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Angulimala

Angulimala (अङ्गुलिमाल) was a bandit of the Kosala kingdom who killed travelers and wore a garland of their fingers until the Buddha converted and ordained him as a monk.

Angus (film)

Angus (1995) is an American teen comedy-drama directed by Patrick Read Johnson, adapted from Chris Crutcher's short story, starring Charlie Talbert, Kathy Bates, George C. Scott, and James Van Der Beek.

Angus & Julia Stone

Angus & Julia Stone are an Australian sibling folk-indie pop duo formed in Sydney in 2006. Down the Way (2010) hit number one in Australia and won five ARIA Awards; Rick Rubin produced their 2014 reunion album.

Angus & Robertson

Angus & Robertson is an Australian bookselling and publishing firm founded in Sydney in 1886, known for publishing Paterson and Lawson and for its national bookshop chain.

Angus Barbieri's fast

Angus Barbieri's fast: a 382-day medically supervised fast (June 1965 to July 1966) by a Scottish man at Maryfield Hospital, Dundee, on tea, coffee, water, soda water, and vitamins; weight fell from 214 kg to 80.74 kg, the longest recorded fast.

Angus Buckling

Angus Buckling is an evolutionary biologist and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus in Cornwall, studying the evolutionary ecology of microbes.

Angus Campbell (social psychologist)

Angus Campbell (Albert Angus Campbell, 1910–1980) was an American social psychologist who directed the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center and wrote The American Voter.

Angus Cloud

Angus Cloud (Conor Angus Cloud Hickey, 1998-2023), American actor from Oakland; scouted off the street, he played drug dealer Fezco on HBO's Euphoria and starred in Your Lucky Day before dying of an accidental overdose at 25.

Angus Dalgleish

Angus George Dalgleish is a British medical oncologist, foundation chair of oncology at St George's, University of London, known for co-discovering HIV's CD4 receptor and for cancer immunotherapy.

Angus Deaton

Angus Deaton, British-American economist at Princeton, 2015 Nobel laureate in economic sciences for analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare; author of the Almost Ideal Demand System, household-survey poverty measurement, and, with Anne Case, the deaths-of-despair research.

Angus Deayton

Angus Deayton (Gordon Angus Deayton, b. 1956), English actor, writer and broadcaster; original host of Have I Got News for You 1990–2002, Hee Bee Gee Bees and Radio Active/KYTV comedy, Patrick in One Foot in the Grave.

Angus Fletcher (literary scholar)

Angus Fletcher is an American scholar, Professor of Story Science at Ohio State, who studies how stories affect the mind and trains creativity in the U.S. Army.

Angus Fraser

Angus Fraser (Angus Robert Charles Fraser, born 1965, Billinge, Lancashire), English fast-medium seamer: 177 Test wickets in 46 Tests for England 1989–98, Middlesex 1984–2002, Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1996, MBE 1999, later Independent cricket correspondent and Middlesex Managing Director of Cricket.

Angus Gillan

Angus Gillan (James Angus Gillan, 1885-1981), British rower and Sudan colonial administrator; won Olympic gold in the 1908 coxless fours (Magdalen) and 1912 eights (Leander), the first oarsman of any country with two Olympic golds.

Angus Gunn

Angus Gunn (Angus Fraser James Gunn, born 1996, Norwich) is a Scottish goalkeeper at San Jose Earthquakes, formerly Man City, Southampton, Norwich, and Nottingham Forest, with 29 Scotland caps after switching from England youth teams.

Angus I. Lamond

Angus I. Lamond is a molecular cell biologist, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Dundee since 1995, known for work on the spliceosome and nuclear proteomics.

Angus Imrie

Angus Imrie (Angus William Jake Imrie), English actor born 1994 on the Isle of Wight, son of Celia Imrie and Benjamin Whitrow; LAMDA-trained, known as Young Merlin in The Kid Who Would Be King, Prince Edward in The Crown, Jake in Fleabag, Josh Archer in The Archers, and the voice of Zero in Star Trek: Prodigy.

Angus King

Angus S. King Jr., Maine independent politician: two-term governor (1995-2003), then U.S. Senator since 2013, Maine's first independent senator, caucusing with Democrats.

Angus King III

Angus King III (born 1970), Maine clean energy executive, founder of Peaks Renewables, and son of Senator and former Governor Angus King, Jr.; Democratic candidate in the June 9, 2026 Maine gubernatorial primary.

Angus MacAskill

Angus MacAskill (1825–1863), the Cape Breton Giant or Gille Mòr, was a Scottish-born Canadian giant, Guinness's tallest recorded non-pathological giant at 7 ft 9 in, famed for strength feats, a Queen Victoria audience, and a 2,700-pound anchor lift.

Angus Macfadyen

Angus Macfadyen (born 1963, Glasgow) is a Scottish actor, writer, director, and producer best known as Robert the Bruce in Braveheart (1995), Major Robert Rogers in Turn: Washington's Spies, and Jor-El in Superman & Lois. Distinct from the lawyer and cameraman of the same name.

Angus MacLise

Angus MacLise (1938–1979), also known for his calendar-poem Year, was an American percussionist, poet, and calligrapher, first drummer of the Velvet Underground and a Theatre of Eternal Music member who quit before their first paid gig and died in Kathmandu.

Angus McLaren

Angus McLaren (born 1988) is an Australian actor known as Lewis McCartney in H2O: Just Add Water and Nathan Rafter in Packed to the Rafters and Back to the Rafters; also Doctor Doctor, Home and Away, Hotel Mumbai, and WAAPA-trained drummer.

Angus Miller

Angus Miller, Scottish actor from Dundee trained at Drama Centre London; Donnie Russell in BBC's Shetland since 2019, Michael Murray in Outlander, Colin Cunningham in Netflix's Dept. Q, and STV continuity announcer 2020-2024.

Angus Ogilvy

Sir Angus Ogilvy (Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 1928–2004) was a British businessman who married Princess Alexandra of Kent in 1963 and was central to the Lonrho affair of 1973–77.

Angus Sampson

Angus Murray Lincoln Sampson, Australian actor, writer, director and voice artist born 1979 in Sydney; known for Tucker in Insidious, the Organic Mechanic in Mad Max: Fury Road and Furiosa, Bear Gerhardt in Fargo season 2, and Cisco in The Lincoln Lawyer.

Angus Scrimm

Angus Scrimm (Lawrence Rory Guy, 1926–2016), American actor and Grammy-winning liner-notes writer, played the Tall Man, the alien mortician villain of Don Coscarelli's Phantasm (1979) and its four sequels through Phantasm: Ravager (2016).

Angus Stone

Angus Stone, also known as Angus John Stone and Dope Lemon, is an Australian singer-songwriter from Sydney, one half of the sibling folk duo Angus & Julia Stone.

Angus T. Jones

Angus T. Jones (Angus Turner Jones, born 1993) is an American former child actor who played Jake Harper on CBS's Two and a Half Men (2003–15), became television's highest-paid child star, then left the show in 2012 after a religious conversion.

Angus Taylor

Angus Taylor is an Australian politician who has led the Liberal Party and the Opposition since February 2026, and has represented the seat of Hume since 2013.