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André Tessier
André Tessier is a Canadian environmental geochemist at INRS in Quebec City, best known as lead author of the 1979 sequential extraction procedure for particulate trace metals in sediments.
André the Giant
André the Giant (André René Roussimoff, 1946–1993), French wrestler and actor with acromegaly-driven gigantism, billed 7'4" and 520 lbs; WWWF/WWE star, WrestleMania III main-eventer, Fezzik in The Princess Bride, first WWE Hall of Fame inductee.
Andre the Giant Has a Posse
Andre the Giant Has a Posse is a 1989 street art sticker campaign by Shepard Fairey, created at RISD in Providence, showing wrestler Andre the Giant's face; it evolved into the OBEY GIANT campaign after estate pressure.
André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal
Annual WWE battle royal introduced at WrestleMania 30 in 2014 as a tribute to André the Giant, contested for a memorial trophy; first won by Cesaro, later moved to SmackDown, most recently won by Royce Keys in 2026.
André Trocmé
André Trocmé (1901–1971) was a French Reformed pastor who led Le Chambon-sur-Lignon's rescue of thousands of Jews in occupied France, later working in the peace movement.
André Troutman
André Lavern Troutman (born 1989) is a Jacksonville-born American singer, producer, and talk box artist, younger cousin of Roger Troutman of Zapp & Roger; music director for Ye, producer and featured vocalist on Bully (2026), known for "All the Love."
André Vauchez
André Vauchez (born 1938 in Thionville) is a French medievalist whose 1981 study of papal canonization reshaped the history of sainthood; he won the 2013 Balzan Prize.
André Veillette
André Veillette is a Canadian immunologist at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute who showed that the CD4 and CD8 co-receptors associate with the kinase Lck.
André Ventura
André Ventura is a Portuguese politician who founded and leads the Chega party, the second-largest force in parliament, and lost the 2026 presidential runoff to António José Seguro.
André Vidal de Negreiros
André Vidal de Negreiros (c. 1606–1680) was a Brazilian-born colonial commander and governor who helped lead the 1645–1654 uprising that expelled the Dutch from northeastern Brazil.
André Villas-Boas
André Villas-Boas (Luís André de Pina Cabral e Villas-Boas, born 1977, Porto) is a Portuguese football manager and executive, FC Porto president since April 2024, formerly coach of Porto (2010-11 treble), Chelsea, Tottenham, Zenit, Shanghai SIPG, and Marseille.
Andre W. Marshall
André W. Marshall is an American mechanical engineer and fire protection researcher who won the 2007 PECASE award for spray research and is now vice president for research at George Mason University.
Andre Ward
Andre Ward, also known as Andre Michael Ward, is a retired American boxer who won Olympic gold in 2004 and retired unbeaten at 32-0 in 2017.
Andre Ware
Andre Trevor Ware (born 1968, Galveston, Texas) is a former Houston quarterback, 1989 Heisman Trophy winner (54th recipient), first black quarterback to win, and 1990 Detroit Lions first-round pick (7th overall).
Andre Waters
Andre Waters (1962-2006), NFL strong safety for the Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals, nicknamed "Dirty Waters"; died by suicide at 44 and was posthumously diagnosed with CTE.
André Weil
André Weil (1906–1998) was a French mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study known for the Weil conjectures and for reshaping algebraic geometry and number theory.
André Weiss
André Weiss (1858–1928) was a French jurist who held the international law chair at the University of Paris and served as vice-president of the Permanent Court of International Justice.
Andre Willms
Andre Willms (André Willms, born 1972) is a German rower, two-time Olympic quadruple sculls champion (1992, 1996), Sydney 2000 bronze medalist, and five-time world champion in the single, double, and quad sculls.
Andre Wisdom
Andre Wisdom (born 1993, Leeds) is an English defender who joined Liverpool from Bradford City in 2008, debuted with a goal in the 2012 Europa League, made 22 Liverpool appearances, won the 2016-17 Austrian double with Salzburg, and now plays for FC United of Manchester.
Andre Wohllebe
André Wohllebe (1962-2014), German sprint kayaker from SC Berlin-Grünau; Olympic K-4 1000 m gold at Barcelona 1992, two bronzes at Seoul 1988, eight-time world champion; died of pancreatic cancer.
André-Louis Cholesky
André-Louis Cholesky (1875–1918) was a French artillery officer and geodesist who devised the Cholesky decomposition, a matrix factorization widely used in scientific computing; he never published it.
André-Louis Danjon
André-Louis Danjon (1890–1967) was a French astronomer who directed the Paris Observatory from 1945 to 1963 and created the five-point Danjon scale for rating lunar eclipse brightness.
André-Louis Debierne
André-Louis Debierne (1874–1949) was a French chemist credited with discovering actinium in 1899, co-isolating metallic radium with Marie Curie in 1910, and directing the Institut du Radium from 1934 until his death.
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who founded electrodynamics, the study of forces between electric currents, and the ampere is named after him.
André-Marie Tala
André-Marie Tala is a Cameroonian singer-songwriter and guitarist, blind since age 15, who created tchamassi, pioneered bend-skin, and won a 1978 plagiarism suit against James Brown.
André-Pierre Gignac
André-Pierre Gignac, French striker born 1985 in Martigues; Ligue 1 top scorer 2009 with Toulouse, then Tigres UANL legend with 222 goals, five Liga MX titles, and 36 France caps; left Tigres June 2026.
Andrea
Andrea is a given name: the feminine form of Andrew in most European languages but a masculine name in Italy, from Greek andreios, "manly, brave". About 4.1 million bearers; peaked #23 for US girls in 1978.
Andrea (The Walking Dead)
Andrea is a Walking Dead character played by Laurie Holden on AMC seasons 1-3, killed off in the Season 3 finale after the Governor storyline, while her comic counterpart, Rick's partner and the group's sniper, survives until Issue 167.
Andrea A. Anderson
Andrea A. Anderson is an American family physician and health-equity leader at George Washington University who chaired the American Board of Family Medicine and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Andrea Ablasser
Andrea Ablasser is a German physician and immunologist, full professor of life sciences at EPFL since 2021, known for research on the cGAS-STING pathway and for co-founding IFM Due.