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Angela Davis

Angela Yvonne Davis, born in 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama, is an American political activist and scholar known for the Communist Party USA, her 1970–1972 trial, and prison abolition.

Sep 21, 2026

Angela Dispenzieri is a hematologist and professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, on the faculty since 1998 and known for work on multiple myeloma, AL amyloidosis, and POEMS syndrome.

Angela Douglas

Angela Douglas (Angela Josephine MacDonagh), English actress born 1940 in Gerrards Cross; female lead of four 1960s Carry On films including Carry On Cowboy; widow of Kenneth More; author of Swings and Roundabouts. Not the Canadian thriller author or other namesakes.

Angela Duckworth

Angela Lee Duckworth, American psychologist and Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, 2013 MacArthur Fellow, co-founder of Character Lab, known for defining grit as perseverance plus passion for long-term goals and for the Grit Scale.

Angela E. Gibbs

Angela E. Gibbs (Angela Elayne Gibbs, born 1954, Detroit) is an American actress, writer, director, and acting coach, daughter of Marla Gibbs; known for Ms. Tudi on Black Jesus, Doris in Straight Outta Compton, Cricket on Not Dead Yet, and producing the play 227.

Angela Eagle

Dame Angela Eagle DBE, Labour MP for Wallasey since 1992, twin of Maria Eagle, former shadow business secretary and 2016 Corbyn challenger, now UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (from 20 July 2026).

Angela Featherstone

Angela Featherstone (Angela Eileen Featherstone), Canadian actress, writer, director, and foster-care advocate born 1965 in Hamilton, Ontario; known for Chloe on Friends, Linda in The Wedding Singer, Cindy in Seinfeld's "The Maid", and her Pushcart-nominated essays.

Angela Franke

Angela Franke (born 1957, Magdeburg) is a former East German swimmer, 1972 Olympian, and 400 m individual medley world record holder (5:01.10, Utrecht 1973), later a teacher, school head, and masters lifesaving swimmer.

Angela Giarratana

Angela Giovann Giarratana (born 1993) is an American actress, comedian, and singer in Los Angeles, a Smosh cast member since August 2022, a Team StarKid performer (Black Friday, Nerdy Prudes Must Die), and co-host of the podcast Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists.

Angela Goethals

Angela Goethals (Angela Bethany Goethals) is an American actress, born 1977 in New York City, known as Linnie in Home Alone (1990), Maya Driscoll on 24, Taylor Gentry in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, and for Broadway work and an Obie Award.

Angela Gonzales-Torres

Angela Gonzales-Torres is an American politician and the 2026 Democratic nominee for the US House in California's 34th congressional district, challenging incumbent Jimmy Gomez in November.

Angela Gossow

Angela Gossow (Angela Nathalie Gossow, born 1974, Cologne) is a German death metal vocalist, Arch Enemy's lead singer 2000–2013 and its first female frontwoman, later the band's manager who chose successor Alissa White-Gluz.

Angela Griffin

Angela Griffin (Angela Mellissa Griffin, born 1976, Leeds) is an English actress, presenter and director. Known for Fiona Middleton in Coronation Street, Kim Campbell in Waterloo Road, and later directing for BBC drama.

Angela Gronenborn

Angela M. Gronenborn is a structural biologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine who determines protein and protein–DNA structures by NMR spectroscopy and is known for her work on HIV capsid structure.

Angela Hartnett

Angela Maria Hartnett, British chef and restaurateur, chef-proprietor of Michelin-starred Murano in Mayfair; ex-Gordon Ramsay group, four Cafe Murano sites, MBE 2007, OBE 2022, first woman Chef Catey.

Angela Hitler

Angela Hitler (Angela Hammitzsch, 1883–1949), Adolf Hitler's half-sister by Franziska Matzelberger, mother of Geli Raubal, and housekeeper at his Berghof household 1928–1935 before her break with him and remarriage.

Angela Hucles

Angela Hucles (Angela Khalia Hucles Mangano), born 1978, is a retired USWNT midfielder with 109 caps, two Olympic golds (2004, 2008), and a former Angel City FC general manager, now Houston Dash President of Women's Soccer.

Angela Kane

Angela Kane, German diplomat born 1948 in Hameln, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs 2012–2015 and former Under-Secretary-General for Management; headed the 2013 UN investigation of Syria's Ghouta sarin attack.

Angela Kennedy

Angela Kennedy, Australian swimmer born 1976 in Nambour, Queensland; 1996 Atlanta Olympic silver medallist in the 4x100 m medley relay and former short-course world record holder in the 50 m and 100 m butterfly.

Angela Kinsey

Angela Kinsey (born 1971, Lafayette, Louisiana) is an American actress who played accountant Angela Martin on NBC's The Office, won a Daytime Emmy and two SAG Awards, and co-hosts the Office Ladies podcast with Jenna Fischer.

Angela Lansbury

Dame Angela Lansbury (1925-2022) was a British-American-Irish actress of film, Broadway, and television, known for Gaslight, The Manchurian Candidate, Murder She Wrote, and five Tony Awards.

Angela Lee

Angela Lee, Canadian-born Singaporean-American MMA fighter, ONE Championship's first female and inaugural atomweight world champion (2016, youngest recorded MMA champion), 11-3 record, retired 2023, founder of mental health nonprofit Fightstory.

Sep 20, 2026

Angela M. Belcher

Angela M. Belcher, born 1968, is an American materials scientist at MIT who engineers viruses to build nanoscale materials for batteries, solar cells, and cancer imaging.

Angela M. Martinez

Angela M. Martinez, born Angela Marie Martinez, is an American jurist serving as a U.S. district judge for the District of Arizona since 2024, appointed by President Biden.

Angela Martin

Angela Martin (Angela Noelle Schrute) is a fictional accountant on NBC's The Office, played by Angela Kinsey; head of Accounting at Dunder Mifflin Scranton, secretly involved with Dwight Schrute, married to him in the series finale.

Angela McKnight

Angela V. McKnight is an American Democratic politician representing New Jersey's 31st district in the State Senate, elected in 2023 after serving in the General Assembly since 2016.

Angela Merici

Angela Merici (1474–1540) was an Italian religious founder who established the Company of Saint Ursula at Brescia in 1535, the first teaching order of women.

Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel (Angela Dorothea Kasner), German physicist-turned-politician, Chancellor of Germany 2005–2021, first woman and first East German in the office; defined by 'Wir schaffen das', the Energiewende, COVID leadership, and the 2024 memoir Freiheit.

Angela Mosley

Angela Mosley is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Missouri Senate from the 13th district; she took office in 2021 and is the first Black person elected to represent the district.