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AngelList
AngelList is an American financial technology company that builds software infrastructure for venture capital. Started as an email list in 2010, it runs the back office for thousands of venture funds.
AngelMaker
AngelMaker: Canadian melodic deathcore band formed 2011 in North Vancouver, BC, with dual vocalists (Casey Tyson-Pearce, later Ian Bearer), triple guitars, four independent albums including This Used To Be Heaven (2025).
Angelman syndrome
Angelman syndrome (AS), formerly happy puppet syndrome, is a rare neurogenetic disorder from loss of the maternal UBE3A gene on chromosome 15, causing developmental delay, absent speech, ataxia, seizures, and frequent laughter; antisense and gene therapies are in Phase 3 trials.
Angelo Angeli
Angelo Angeli (1864–1931) was an Italian organic chemist based in Florence who first synthesized Angeli's salt in 1896 and gave his name to the Angeli–Rimini reaction.
Angelo Arcidiacono
Angelo Arcidiacono (1955-2007), Italian sabre fencer from Catania, CUS Catania; team sabre silver at Montreal 1976 and gold at Los Angeles 1984; also 1975 junior world champion.
Angelo Badalamenti
Angelo Badalamenti (1937–2022), American composer and arranger, David Lynch's longtime collaborator; scored Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, The Straight Story, and Mulholland Drive; won a 1991 Grammy for the Twin Peaks Theme.
Angelo Beolco
Angelo Beolco, better known by his stage name Ruzante (c. 1496–1542), was a Paduan playwright and actor who wrote and performed raw, realistic peasant comedies largely in the Paduan dialect, notably the Betìa and La Vaccaria.
Angelo Branduardi
Angelo Branduardi is an Italian singer, composer, and violinist born near Milan in 1950, known for 'La pulce d'acqua' and songs built on medieval and Renaissance melodies.
Angelo Bruno
Angelo Bruno (Angelo Annaloro), "The Docile Don" or "Gentle Don," Sicilian-born boss of the Philadelphia Mafia from 1959 until his March 21, 1980 shotgun assassination, which triggered decades of family warfare.
Angelo Buono Jr.
Angelo Anthony Buono Jr. (1934-2002), with cousin Kenneth Bianchi one of the Hillside Stranglers, murdered young women in Los Angeles in 1977-78; convicted 1983 of nine murders after the longest U.S. criminal trial, died in prison.
Angelo Celli
Angelo Celli (1857–1914) was an Italian physician, hygienist, and malariologist who helped name the malaria parasite, reported the 1898 mosquito transmission experiment, and whose laws cut Italian malaria deaths sharply.
Angelo D'Angelo (actor)
Angelo D'Angelo is an Australian actor active 1983–2021, known as PJ in BMX Bandits (1983) and Vangeli Petrakis in The Big Steal (1990), with TV roles in Heartbreak High and A Place to Call Home.
Angelo Damiano
Angelo Damiano (born 30 September 1938, Naples) is an Italian track cyclist, Olympic tandem sprint gold medalist at Tokyo 1964 with Sergio Bianchetto, 1967 world professional sprint bronze medalist, and 2015 CONI Gold Collar recipient.
Angelo Dawkins
Angelo Dawkins (Gary Gordon, born 1990) is a WWE wrestler, one half of The Street Profits with Montez Ford; second and fastest WWE Tag Team Triple Crown champion at 499 days.
Angelo de Gubernatis
Angelo de Gubernatis (1840–1913) was an Italian Indologist and comparative mythologist who held the Sanskrit chair at Florence from 1863, founded orientalist journals and institutions, and wrote Zoological Mythology.
Angelo de Martini
Angelo De Martini (1897-1979), Italian track cyclist; won 1924 Paris Olympic gold in the 4,000 m team pursuit with Dinale, Menegazzi, and Zucchetti, was fourth in the 50 km, then a professional pursuit specialist and bicycle maker.
Angelo Dundee
Angelo Dundee (Angelo Mirena, 1921-2012), American Hall of Fame boxing trainer of 15 world champions including Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman, and Carmen Basilio; Ali's cornerman 1960-1981.
Angelo Epaminonda
Angelo Epaminonda, "il Tebano" (1945-2016), Catania-born boss of Milan's clan dei catanesi; controlled gambling, prostitution and drugs in the 1980s, became northern Italy's first mafia pentito in 1985, revealing 44 murders.
Angelo Gaja
Angelo Gaja, born in 1940 in Alba, Piedmont, is a fourth-generation Italian winemaker who joined his family's Barbaresco estate in 1961 and expanded it to Tuscany and Sicily.
Angelo Gordon & Co
Angelo Gordon & Co, also known as Angelo Gordon, was a New York alternative investment firm founded in 1988 by John Angelo and Michael Gordon, specializing in distressed debt.
Angelo J. Eraklis
Angelo J. Eraklis, also published as A. J. Eraklis, was an American surgeon at Boston Children's Hospital known for his 1967 study of infection after childhood splenectomy.
Angelo L. Vescovi
Angelo L. Vescovi, also known as Angelo Luigi Vescovi, is an Italian stem cell biologist born in Bergamo in 1962, known for the 1999 paper "Turning Brain into Blood".
Angelo Maffucci
Angelo Maffucci (1847–1903) was an Italian pathologist, born in Calitri, who first described Maffucci syndrome in 1881 and later held the chair of pathological anatomy at Pisa.
Angelo Mai
Angelo Mai (1782–1854) was an Italian cardinal and Vatican Library scholar who recovered lost ancient texts from palimpsests, most famously Cicero's long-lost De re publica in 1819.
Angelo Maria Quirini
Angelo Maria Quirini, born Girolamo Quirini (1680–1755), was a Venetian Benedictine monk who became archbishop of Corfù, cardinal and bishop of Brescia, and Vatican Librarian, best known for founding the Biblioteca Queriniana in Brescia.
Angelo Mathews (ඇන්ජලෝ ඩේවිස් මැතිව්ස්)
Angelo Davis Mathews (ඇන්ජලෝ ඩේවිස් මැතිව්ස්), born 1987, Colombo, is a Sri Lankan former all-rounder who captained Sri Lanka in all formats, scored 8,214 Test runs, was the first timed-out dismissal, and retired from international cricket in 2026.
Angelo Mazzoni
Angelo Mazzoni, born in Milan in 1961, is an Italian épée fencer who won Olympic team gold at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000, plus nine World Championship medals.
Angelo Miele
Angelo Miele (1922–2016) was an Italian-born aerospace engineer and applied mathematician at Rice University who specialized in trajectory optimization and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.
Angelo Morinello
Angelo J. Morinello is an American politician and retired judge who has represented New York's 145th Assembly district, including Niagara Falls, as a Republican since 2017.
Angelo Mosso
Angelo Mosso (1846–1910) was an Italian physiologist at the University of Turin whose instruments for recording brain blood flow made him the forerunner of functional neuroimaging, anticipating fMRI and PET.