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Andrea Abodi

Andrea Abodi is an Italian politician who has served as Minister for Sport and Youth under Giorgia Meloni since 2022, overseeing stadium reform and the sport decree.

Andrea Agnelli

Andrea Agnelli, born 1975 in Turin, was Juventus president 2010-2023, fourth Agnelli in the role; won nine straight Serie A titles, led the failed Super League, and resigned amid the Prisma false accounting case.

Andrea Alimonti

Andrea Alimonti (born 1975, Mendrisio, Switzerland) is an oncologist who directs the Institute of Oncology Research in Bellinzona, known for discovering PTEN-loss-induced cellular senescence in cancer.

Andrea Alù

Andrea Alù is an electrical engineer and physicist who works on metamaterials, metasurfaces, and cloaking; he is founding director of the Photonics Initiative at CUNY since 2018.

Andrea Anders

Andrea Anders (born 1975) is an American actress known for Alex Garrett on Joey, Linda Zwordling on Better Off Ted, Michelle Lasso on Ted Lasso, and Sandra on Bookie.

Andrea Anderson

Andrea Anderson (Andrea Bolder), American sprinter born 1977 in Harbor City, California; 400 m runner and 1996 World Junior medalist who won 4x400 m relay gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, retained it after a 2010 CAS appeal, and later founded WomanpreneuHER University.

Andrea Arnold

Andrea Arnold (born 1961, Dartford) is an English film director and screenwriter, Oscar winner for the short Wasp, three-time Cannes Jury Prize winner for Red Road, Fish Tank, and American Honey, and director of Bird (2024).

Andrea Arru

Andrea Arru (born 2007, Ozieri, Sardinia) is an Italian actor and former child model known for Netflix's Di4ri as Pietro Maggi, teen Diabolik in Diabolik - Chi sei?, and Christian in Il ragazzo dai pantaloni rosa.

Andrea Bailey

Andrea Bailey is an American politician and Republican member of the New York State Assembly from the 133rd district, elected in November 2024 after serving on the Geneseo Town Board.

Andrea Baldini

Andrea Baldini is an Italian left-handed foil fencer, born in 1985 in Livorno, who won Olympic team gold at London 2012 and multiple World Championship medals.

Andrea Ballabio

Andrea Ballabio, born in Naples in 1957, is an Italian medical geneticist known for discovering TFEB as the master regulator of lysosomal function and autophagy.

Andrea Bargnani

Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player born 1985 in Rome; first overall pick of the 2006 NBA draft by Toronto Raptors; also played for Knicks and Nets; retired 2018.

Andrea Barzagli

Andrea Barzagli (born 1981, Fiesole), nicknamed La Roccia, Italian centre-back; 2006 World Cup winner, 2008-09 Bundesliga champion with Wolfsburg, and eight-time Serie A winner with Juventus (2011-19) in the BBC defense with Bonucci and Chiellini.

Andrea Belotti

Andrea Belotti, nicknamed Il Gallo, is an Italian professional footballer and striker known for seven seasons at Torino, where he captained the side and scored 113 goals.

Andrea Benelli

Andrea Benelli, Italian skeet shooter born 1960 in Florence; Olympic gold Athens 2004 and bronze Atlanta 1996 across six Games; two world titles; later Italy's national skeet coach with 395 career medals.

Andrea Bertozzi

Andrea Bertozzi is an American applied mathematician at UCLA known for nonlinear partial differential equations, thin-film flow, and crime models used in predictive policing in over 50 cities.

Andrea Bocelli

Andrea Bocelli (born 1958, Lajatico, Tuscany) is an Italian tenor, blind since age 12, who won Sanremo 1994, sold over 90 million records, and is touring in 2026-2027 on the Romanza 30th Anniversary World Tour.

Andrea Bodo Molnar

Andrea Bodo Molnar (Andrea Bodó-Molnár, 1934–2022), Hungarian gymnast, 1952–56 Olympic team medalist with 1956 portable apparatus gold, later US rhythmic gymnastics coach, judge, and Hall of Famer; distinct from gymnast Andrea Molnár born 1975.

Andrea Bonomi

Andrea Bonomi is an Italian financier, born in New York in 1965, who founded and chairs Investindustrial, a European private equity group known for Ducati and Aston Martin deals.

Andrea Borella

Andrea Borella (born 1961, Mestre, Italy), Italian foil fencer; 1984 Olympic team gold, 1986 individual world champion, four world team titles, 17 World Cup wins, FIE Hall of Fame 2025.

Andrea Botez

Andrea Botez (born 2002) is a Canadian chess player and streamer who co-hosts BotezLive on Twitch and YouTube with her sister WFM Alexandra Botez; peak FIDE 1773, Envy Gaming signee, PogChamps coach.

Andrea Bowen

Andrea Bowen (born 1990), American actress and singer; also Andrea Elizabeth Bowen; Julie Mayer on Desperate Housewives 2004–2012 and Young Cosette in Broadway's Les Misérables at age six.

Andrea Brand

Andrea Brand, also known as Andrea H. Brand, is a developmental biologist at the University of Cambridge, known for originating the GAL4-UAS targeted gene expression system in Drosophila.

Andrea Brillantes

Andrea Brillantes (Ramona Anndrew Blythe Daguio Gorostiza, "Blythe", born 2003) is a Filipino actress, entrepreneur, and singer. Child star on Goin' Bulilit, lead in Annaliza, Kadenang Ginto, Senior High, and A Secret in Prague; music as RAMONA; founder of Lucky Beauty.

Andrea Brooks

Andrea Brooks (born 1989, Brantford, Ontario) is a Canadian actress known as Dr. Faith Carter on Hallmark's When Calls the Heart and Eve Teschmacher on The CW's Supergirl, with a UBC master's degree.

Andrea C. Ferrari

Andrea C. Ferrari is a professor of nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge whose Raman spectroscopy work underpins graphene research, and who directs the Cambridge Graphene Centre.

Andrea Califano

Andrea Califano is a systems biologist at Columbia University known for the ARACNe and VIPER algorithms and for master regulator proteins in cancer; he now leads Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York.

Andrea Campbell

Andrea Campbell is an American Democratic politician and Attorney General of Massachusetts since 2023, the first Black woman to hold the office, after serving on the Boston City Council.

Andrea Canning

Andrea Mead Canning, Canadian-born broadcast journalist; Dateline NBC correspondent since October 2012, host of Dateline True Crime Weekly (2024); formerly ABC News (2004–2012); also writes Hallmark/Lifetime TV movies.

Andrea Casiraghi

Andrea Casiraghi (Andrea Albert Pierre Casiraghi), born 1984, eldest son of Princess Caroline of Monaco and Stefano Casiraghi; married Tatiana Santo Domingo in 2013, three children, in Monaco's line of succession.