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Andreea Isarescu
Andreea Isărescu (Florența Andreea Isărescu), Romanian artistic gymnast born 1984 in Bucharest; 2000 Sydney Olympic team gold and 1999 Tianjin Worlds team gold; later a PE teacher in Abu Dhabi.
Andreea Răducan
Andreea Răducan (Andreea Mădălina Răducan), Romanian artistic gymnast born 1983 in Bârlad; 2000 Sydney Olympic team gold and vault silver, all-around gold stripped for pseudoephedrine from cold medicine; 2001 Ghent world champion; later Romanian Gymnastics Federation president and 2018 Hall of Fame inductee.
Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, is an American venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, with over $100 billion under management.
Andreev bound state
An Andreev bound state is a discrete electronic excitation below the superconducting gap that forms when repeated Andreev reflections trap quasiparticles at interfaces, and in d-wave superconductors zero-energy states produce the zero-bias conductance peak.
Andreev reflection
Andreev reflection is a scattering process at a normal metal–superconductor interface in which a sub-gap electron is reflected as a hole while a Cooper pair enters the superconductor.
Andrefana Dry Forests
Andrefana Dry Forests (Les forêts sèches de l'Andrefana), a serial UNESCO World Heritage site in western Madagascar inscribed 1990 as Tsingy de Bemaraha and extended 2023, six protected areas, 734,298 ha, karst tsingy pinnacles, mesites, high endemism.
Andrei Aramnau
Andrei Aramnau (Андрэй Арамнаў), Belarusian weightlifter born 1988, 2008 Olympic 105 kg champion with 200-236-436 and world records, 2007 world champion, 2019 world silver medalist.
Andrei Arlovski (Андрей Валерьевич Арловский)
Andrei Arlovski (Андрей Валерьевич Арловский), 'The Pitbull,' Belarusian heavyweight MMA fighter born 1979 in Babruysk; former UFC interim and undisputed heavyweight champion (246 days), holds UFC records of 22 heavyweight wins and 47 heavyweight bouts.
Andrei Bahdanovich
Andrei Bahdanovich (Андрэй Віктаравіч Багдановіч), Belarusian sprint canoeist born 1987, won C2 1000 m Olympic gold at Beijing 2008 and silver at London 2012 with his brother Aliaksandr, plus world and European medals.
Andrei Belousov
Andrei Belousov is a Russian politician who has served as Minister of Defence since 2024, having previously been First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development.
Andrei Bely (Андрей Белый)
Andrei Bely (Андрей Белый), pen name of Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (1880–1934), was a Russian novelist, poet, and critic, a leading figure of Russian Symbolism and author of Petersburg.
Andrei Bely Prize
The Andrei Bely Prize (Премия Андрея Белого) is an annual Russian literary prize founded in 1978 under the Leningrad samizdat journal Chasy, awarded for innovation in Russian-language writing.
Andrei Bitov
Andrei Bitov (Андрей Битов, 1937–2018) was a Russian novelist, poet, and screenwriter regarded as a founder of postmodernism in Russian literature, known chiefly for the novel Pushkin House.
Andrei Brasoveanu
Andrei Brasoveanu is a Romanian-born venture capitalist, a Partner at Accel's London office since 2014, known for early investments in Humio and Instana and Web3 firms like Sorare.
Andrei Bulatov
Andrei Bulatov is a mathematician and computer scientist, Professor of Computer Science at Simon Fraser University, known for his 2017 proof of the Feder–Vardi Dichotomy Conjecture and a shared Gödel Prize.
Andrei Chikatilo (Андрей Романович Чикатило)
Andrei Chikatilo (Андрей Романович Чикатило), the Rostov Ripper, was a Soviet serial killer and former teacher convicted of 52 murders of children and women, 1978–1990, arrested 1990, executed 1994.
Andrei Denisov
Andrei Denisov (Андрей Денисов), born in Povenets, Karelia, in 1674, founded and led the Vyg Old Believer community until 1730 and was the principal author of the Pomorskie otvety (1723).
Andrei Doroshkevich
Andrei Doroshkevich (born 1937) is a Russian cosmologist at the Lebedev Physical Institute known for his 1964 prediction that the cosmic microwave background was detectable.
Andrei Dunaev
Andrei Dunaev (Andrey Yevgenyevich Dunayev, 1949-2015), Soviet medley swimmer from Moscow's Spartak club; set the 400 m medley world record (4:45.3, Tallinn, 1968), won 1966 European silver, and placed 7th in the 400 m IM at the 1968 Olympics.
Andrei Faraon
Andrei Faraon is a Caltech applied physicist and director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute who works in solid-state quantum optics and nanophotonics, building on-chip quantum devices around rare-earth ions.
Andrei G. Doroshkevich
Andrei G. Doroshkevich (born 1937 in Moscow) is a Russian cosmologist who, with Igor Novikov, proposed in 1964 a search for the cosmic microwave background radiation.
Andrei Goga
Andrei Goga is a physician-scientist and breast medical oncologist at UCSF, where he is Professor of Cell and Tissue Biology and co-leads the Breast Oncology Program, known for synthetic-lethal targeting of MYC-driven cancers.
Andrei Gromyko (Андрей Андреевич Громыко)
Andrei Gromyko (Андрей Андреевич Громыко), Soviet diplomat and foreign minister 1957–1985, the longest-serving in Soviet history; UN founding signatory, arms-control negotiator, 'Mr Nyet', later head of state 1985–1988.
Andrei Iancu
Andrei Iancu (born 1968, Bucharest) is a Romanian-American IP litigator who was USPTO Director and Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, 2018-2021, known for Section 101 guidance, PTAB reforms, and NCEAI; now Co-Head of IP Litigation at Sullivan & Cromwell.
Andrei K. Yudin
Andrei K. Yudin is a University of Toronto chemistry professor whose research centers on macrocycles and amphoteric molecules; he co-founded Encycle Therapeutics, acquired in 2019.
Andrei Kanchelskis (Андрей Антанович Канчельскис)
Andrei Kanchelskis (Андрей Антанасович Канчельскис), born 1969 in Kirovograd, is a Ukrainian-born winger capped by USSR, CIS, and Russia; won two Premier League titles with Manchester United and later managed clubs including Dynamo Bryansk.
Andrei Kirilenko (Андрей Геннадьевич Кириленко)
Andrei Kirilenko (Андрей Геннадьевич Кириленко), AK-47, Russian forward born 1981 in Izhevsk; Utah Jazz star 2001-2011, 2004 All-Star, three 5x5 games, EuroBasket 2007 MVP, 2012 EuroLeague MVP, later RBF president.
Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrei Konchalovsky (Андрей Кончаловский), also credited as Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky, is a Russian film and stage director born 20 August 1937 in Moscow, brother of Nikita Mikhalkov; known for Siberiade, Runaway Train, and Venice prize-winners Paradise and Dear Comrades!.
Andrei Korneev
Andrei Korneev (Andrey Nikolayevich Korneyev, Андрей Николаевич Корнеев), Russian breaststroke swimmer, 1996 Olympic 200 m breaststroke bronze medalist whose medal was stripped for bromantan and restored on CAS appeal; short course world record holder 2:07.79 (1998).
Andrei Kurbsky
Andrei Kurbsky, born Andrei Mikhailovich Kurbsky (Андрей Михайлович Курбский), was a Russian prince and military commander under Ivan IV who fled to Lithuania in 1564.