agassi

Andre Agassi (born 1970, Las Vegas), American tennis player, eight-time Grand Slam champion and 1996 Olympic gold medalist; career Golden Slam winner, 101 weeks at world No. 1, rival of Pete Sampras (20-14), married to Steffi Graf, retired 2006.

Andre Auffray

Andre Auffray (Alexandre Offray, 1884-1953), French track cyclist for Velo Club de Levallois; won 1908 Olympic tandem sprint gold with Maurice Schilles in 3:07.6 and 5,000 m bronze.

André Ayew

André Ayew, also known as André Morgan Rami Ayew, is a Ghanaian footballer, son of Abédi Pelé, who starred for Marseille and Swansea City and holds Ghana's appearance record.

André B. Charette

André B. Charette, born 1961 in Montréal, is a Canadian organic chemist and professor at the Université de Montréal known for organozinc chemistry and the widely used Charette asymmetric cyclopropanation of allylic alcohols.

Andre B. Mathis

Andre B. Mathis, born 1980, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2022, appointed by President Biden.

André Balazs

André Balazs, born 1957 in Boston, is an American hotelier and real estate developer who founded the Standard hotel chain, owns the Chateau Marmont, and heads André Balazs Properties.

André Baranne

André Baranne was a French optical designer at the Observatoire de Marseille who designed the ELODIE spectrograph used to discover the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star.

André Bardow

André Bardow is a German energy and process systems engineer who has been a professor at ETH Zurich since 2020, researching CO2 as a carbon source for plastics and fuels.

André Bazex

André Bazex (1911–1988) was a French dermatologist and professor of dermatology at the University of Toulouse, known for two eponymous syndromes he described in the 1960s.

André Beauneveu

André Beauneveu, also spelled Adrien Beauneveu, was a sculptor and painter from Valenciennes who served the courts of France, Flanders, and Berry in the late 1300s.

Andre Berto

Andre Berto (born 1983, Miami) is a Haitian-American boxer, two-time welterweight world champion (WBC 2008-2011, IBF 2011), 2004 Haitian Olympian, record 32-5 with 24 KOs.

André Besnier

André Besnier was a French cheesemaker who founded a dairy in Laval, France, in 1933, making camemberts under the Le Petit Lavallois brand; it grew into Lactalis.

Andre Birotte, Jr.

Andre Birotte, Jr. is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2014, nominated by President Barack Obama.

André Bjerke

André Bjerke (Jarl André Bjerke, 1918–1985) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, and translator who wrote crime fiction under the pseudonym Bernhard Borge, including De dødes tjern.

Andre Blake

Andre Blake (born 1990, May Pen, Jamaica) is a Jamaican goalkeeper for Philadelphia Union; first overall pick of the 2014 MLS SuperDraft and three-time MLS Goalkeeper of the Year (2016, 2020, 2022).

André Bloch (mathematician)

André Bloch (1893–1948) was a French complex analyst who, confined for 31 years in the Saint-Maurice psychiatric hospital after killing three relatives in 1917, produced Bloch's theorem and the Bloch constant.