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Andrzej Halicki

Andrzej Halicki, born in Warsaw in 1961, is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament since 2019 for Civic Coalition, known for advocacy on Ukraine and European security.

Andrzej J. Strojwas

Andrzej J. Strojwas is an electrical engineer and Carnegie Mellon professor emeritus who co-founded PDF Solutions, the semiconductor yield-analytics company, and serves as its Chief Technology Officer.

Andrzej Konopka (actor)

Andrzej Konopka (born 1969, Wyśmierzyce) is a Polish film, theatre, and TV actor, PWST Kraków graduate, husband of director Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Orzeł-winning supporting actor for LARP (2025), known for Chrzciny and Chłopi.

Andrzej Meisels

Andrzej Meisels, published as Alexander Meisels, was a Polish-named cytopathologist at Laval University in Quebec whose 1976 paper postulated that koilocytes signal papillomavirus infection, cited by the 2008 Nobel Committee.

Andrzej Mostowski

Andrzej Mostowski (1913–1975) was a Polish mathematician and logician of the Warsaw school, known for the Mostowski collapse and independence proofs about the axiom of choice.

Andrzej Poznański

Andrzej Poznański is a Polish video-game developer who co-founded the Warsaw studio People Can Fly in 2002 with Adrian Chmielarz and Michał Kosieradzki, leaving in 2012 after Epic Games acquired the studio.

Andrzej Rajca

Andrzej Rajca is an American organic chemist and Charles Bessey Professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, known for building organic magnets from high-spin polyradicals, including a 2001 magnetic organic polymer.

Andrzej S. Królewski

Andrzej S. Królewski (Andrzej S. Krolewski) is a physician-scientist who heads the Section on Genetics and Epidemiology at Joslin Diabetes Center and is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Andrzej Sapkowski

Andrzej Sapkowski (born 1948, Łódź), Polish fantasy author of the Witcher saga about Geralt of Rivia; over 35 million copies in 40+ languages, Hussite trilogy, World Fantasy Award 2016.

Andrzej Schinzel

Andrzej Schinzel (1937–2021) was a Polish number theorist and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, best known for Schinzel's Hypothesis H on prime values of polynomials.

Andrzej Stasiak

Andrzej Stasiak is a researcher at the University of Lausanne since 1989, known for measuring DNA helicity in RecA complexes and for pioneering the study of knotted DNA and proteins.

Andrzej Tarkowski

Andrzej Tarkowski (1933–2016) was a Polish embryologist and developmental biologist at the University of Warsaw, called the father of modern mammalian embryology; he made the first chimaeric mice and shared the 2002 Japan Prize.

Andrzej Udalski

Andrzej Udalski is a Polish astronomer, professor at the University of Warsaw and head of the OGLE survey, which has discovered over 100 extrasolar planets since 1992.

Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda (1926–2016), Polish film and theatre director of A Generation, Kanał, Ashes and Diamonds, Man of Marble, Man of Iron (Palme d'Or 1981), and Katyń; honorary Oscar 2000, senator 1989–1991, founder of Manggha Museum and the Wajda Film School.

Andrzej Walicki

Andrzej Walicki (1930–2020) was a Polish historian of ideas and philosopher who co-founded the Warsaw school and won the 1998 Balzan Prize for the Cultural and Social History of the Slavonic World.

Andrzej Zamoyski

Andrzej Zamoyski (1716–1792) was a Polish magnate, lawyer, and reformer who served as Grand Crown Chancellor from 1764 to 1767 and wrote the Zbiór praw sądowych, a proposed codification of Commonwealth law rejected in 1780.

Andrzej Żuławski

Andrzej Żuławski (1940–2016), Polish-French film director and writer of Possession, The Devil, On the Silver Globe, and Cosmos; known for hysterical acting style, censorship battles in communist Poland, and Cannes-awarded work with Isabelle Adjani.

Anduril

Anduril is an American defense technology company founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey and headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, building autonomous aircraft, undersea vehicles, missiles, and the Lattice software platform.

Anduril Altius

The Anduril Altius is a family of small autonomous air vehicles and loitering munitions made by Anduril Industries, launched from tubes on the ground, from trucks, or from aircraft.

Anduril FQ-44

The Anduril FQ-44, also designated YFQ-44, is an uncrewed semi-autonomous fighter jet built for the US Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, first flying in 2025.

Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is an American private defense technology company founded by Palmer Luckey in 2017 and headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, specializing in autonomous systems.

Andvord Bay

Andvord Bay: glaciomarine fjord on the Danco Coast, Western Antarctic Peninsula, in Gerlache Strait; ~20 km long, five tidewater glaciers, deep >400 m basins; FjordEco study site 2015-2017.

Andy (goose)

Andy was a footless domestic goose in Hastings, Nebraska, who became a celebrity in the late 1980s after his owner fitted him with baby shoes that let him walk.

Andy Allen (chef)

Andy Allen (Andrew Peter Allen, born 1988), Australian chef, restaurateur and MasterChef Australia Season 4 winner (2012); judge from 2020, co-owner of Three Blue Ducks and co-founder of Travla beer.

Andy Allo

Andy Allo (born 1989, Bamenda, Cameroon) is a Cameroonian-American singer-guitarist and actress, former New Power Generation member with Prince, star of Upload's Nora Antony, now a Cameroonian-cuisine chef.

Andy Arenas

Andy Arenas, full name Andres Arenas, is a Peruvian business executive who co-founded Kitopi, the Dubai-based food technology company, in January 2018 as chief property officer.

Andy Baker (national security advisor)

Andy Baker (Andrew C. Baker), American former Foreign Service officer and Oxford-trained academic; White House deputy national security adviser and Vance's national security adviser concurrently in the second Trump administration; left in August 2026 for American Global Strategies.

Andy Barclay

Andy Barclay (Andrew William Barclay) is the Child's Play franchise's original protagonist, the boy Chucky (Charles Lee Ray) targets for soul transfer. Played by Alex Vincent, Justin Whalin, and Gabriel Bateman; recurring across the films and the Chucky series.

Andy Barr

Andy Barr is an American Republican politician who has served as the U.S. Representative for Kentucky's 6th congressional district since 2013 and is the 2026 Republican Senate nominee in Kentucky.

Andy Bechtolsheim

Andy Bechtolsheim, also known as Andreas von Bechtolsheim, is a German-born American computer engineer who designed the SUN workstation at Stanford, co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982, co-founded Arista Networks, and became Google's first investor in 1998.