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Andy Taylor (guitarist)
Andy Taylor (Andrew Arthur Taylor, born 1961) is an English guitarist of Duran Duran and The Power Station, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.
Andy Taylor (The Andy Griffith Show)
Sheriff Andy Taylor, played by Andy Griffith, is the widowed Mayberry, North Carolina lawman at the center of The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968, 249 episodes), debuting on The Danny Thomas Show in February 1960 and appearing in every episode.
Andy the Core
Andy the Core, born Andrea Calcagnile in 1989, is an Italian hardcore DJ and producer whose sets span Frenchcore, uptempo, and terror, and who founded the label Rude Vibes.
Andy Timo
Andy Timo (born 2004) is a French rugby back row, U20 world champion 2023, Paris 2024 Olympic gold medalist in men's rugby sevens, formerly RC Massy and Stade Français, now Stade Rochelais.
Andy Townsend
Andy Townsend (Andrew David Townsend), born 1963 in Maidstone, is a former Republic of Ireland midfielder with 70 caps who played at the 1990 and 1994 World Cups, captained Ireland in 1994, won two League Cups with Aston Villa, and became an ITV co-commentator from 2000 to 2015.
Andy Triggs Hodge
Andy Triggs Hodge (Andrew Triggs Hodge, born 1979) is a retired British rower, Molesey Boat Club and Oxford Blue, who won Olympic gold in the coxless four at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 and in the eight at Rio 2016, plus four world titles.
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola, 1928–1987), American Pop artist from Pittsburgh known for Campbell's Soup Cans, celebrity portraits, screenprinting, the Factory, avant-garde films, and the Velvet Underground.
Andy Weir
Andy Weir (born 1972) is the American science-fiction author of The Martian (2014), Artemis (2017), and Project Hail Mary (2021); a former software engineer whose self-published debut became a $630-million film franchise.
Andy Weissman
Andy Weissman is an American venture capitalist and Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures, which he joined in 2011 after co-founding betaworks and working at AOL.
Andy Whitfield
Andy Whitfield (1971–2011), Welsh-born Australian actor, star of Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010) and the film Gabriel (2007); died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma; subject of the documentary Be Here Now.
Andy Williams
Andy Williams (1927-2012), American easy-listening singer and TV host known as the Emperor of Easy; signature song "Moon River"; hosted The Andy Williams Show (1962-1971) and the Grammys; built Branson's Moon River Theatre.
Andy Wilman
Andy Wilman (born 1962) is the British TV producer behind Top Gear (2002–2015), The Grand Tour, and Clarkson's Farm, and co-founder with Jeremy Clarkson of W. Chump & Sons; the new Grand Tour reboot is his distinguishing later project.
Andy Wilson
Andy Wilson is an American politician and Republican who became Attorney General of Ohio in June 2026, appointed by Governor Mike DeWine after Dave Yost resigned.
Andy Woodward (chess player)
Andy Woodward (born 2010, Frisco, Texas) is an American chess grandmaster, second-youngest US GM in history at 13 years, 8 months, 28 days; two-time US Junior champion and 2026 Tata Steel Challengers winner.
Andy Zaltzman
Andy Zaltzman, British political satirist and cricket statistician, hosts The Bugle podcast and BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz, works on Test Match Special, and won Taskmaster series 18 in 2024.
ANE syndrome
ANE syndrome (alopecia, neurologic defects, and endocrinopathy syndrome, ANES) is a rare autosomal recessive ribosomopathy caused by biallelic RBM28 mutations, distinct from acute necrotizing encephalopathy, causing alopecia, intellectual disability, motor decline, and pituitary hormone deficiency.
Aneal Tenjarla
Aneal Tenjarla is a Partner and Associate Portfolio Manager for Sofinnova BioEquities at Sofinnova Venture Partners, focused on public biotech investing after five years as a Senior Analyst at Citadel.
Anecdotal evidence
Anecdotal evidence: personal stories or single cases used as proof, contrasted with systematic study; bottom of evidence hierarchies, psychologically powerful, useful for hypothesis generation and rare-event detection.
Anecdote
Anecdote: a short narrative about a real person or event, also called chreia when pointed; from Greek anekdota, 'things unpublished', via Procopius' secret history of Justinian; distinct from exemplum and parable; weak evidence but pervasive in medicine and social media.
Anechoic chamber
An anechoic chamber is a room whose walls, ceiling, and floor are lined with absorbing wedges that eliminate sound reflections, used to test microphones, loudspeakers, and machinery noise.
Anecortave acetate
Anecortave acetate (RETAANE) is an angiostatic cortisene, a cortisol analog lacking glucocorticoid activity, given as a posterior juxtascleral depot every 6 months for wet AMD; development was discontinued after FDA approvable letters and a 2006 EMA withdrawal.
Anedjib
Anedjib, also rendered Adjib or Enezib, was a king of Egypt's First Dynasty, buried in Tomb X at Abydos between Den and Semerkhet; his reign was likely under 12 years.
Aneel Bhusri
Aneel Bhusri is an American software executive and venture investor who co-founded Workday with Dave Duffield in 2005 after a decade at PeopleSoft, and returned as CEO in 2026.
Aneel K. Aggarwal
Aneel K. Aggarwal is a structural biologist and protein crystallographer, professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for structures of DNA-acting enzymes.
Aneel Ranadive
Aneel Ranadive is a venture capitalist who founded Soma Capital in 2015, a seed firm with 40+ unicorns including Deel, Ramp, and Kalshi, and a Forbes Midas lister.
Aneesh B. Singhal
Aneesh B. Singhal is an American vascular neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for stroke trials, RCVS research, and leading an NIH StrokeNet center.
Aneesh Chaganty
Aneesh Chaganty (born 1991, Redmond, Washington) is an Indian-American filmmaker best known for Searching (2018) and Run (2020), after a viral Google Glass short led to two years at Google Creative Lab.
Aneet Padda
Aneet Padda (born 2002, Amritsar) is an Indian actress and Delhi University Political Science graduate who became a star as Vaani Batra in Saiyaara (2025), Yash Raj Films' record-breaking Mohit Suri romantic drama opposite Ahaan Panday, distinguishing her from earlier small roles in Salaam Venky and Big Girls Don't Cry.
Aneethi (அநீதி)
Aneethi (அநீதி) is a 2023 Tamil psychological thriller directed by Vasanthabalan, starring Arjun Das and Dushara Vijayan; released 21 July 2023 by Urban Boyz Studios, Telugu as Blood and Chocolate, IMDb 6.5.
Anegada
Anegada, also called the flat coral and limestone island of the British Virgin Islands, is the territory's second largest island at 38 km2, lying 24 km north of Virgin Gorda behind Horseshoe Reef, with Ramsar wetlands and the Critically Endangered Anegada rock iguana.