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Anil Beephan

Anil Beephan Jr. is an American Republican politician elected to the New York State Assembly's 105th district in 2022, after serving as an East Fishkill councilman.

Anil Bharathi

Anil Bharathi (අනිල් භාරති) was a Sri Lankan vocalist who rose to fame in the early 1970s with the Golden Chimes and was known for "Bethlehempure"; he died in 2025 aged 75.

Anil Bonde

Anil Bonde is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha since 2022, after serving as Maharashtra's agriculture minister.

Anil Chaudhry

Anil Chaudhry is an Indian energy-sector executive who served as Managing Director and Country President of Schneider Electric India from 2013 and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Anil Chauhan (अनिल चौहान)

General Anil Chauhan (अनिल चौहान), born 1961, is a retired Indian Army officer of the 11 Gorkha Rifles who served as India's second Chief of Defence Staff from 30 September 2022 to 30 May 2026, championing jointness, theatre commands, and Operation Sindoor reforms.

Anil Chawla

Anil Chawla is an Indian financial services executive who served as the D. E. Shaw group's country head and head of private equity in India from 2006 to 2012.

Anil Deshmukh (अनिल वसंतराव देशमुख)

Anil Vasantrao Deshmukh (अनिल वसंतराव देशमुख), born 1950 in Nagpur, is an NCP leader and longtime Katol MLA who was Maharashtra home minister 2019-2021, resigned over Param Bir Singh's corruption allegations, faced a CBI FIR, and was arrested in November 2021.

Anil Dhawan (अनिल धवन)

Anil Dhawan (अनिल धवन), Indian Hindi film and TV actor born 1950 in Kanpur, FTII graduate, debuted with Chetna (1970); brother of director David Dhawan; starred in about 40 films as hero, revived as Pramod Sinha in Andhadhun (2018). Distinct from the hepatologist Anil Dhawan.

Anil Firojiya

Anil Firojiya, born in 1971, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented the Ujjain constituency of Madhya Pradesh in the Lok Sabha since 2019.

Anil Jason

Anil Jason is an American software engineer who co-founded the AI writing company QuillBot in Chicago in 2017 with Rohan Gupta and David Silin, serving as chief technology officer.

Anil K. Jain

Anil K. Jain is an American computer scientist at Michigan State University known for pattern recognition and biometrics, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.

Anil K. Rustgi

Anil K. Rustgi is an American physician-scientist in gastrointestinal oncology who directs Columbia's Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center and studies esophageal, pancreatic, and colon cancers.

Anil K. Sachdev

Anil K. Sachdev is an Indian-American metallurgist who spent 46 years at General Motors R&D and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Anil Kapoor (अनिल कपूर)

Anil Kapoor (अनिल कपूर), born 1956, Indian actor and producer; Hindi lead debut Woh Saat Din (1983), star of Mr India and Tezaab, National Award for Pukar, Slumdog Millionaire, and a 2024 AI personality-rights ruling.

Anil Kapoor filmography

Anil Kapoor filmography: over 108 Hindi, Telugu, and international films from 1979 to 2024, spanning Woh Saat Din, Mr. India, Tezaab, Slumdog Millionaire, and Animal, with box-office totals and awards.

Anil Kashyap

Anil Kashyap is an American economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business known for research on banking regulation and Japan's banking crisis.

Anil Kumar

Anil Kumar is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh and a Rashtriya Lok Dal minister holding the Science and Technology portfolio in the Yogi Adityanath government.

Anil Kumar Bhattacharya

Anil Kumar Bhattacharya, also spelled Bhattacharyya (1915–1996), was an Indian statistician whose 1943 measure of divergence between populations survives as the Bhattacharyya distance, used in statistics, computer vision, and machine learning.

Anil Kumar Gupta

Anil Kumar Gupta is an Indian academic who taught at IIM Ahmedabad from 1981 to 2017 and founded the Honey Bee Network, documenting village-level inventors across India.

Anil Kumar Tiwari

Anil Kumar Tiwari is an Indian politician who joined the BJP in 1990 and became president of its Andaman and Nicobar Islands unit in July 2025.

Anil Kumble (ಅನಿಲ್ ಕುಂಬ್ಳೆ)

Anil Kumble (ಅನಿಲ್ ಕುಂಬ್ಳೆ), nicknamed Jumbo, Indian leg-spinner born 1970 in Bangalore; 619 Test wickets, India's record, and 10/74 v Pakistan 1999, second perfect ten in Test history.

Anil Nerode

Anil Nerode, born 1932, is an American mathematician and logician who joined Cornell University in 1959 and is best known for the Myhill–Nerode theorem and hybrid systems.

Anil Rajbhar

Anil Rajbhar is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as a minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh, holding the Labour and Employment portfolio.

Anil Seth

Anil Seth, British neuroscientist, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science; author of Being You (2021), known for the "controlled hallucination" and "real problem" framings of consciousness.

Anil Sharma (अनिल शर्मा) (director)

Anil Sharma (अनिल शर्मा), born 1955 in Mokama, Bihar, is an Indian film director of Hindi cinema, best known for Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001) and Gadar 2 (2023).

Anil Sood

Anil Sood is an American physician-scientist in gynecologic oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for work on ovarian cancer metastasis, stress hormones, and RNAi therapeutics.

Anil Vij

Anil Vij (born 1953) is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who serves as a Haryana minister for Energy, Transport, and Labour, representing Ambala Cantonment.

Anil Yeshwant Desai

Anil Yeshwant Desai, born in 1957, is an Indian Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) politician representing Mumbai South Central in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

Anilazine

Anilazine (Dyrene, CAS 101-05-3), a chlorinated triazine fungicide marketed from 1955 for turf, tobacco, and crops; not carcinogenic in the 1978 NTP bioassay; now not approved in the EU and cancelled in the US.

Anileridine

Anileridine (Leritine, Lerinol) is a discontinued synthetic piperidine opioid analgesic related to meperidine, FDA-approved in 1957 by Merck, about 4 times as potent as pethidine, now DEA Schedule II.