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Andrei Lankov
Andrei Lankov is a Russian historian and scholar of North Korea, born in 1963 in Leningrad, teaching at Kookmin University in Seoul and known for predicting the regime's collapse.
Andrei Leman
Andrei Leman (Андрей Андреевич Леман, 1940–2012) was a Soviet computer scientist who co-invented the Weisfeiler–Leman graph algorithm, contributed to the INES database, and helped build Kaissa, the first world champion computer chess program.
Andrei Linde
Andrei Linde, born in Moscow in 1948, is a Russian-born theoretical physicist at Stanford University and one of the principal authors of inflationary cosmology, known for chaotic and eternal inflation and the multiverse.
Andrei Markov (1903–1979)
Andrei Markov (1903–1979) was a Soviet mathematician and logician, son of the probabilist Andrei Markov, who founded the Russian school of constructive mathematics and introduced Markov algorithms.
Andrei Minakov
Andrei Minakov (Андрей Дмитриевич Минаков, born 2002), Russian swimmer, butterfly and freestyle sprinter; six-time 2018 Youth Olympic champion, Tokyo 2020 finalist, 2019 world silver medalist, and short-course 4x100 m medley relay world record holder (3:18.68).
Andrei Monin
Andrei Sergeevich Monin (Андрей Сергеевич Монин; 1921–2007) was a Soviet and Russian geophysicist and oceanographer who led the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology from 1965 to 1987 and co-created Monin–Obukhov similarity theory.
Andrei Mryi
Andrei Mryi (Андрэй Мрый), pen name of Andrei Shashalevich, was a Belarusian prose writer and journalist best known for the satirical novel Zapiski Samsona Samasuya, which led to his persecution.
Andrei Muntean
Andrei Muntean is a Romanian artistic gymnast, born in 1993 in Sibiu, who won rings gold at the 2010 Youth Olympics and competed at the 2016 and 2024 Olympics.
Andrei N. Khlobystov
Andrei N. Khlobystov is a materials chemist and Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of Nottingham, where he established the Nottingham Nanocarbon Group in 2004 and pioneered chemical reactions inside carbon nanotubes.
Andrei Nica
Andrei Robert Nica (born 2002) is a Romanian bobsledder who shared gold in boys' monobob at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics and finished 17th in four-man bobsleigh at Milano Cortina 2026.
Andrei of Staritsa
Andrei of Staritsa (Андрей Иванович Старицкий) was an appanage prince and the youngest son of Ivan III of Moscow, ruling Staritsa from 1519 until his imprisonment and death in 1537.
Andrei Okounkov
Andrei Okounkov is a Russian and American mathematician at Columbia University who won the 2006 Fields Medal for work bridging probability, representation theory, and algebraic geometry.
Andrei Omelchuk
Andrei Omelchuk, also Andrey Omelchuk (Андрей Владимирович Омельчук), is a Russian politician and Candidate of Economic Sciences serving as Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education since 2020.
Andrei Osterman
Andrei Osterman (Андрей Остерман), born Heinrich Ostermann, was a Westphalian-born Russian statesman who negotiated the Peace of Nystad in 1721 and led foreign policy until exiled by Empress Elizabeth in 1741.
Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov (Андрей Платонов), born Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, was a Russian Soviet writer and playwright whose novels Chevengur and The Foundation Pit made him one of the most distinctive figures of twentieth-century literature.
Andrei Rublev (Андре́й Рублёв)
Andrei Rublev (Андре́й Рублёв), also known as Andrey Rublyov, was a Russian monk and icon painter active ca. 1360–1430. He is remembered for his icon of the Old Testament Trinity.
Andrei Rublev (Андрей Рублёв) (film)
Andrei Rublev (Андрей Рублёв), aka The Passion According to Andrei, is Andrei Tarkovsky's 1966 Mosfilm drama in eight episodes about the fifteenth-century icon painter, censored in the USSR, released 1971, FIPRESCI winner at Cannes 1969.
Andrei Rybakou
Andrei Rybakou (Андрэй Рыбакоў), Belarusian weightlifter born 1982 in Mahilyow; 2004 Olympic silver at 85 kg, 2006 world champion, snatch and total world record holder; 2008 result disqualified for stanozolol and turinabol.
Andrei Șaguna
Andrei Șaguna, born Anastasie Șaguna (1808–1873), was Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Transylvania, restored its Metropolitanate in 1864, built its confessional schools, and was canonized in 2011.
Andrei Sakharov (Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров)
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Андрей Сахаров) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, who later became a leading dissident and won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize.
Andrei Sebastian Cornea
Andrei Sebastian Cornea, Romanian rower born 1999 in Vatra Dornei; with Marian Enache won men's double sculls gold at Paris 2024, Romania's first in that class, plus 2024 European gold.
Andrei Shleifer
Andrei Shleifer is an American economist, the John L. Loeb Professor of Economics at Harvard, known for work on corporate governance, law and finance, and behavioral finance.
Andrei Suslin
Andrei Suslin (Андрей Александрович Суслин; 1950–2018) was a Russian mathematician known for the Quillen–Suslin and Merkurjev–Suslin theorems and for building motivic cohomology with Vladimir Voevodsky, working at the Steklov Institute and Northwestern University.
Andrei Tarkovsky (Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский)
Andrei Tarkovsky (Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, 1932–1986), Soviet film director of Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia, and The Sacrifice; theorist of cinema as sculpting in time.
Andrei Tokmakoff
Andrei Tokmakoff is an American experimental physical chemist at the University of Chicago known for developing two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy and applying it to water and proteins.
Andrei Toom
Andrei Leonovich Toom (Андрей Леонович Тоом) was a Soviet-born mathematician known for the Toom-Cook multiplication algorithm, the Toom rule in cellular automata, and essays defending Russian math teaching.
Andrei V. Gudkov
Andrei V. Gudkov is a Russian-born molecular biologist and cancer researcher at Roswell Park in Buffalo, New York, known for suppressing p53 to protect normal tissue from therapy side effects.
Andrei Vasilevskiy (Андрей Андреевич Василевский)
Andrei Vasilevskiy (Андрей Василевский), Russian NHL goaltender for the Tampa Bay Lightning; drafted 19th overall in 2012, back-to-back Stanley Cups 2020-2021, 2021 Conn Smythe, Vezina winner 2019 and 2026.
Andrei Victorovich Gaponov-Grekhov
Andrei Victorovich Gaponov-Grekhov (Андрей Викторович Гапонов-Грехов) was a Soviet and Russian physicist whose theory of the cyclotron resonance maser underlies the gyrotron, and who founded the Institute of Applied Physics in Nizhny Novgorod.
Andrei Voznesensky
Andrei Voznesensky (Andrei Andreevich Voznesensky) was a Soviet Russian poet and trained architect who filled stadiums during the Khrushchev Thaw, drawing official censure and mass popularity.