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Andrew Griffith

Andrew Griffith is a British Conservative politician, MP for Arundel and South Downs since 2019, a former Treasury minister, and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer since August 2026.

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Andrew Grove

Andrew Grove, also known as Andy Grove and born András István Gróf, was a Hungarian-born American engineer who was Intel's first hire and led it as CEO from 1987.

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Andrew H. Bass

Andrew H. Bass is the Horace White Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University, known for a 2008 Science study tracing vertebrate vocalization origins to fish.

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Andrew H. Bobeck

Andrew H. Bobeck was an American engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who co-invented magnetic bubble memory, a solid-state computer memory, and held more than 120 United States patents.

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Andrew H. Knoll

Andrew H. Knoll, born 1951 in Pennsylvania, is an American paleontologist and geobiologist, emeritus Fisher Professor at Harvard, known for early life on Earth and NASA Mars rover work.

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Andrew H. Limper

Andrew H. Limper is a pulmonary and critical care physician-scientist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he has researched Pneumocystis pneumonia and pulmonary fibrosis since the 1980s.

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Andrew H. Paterson

Andrew H. Paterson is an American plant geneticist and Regents Professor at the University of Georgia who leads the Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory and sequenced the sorghum and cotton genomes.

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Andrew H. Soll

Andrew H. Soll is an American physician-scientist in gastric physiology and acid-peptic disease, known for work on how the stomach secretes acid and how peptic ulcers form and heal.

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Andrew H. Wallace

Andrew H. Wallace (Andrew Hugh Wallace) was a Scottish-born American mathematician who worked in algebraic and differential topology, notably solving the high-dimensional Poincaré problem using spherical modifications.

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Andrew H. Wei

Andrew H. Wei is an Australian clinical haematologist and laboratory head at WEHI in Melbourne whose trials and venetoclax research reshaped treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.

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Andrew Haigh

Andrew Haigh is a British writer, director, and editor whose works include 45 Years and All of Us Strangers, as well as directing for the HBO series Looking.

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Andrew Haines

Andrew (Andy) Haines is a physician and epidemiologist who helped found climate change and health research, and directed the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine from 2001 to 2010.

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Andrew Haldane

Andrew Allison 'Ack-Ack' Haldane (1917-1944), US Marine captain commanding K Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and Peleliu; two Silver Stars; killed on Hill 140, not the Bank of England economist.

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Andrew Hall

Andrew Hall is an American trader who co-founded Chicago Trading Company, a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making, with Eric Chern in Chicago in 1995.

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Andrew Hamilton (lawyer)

Andrew Hamilton (c. 1676–1741), Scottish-born Philadelphia attorney, Pennsylvania attorney general and Assembly Speaker, won John Peter Zenger's 1735 seditious libel defense and inspired the term 'Philadelphia lawyer'; not related to Alexander Hamilton.

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Andrew Harrison (basketball)

Andrew Harrison (basketball), twin of Aaron Harrison, is an American pro point guard, Kentucky 2013-15, drafted 44th overall in 2015, 145 NBA games mostly with Memphis.

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Andrew Hastie

Andrew William Hastie, born 1982, is an Australian Liberal politician and former Army officer who has represented Canning, Western Australia, since 2015 and serves as Deputy Leader of the Opposition.

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Andrew Hattersley

Andrew Hattersley is a British clinical scientist in diabetes genetics at the University of Exeter, known for showing neonatal diabetes can be treated with tablets instead of insulin.

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Andrew Heim

Andrew Heim is an American venture capitalist who joined Arthur Ventures as a Partner in 2024, after a decade in growth-stage B2B software investing at PSG Equity.

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Andrew Hein

Andrew Hein is an American theoretical and computational biologist, an assistant professor at Cornell University, and a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

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Andrew Henry (fur trader)

Andrew Henry, known as Major Andrew Henry, was an American fur trader and lead miner who co-founded the Rocky Mountain Fur Company with William H. Ashley in 1821.

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Andrew Hevesi

Andrew Hevesi is an American Democratic politician, a New York State Assembly member for the 28th district in Queens since 2005, chairing the Children and Families Committee.

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Andrew Hoell

Andrew Hoell is a research meteorologist at NOAA's Physical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, who studies drought prediction and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2017.

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Andrew Holness

Andrew Michael Holness (born 1972) is Jamaica's 9th and youngest Prime Minister, JLP leader, MP for West Central St. Andrew since 1997; served 2011–2012, then won elections in 2016, 2020, and 2025 for three successive terms.

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Andrew Howard

Andrew Howard (born 1969, Cardiff) is a Welsh theatre, television and film actor, Tokyo Best Actor winner 2001 for Mr In-Between, known for Limitless, Hatfields & McCoys, Watchmen, and Nolan's Tenet and The Odyssey.

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Andrew Hoy

Andrew Hoy (born 1959, Culcairn, NSW), Australian eventing rider, eight-time Olympian with six medals: team gold 1992, 1996, 2000, individual silver 2000, team silver and individual bronze Tokyo 2020 at 62.

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Andrew Huxley

Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917–2012) was an English physiologist and biophysicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for the ionic mechanism of the nerve impulse and proposed the sliding filament theory of muscle contraction.

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Andrew Hyra

Andrew Hyra (born 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, half of the folk-rock duo Billy Pilgrim with Kristian Bush (Atlantic albums 1994-1995), later a solo artist (Spill, Curios) and leader of Smokin' Novas.

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Andrew I of Hungary

Andrew I of Hungary (I. András, or Endre) was King of Hungary from 1046 to 1060, an Árpád prince who restored the Christian kingdom of Stephen I.

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Andrew I. Cooper

Andrew I. Cooper is a materials chemist at the University of Liverpool known for porous organic materials and mobile robotic chemists, elected FRS in 2015.