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Angelo Ogbonna
Angelo Obinze Ogbonna, Italian centre-back born 1988 in Cassino; Torino, Juventus, then 249 games for West Ham United 2015-24, 13 Italy caps, Euro 2012 and 2016, Conference League 2023, later Watford.
Angelo Paoli
Angelo Paoli (1642–1720), born Francesco Paoli, was an Italian Calced Carmelite priest called Father Charity who founded Rome's first convalescent home and was beatified in 2010.
Angelo Parisi
Angelo Parisi, born 1953 in Arpino, Italy, is a French judoka, also called Le Magnifique, who won four Olympic medals: 1980 heavyweight gold (first French judo Olympic champion), 1980 open and 1984 heavyweight silver, and 1972 open bronze for Britain.
Angelo Poffo
Angelo Poffo (1925–2010), American professional wrestler, promoter, and Navy sit-up record holder (6,033). Father of Randy Savage and Lanny Poffo; founder of International Championship Wrestling in Lexington, Kentucky; WCW Hall of Fame 1995.
Angelo Ruffini
Angelo Ruffini (1864–1929) was an Italian anatomist and embryologist who described the Ruffini corpuscle, a slowly adapting touch receptor in skin, and taught at the universities of Siena and Bologna.
Angelo Ruggiero
Angelo "Quack Quack" Ruggiero, Gambino crime family caporegime, nephew of Aniello Dellacroce and friend of John Gotti; his bugged heroin-trafficking conversations, 1983 indictment with Gene Gotti and Carneglia, refusal to give Paul Castellano his tapes, and death of cancer December 4, 1989.
Angelo Santabarbara
Angelo Santabarbara is an American politician and Democratic member of the New York State Assembly from the 111th district, first elected in 2012 after serving on the Schenectady County Legislature.
Angelo Scalzone
Angelo Scalzone (Don Peppino), Italian trap shooter (1931–1987), won gold at the 1972 Munich Olympics with a world-record 199/200, beating Michel Carrega; also world and European team champion.
Angelo Scola
Angelo Scola, born in 1941, is an Italian cardinal and theologian who served as Patriarch of Venice and Archbishop of Milan and was the leading candidate for pope in the 2013 conclave that elected Pope Francis.
Angelo Scuri
Angelo Scuri, born 1959 in Florence, Italian foil fencer; won team foil gold at Los Angeles 1984 Olympics, four World Championship medals, and CONI Gold Collar 2015.
Angelo Sodano
Angelo Sodano was an Italian cardinal and Vatican diplomat who served as secretary of state under John Paul II and Benedict XVI, then as dean of the College of Cardinals.
Angelo State University
Angelo State University is a public university in San Angelo, Texas, founded in 1928. It is a component of the Texas Tech University System and offers doctoral degrees.
Angelo Taranta
Angelo Taranta was a New York physician-scientist who devoted his career to rheumatic fever and the group A streptococcal infections that trigger it, working at NYU and Irvington House.
Angelo Taylor
Angelo Taylor (born 1978, Albany, Georgia) is an American 400m hurdler, two-time Olympic champion in the event (Sydney 2000, Beijing 2008), with a 2008 4x400m relay gold and 2012 relay silver.
Angelo Vanzin
Angelo Vanzin (1932-2018), Italian rower of the Canottieri Moto Guzzi club; won gold in the men's coxed fours at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics with Sgheiz, Trincavelli, Winkler, and cox Stefanoni, and won nine Italian titles.
Angelo Zorzi
Angelo Zorzi (4 May 1890, Milan – 28 December 1974) was an Italian artistic gymnast of Società Miani who won Olympic team all-around gold at Stockholm 1912 and Antwerp 1920, and was 16th in the 1920 individual all-around.
Angelos Akotantos
Angelos Akotantos (Άγγελος Ακοτάντος) was a Greek icon painter active in Venetian-ruled Crete in the first half of the fifteenth century and the earliest documented painter of the Cretan School.
Angelos Basinas (Άγγελος Μπασινάς)
Angelos Basinas (Άγγελος Μπασινάς), Greek defensive midfielder born 1976; EURO 2004 winner with Greece, 100 caps, 7 goals; Panathinaikos, Mallorca, AEK, Portsmouth, Arles-Avignon; retired 2010.
Angelos Charisteas (Άγγελος Χαριστέας)
Angelos Charisteas (Άγγελος Χαριστέας), Greek centre-forward, scored the 57th-minute winner as Greece beat Portugal 1-0 in the EURO 2004 final; also scored against Spain and France in that tournament, later played for Ajax, Feyenoord, and Nuremberg.
Angelos Michaelides
Angelos Michaelides is an Irish theoretical chemist who studies water and interfaces by computer simulation, and since 2020 has been the 1968 Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge.
Angelos Sikelianos
Angelos Sikelianos (Άγγελος Σικελιανός) was a leading 20th-century Greek lyric poet, born on Leucas in 1884, best known for staging the Delphic Festivals of 1927 and 1930.
Angels (Robbie Williams song)
Angels (Robbie Williams song), a 1997 power ballad from Life Thru a Lens written with Guy Chambers (additional credit Ray Heffernan); UK number 4, over 1.16 million sales, 2005 Brit Awards song of 25 years.
Angels & Airwaves
Angels & Airwaves (AvA) is an American alternative rock band formed in 2005 in San Diego by ex-blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge, known for synth-heavy arena rock on six albums from We Don't Need to Whisper (2006) to Lifeforms (2021).
Angels & Demons
Angels & Demons, also called Anges et démons in French, is Dan Brown's 2000 thriller and first Robert Langdon novel, a prequel to The Da Vinci Code involving the Illuminati, stolen antimatter, a Vatican conclave, and a 2009 Ron Howard film with Tom Hanks.
Angels & Demons (film)
Angels & Demons is a 2009 American mystery thriller directed by Ron Howard, starring Tom Hanks as symbologist Robert Langdon racing to stop a bomb threat against Vatican City.
Angels Flight
Angels Flight Railway is a landmark funicular railway in downtown Los Angeles, opened in 1901 to carry passengers up Bunker Hill and billed as the world's shortest railway.
Angels in America
Angels in America, a two-part play by Tony Kushner, is set in mid-1980s New York during the AIDS crisis, following gay men and the historical figure Roy Cohn.
Angels in America (miniseries)
Angels in America is a 2003 HBO miniseries adapted by Tony Kushner from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Al Pacino and Meryl Streep.
Angels in Christianity
Angels in Christianity, also called Christian angelology, are spiritual beings created by God as messengers and ministers, inherited from Judaism and elaborated by medieval theology.
Angels in Islam
Angels in Islam, known in Arabic as Mala'ikah, are unseen beings created from light who convey revelation, record human deeds, and administer death and the grave; belief in them is a pillar of faith.