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Andrey Tyumentsev

Andrey Tyumentsev (Андрей Алексеевич Тюменцев), Soviet-Russian handball playmaker born 1963 in Vladivostok; 1988 Seoul Olympic gold with USSR (21 goals in 6 matches), 1990 world silver, Dynamo Astrakhan and Spanish clubs.

Andrey V. Chubukov

Andrey V. Chubukov (Андрей Вадимович Чубуков) is a condensed matter theorist at the University of Minnesota who received the 2018 John Bardeen Prize for his work on unconventional superconductivity.

Andrey V. Kravtsov

Andrey V. Kravtsov (Андрей В. Кравцов) is a computational cosmologist and professor at the University of Chicago, known for the ART N-body code and the halo occupation distribution.

Andrey V. Zavialov

Andrey V. Zavialov is a molecular biologist who identified the gene for adenosine deaminase 2 and has been a principal investigator at Hainan Medical University, China, since 2022.

Andrey Vinius

Andrey Andreyevich Vinius (Андрей Андреевич Виниус, 1641–1716) was a Dutch-born Russian official who headed the postal service, the Siberian Prikaz, and the artillery under Peter I.

Andrey Vlasov

Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov (Андрей Андреевич Власов, 1901–1946) was a Soviet Red Army lieutenant general who, captured by German forces in 1942, defected and led the Russian Liberation Army.

Andrey Vorobyov

Andrey Vorobyov is a Russian politician who serves as Governor of Moscow Oblast, the region surrounding Moscow, and chairs the State Council Commission on Data Economy.

Andrey X

Andrey X is the handle of Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, a Russian-born journalist and Israeli citizen documenting West Bank settler violence, co-founder of Kompas Media, with hundreds of thousands of followers and 14 pending Israeli court cases.

Andrey Zaliznyak

Andrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak (1935–2017) was a Russian linguist whose 1977 Grammatical Dictionary reorganized Russian inflection and who reconstructed the Old Novgorod dialect from birch-bark letters.

Andrey Zheludev

Andrey Ivanovich Zheludev is a condensed matter physicist and professor at ETH Zurich who studies quantum magnetism by neutron scattering, and received a 2000 PECASE award.

Andrey Zubarev

Andrey Sergeyevich Zubarev (Андрей Сергеевич Зубарев), Russian defenseman born 1987 in Ufa; 666 KHL games, Olympic gold 2018, 2014 world title, 2017 Gagarin Cup with SKA; retired 2024; distinct from lawyer, physicist, and economist namesakes.

Andrey Zubov

Andrey Zubov (Андрей Борисович Зубов) is a Russian historian and political scientist, formerly a professor at MGIMO, dismissed in 2014 for condemning the annexation of Crimea.

Andria

Andria (Àndrie/Jàndrie) is a city of about 100,000 in Puglia, Italy, capital with Barletta and Trani of the Barletta-Andria-Trani province; home to Frederick II's UNESCO Castel del Monte, burrata, and confetti.

Andria Kvirikadze (ანდრია კვირიკაძე)

Andria Kvirikadze (ანდრია კვირიკაძე), Georgian attacking midfielder born 2008 in Batumi; Dinamo Tbilisi youth product signed by Paris FC in July 2026, now with Paris FC B in National 2, former Georgia U17 player.

Andrianampoinimerina

Andrianampoinimerina, also known as Ramboasalama, was king of Imerina in the central highlands of Madagascar from 1787 until his death in 1810, uniting the Merina kingdoms.

Andrias

Andrias is a genus of large, fully aquatic salamanders in East Asia, containing the Chinese and Japanese giant salamanders, the largest living amphibians at up to 1.8 m.

Andrias scheuchzeri

Andrias scheuchzeri is an extinct Eurasian giant salamander (Oligocene-Pliocene). Its 1726 type fossil from Öhningen was misdescribed by Scheuchzer as Homo diluvii testis, a Flood victim, until Cuvier identified it as a salamander; holotype at Teylers Museum.

Andrić Prize

The Andrić Prize (Andrićeva nagrada) is an annual Serbian literary award of the Ivo Andrić Foundation in Belgrade for the best short story, presented since 1976.

Andries Meijerink

Andries Meijerink, born 1963 in Nijkerk, is a Dutch materials chemist who has held the Solid State Chemistry chair at Utrecht University since 1996 and discovered quantum cutting, demonstrated in a 1999 Science paper.

Andries Pretorius

Andries Pretorius (1798–1853) was a Boer commandant-general who won the Battle of Blood River in 1838 and negotiated the Sand River Convention of 1852, by which Britain recognized Transvaal independence; Pretoria is named after him.

Andries van Dam

Andries "Andy" van Dam is a Dutch-born computer scientist who has taught at Brown University since 1965 and co-created the pioneering hypertext systems HES and FRESS.

Andrii Baumeister

Andrii Baumeister (Андрій Баумейстер), born 1970 in Cherkasy, is a Ukrainian Thomist philosopher and former Kyiv professor who left Ukraine in 2022 and works in Germany.

Andrii Butenko

Andrii Butenko is a Ukrainian educator and civil servant serving as Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine since July 2026, after heading the higher education quality agency.

Andrii Malyshko

Andrii Malyshko (1912–1970) was a Ukrainian lyric poet and translator whose song Pisnia pro rushnyk is so widely sung many take it for a folk song.

Andrii Raikovych

Andrii Raikovych (Андрій Райкович) is a Ukrainian politician, appointed by President Zelensky in 2022 as head of the Kirovohrad Oblast State Administration after serving two terms as mayor of Kropyvnytskyi.

Andrii Sadovyi

Andrii Sadovyi is a Ukrainian politician and the Mayor of Lviv, in office since 2006, who has led the city through Russian missile strikes and the arrival of millions of displaced Ukrainians.

Andrii Sybiha

Andrii Sybiha (Ukrainian: Андрій Сибіга), born in 1975, is a Ukrainian diplomat and jurist serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine since September 2024.

Andrija Ankovic

Andrija Anković (Andrija Ankovic), Croatian footballer and coach (Gabela 1937 or 1938 – Split 1980), Hajduk Split forward with 250 official goals, 8 Yugoslavia caps, 1960 Rome Olympic gold medalist.

Andrija Bulatović

Andrija Bulatović (born 2006, Kolašin) is a Montenegrin midfielder for RC Lens (number 5, contract to 2030) and Montenegro; formerly Kom Podgorica, Rudar Pljevlja, Budućnost Podgorica.

Andrija Maksimović (Андрија Максимовић)

Andrija Maksimović (Андрија Максимовић), nicknamed "Little Messi", is a Serbian attacking midfielder for RB Leipzig who set age records in the Belgrade derby at Red Star and became Serbia's youngest competitive debutant in October 2024.