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Andrew Putnis

Andrew Putnis is an Australian mineralogist known for the mechanism of interface-coupled dissolution–reprecipitation and the textbook An Introduction to Mineral Sciences (1992); he was professor at the University of Münster.

Andrew Puzder

Andrew Franklin Puzder (Andy Puzder), American lawyer and former CEO of CKE Restaurants (Hardee's, Carl's Jr.); withdrew 2017 Labor Secretary nomination; sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the EU in 2025.

Andrew R. Chraplyvy

Andrew R. Chraplyvy is an American optical communications physicist at Nokia Bell Labs who, with Robert W. Tkach, co-invented TrueWave fiber and won the 2009 Marconi Prize.

Andrew R. Hileman

Andrew R. Hileman, known as Bob Hileman, was an American electric power engineer at Westinghouse known for his work on lightning and power system performance.

Andrew R. Marks

Andrew R. Marks is an American cardiologist and molecular physiologist at Columbia University whose laboratory showed that leaky ryanodine receptor calcium channels drive heart failure and arrhythmias.

Andrew R. Teel

Andrew R. Teel is a control theorist and Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara, known for his 1996 nonlinear small gain theorem.

Andrew R. Wheeler

Andrew R. Wheeler, American attorney and former coal lobbyist, 15th EPA Administrator (2019-2021) under Trump after acting tenure from 2018; later Virginia regulatory official and Holland & Hart partner.

Andrew R. Willan

Andrew R. Willan is a Canadian biostatistician, Professor Emeritus at McMaster University, known for cost-effectiveness analysis of randomized trial data and value of information methods in trial design.

Andrew Rakich

Andrew Rakich (born 1991) is an American filmmaker and host of the Atun-Shei Films YouTube channel on early U.S. history, creator of Checkmate, Lincolnites! and director of The Sudbury Devil (2023).

Andrew Rambaut

Andrew Rambaut is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Edinburgh who studies the evolution and epidemiology of RNA viruses including HIV, Ebola, and SARS-CoV-2, and develops the BEAST software.

Andrew Ranken

Andrew Ranken (1953-2026), English drummer nicknamed The Clobberer, founding member and drummer of the Celtic punk band the Pogues, playing on all seven studio albums from Red Roses for Me to Pogue Mahone; distinct from accordionist Andrew Rankine and lawyer Andrew Rankin.

Andrew Rannells

Andrew Rannells, Omaha-born American actor and singer, originated Elder Price in The Book of Mormon (Tony nomination, Grammy), played Elijah on Girls, Whizzer in Falsettos, and stars on Broadway and in film and TV.

Andrew Rhodes

Andrew Rhodes is a British consultant and professor of intensive care medicine and anesthesia at St George's University Hospitals in London, co-chair of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign.

Andrew Ridgeley

Andrew Ridgeley (born 1963) is an English musician, co-founder of Wham! with George Michael, co-writer of Wham Rap!, Club Tropicana, and Careless Whisper; later solo album Son of Albert and 2019 memoir Wham! George & Me.

Andrew Rikunenko

Andrew (Andy) Rikunenko is a British compound archer from Redditch, born 1970, who won the 2010 European Outdoor compound title in Rovereto, beating Sergio Pagni 6-4, and took 2009 World Indoor team silver.

Andrew Robert Jeanguenat

Andrew Robert Jeanguenat is an American trader at the quantitative proprietary trading firm Five Rings Capital, with an FCA record at its London entity from 2015 to 2018.

Andrew Robinson (actor)

Andrew Jordt Robinson (born 1942, New York City) is an American stage, film, and television character actor, famed as Scorpio in Dirty Harry, Larry Cotton in Hellraiser, and Elim Garak on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; also a director, USC acting teacher, and author of A Stitch in Time.

Andrew Rock

Andrew Rock (born 1982), American 400 m sprinter from Stratford, Wisconsin; UW-La Crosse Division III star, 2004 Athens Olympic 4x400 m relay gold medalist, 2005 world relay champion and 400 m silver medalist, 2006 US champion.

Andrew Rollins

Andrew W. Rollins is an American research chemist at NOAA's Chemical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, known for ultrasensitive laser instruments measuring trace gases and winner of a 2019 PECASE award.

Andrew Rose

Andrew Kenan Rose is a Canadian-American-British economist best known for his work on currency unions and trade; he taught at Berkeley Haas and was dean of the NUS Business School.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Andrew Ross Sorkin (born 1977) is an American financial journalist, New York Times columnist and chief M&A reporter, CNBC Squawk Box co-anchor, DealBook founder, and author of Too Big to Fail and 1929.

Andrew S. Belmont

Andrew S. Belmont, also known as Andrew Belmont, is a cell biologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studies chromatin folding and chromosome positioning in the nucleus.

Andrew S. Hanen

Andrew S. Hanen, born in 1953, is a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.

Andrew S. Levey

Andrew S. Levey is an American nephrologist at Tufts Medical Center known for developing the MDRD and CKD-EPI equations that estimate kidney function from routine blood tests.

Andrew S. Oldham

Andrew Stephen Oldham, born in 1978, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2018.

Andrew S. Weller

Andrew S. Weller is a British organometallic chemist and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of York, known for solid-state molecular organometallic chemistry, including a 2012 rhodium σ-alkane complex.

Andrew Sachs

Andrew Sachs (Andreas Siegfried Sachs, 1930-2016), German-born British actor and refugee from Nazi Germany, best known as Manuel in Fawlty Towers; also radio's Father Brown, Dr Watson, and Jeeves, and the 2008 Sachsgate controversy.

Andrew Salkey

Andrew Salkey (1928–1995) was a Caribbean novelist, poet, and broadcaster born in Panama to Jamaican parents. At the BBC he championed West Indian writers and co-founded the Caribbean Artists Movement in London in 1966.

Andrew Saxon

Andrew Saxon is an American allergist-immunologist who led UCLA's clinical immunology division for nearly 30 years and developed bifunctional fusion proteins that inhibit IgE-mediated allergic reactions.

Andrew Scharenberg

Andrew Scharenberg is an American physician-scientist who co-founded and leads Umoja Biopharma, a Seattle-based biotechnology company developing CAR T cell therapies generated inside the body rather than in a laboratory.