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Angus Deaton
Angus Deaton, British-American economist at Princeton, 2015 Nobel laureate in economic sciences for analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare; author of the Almost Ideal Demand System, household-survey poverty measurement, and, with Anne Case, the deaths-of-despair research.
Angus Deayton
Angus Deayton (Gordon Angus Deayton, b. 1956), English actor, writer and broadcaster; original host of Have I Got News for You 1990–2002, Hee Bee Gee Bees and Radio Active/KYTV comedy, Patrick in One Foot in the Grave.
Angus Fletcher (literary scholar)
Angus Fletcher is an American scholar, Professor of Story Science at Ohio State, who studies how stories affect the mind and trains creativity in the U.S. Army.
Angus Fraser
Angus Fraser (Angus Robert Charles Fraser, born 1965, Billinge, Lancashire), English fast-medium seamer: 177 Test wickets in 46 Tests for England 1989–98, Middlesex 1984–2002, Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1996, MBE 1999, later Independent cricket correspondent and Middlesex Managing Director of Cricket.
Angus Gillan
Angus Gillan (James Angus Gillan, 1885-1981), British rower and Sudan colonial administrator; won Olympic gold in the 1908 coxless fours (Magdalen) and 1912 eights (Leander), the first oarsman of any country with two Olympic golds.
Angus Gunn
Angus Gunn (Angus Fraser James Gunn, born 1996, Norwich) is a Scottish goalkeeper at San Jose Earthquakes, formerly Man City, Southampton, Norwich, and Nottingham Forest, with 29 Scotland caps after switching from England youth teams.
Angus I. Lamond
Angus I. Lamond is a molecular cell biologist, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Dundee since 1995, known for work on the spliceosome and nuclear proteomics.
Angus Imrie
Angus Imrie (Angus William Jake Imrie), English actor born 1994 on the Isle of Wight, son of Celia Imrie and Benjamin Whitrow; LAMDA-trained, known as Young Merlin in The Kid Who Would Be King, Prince Edward in The Crown, Jake in Fleabag, Josh Archer in The Archers, and the voice of Zero in Star Trek: Prodigy.
Angus King
Angus S. King Jr., Maine independent politician: two-term governor (1995-2003), then U.S. Senator since 2013, Maine's first independent senator, caucusing with Democrats.
Angus King III
Angus King III (born 1970), Maine clean energy executive, founder of Peaks Renewables, and son of Senator and former Governor Angus King, Jr.; Democratic candidate in the June 9, 2026 Maine gubernatorial primary.
Angus MacAskill
Angus MacAskill (1825–1863), the Cape Breton Giant or Gille Mòr, was a Scottish-born Canadian giant, Guinness's tallest recorded non-pathological giant at 7 ft 9 in, famed for strength feats, a Queen Victoria audience, and a 2,700-pound anchor lift.
Angus Macfadyen
Angus Macfadyen (born 1963, Glasgow) is a Scottish actor, writer, director, and producer best known as Robert the Bruce in Braveheart (1995), Major Robert Rogers in Turn: Washington's Spies, and Jor-El in Superman & Lois. Distinct from the lawyer and cameraman of the same name.
Angus MacLise
Angus MacLise (1938–1979), also known for his calendar-poem Year, was an American percussionist, poet, and calligrapher, first drummer of the Velvet Underground and a Theatre of Eternal Music member who quit before their first paid gig and died in Kathmandu.
Angus McLaren
Angus McLaren (born 1988) is an Australian actor known as Lewis McCartney in H2O: Just Add Water and Nathan Rafter in Packed to the Rafters and Back to the Rafters; also Doctor Doctor, Home and Away, Hotel Mumbai, and WAAPA-trained drummer.
Angus Miller
Angus Miller, Scottish actor from Dundee trained at Drama Centre London; Donnie Russell in BBC's Shetland since 2019, Michael Murray in Outlander, Colin Cunningham in Netflix's Dept. Q, and STV continuity announcer 2020-2024.
Angus Ogilvy
Sir Angus Ogilvy (Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 1928–2004) was a British businessman who married Princess Alexandra of Kent in 1963 and was central to the Lonrho affair of 1973–77.
Angus Sampson
Angus Murray Lincoln Sampson, Australian actor, writer, director and voice artist born 1979 in Sydney; known for Tucker in Insidious, the Organic Mechanic in Mad Max: Fury Road and Furiosa, Bear Gerhardt in Fargo season 2, and Cisco in The Lincoln Lawyer.
Angus Scrimm
Angus Scrimm (Lawrence Rory Guy, 1926–2016), American actor and Grammy-winning liner-notes writer, played the Tall Man, the alien mortician villain of Don Coscarelli's Phantasm (1979) and its four sequels through Phantasm: Ravager (2016).
Angus Stone
Angus Stone, also known as Angus John Stone and Dope Lemon, is an Australian singer-songwriter from Sydney, one half of the sibling folk duo Angus & Julia Stone.
Angus T. Jones
Angus T. Jones (Angus Turner Jones, born 1993) is an American former child actor who played Jake Harper on CBS's Two and a Half Men (2003–15), became television's highest-paid child star, then left the show in 2012 after a religious conversion.
Angus Taylor
Angus Taylor is an Australian politician who has led the Liberal Party and the Opposition since February 2026, and has represented the seat of Hume since 2013.
Angus Young
Angus Young (born 1955), Scottish-born Australian guitarist and songwriter, co-founded AC/DC in Sydney in 1973 with brother Malcolm. Known for Gibson SGs, schoolboy stage outfit, Chuck Berry-influenced lead style; band has sold over 200 million albums.
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) is a British teen comedy directed by Gurinder Chadha, adapted from Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicolson novels, starring Georgia Groome and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, grossing about $14.92m.
Angústia
Angústia is a 1936 Brazilian novel by Graciliano Ramos, set in Maceió and narrated by the civil servant Luís da Silva; critics often compare its intensity with Dostoevski's.
Aṅguttara Nikāya
The Aṅguttara Nikāya, or Numerical Discourses of the Buddha, is the fourth division of the Sutta Piṭaka in the Pali Canon, arranging thousands of the Buddha's discourses in eleven numbered books.
Anh Do
Anh Do (born 1977, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-born Australian comedian, artist, and author of The Happiest Refugee and the WeirDo, Ninja Kid, and Wolf Girl children's series, with about 3 million books sold and multiple Archibald Prize appearances.
Anh Tuân Phan
Anh Tuân Phan is a structural biologist and physicist at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore who determines the structures of noncanonical DNA and RNA, above all G-quadruplexes.
Anhak Palace
Anhak Palace (安鶴宮) is a large walled palace site at Mt. Taesong in Pyongyang, North Korea, long attributed to the Goguryeo period, though its dating is disputed.
Anhanguera
Anhanguera, "old devil" in Tupi, is a genus of large toothed anhanguerid pterosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Santana and Romualdo formations of Brazil, with a 4.5 m wingspan, fish-eating habits, and a debated, crest-based species taxonomy.
Anharmonic oscillator
An anharmonic oscillator is an oscillator whose restoring force is not proportional to displacement, giving unequally spaced vibrational levels and dissociation; the standard model is the Morse potential.