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Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt

Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt (1486–1541) was a Wittenberg theologian, an early ally of Martin Luther who later broke with him over the pace of reform.

Andreas Bourani

Andreas Bourani is a German Deutschpop singer and songwriter, born in Augsburg in 1983, best known for "Auf uns", the ARD's 2014 FIFA World Cup song that reached number 1 in Germany.

Andreas Brecke

Andreas Bang Brecke (1879-1952), Norwegian sailor and timber wholesaler from Fredrikstad, won Olympic sailing gold in the 8m class aboard Taifun at Stockholm 1912 and in the 6m class aboard Jo at Antwerp 1920.

Andreas Brehme

Andreas Brehme (1960–2024), German left-back, scored the 85th-minute penalty that won the 1990 World Cup final for West Germany; also champion with Bayern, Inter, and Kaiserslautern.

Andreas Buchleitner

Andreas Buchleitner is a theoretical physicist who has held the chair for Quantum Optics and Statistics at the University of Freiburg since 2007, working on quantum chaos and entanglement.

Andreas Burkert

Andreas Burkert is a German astrophysicist, professor of computational astrophysics at LMU Munich since 2003, known for the Burkert dark-matter halo profile, galactic nuclei dynamics, and star formation research.

Andreas Carlson

Andreas Carlson is a Swedish politician of the Christian Democrats, serving as Minister for Infrastructure and Housing since 2022 after leading the party's group in the Riksdag.

Andreas Cervin

Andreas Cervin (1888–1972), Swedish gymnast and jurist; won team gymnastics gold at London 1908 with Sweden (438 points), then served as a rådman in Göteborg known for wartime judicial independence.

Andreas Christensen

Andreas Bødtker Christensen, Danish centre-back born 1996 in Lillerød; ex-Brøndby, Chelsea (Champions League 2021) and Borussia Mönchengladbach loanee, now FC Barcelona defender, renewed to 2028, over 50 Denmark caps.

Andreas Cornelius

Andreas Evald Cornelius, Danish striker born 1993, FC Copenhagen and Denmark; Superliga top scorer 2013, Turkish champion 2022 with Trabzonspor, 44 caps, 9 goals, three World Cup/Euro tournaments.

Andreas Dackell

Andreas Dackell (Lars Andreas Dackell), Swedish ice hockey right wing born 1972 in Gävle; Olympic gold 1994, 613 NHL games with Ottawa and Montreal, two SM golds with Brynäs (1993, 2012), retired 2012.

Andreas Darum

Andreas Darum (born 1991) is a Danish compound archer from Aarhus, club TIK Bueskydning Taastrup. Highest world ranking 23 in compound men (2017); World Cup team gold at Antalya 2017, European outdoor team gold 2016, youth worlds team bronze 2009.

Andreas Decker

Andreas Decker (born 1952, Zwickau) is an East German rower, two-time Olympic gold medalist in the coxless fours (Montréal 1976, Moscow 1980) with SC DHfK Leipzig, and four-time world champion in the same boat class.

Andreas Dibowski

Andreas Dibowski, nicknamed Dibo, is a German eventing rider born 1966 in Hamburg, Olympic team gold medalist at Beijing 2008 on Butts Leon, three-time European team champion (2011, 2013, 2019), and Germany's U25 national coach since 2025.

Andreas Diefenbach

Andreas Diefenbach is a German immunologist, born 1965 in Aachen, who studies innate lymphoid cells and microbiota; since 2016 he has directed the Institute of Microbiology at Charité Berlin.

Andreas Dietel

Andreas Dietel (born 1959) is a German former East German allround speed skater, SC Dynamo Berlin, fourth in the 1980 Olympic 1,500 m, small-combination world record holder 1981, banned after 1984 Games; not the Special Olympics athlete Andreas Dietl.

Andreas Dittmer

Andreas Dittmer (born 1972, Neustrelitz), German canoe sprint paddler, won three Olympic golds (C2 1000 m 1996, C1 1000 m 2000, C1 500 m 2004), eight world titles, and later coached Canada's sprint canoe program.

Andreas Dorau

Andreas Dorau is a German musician and songwriter who came to fame as a Hamburg schoolboy with the 1981 Neue Deutsche Welle hit "Fred vom Jupiter" and has pursued an idiosyncratic pop career since.

Andreas Dreuw

Andreas Dreuw is a German theoretical and computational chemist who has held a chair at Heidelberg University since 2011 and has been its Vice-Rector for Research and Digitalisation since 2023.

Andreas du Bois

Andreas du Bois is a German gynecologic oncologist who founded the AGO Study Group in 1993 and led landmark ovarian cancer trials including LION and DESKTOP III.

Andreas Dudith

Andreas Dudith, also András Dudith (1533–1589), was a Hungarian humanist, Catholic bishop, and imperial diplomat who abandoned his career by marrying in 1567, living afterward as a Protestant-leaning scholar in Kraków and Breslau.

Andreas E. Kulozik

Andreas E. Kulozik is a German physician-scientist in pediatrics and molecular medicine who has directed pediatric oncology at Heidelberg University Hospital since 2001 and studies nonsense-mediated mRNA decay.

Andreas Eckart

Andreas Eckart, born 1957, is a German astrophysicist and professor at the University of Cologne known for observing stars orbiting Sagittarius A, the Milky Way's central black hole.

Andreas Eisenmenger

Johann Andreas Eisenmenger (1654–1704) was a German Orientalist and Heidelberg professor of Oriental languages whose 1700 polemic Entdecktes Judenthum, compiled from about 200 sources, became a classic of modern antisemitism.

Andreas Engert

Andreas Engert is a German physician-scientist in hematology and oncology at University Hospital Cologne whose German Hodgkin Study Group trials, HD10 and HD18, defined modern PET-adapted therapy for Hodgkin lymphoma.

Andreas F. M. Kilbinger

Andreas F. M. Kilbinger (Andreas Felix Michael Kilbinger) is a German polymer chemist and professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, known for making living ROMP catalytic.

Andreas Fagereng

Andreas Fagereng is an economist and Professor of Finance at BI Norwegian Business School since 2020, known for using Norway's population-wide tax records to study household saving and inequality.

Andreas Feininger

Andreas Feininger (1906–1999) was an American photographer and writer, son of painter Lyonel Feininger, known for telephoto views of New York City for Life magazine.

Andreas Fery

Andreas Fery is a physical chemist working on polymeric materials, colloids, and plasmonics, professor at TU Dresden and director at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden since 2015.

Andreas G. Ladurner

Andreas G. Ladurner is an Italian molecular biologist who holds the Chair of Physiological Chemistry at LMU Munich, best known for establishing the macro domain as an ADP-ribose binding module.