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Andrew E. Dessler

Andrew E. Dessler is an American climatologist and professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, known for quantifying water vapor and cloud feedbacks that amplify warming.

Andrew E. Lange

Andrew E. Lange (1957–2010) was an American experimental cosmologist at Caltech, best known for co-leading BOOMERanG, whose 1998 Antarctic flight showed the universe's geometry is flat.

Andrew E. Pelling

Andrew E. Pelling is a Canadian biophysicist at the University of Ottawa known for growing human cells on decellularized apple scaffolds, the "apple ear" experiment.

Andrew E. Rosenberg

Andrew E. Rosenberg is an American bone and soft tissue pathologist who spent 30 years at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard before joining the University of Miami in 2011.

Andrew E. Teschendorff

Andrew E. Teschendorff is a computational biologist in statistical epigenomics and cancer systems biology, professor at the CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology in Shanghai since 2013.

Andrew East

Andrew Dean East (born 1991) is a former NFL long snapper from Indianapolis; Vanderbilt captain who played 3 games for Washington in 2018, later a family media creator with Shawn Johnson.

Andrew Eldritch

Andrew Eldritch (Andrew William Harvey Taylor, born 1959, Ely, England) is the frontman, chief songwriter, and sole constant member of The Sisters of Mercy, known for his baritone vocals, Doktor Avalanche drum machine, three studio albums, and rejection of the goth label.

Andrew Emili

Andrew Emili is a Canadian-American proteomics and systems biology researcher known for large-scale maps of protein interactions, now a professor at Oregon Health & Science University's Knight Cancer Institute.

Andrew F. Read

Andrew F. Read is a New Zealand-born evolutionary biologist at Pennsylvania State University who studies how pathogens evolve in response to drugs and vaccines, and how that evolution can be managed.

Andrew F. Stewart

Andrew Fyfe Stewart is an American endocrinologist who directs the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute at Mount Sinai and develops drugs that regenerate insulin-producing beta cells.

Andrew F. Taylor

Andrew F. Taylor is an English-born molecular biologist known for his decades of work on the RecBCD enzyme of E. coli, which initiates DNA double-strand break repair.

Andrew Farkas (businessman)

Andrew L. Farkas is an American real estate financier who founded Insignia Financial Group in 1990, sold it to CB Richard Ellis in 2003, and built Island Capital Group.

Andrew Fastow

Andrew Fastow, also known as Andy Fastow, was Enron's chief financial officer from 1998 to 2001, whose LJM partnerships hid Enron's debt and led to a six-year prison sentence.

Andrew Feinberg

Andrew P. Feinberg is an American physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University who founded cancer epigenetics, discovering altered DNA methylation in cancer with Bert Vogelstein in the early 1980s.

Andrew Feldman (businessman)

Andrew Feldman is an American technology executive who co-founded the AI chip maker Cerebras Systems in 2016 and previously founded SeaMicro, sold to AMD in 2012.

Andrew File System

The Andrew File System (AFS) is a distributed file system developed at Carnegie Mellon University from 1983 as part of the Andrew project with IBM, caching files on clients.

Andrew Fire

Andrew Z. Fire is an American molecular biologist who shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering RNA interference, the silencing of genes by double-stranded RNA.

Andrew Fischer

Andrew Fischer (born 2004, Brick, NJ) is a left-handed-hitting third baseman drafted 20th overall in 2025 by the Milwaukee Brewers from Tennessee; he hit 48 minor-league home runs in 2026 and won the Brewers' Hitting Prospect of the Year.

Andrew Flintoff

Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff, born 1977 in Preston, English fast-medium all-rounder; 79 Tests, 3,845 runs, 226 wickets; 2005 Ashes hero and Compton-Miller Medal winner; later Top Gear presenter and England Lions coach.

Andrew Forbes

Andrew Forbes is a South African physicist and Distinguished Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, credited with pioneering structured light and leading South Africa's Quantum Technology Initiative.

Andrew Form

Andrew Form (born 1969 or 1972) is an American film producer, co-founder of Platinum Dunes with Michael Bay and Brad Fuller, known for A Quiet Place, The Purge, and Jack Ryan.

Andrew Forrest

Andrew Forrest, known as Twiggy Forrest, is an Australian mining billionaire and philanthropist who founded Fortescue Metals Group in 2003, built it into the world's fourth-largest iron ore producer, and established the Minderoo Foundation.

Andrew Forsyth

Andrew Russell Forsyth (1858–1942) was a British mathematician, Sadleirian Professor at Cambridge, whose 1893 Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable brought continental analysis to Britain.

Andrew Fraser (molecular geneticist)

Andrew G. Fraser is a molecular geneticist at the University of Toronto who studies the nematode worm C. elegans and led the first genome-scale RNAi screens in an animal.

Andrew Fuller

Andrew Fuller (1754–1815) was an English Particular Baptist minister and theologian, pastor at Kettering from 1782 and founding secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792.

Andrew G. Clark

Andrew G. Clark is an American population geneticist at Cornell University, known for genomic studies of Drosophila and humans and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Andrew G. Engel

Andrew G. Engel (1930–2024) was a Hungarian-born American neurologist and neuroscientist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and a pioneer in neuromuscular diseases, elected in 2003 to the Institute of Medicine.

Andrew G. Ewing

Andrew G. Ewing, also published as Andrew Ewing, is an American analytical chemist and neurochemist, professor at the University of Gothenburg since 2010, known for measuring chemistry in single living cells.

ANDREW G. FRANTZ

Andrew G. Frantz (died 2010) was an American endocrinologist at Columbia University best known for showing that human prolactin is a hormone separate from growth hormone.

Andrew G. Morrow

Andrew G. Morrow was an American cardiac surgeon who led surgery at the National Heart Institute in Bethesda and created the septal myectomy operation for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.