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Andrew Tackett

Andrew "Pirulito" Tackett (born 2003) is an American no-gi jiu-jitsu black belt from Austin, Texas; UFC BJJ welterweight champion, 2024 ADCC Trials winner, brother of William Tackett.

Andrew Tate

Andrew Tate (Emory Andrew Tate III), British-American ex-kickboxer and manosphere influencer; banned by major platforms in 2022, founder of Hustler's University and The Real World, facing Romanian and UK rape and trafficking charges.

Andrew Tate vs Chase DeMoor

Heavyweight boxing bout, December 20, 2025, Dubai: Misfits champion Chase DeMoor beat influencer and former kickboxer Andrew Tate by majority decision (57-57, 58-56, 58-56) in Tate's boxing debut, retaining the Misfits heavyweight title.

Andrew Taylor Still

Andrew Taylor Still (1828–1917), founder of osteopathy; broke with drug medicine in 1874, founded the American School of Osteopathy in Kirksville, Missouri, 1892, and became the first DO.

Andrew the Apostle

Andrew the Apostle, also known as Saint Andrew, was a brother of Simon Peter and one of the Twelve disciples of Jesus, the patron saint of Scotland, Russia, and Greece.

Andrew Toles

Andrew Toles (Alvin Andrew Toles, born 1992) is a former MLB outfielder who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers 2016-2018, hit .286 with 8 home runs, and whose contract the Dodgers have renewed annually since 2019 so he keeps health insurance while dealing with schizophrenia.

Andrew Tomkins

Andrew Tomkins is Emeritus Professor of International Child Health at University College London, known for research on nutrition and infection, malnutrition, and HIV prevention in children.

Andrew Tomlinson

Andrew Tomlinson is a developmental geneticist and professor at Columbia University known for studies of cell signaling in the fruit fly Drosophila, including the sevenless receptor.

Andrew Torba

Andrew Torba is an American technology entrepreneur from Scranton, Pennsylvania, who founded the startup Kuhcoon in 2011 and then Gab, the alt-tech social network he leads as chief executive.

Andrew Travers

Andrew Travers, also published as A.A. Travers, is a British molecular biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology known for work on RNA polymerase and chromatin organization.

Andrew Tsourkas

Andrew Tsourkas is an American bioengineer at the University of Pennsylvania who holds the Glandt Distinguished Professor chair, works on molecular imaging and targeted nanoparticles, and co-founded AlphaThera and PolyAurum.

Andrew Turberfield

Andrew J. Turberfield is an Emeritus Professor of Physics and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, who builds molecular machines from DNA; his DNA motor navigated a four-route track network.

Andrew Tutt

Andrew N. J. Tutt is a British consultant clinical oncologist and breast cancer researcher at the Institute of Cancer Research and King's College London who led the OlympiA olaparib trial.

Andrew Upton

Andrew Upton (born 1966, Sydney) is an Australian playwright and adaptor, co-Artistic Director of Sydney Theatre Company with Cate Blanchett 2008-2012 and sole director 2013-2015; creator of Hanging Man, Riflemind, The Present, and the 2026 novel Krank Fuss.

Andrew V. Schally

Andrew V. Schally, born Andrzej Viktor Schally (1926–2024), was a Polish-born American endocrinologist who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize and developed LHRH agonists, the standard drug treatment for advanced prostate cancer.

Andrew Valmon

Andrew Valmon (Andrew Orlando Valmon, born 1965) is an American 400m runner, two-time Olympic 4x400m relay gold medalist (1988, 1992), and 1993 world record holder (2:54.29), later Maryland head coach and 2012 US Olympic head coach.

Andrew VanWyngarden

Andrew VanWyngarden (born 1983) is an American musician, co-founder, lead vocalist, and songwriter of psychedelic pop duo MGMT with Ben Goldwasser, known for Oracular Spectacular's "Kids," "Time to Pretend," and "Electric Feel" and five albums through Loss of Life (2024).

Andrew Veniamin

Andrew 'Benji' Veniamin, Melbourne underworld hitman and Carl Williams associate, suspected in several gangland murders including Victor Peirce's; shot dead by Mick Gatto at La Porcella, Carlton, in 2004; Gatto acquitted on self-defence.

Andrew Verhalen

Andrew Verhalen, known as Andy Verhalen, is an American venture capitalist, a General Partner at Matrix Partners since 1992, best known for helping start Grand Junction Networks.

Andrew Viterbi

Andrew Viterbi, born Andrea Viterbi in Bergamo, Italy, in 1935, is an Italian-born electrical engineer who invented the Viterbi decoding algorithm and co-founded Linkabit and Qualcomm.

Andrew W. Cordier

Andrew W. Cordier (Andrew Wellington Cordier, 1901–1975) was an American political scientist who helped draft the UN Charter and led Columbia University after the 1968 protests.

Andrew W. Lo

Andrew W. Lo is an American financial economist at MIT Sloan, known for the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis and for showing stock prices do not follow a random walk.

Andrew W. Murray

Andrew W. Murray is an American cell and molecular biologist at Harvard, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, known for building the first artificial chromosomes in yeast.

Andrew W. Roberts

Andrew W. Roberts is an Australian clinical hematologist and Deputy Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne who led development of the leukemia drug venetoclax.

Andrew W. Woods

Andrew W. Woods is a British fluid dynamicist who studies flows in volcanoes and porous rocks; he has been BP Professor of Petroleum Science at Cambridge since 2000.

Andrew W.K.

Andrew W.K. (Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier, born 1979) is an American hard rock musician from Ann Arbor, Michigan, whose 2001 debut I Get Wet and single Party Hard made him a polarizing party-rock figure and later a motivational speaker.

Andrew Wakefield

Andrew Wakefield, discredited former British gastroenterologist; lead author of the retracted 1998 Lancet paper falsely linking the MMR vaccine to autism; struck off by the GMC in 2010 after a 217-day hearing for dishonesty and ethics breaches.

Andrew Walker (actor)

Andrew W. Walker (born 1979, Montréal) is a Canadian actor and producer, Hallmark leading man in more than 20 films including the Three Wise Men trilogy and Curious Caterer Mysteries, and winner of the Whistler Film Festival's Borsos Award for Steel Toes.

Andrew Wang (medical researcher, Duke Medical Center)

Andrew Wang is an American cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at Duke University who directs its Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic and specializes in transcatheter valve procedures.

Andrew Wang (medical researcher, Yale University)

Andrew Wang is a medical researcher and rheumatologist at Yale University whose laboratory studies how environment and metabolism shape inflammatory disease, from sepsis to food allergy.