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Andrea Goldsmith (electrical engineer)

Andrea Goldsmith is an American electrical engineer and the seventh president of Stony Brook University since 2025, and the first woman to win the Marconi Prize.

Andrea Guerrieri

Andrea Guerrieri, Italian tennis player born 1998 in Correggio, left-handed Challenger/ITF competitor; rose from ATP No. 511 to a 2026 US Open main-draw debut at 27.

Andrea Gyarmati

Andrea Gyarmati (Gyarmati Andrea, born 1954, Budapest) is a Hungarian swimmer, 1972 Olympic silver (100 m backstroke) and bronze (100 m butterfly) medalist, 100 m butterfly world record holder, and 1995 International Swimming Hall of Fame inductee.

Andrea Henkel

Andrea Henkel (Andrea Burke), born 1977 in Ilmenau, German biathlete, two Olympic golds (2002 individual and relay), eight world titles, first woman world champion in all four individual events, 2006/07 overall World Cup winner, IBU Hall of Fame 2023.

Andrea Hirata

Andrea Hirata, born in 1967 on Belitung Island, is an Indonesian novelist whose debut Laskar Pelangi (The Rainbow Troops, 2005) sold more than five million copies and became his country's most translated novel.

Andrea Horwath

Andrea Horwath, 58th Mayor of Hamilton, Ontario (since November 15, 2022) and the city's first woman mayor; former Ontario NDP leader (2009-2022) and Official Opposition leader (2018-2022) who exercises Ontario Strong Mayor powers.

Andrea Hunley

Andrea Hunley is an American politician, a Democratic Indiana state senator representing District 46 since 2022, serving as Assistant Minority Leader and a former Indianapolis school principal.

Andrea II Muzaka

Andrea II Muzaka was an Albanian nobleman who ruled a principality in southern Albania from about 1335 until his death in 1372, centered at Berat.

Andrea Jaeger

Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player, 1982 French Open and 1983 Wimbledon finalist, world No. 2 as a teenager, retired after shoulder injury, later philanthropist and Sister Andrea.

Andrea Jenkyns

Dame Andrea Jenkyns DBE, British politician; Conservative MP for Morley and Outwood 2015-2024, defeating Ed Balls; DfE skills minister 2022; joined Reform UK in November 2024 and became its first elected mayor, Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, in May 2025.

Andrea Jeremiah

Andrea Jeremiah, born 1985 in Chennai, is an Indian playback singer, actress, musician, and dancer in Tamil cinema, known for Taramani, Vada Chennai, Master, Pachaikili Muthucharam, and the delayed Pisasu 2.

Andrea Jokisaari

Andrea Jokisaari is a computational materials scientist at Idaho National Laboratory known for phase-field modeling of nuclear fuels and a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

Andrea Jürgens

Andrea Jürgens (1967–2017) was a German Schlager singer who became a national child star at ten in 1978 and charted for four decades until her death at 50.

Andrea K. Ng

Andrea K. Ng, also known as Andrea Ng, is an American radiation oncologist at Dana-Farber and Harvard known for research on late effects of Hodgkin lymphoma treatment.

Andrea Katz

Andrea Katz is an American Democratic politician who represents New Jersey's 8th district in the General Assembly, first elected in 2023 and re-elected in 2025.

Andrea Kimi Antonelli

Andrea Kimi Antonelli (born 2006, Bologna) is an Italian Formula 1 driver for Mercedes since 2025, Hamilton's successor; 2026 championship leader with 8 wins, 6 poles, and youngest-ever pole-sitter.

Andrea Kurth

Andrea Kurth (Andrea Sredzki-Kurth), born 1957 in Breitenbrunn, East German rower with SC Einheit Dresden; won the first East German women's rowing Olympic gold in the coxed four at Montreal 1976 and the 1977 World Championships eight.

Andrea L. Cheville

Andrea L. Cheville is an American physiatrist and cancer rehabilitation researcher at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.

Andréa Le Borgne

Andréa Le Borgne (born 2006, Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French defensive midfielder, 1.89 m, right-footed, at Hellas Verona on loan from Como; France U20, 6 caps, 3 goals at the 2025 U-20 World Cup.

Andrea Leadsom

Andrea Leadsom, Dame Andrea Leadsom DBE, British Conservative politician, MP for South Northamptonshire 2010-2024, Environment and Business Secretary, Leader of the Commons, 2016 Tory leadership runner-up to Theresa May.

Andrea Lee (fighter)

Andrea "KGB" Lee (born 1989) is an American UFC flyweight fighter and former LFA champion who left the UFC on a record six-fight losing streak.

Andrea Levy

Andrea Levy (1956–2019), British novelist and Windrush-generation daughter, wrote Small Island (Orange Prize, Whitbread Book of the Year) and The Long Song (Booker shortlist, Walter Scott Prize).

Andrea Libman

Andrea Libman (Andrea Eva Libman, born 1984, Toronto) is a Canadian voice actress, the voice of Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, also known for Madeline, Dragon Tales, ReBoot, and the first X-23.

Andrea Lindholz

Andrea Lindholz, born 1970 in Bonn, is a German CSU politician and lawyer who has been Vice-President of the Bundestag since 2025 and has represented Aschaffenburg since 2013.

Andrea Lisco

Andrea Lisco is an Italian-trained physician-scientist and viral immunologist who leads a research unit at NIAID in Bethesda, Maryland, studying HPV-related disease in immunodeficiencies and becoming a Lasker Clinical Research Scholar in 2024.

Andrea Liu

Andrea Liu is an American theoretical physicist, the Hepburn Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, best known for developing the jamming framework for glasses, foams, and granular matter.

Andrea Lloyd

Andrea Lloyd: name of two Olympic medalists, American basketball player Andrea Lane Lloyd-Curry (born 1965, 1988 gold) and Jamaican sprinter Andria Lloyd (born 1971, 1996 4x100 m relay bronze).

Andrea Long Chu

Andrea Long Chu (朱华敏), born 1992, is an American critic at New York magazine, winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, author of Females (2019) and Authority: Essays (2025).

Andrea Lowe

Andrea Lowe (born 1975) is an English actress from Arnold, Nottinghamshire, known for DS Annie Cabbot in DCI Banks (2010–2016), DI Taylor in Sherwood, Bobbi Carter in Without Sin, and Rachel in Ken Loach's Cannes competitor Route Irish.

Andrea M. Ghez

Andrea M. Ghez is an American astrophysicist at UCLA who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center.