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Anjialing Open-Pit Mine
The Anjialing Open-Pit Mine (安家岭露天矿) is a large surface coal mine in Shuozhou, Shanxi, China, the country's first self-designed open-pit coal mine, operating since 2000.
Anjifang and Louzeyuan (charity hospitals and public cemeteries)
Anjifang (安濟坊) and Louzeyuan (漏澤園) were Northern Song government charity hospitals and public cemeteries, established from 1102 under Emperor Huizong and extended nationwide by Cai Jing.
Anjin (Shōgun)
Anjin, Japanese for pilot, is the nickname of John Blackthorne in James Clavell's Shogun and its 1980 and 2024 TV adaptations, based on William Adams, the first Englishman in Japan, also the title of the 2024 series premiere.
Anjli Mohindra
Anjli Mohindra is a British actress and writer best known as Rani Chandra in The Sarah Jane Adventures, and later for Bodyguard, Vigil, and The Lazarus Project.
Anjō
Anjō (安城市) is a city of about 186,000 people in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, about 30 kilometers from Nagoya, nicknamed the "Denmark of Japan" for its advanced farming.
Anjolie Ela Menon
Anjolie Ela Menon, born in 1940 in Burnpur, West Bengal, is an Indian figurative painter and muralist known for oil paintings on Masonite that received the Padma Shri in 2000.
Anju Bobby George
Anju Bobby George (born 1977, Changanassery, Kerala) is an Indian long jumper, 2003 Paris World Championships bronze medallist, the first Indian world track and field medallist, with a 6.83 m national record.
Anju Mahendru
Anju Mahendru, Indian Hindi film and TV actress and former model born 1946, debut lead in Uski Kahani (1966), known for character roles, long TV career, and her nearly seven-year relationship with Rajesh Khanna.
Anjulie
Anjulie (Anjulie Persaud), Canadian singer-songwriter born 1983 in Oakville, Ontario; debut album Anjulie (2009) on Hear Music; hits "Boom" (No. 1 Billboard dance chart), platinum "Brand New Bitch," Juno-winning "You and I"; also wrote for Nicki Minaj and Kelly Clarkson.
Anjum Chopra
Anjum Chopra, born 1977 in New Delhi, is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer who captained India's women's team and was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame in 2026.
Anjum Fakih
Anjum Fakih, also spelled Anjuum Faakih, Indian television actress and model born 1989 in Mumbai, best known as Srishti Arora in Kundali Bhagya (2017–2024), a Khatron Ke Khiladi 13 contestant, and Dr. Avantika in Dr. Aarambhi.
Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu
Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (انجمن ترقی اردو) is a literary association promoting the Urdu language, founded in 1903 at Aligarh and later split into Indian and Pakistani bodies.
Anjuman-i Shu'ara
Anjuman-i Shu'ara (Əncüməni-şüəra, "Assembly of Poets") was a 19th-century literary assembly in Ordubad, Azerbaijan, founded in 1831 by Sheykhali Khan Kangarli, where poets led by Faqir Ordubadi and Mammad Taghi Sidqi composed verse until the 1890s.
Anjuman-i-Punjab
Anjuman-i-Punjab (انجمن پنجاب) was a literary and educational society founded in Lahore in 1865 by Dr G. W. Leitner, whose 1874 mushairas helped reform modern Urdu poetry.
ANK3
ANK3, also known as ankyrin 3, is a human gene on chromosome 10 encoding ankyrin-G, a scaffolding protein that organizes the axon initial segment in neurons.
Ankang, Shaanxi
Ankang (安康市) is a prefecture-level city in southern Shaanxi, China, between the Qinling and Daba mountains on the upper Han River; about 23,500 km², 3.05 million people, core water source for the South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Route, site of a major 2011 relocation program.
Ankara
Ankara (Ancyra, Angora), capital of Türkiye since October 13, 1923, in central Anatolia; ancient Galatian and Roman provincial capital, home of the Monumentum Ancyranum, rebuilt as a planned Republican capital under the Jansen plan.
Ankara Opera House
The Ankara Opera House, known as the Ankara Opera Sahnesi or Büyük Tiyatro, is the opera house of the Turkish State Opera and Ballet in Ankara, opened in 1948.
Ankaravî Mehmed Emin Efendi
Ankaravî Mehmed Emin Efendi (1619–1687) was an Ottoman Hanefî scholar from Ankara who served as Shaykh al-Islam from 1686 until his death, and wrote the Fetâvâ-yı Ankaravî.
Ankarette Twynho
Ankarette Twynho (Twynyho), 15th-century Englishwoman and former servant of Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence; hanged at Warwick in 1477 on Clarence's poisoning accusation, with the verdict voided by parliament in 1478.
Anke Behmer
Anke Behmer (born Vater), born 1961, East German heptathlete of SC Neubrandenburg; 1988 Seoul Olympic bronze with 6858 points, 1986 European champion, 1983 world bronze, 1988 indoor pentathlon world record 4,995.
Anke Borchmann
Anke Borchmann (née Grünberg, born 1954, Neukalen) is a retired East German rower, 1976 Montréal Olympic champion in the women's coxed quadruple sculls (3:29.99) and world champion in 1975 and 1977.
Anke Kuhn
Anke Kühn (Kühne), born 1981 in Hannover, German field hockey midfielder, Eintracht Braunschweig; won Olympic gold at Athens 2004, scoring the opening goal in the final, and placed fourth at Beijing 2008.
Anke Möhring
Anke Möhring (born 1969, Magdeburg) is a German former swimmer for East Germany; 1988 Seoul 400 m freestyle bronze, 1987 800 m freestyle world record 8:19.53, later stripped of her 1989 Swimmer of the Year award for GDR doping.
Anke Nothnagel von Seck
Anke Nothnagel von Seck (born 1966), also Anke Nothnagel, German flatwater canoeist; three Olympic golds and one silver in K2/K4 500 m at Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992, plus ten world titles 1987–91.
Anke Rehlinger
Anke Rehlinger is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party who serves as Minister-President of Saarland and as a deputy chair of the SPD at the federal level.
Anker Innovations
Anker Innovations (安克创新) is a Chinese consumer electronics company founded by former Google engineer Steven Yang in Changsha in 2011, known for Anker chargers plus eufy and soundcore products.
Anker Soundcore
Anker Soundcore (声阔) is the audio and visual product brand of Anker Innovations, launched in 2018 and known for feature-rich earbuds, headphones, and Bluetooth speakers at budget and mid-range prices.
Ankerite
Ankerite is a calcium iron carbonate mineral of the dolomite group, Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂, named in 1825 for Austrian mineralogist Matthias Joseph Anker and found chiefly in iron formations and hydrothermal veins.
Ankh
Ankh (ʿaṅḫ, 𓋹, crux ansata), the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for "life", a loop-topped cross held by gods to pharaohs' noses, used as an amulet, and adopted by Coptic Christians as a cross form.