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André F. Cournand

André F. Cournand, full name André Frédéric Cournand, was a French-born American physician who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing cardiac catheterization.

Andre Fili

Andre "Touchy" Fili (born 1990) is an American UFC featherweight from Federal Way, Washington, training at Team Alpha Male; pro record 26-14, UFC 14-13-1 NC, known for alternating wins and losses.

André François-Poncet

André François-Poncet is a French growth-equity investor who joined Partech in Paris in 2015 and became Partner in 2022, known for investments including Made.com, Brandwatch, Brevo, and EcoVadis.

André Franke

André Franke (born 1978) is a German geneticist and professor at Kiel University known for identifying genetic risk loci for Crohn's disease and chronic inflammatory diseases.

Andre Fuller

Andre Fuller (born 2002, Loxahatchee, FL) is a Seattle Seahawks cornerback drafted 236th overall in 2026 out of Toledo after Arkansas-Pine Bluff; first-team All-MAC in 2025 with an 81.7 PFF grade.

André Galvão

André Galvão (Deco), born 1982, Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitor and coach; six-time ADCC and six-time IBJJF World Champion, founder of Atos Jiu-Jitsu in San Diego; not the Portuguese writer Henrique Galvão.

Andre Garcia (footballer)

Andre Garcia (born 2007) is an English left-back and left winger, a Reading academy graduate who joined Club Brugge in February 2026 and plays for Club Brugge NXT; distinct from Spanish right-back Andrés García Robledo of Aston Villa.

Andre Geim

Sir Andre Konstantin Geim, born 1958, is a Dutch-British physicist at the University of Manchester who co-isolated graphene and shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.

André Gide

André Gide (1869-1951), French novelist, essayist, and diarist; Nobel Laureate in Literature 1947; author of Les Nourritures terrestres, L'Immoraliste, Corydon, and Les Faux-monnayeurs; co-founder of the NRF.

André Giraud

André Giraud (1925–1997) was a French engineer and senior official who led the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique and served as minister of industry and later minister of defense.

André Gobert

André Gobert (Henry Maurice André Gobert, 1890-1951), French tennis player, double gold medalist in indoor singles and doubles at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, 1911 Wimbledon doubles champion with Max Decugis, and 1919 World Covered Court champion.

André Gomes

André Gomes (André Filipe Tavares Gomes, born 1993, Grijó, Portugal), Portuguese central midfielder; Benfica, Valencia, Barcelona (2016, 35M+20M), Everton (2019, 25M), Lille loan and return, Columbus Crew from 2026; Euro 2016 winner. Not the Benfica goalkeeper or Wolves' Andre.

André Gratia

André Gratia (1893–1950) was a Belgian microbiologist, professor at the University of Liège, who isolated the first staphylococcal bacteriophage in 1921 and discovered colicins, the first known bacteriocins, in 1925.

Andre Gray

Andre Gray (Andre Anthony Gray, born 1991, Shrewsbury) is an English-born Jamaican centre-forward; Championship Golden Boot 2016 with Burnley, 115 Premier League appearances, 13 Jamaica caps, later clubs include Watford, Aris, Al-Riyadh, Plymouth, Fatih Karagümrük, Port Vale.

André Gregory

André Gregory (born 1934, Paris) is a French-born American theater director and actor, founder of the Manhattan Project, best known for My Dinner with André (1981) with Wallace Shawn and Louis Malle.

André Guedes

André Guedes is a physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Flomics Biotech in Barcelona in 2018, a liquid-biopsy company using cell-free RNA sequencing for early cancer detection.

André Haefliger

André Haefliger (1929–2023) was a Swiss mathematician, professor at the University of Geneva from 1962 to 1995, known for foliation theory, Haefliger structures, and manifold embeddings.

Andre Hakkak

Andre Hakkak is an American financier who co-founded White Oak Global Advisors, a San Francisco private debt and direct lending firm, in 2007 and leads it as CEO.

Andre Harrell

Andre Harrell (1960-2020), American music executive and former rapper of Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde; founded Uptown Records in 1986, launched Mary J. Blige, Jodeci, Heavy D, and Sean Combs, and led Motown 1995-1997.

Andre Harriman-Annous

Andre Harriman-Annous (Andre Ryan Harriman-Annous), English centre-forward born 2007 in London, Arsenal and Hale End academy product; first senior start October 2025 vs Brighton, eligible for England or Nigeria.

André Heller

André Heller (Franz André Heller), born 1947 in Vienna, is an Austrian singer-songwriter and multimedia artist known for the art fairground Luna Luna and the Swarovski Kristallwelten.

André Hoelz

André Hoelz is a structural biologist and biochemist, the Ferkel Professor at Caltech and an HHMI Investigator, known for determining the nuclear pore complex's architecture.

André Hoffmann (Swiss businessman)

André Hoffmann is a Swiss businessman and investor who has been Vice-Chairman of Roche since 2006, representing the founding family, and a leading voice in sustainable finance.

André Holland

André Holland, American actor from Birmingham, Alabama, known for Dr. Algernon Edwards in The Knick, adult Kevin in Moonlight, Andrew Young in Selma, and Broadway roles in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone and Jitney.

Andre Iguodala

Andre Iguodala (born 1984, Springfield, Illinois) is a retired NBA guard-forward, 2004 ninth overall pick, 19-season veteran, four-time champion with the Golden State Warriors, and 2015 NBA Finals MVP, later a venture capitalist at MOSAIC.

Andre Ingram

Andre Ingram (born 1985) is an American guard, American University alumnus and G League all-time leader in three-pointers made and three-point percentage, who debuted in the NBA at age 32 with the Los Angeles Lakers on April 10, 2018, scoring 19 points after 384 G League games.

André Is an Idiot

André Is an Idiot (2025) is Tony Benna's Sundance Audience Award-winning documentary about André Ricciardi, an advertising creative who filmed his final years with terminal stage 4 colon cancer after skipping a colonoscopy.

André Jacque

André Jacque (born 1980) is an American Republican politician who has represented Wisconsin's 1st Senate district since 2019 and served in the State Assembly from 2010 to 2019.

André Jagendorf

André Jagendorf (1926–2017) was an American plant biologist at Cornell University whose 1966 acid-base transition experiment gave the first strong evidence for Peter Mitchell's chemiosmotic hypothesis.

André Jakurski

André Jakurski is a Brazilian banker and investor who co-founded Banco Pactual in Rio de Janeiro in 1983, left in 1998 to found the asset manager JGP, and is credited with the bank's risk-management culture.