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Andre Johnson

Andre Johnson, wide receiver, third overall pick of the 2003 NFL Draft, Houston Texans star (2003-2014) later with Colts and Titans; 1,062 catches, 14,185 yards, 70 touchdowns, seven Pro Bowls, first Texan in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Class of 2024.

André Kertész

André Kertész (1894–1985) was a Hungarian-born photographer who worked in Budapest, Paris, and New York for over seventy years, blending photojournalism with formalist abstraction and influencing photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson.

André Lacroix (Canadian endocrinologist)

André Lacroix is a Canadian endocrinologist and physician-scientist at CHUM and the Université de Montréal, known for describing food-dependent Cushing's syndrome in a 1992 New England Journal of Medicine paper.

André Lalande (philosopher)

André Lalande (1867–1963) was a French philosopher at the Sorbonne, director of the Vocabulaire technique et critique de la philosophie, known in France as "Le Lalande".

André Lallemand

André Lallemand (1904–1978) was a French astronomer and instrument builder who invented the electronic camera, a vacuum-tube device recording starlight as electron images, giving astronomy sensitivity far beyond photographic plates.

André Lamy

André Lamy is a cardiac surgeon at Hamilton Health Sciences and professor at McMaster University, known for leading the CORONARY trial of off-pump versus on-pump bypass surgery.

Andre Lange

Andre Lange (born 1973, Ilmenau), German bobsleigh pilot; four Olympic golds (2002, 2006 x2, 2010) and one silver, eight world and eight European titles, later coach of South Korean and Chinese national teams.

Andre Laperriere

Andre Laperriere (Henri André Laperrière, 1925-2015), Canadian defenseman who won 1948 St. Moritz Olympic gold with the RCAF Flyers; later a graphic designer and Outremont city councillor.

Andre Larochelle

Andre Larochelle is a Canadian-trained hematologist and Senior Investigator at NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, known for eltrombopag trials in severe aplastic anemia.

André Lemierre

André-Alfred Lemierre (1875–1956) was a French bacteriologist and professor of microbiology at the Hospital Claude Bernard in Paris, remembered for his 1936 description of Lemierre's syndrome.

André Leon Talley

André Leon Talley (1948–2022) was an American fashion journalist and author, first Black creative director of Vogue (1988–1995) and its editor-at-large 1998–2013, raised in Durham, North Carolina, mentor and memoirist.

André Léri

André Léri (1875–1930) was a French neurologist of the Paris school, a pupil of Joseph Babinski and Pierre Marie, known for Léri's sign, Léri pleonosteosis, and Léri-Weill dyschondrosteosis.

Andre Lesauvage

Andre Lesauvage (André Lesauvage, 1890-1971), French sailor; not related to Géo André or Andre De Grasse. Won Olympic gold in the 8 metres class at Amsterdam 1928 aboard Virginie Hériot's yacht L'Aile VI.

Andre Levchenko

Andre Levchenko is a systems biologist and biomedical engineer who is the John C. Malone Professor at Yale University and founding director of its Systems Biology Institute.

André Lima (fighter)

André "Mascote" Lima (André Luís Lima Cardoso, born 1999) is a Brazilian UFC flyweight from Feira de Santana, Bahia, a former amateur kickboxer who won his UFC debut by disqualification after being bitten by Igor Severino, and later held a 12-1 record.

André Lwoff

André Lwoff (1902–1994) was a French microbiologist at the Institut Pasteur who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for discovering how virus synthesis is genetically regulated.

André Malraux

André Malraux (1901–1976), French novelist, art theorist, and first Minister of Cultural Affairs (1959–1969) under de Gaulle; Prix Goncourt 1933 for La Condition humaine, creator of the musée imaginaire, Resistance leader Colonel Berger, Panthéon 1996.

André Marette

André Marette is a full professor at Université Laval in Quebec City and researcher at the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, known for work on insulin resistance and diabetes.

Andre Marion

André Marion, born 1935 in Nîmes, France, is an engineer who left Hewlett-Packard to cofound Applied Biosystems, led it as CEO and chairman, and sold it to Perkin-Elmer in 1993.

André Matos

André Matos was a Brazilian heavy metal vocalist, born in São Paulo in 1971, who fronted Viper, Angra, and Shaman before a solo career from 2006; he died in 2019 at 47.

Andre Melendez

Andre "Angel" Melendez (May 1971–1996) was a Colombian-born NYC Club Kid killed and dismembered in March 1996 by Michael Alig and Robert "Freeze" Riggs; both pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter.

Andre Miller

Andre Miller (born 1976, Los Angeles), nicknamed The Professor, is a retired NBA point guard from Utah, drafted 8th in 1999 by Cleveland; 17 seasons, 9 teams, 2001-02 assists leader, never an All-Star.

André Morell

André Morell (Cecil André Mesritz, 1909–1978) was a British character actor; Quatermass in the BBC's Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59), Hammer's Doctor Watson, O'Brien in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954), and Joan Greenwood's husband.

André Myhrer

André Myhrer (Per André Myhrer, born 1983, Bergsjö, Sweden), Swedish slalom specialist; Olympic slalom gold 2018 PyeongChang and bronze 2010 Vancouver; four Olympics; 8-10 World Cup wins; slalom cup 2011-12; retired 2020.

Andre Nascimento

Andre Nascimento (André Luiz da Silva Nascimento, born 1979) is a Brazilian volleyball opposite who won Olympic gold at Athens 2004 and silver at Beijing 2008, plus World Championship titles in 2002 and 2006 with Brazil.

André Néron

André Néron was a French mathematician whose 1964 memoir established Néron models of abelian varieties, and who is also known for the Néron–Severi group and the Néron–Ogg–Shafarevich criterion.

André Neves

André Neves, full name André Arroja Neves, is a Portuguese differential geometer born in Lisbon in 1975, known for proving the Willmore conjecture with Fernando Codá Marques.

André Neveu

André Neveu is a French theoretical physicist who, with John Schwarz at Princeton in 1971, built the dual pion model that became the Ramond–Neveu–Schwarz formalism, an early superstring theory.

Andre Nickatina

Andre Nickatina (Andre Adams, formerly Dre Dog) is an American underground hardcore rapper from San Francisco's Fillmore district who debuted in 1993 and has released almost twenty albums.

Andre Noyelle

André Noyelle (1931-2003), Belgian road cyclist, double gold medalist at Helsinki 1952 in the individual and team Olympic road race; professional 1953-1966, later ran a bicycle shop and Café Helsinki in Ieper.