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Andrea Castelletti

Andrea Castelletti is an Italian engineer and full professor at Politecnico di Milano who studies water and energy systems planning and machine learning for hydro-environmental systems.

Andrea Cavalleri

Andrea Cavalleri, born 1969, is a physicist working on light-driven quantum materials, founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg.

Andrea Cercek

Andrea Cercek is a medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers who leads colorectal cancer research and treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

Andrea Cerutti

Andrea Cerutti is a physician-scientist and mucosal immunologist leading B Cell Biology at the Hospital del Mar Research Institute in Barcelona as an ICREA Research Professor since 2010.

Andrea Cipressa

Andrea Cipressa (born 1963, Venezia) is an Italian foil fencer, 1984 Olympic team gold medalist, three-time world team champion (1985, 1986, 1990), and head coach of Italy's national foil teams 2012–2021.

Andrea Cipriani

Andrea Cipriani is an Italian psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry at Oxford whose large-scale network meta-analyses of antidepressants, published in The Lancet, inform clinical guidelines.

Andrea Clements

Andrea Clements is a physical scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who researches low-cost air sensor data quality and won a 2025 PECASE award.

Andrea Collinelli

Andrea Collinelli, born 1969 in Ravenna, Italy, is an Italian track cyclist who won Olympic gold in the 1996 individual pursuit and two world titles in the team pursuit.

Andrea Corr

Andrea Jane Corr (born 1974, Dundalk) is the Irish lead vocalist and tin whistle player of The Corrs, the Celtic pop band with siblings Sharon, Caroline, and Jim; over 40 million albums sold, hits "Breathless" and "Runaway", plus solo albums Ten Feet High, Lifelines, and memoir Barefoot Pilgrimage.

Andrea Crisanti

Andrea Crisanti is an Italian molecular parasitologist at the University of Padua known for building gene drives that spread through malaria mosquito populations, and a senator in the Italian Parliament.

Andrea del Sarto

Andrea del Sarto, born Andrea d'Agnolo (1486–1530), was a leading Florentine painter of the early 16th century whose works include the Madonna of the Harpies in the Uffizi.

Andrea del Verrocchio

Andrea del Verrocchio, or Andrea di Michele Cione, was a Florentine sculptor and painter who led an influential workshop in the 15th century. He trained Leonardo da Vinci.

Andrea Diprè

Andrea Diprè, born 1974 in Tione di Trento, Italian former lawyer and self-styled art critic turned YouTube trash personality, creator of Le scelte, Diprè per il sociale and the pseudoreligion dipreismo, now a Fermo mayoral candidate facing several trials.

Andrea Dovizioso

Andrea Dovizioso (DesmoDovi), born 1986, Italian MotoGP rider; 2004 125cc World Champion, three-time MotoGP runner-up (2017-2019) to Marc Marquez, 24 GP wins, 103 podiums; retired 2022, now Yamaha test rider.

Andrea Drews

Andrea "Annie" Drews (born 1993, Elkhart, Indiana) is an American opposite spiker, Purdue alumna, and U.S. women's national team player since 2017; 2019 VNL MVP and Olympic gold (Tokyo 2020) and silver (Paris 2024) medalist.

Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005), American radical feminist writer and activist, author of Woman Hating, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, and Intercourse; with Catharine MacKinnon drafted the 1983 Minneapolis anti-pornography civil rights ordinance struck down in Hudnut.

Andrea Ehrig Schone Mitscherlich

Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich, born 1960 in Dresden, East German speed skater who competed 1976-1988 as Mitscherlich, Schöne, and Ehrig; seven Olympic medals, 1984 3000 m gold, ten world records.

Andrea Eife

Andrea Eife (born 1956, Leipzig), East German swimmer with SC Dynamo Berlin; 1972 Olympic 4x100 freestyle relay silver, 1973 World and 1974 European relay gold, world record 3:52.45.

Andrea Eisfeldt

Andrea Eisfeldt is an American financial economist holding the Fink Endowed Chair in Finance at UCLA Anderson, known for research on intangible capital and generative AI.

Andrea Elson

Andrea Elson (born 1969, New York City) is an American retired actress, best known as Lynn Tanner on NBC's ALF (1986-1990, 101 episodes) and as Alice Tyler on Whiz Kids; married Scott Hopper in 1993, retired from acting in 1997.

Andrea Evans

Andrea Evans (Andrea Lynn Evans, 1957–2023), American soap opera actress, originated Tina Lord on ABC's One Life to Live; also Patty Williams on The Young and the Restless, Tawny Moore on The Bold and the Beautiful, and Rebecca Hotchkiss on Passions; two Daytime Emmy nominations.

Andrea Ferrara (cosmologist)

Andrea Ferrara is an Italian cosmologist and full professor of Cosmology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, known for work on the first galaxies and cosmic dust.

Andrea Fischbacher

Andrea Fischbacher, born 1985 in Schwarzach im Pongau, is a retired Austrian alpine skier, 2010 Vancouver Olympic Super G champion, 2009 world Super G bronze medalist, with 3 World Cup wins; retired 2015.

Andrea Fratalocchi

Andrea Fratalocchi is an Italian physicist and full professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia who leads the Primalight Laboratory, studies disordered photonic materials, and is a Fellow of Optica.

Andrea Gail

The Andrea Gail was a Gloucester, Massachusetts swordfishing vessel lost with all six crew in the 1991 Perfect Storm off Nova Scotia, the subject of the book and 2000 film The Perfect Storm.

Andrea Gallandi

Andrea Gallandi, Latinized Andreas Gallandius, was a Venetian Oratorian priest and patristic scholar, compiler of the 14-volume Bibliotheca veterum patrum published at Venice from 1765 to 1781.

Andrea Ganna

Andrea Ganna is an Italian computational geneticist who combines genetic data with health registries to predict disease, leading a group at Human Technopole in Milan.

Andrea Georoff

Andrea Georoff, American swimmer from Winter Park, Florida; swam for Virginia and Georgia, set the 2005 NCAA 200-yard freestyle relay record (1:28.10), and later held USMS masters 50 freestyle records.

Andrea Giambruno

Andrea Giambruno (born 1981, Milan) is an Italian Mediaset journalist, presenter of Studio Aperto and Diario del giorno, and former partner of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni; they separated in October 2023 after Striscia la notizia broadcast sexist off-air recordings.

Andrea Giovannini

Andrea Giovannini (born 1993, Trento) is an Italian long-track speed skater, GS Fiamme Gialle, specializing in mass start and team pursuit; 2026 Olympic team pursuit gold and mass start bronze, world champion 2024 and 2025.