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Andrew Forrest

Andrew Forrest, known as Twiggy Forrest, is an Australian mining billionaire and philanthropist who founded Fortescue Metals Group in 2003, built it into the world's fourth-largest iron ore producer, and established the Minderoo Foundation.

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Andrew Forsyth

Andrew Russell Forsyth (1858–1942) was a British mathematician, Sadleirian Professor at Cambridge, whose 1893 Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable brought continental analysis to Britain.

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Andrew Fraser (molecular geneticist)

Andrew G. Fraser is a molecular geneticist at the University of Toronto who studies the nematode worm C. elegans and led the first genome-scale RNAi screens in an animal.

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Andrew Fuller

Andrew Fuller (1754–1815) was an English Particular Baptist minister and theologian, pastor at Kettering from 1782 and founding secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792.

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Andrew G. Clark

Andrew G. Clark is an American population geneticist at Cornell University, known for genomic studies of Drosophila and humans and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.

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Andrew G. Engel

Andrew G. Engel (1930–2024) was a Hungarian-born American neurologist and neuroscientist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and a pioneer in neuromuscular diseases, elected in 2003 to the Institute of Medicine.

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Andrew G. Ewing

Andrew G. Ewing, also published as Andrew Ewing, is an American analytical chemist and neurochemist, professor at the University of Gothenburg since 2010, known for measuring chemistry in single living cells.

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ANDREW G. FRANTZ

Andrew G. Frantz (died 2010) was an American endocrinologist at Columbia University best known for showing that human prolactin is a hormone separate from growth hormone.

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Andrew G. Morrow

Andrew G. Morrow was an American cardiac surgeon who led surgery at the National Heart Institute in Bethesda and created the septal myectomy operation for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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Andrew G. Myers

Andrew G. Myers, born 1959, is an American organic chemist and Amory Houghton Professor at Harvard, known for fully synthetic tetracycline and macrolide antibiotics and founding Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals.

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Andrew G. Plaut

Andrew G. Plaut is a physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine at Tufts in Boston, known for discovering bacterial IgA proteases and developing them to treat IgA nephropathy.

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Andrew G. Renehan

Andrew G. Renehan is a British colorectal surgeon-scientist, Professor of Cancer Studies and Surgery at the University of Manchester, known for research linking obesity, diabetes, and cancer risk.

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Andrew G. Schopler

Andrew George Schopler, born 1971, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of California since 2023, appointed by President Biden.

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Andrew Gallimore

Andrew R. Gallimore is a Tokyo-based computational neurobiologist and pharmacologist (Cambridge PhD) known for DMT theory, the 2016 Gallimore-Strassman extended-state DMT infusion (DMTx) model, and books including Death by Astonishment (2025).

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Andrew Garbarino

Andrew R. Garbarino (born 1984) is the Republican U.S. representative for New York's 2nd District since 2021, former NY Assembly 7th District member, 2024 Mayorkas impeachment manager, and House Homeland Security Committee chair.

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Andrew Garfield

Andrew Garfield (born 1983) is a British-American actor, star of The Social Network, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Hacksaw Ridge, a two-time Oscar nominee and 2018 Tony winner for Angels in America.

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Andrew gas field

Andrew is an oil and gas field in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea, about 230 kilometers northeast of Aberdeen, discovered by BP in 1974.

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Andrew Gaze

Andrew Gaze (born 1965, Melbourne), Australian shooting guard and Melbourne Tigers legend; record seven-time NBL MVP, NBL all-time leading scorer (18,908 points), five-time Olympian and 1999 NBA champion with the San Antonio Spurs.

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Andrew Getty

Andrew Rork Getty (1967-2015), Getty oil heir, grandson of J. Paul Getty and son of Gordon Getty, wrote and directed one film, The Evil Within (2017), self-financed at $4-6 million over 15 years and completed posthumously.

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Andrew Giles

Andrew Giles is an Australian Labor Party politician and member of the House of Representatives serving as Minister for Skills and Training, overseeing apprenticeships and the National Skills Agreement.

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Andrew Gillum

Andrew Gillum, Democratic 2018 Florida governor nominee and Tallahassee mayor 2014-2018, lost narrowly to DeSantis, settled a 2019 ethics case, faced a 2022 federal fraud case, and was arrested in Alabama in 2026.

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Andrew Ginther

Andrew Ginther is an American Democratic politician and the 53rd mayor of Columbus, Ohio, in office since 2016 after serving on the City Council from 2007 to 2015.

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Andrew Giuliani

Andrew Giuliani (born 1986), son of Rudy Giuliani, is an American political aide, former Trump White House Office of Public Liaison associate director, 2022 New York GOP gubernatorial runner-up, and FIFA World Cup 2026 task force executive director.

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Andrew Gleason

Andrew Gleason (1921–2008) was an American mathematician at Harvard who made the decisive step in solving Hilbert's fifth problem and proved Gleason's theorem, a cornerstone of quantum mechanics.

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Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold (1951–2011), also Wax UK co-founder, American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the 1970s L.A. soft-rock scene. Known for "Lonely Boy", "Never Let Her Slip Away", "Thank You for Being a Friend", his Linda Ronstadt work, and Bryndle.

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Andrew Golota

Andrew Golota (Andrzej Jan Gołota) is a Polish former professional heavyweight boxer who won Olympic bronze at Seoul 1988 but was twice disqualified while ahead against Riddick Bowe in 1996.

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Andrew Goodman (microbiologist)

Andrew L. Goodman is an American microbiologist, C.N.H. Long Professor and Chair of Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale, who studies how gut bacteria transform medical drugs and alter drug toxicity.

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Andrew Goodwin (chemist)

Andrew L. Goodwin is an Australian-born solid-state chemist who has been Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Oxford since 2014, known for diffuse scattering methods for disordered materials.

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Andrew Gould (astronomer)

Andrew Gould is an American astronomer and Ohio State professor emeritus who developed gravitational microlensing into a practical method for detecting exoplanets and weighing dark objects.

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Andrew Gounardes

Andrew Gounardes is an American Democratic politician representing Brooklyn's 26th district in the New York State Senate since 2019, known for the SAFE Act protecting children online.