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Audio game
Audio game: a game using sound rather than graphics as its main display modality, built largely for blind players. Also known as audiogames; early example Bear Hunt (QSound, early 1980s); notable titles Shades of Doom and The Vale.
Audley Harrison
Audley Harrison, British heavyweight boxer, 2000 Sydney Olympic super-heavyweight gold medallist, 31-7 (23 KOs) professional, lost 2010 WBA title fight to David Haye, retired 2015 with brain-injury effects.
Audrey Lacroix
Audrey Lacroix, Canadian butterfly swimmer from Pont-Rouig, Quebec (born 1983). Three Olympics (2008, 2012, 2016), record seven World Championships, Pan Am and Commonwealth 200m butterfly gold.
Audrey Mestre
Audrey Mestre, French no-limits freediver, wife of Pipin Ferreras; died 12 October 2002 off the Dominican Republic when her lift bag failed at 171 m during a record attempt.
Audun Boysen
Audun Boysen (1929–2000), Norwegian middle-distance runner; 800 m Olympic bronze 1956, three 1000 m world records, and a 1:45.9 Norwegian 800 m record that stood 37 years.
Auf achse
Auf Achse is Wolfgang Kramer's 1987 trucking logistics board game, Spiel des Jahres winner, for 2-6 players, with contract auctions, dice movement, and over 900,000 copies sold in German-speaking countries.
Augie Garrido
Augie Garrido (1939-2018), American college baseball coach; won five College World Series titles with Cal State Fullerton and Texas; retired in 2016 with an NCAA-record 1,975 wins.
August Desch
August "Gus" Desch was an American track and field athlete who won bronze in the 400 meters hurdles at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, competing for Notre Dame.
August Gustafsson
August Gustafsson (Per August Gustafsson, 1875-1938) was a Swedish police officer from Göteborgs Polismäns IF who won tug-of-war gold for Sweden at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, the only non-Stockholm policeman on the team.
August Güttinger
August Güttinger (1892–1970), Swiss artistic gymnast, two-time Olympic champion: parallel bars gold and team bronze at Paris 1924, team gold at Amsterdam 1928; four Olympic medals total.
August Heitmann
August Heitmann (1907-1971), German freestyle swimmer born in Kalymnos, Greece; 1926-27 European 4x200 m relay champion with a 9:49.6 world record, 1928 Olympian, later emigrated to Chile.
August Nilsson
August Nilsson (1872–1921), Swedish athlete of IK Stockholm; won tug-of-war gold for a mixed Danish/Swedish team at the 1900 Paris Olympics, Sweden's first Olympic medal, and placed 8th in pole vault and 9th in shot put.
August Ringvold, Sr.
August Ringvold, Sr. (Carl August Ringvold, 1876–1960), Norwegian sailor and KNS Oslo member, won Olympic gold in the 8 metre class at Antwerp 1920 (Irene, walkover) and Paris 1924 (Bera, with his son).
Augusta GreenJackets
Augusta GreenJackets: Single-A Carolina League affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, based in North Augusta, South Carolina, at SRP Park since 2018; founded 1988 as the Augusta Pirates, with league titles in 1989, 1995, 1999, and 2008.
Augusta Lynx
Augusta Lynx: ECHL hockey team of Augusta, Georgia. Original franchise played 1998-2008 (suspended December 2008); revived expansion team owned by Tim Tebow and David Hodges begins play 2027-28 at New Augusta Arena.
Augusta National Golf Club
Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia: private club founded 1931-33 by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts, designed by Alister MacKenzie; permanent home of the Masters since 1934, with Amen Corner and no USGA rating.
Auguste Aulnette
Auguste Aulnette, French alpine skier (born 2002, Cluses), Ski Club Mieussy slalom and giant slalom specialist; 2020 Youth Olympic combined gold, European Cup slalom runner-up 2025-26, France A team member.
Auguste Giroux
Auguste Paul Almire Giroux (1874–1953), French rugby union wing and physician with Stade Français; won gold in men's rugby at the 1900 Paris Olympics with the USFSA team.
Auguste Van De Verre
Auguste Van De Verre was a Belgian archer who won two team gold medals at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics in pole archery, placing sixth in both individual bird-target events.
Augustin Meurmans
Augustin Meurmans (born 1997, Ottignies) is a Belgian field hockey midfielder for Racing Club de Bruxelles; 2018 World Cup champion and Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist with Belgium.
Augustine Guschi Hargus
Augustine Guschi Hargus was a German athlete who set three women's javelin world records between 1927 and 1928, won the German title three times, and later played field hockey.
Augustine Kiprono
Augustine Kiprono Choge, Kenyan distance runner born 1987, 2006 Commonwealth 5000m champion, World Indoor 3000m silver and bronze medallist, 4x1500m relay world record anchor, 1500m best 3:29.47.
Augusto Sakai
Augusto Sakai (born 1991) is a Brazilian heavyweight MMA fighter from Curitiba, ex-Bellator and UFC (5-4), now in KSW; Muay Thai-based striker with 11 KO wins, losses to Overeem, Rozenstruik, Tuivasa.
Aui 2000
Aui_2000 (Kurtis Daniel Ling, born 1992) is a retired Canadian Dota 2 coach and former player; he won The International three times, with Evil Geniuses (2015, player), Tundra Esports (2022, coach), and Team Falcons (2025, coach), retiring in August 2026.
Auli, India
Auli (Garhwali for meadow) is a ski resort town in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, called the ski capital of India, with FIS-approved slopes, a Joshimath ropeway, and a December-to-March ski season.
Aung La Nsang
Aung La Nsang (အောင်လအန်ဆန်း; Aung La Maung Nsang), known as "The Burmese Python," is a retired Burmese mixed martial artist who became Myanmar's first MMA world champion.
Aurele Vandendriessche
Aurele Vandendriessche (1932–2023) was a Belgian long-distance runner who won the Boston Marathon in 1963 and 1964 and took European Championships marathon silver in 1962 and 1966.
Aureliano Bolognesi
Aureliano Bolognesi (Artista del Ring), Italian boxer, 1930-2018, who won lightweight (60 kg) gold at Helsinki 1952, beating Aleksy Antkiewicz in the final, then boxed briefly as a professional.
Aurelien Diesse
Aurelien Diesse (Aurélien Diesse), born 1997 in Bondy, France, is a French judoka, -100 kg, Olympic mixed-team gold medalist at Paris 2024, 2018 world team silver medalist, ESBM/AS Bondy club member.
Aurélien Tchouaméni
Aurélien Tchouaméni (born 2000, Rouen) is a French defensive midfielder for Real Madrid, signed from Monaco for €80m in 2022; 2022 World Cup finalist, Champions League 2024 winner, 50 France caps.