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Ari Abdul

Ari Abdul (Arianna Abdul), Brooklyn-born dark alternative pop singer; viral TikTok hit "BABYDOLL" (2021-2022), EPs Fallen Angel and CCTV on RCA, debut album THE VOID due 2026.

Ari Aster

Ari Aster (born 1986, New York City) is an American writer-director of Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau Is Afraid, and Eddington, all with A24; co-founder of Square Peg with Lars Knudsen; next film Scapegoat with Scarlett Johansson.

Ari Behn

Ari Behn (Ari Mikael Bjørshol, 1972–2019), Norwegian author and visual artist best known for the 1999 story collection Trist som faen; married Princess Märtha Louise 2002–2017 and published seven books.

Ari Emanuel

Ari Emanuel (Ariel Zev Emanuel), American talent agent and entertainment executive; co-founded Endeavor (1995), created WME via the 2009 William Morris merger, built Endeavor into sports and live events, later founded Mari and leads TKO.

Ari Gold (Entourage)

Ari Gold is the fictional Hollywood superagent of HBO's Entourage (2004-2011) and its 2015 film, played by Jeremy Piven, based on real agent Ari Emanuel, winner of three consecutive supporting-actor Emmys and famous for "hug it out, bitch".

Ari Graynor

Ari Graynor (Ariel Geltman Graynor), born 1983 in Boston, is an American actress of stage, film, and TV: Broadway's Brooklyn Boy, For a Good Time Call..., I'm Dying Up Here, Monsters: The Menendez Story.

Ari Lehman

Ari Lehman, also called the First Jason, is an American actor and musician, born 1965 in Brooklyn, best known as the child Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th (1980) and frontman of horror metal band First Jason.

Ari Lennox

Ari Lennox (Courtney Shanade Salter, born 1991) is an American R&B singer from Washington, D.C., Dreamville's first female signee, known for Shea Butter Baby, "Pressure," Age/Sex/Location, and Vacancy.

Ari Shaffir

Ari Shaffir (born 1974) is an American stand-up comedian and podcaster from New York, known for The Comedy Store years, This Is Not Happening, the specials Paid Regular, Double Negative, Jew, and America's Sweetheart, and the podcasts Skeptic Tank and You Be Trippin'.

Ari Up

Ari Up (Arianna Forster, 1962-2010) was the German-born frontwoman of the British punk band the Slits, which she co-founded at 14 in 1976; she pioneered punk-reggae fusion on the 1979 album Cut.

Ari Þorgilsson

Ari Þorgilsson, known as Ari the Wise (1067–1148), was an Icelandic priest and historian whose Íslendingabók, the oldest Icelandic vernacular history, made him the founder of Icelandic historiography.

Ari: My Name Is Nobody

Ari: My Name is Nobody (అరి) is a 2025 Telugu mystery thriller directed by Jayashankarr, starring Sai Kumar, Anasuya Bharadwaj, and Vinod Varma, in which six people embodying the Arishadvargas answer a wish-fulfillment advertisement.

Aria

Aria: Italian for 'air'; a self-contained solo vocal piece in opera, oratorio, or cantata, contrasting with recitative. Key forms include the Baroque da capo aria (ABA) and the 19th-century cavatina-cabaletta.

Aria (manga)

Aria (アリア) by Kozue Amano is a 2002-2008 healing slice-of-life manga, 12 volumes plus the AQUA prequel, set in Neo-Venezia on terraformed Mars, adapted into three anime seasons and films, with Tokyopop's Masterpiece English edition.

ARIA Charts

ARIA Charts, Australia's official weekly singles and albums rankings by the Australian Recording Industry Association since 1983, combining physical, digital, and streaming data; includes Top 50, Australian Artist, genre, and On Replay charts.

ARIA Fine Arts Awards

The ARIA Fine Arts Awards are the specialised ARIA Awards categories for Australian classical, jazz, world music, and soundtrack recordings, judged by genre expert panels with distinct eligibility criteria.

Aria Giovanni

Aria Giovanni (born 1977, Long Beach, California; birth name also given as Cindy Renée Volk or Cindy Renee Preto) is an American glamour model and former adult performer, Penthouse Pet of the Month September 2000, XBIZ-nominated 2010, and a frequent target of photo-impersonation scams.

Aria Mia Loberti

Aria Mia Loberti (born 1994) is an American actress and UNICEF Ambassador with achromatopsia who made her acting debut as Marie-Laure LeBlanc in Netflix's 2023 All the Light We Cannot See after a global casting search, later appearing in The Spiderwick Chronicles.

Aria Montgomery

Aria Montgomery is a fictional character in Pretty Little Liars, played by Lucy Hale, 2010-2017; the artsy Liar whose teacher romance with Ezra Fitz (#Ezria) drew scholarly critique.

ARIA Music Awards

ARIA Music Awards, the ARIAs, Australia's annual music awards run since 1987 by the Australian Recording Industry Association; 30 categories, Voting Academy and public voting, held at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion, with Amyl and The Sniffers topping 2025.

Aria the Scarlet Ammo (緋弾のアリア)

Aria the Scarlet Ammo (緋弾のアリア, Hidan no Aria) is a 2008 MF Bunko J light novel series by Akamatsu Chuugaku about armed detectives at Tokyo Butei High School, with a 2011 J.C.Staff anime, the 2015 spinoff AA, over 9 million copies sold, and a 2026 15th-anniversary short anime.

Ariadna Gutiérrez

Ariadna Gutiérrez (Ariadna María Gutiérrez Arévalo), Colombian model and former Señorita Colombia 2014, first runner-up at Miss Universe 2015 after the Steve Harvey crowning error; later actress and Paris couture model.

Arial

Arial is a sans serif typeface designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders at Monotype for IBM laser printers, based on Monotype Grotesque, first named Sonoran Sans Serif, and licensed by Microsoft for Windows 3.1 in 1992.

Arian Band

Arian Band (گروه آریان) is an Iranian pop band formed in Tehran in 1998 by Ali Pahlavan and Payam Salehi, reportedly the first mixed-gender pop band officially approved in post-revolutionary Iran.

Arian Cartaya

Arian S. Cartaya, Cuban-American child actor born 2013, plays Rich Santos in IT: Welcome to Derry (2025); earlier roles in Gordita Chronicles, Juego de mentiras, Bad Monkey; upcoming Pedro Pan film.

Arian Moayed

Arian Moayed (آرین مؤید), born 1980 in Tehran, is an Iranian-American actor, writer, and director: two-time Tony nominee (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, A Doll's House), Obie winner, Stewy Hosseini on Succession, Todd Spodek in Inventing Anna, and Waterwell co-founder.

Ariana Biermann

Ariana Biermann (born 2001, Atlanta), daughter of Kim Zolciak, grew up on RHOA and Don't Be Tardy and stars in Bravo's Next Gen NYC, where she revealed her parents spent her teen influencer earnings.

Ariana DeBose

Ariana DeBose (born 1991) is an American actress, singer, and dancer who won the 2022 Oscar, BAFTA, and SAG Awards as Anita in Spielberg's West Side Story, starred in Hamilton on Broadway, and hosted the Tony Awards three times.

Ariana Grande

Ariana Grande (born 1993, Boca Raton, Florida) is an American singer and actress, formerly Cat Valentine on Victorious, with eight studio albums, ten Hot 100 No. 1 hits, three Grammys, and a 2025 Oscar nomination for Wicked.

Ariana Grande discography

Ariana Grande discography: eight studio albums from Yours Truly (2013) to petal (2026), plus Christmas Kisses, the k bye for now live album, and Wicked soundtracks; ten Hot 100 number ones and eight No. 1 song debuts.