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Aniket Nikam

Aniket Ujjwal Nikam, Indian criminal advocate at the Bombay High Court and Supreme Court, son of prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, B.L.S. Mumbai and LL.M. NYU, founder of the Nyay Vishwas Foundation legal-aid charity.

Aniketana

Aniketana (ಅನಿಕೇತನ) is a 1963 collection of poems by the Kannada writer Kuvempu, and the name of a quarterly journal of Kannada language and literature published in Bangalore.

Anikey Stroganov

Anikey Stroganov (Аникей Строганов), born around 1488 in Novgorod, was a Russian salt magnate and colonizer who founded the Stroganov dynasty, whose enterprise later financed Yermak's Siberian expedition.

Anikita Repnin

Anikita Repnin (Аникита Иванович Репнин) was a Russian prince and general-feldmarshal of Peter the Great's generation who commanded the center at Poltava in 1709, captured Riga, and governed Livonia.

ANIKV

ANIKV (Анна Вавилова) is a Russian pop singer and songwriter who rose through the TNT show Песни and topped the Russian chart in 2022 with «Тесно».

Anil Agarwal (अनिल अग्रवाल) (industrialist)

Anil Agarwal (अनिल अग्रवाल) is an Indian-born, London-based mining industrialist who founded Sterlite Industries in 1986 and built it into Vedanta, a metals and mining group.

Anil Ambani (अनिल धीरूभाई अंबानी)

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani (अनिल धीरूभाई अंबानी), born 1959, Indian businessman, younger son of Dhirubhai Ambani; led ADAG after the 2005-06 Reliance split with brother Mukesh; sixth-richest in 2008, later insolvency, 2020 UK bankruptcy claim, 2024 SEBI ban.

Anil B. Mukherjee

Anil B. Mukherjee (Anil Baran Mukherjee) is a physician-scientist who heads the Section on Developmental Genetics at NIH's NICHD in Bethesda, Maryland, known for work on uteroglobin and therapies for Batten disease.

Anil Baluni

Anil Baluni is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a member of the Lok Sabha for Garhwal, Uttarakhand since 2024 and a former Rajya Sabha member.

Anil Beephan

Anil Beephan Jr. is an American Republican politician elected to the New York State Assembly's 105th district in 2022, after serving as an East Fishkill councilman.

Anil Bharathi

Anil Bharathi (අනිල් භාරති) was a Sri Lankan vocalist who rose to fame in the early 1970s with the Golden Chimes and was known for "Bethlehempure"; he died in 2025 aged 75.

Anil Bonde

Anil Bonde is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha since 2022, after serving as Maharashtra's agriculture minister.

Anil Chaudhry

Anil Chaudhry is an Indian energy-sector executive who served as Managing Director and Country President of Schneider Electric India from 2013 and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Anil Chauhan (अनिल चौहान)

General Anil Chauhan (अनिल चौहान), born 1961, is a retired Indian Army officer of the 11 Gorkha Rifles who served as India's second Chief of Defence Staff from 30 September 2022 to 30 May 2026, championing jointness, theatre commands, and Operation Sindoor reforms.

Anil Chawla

Anil Chawla is an Indian financial services executive who served as the D. E. Shaw group's country head and head of private equity in India from 2006 to 2012.

Anil Deshmukh (अनिल वसंतराव देशमुख)

Anil Vasantrao Deshmukh (अनिल वसंतराव देशमुख), born 1950 in Nagpur, is an NCP leader and longtime Katol MLA who was Maharashtra home minister 2019-2021, resigned over Param Bir Singh's corruption allegations, faced a CBI FIR, and was arrested in November 2021.

Anil Dhawan (अनिल धवन)

Anil Dhawan (अनिल धवन), Indian Hindi film and TV actor born 1950 in Kanpur, FTII graduate, debuted with Chetna (1970); brother of director David Dhawan; starred in about 40 films as hero, revived as Pramod Sinha in Andhadhun (2018). Distinct from the hepatologist Anil Dhawan.

Anil Firojiya

Anil Firojiya, born in 1971, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented the Ujjain constituency of Madhya Pradesh in the Lok Sabha since 2019.

Anil Jason

Anil Jason is an American software engineer who co-founded the AI writing company QuillBot in Chicago in 2017 with Rohan Gupta and David Silin, serving as chief technology officer.

Anil K. Jain

Anil K. Jain is an American computer scientist at Michigan State University known for pattern recognition and biometrics, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.

Anil K. Rustgi

Anil K. Rustgi is an American physician-scientist in gastrointestinal oncology who directs Columbia's Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center and studies esophageal, pancreatic, and colon cancers.

Anil K. Sachdev

Anil K. Sachdev is an Indian-American metallurgist who spent 46 years at General Motors R&D and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Anil Kapoor (अनिल कपूर)

Anil Kapoor (अनिल कपूर), born 1956, Indian actor and producer; Hindi lead debut Woh Saat Din (1983), star of Mr India and Tezaab, National Award for Pukar, Slumdog Millionaire, and a 2024 AI personality-rights ruling.

Anil Kapoor filmography

Anil Kapoor filmography: over 108 Hindi, Telugu, and international films from 1979 to 2024, spanning Woh Saat Din, Mr. India, Tezaab, Slumdog Millionaire, and Animal, with box-office totals and awards.

Anil Kashyap

Anil Kashyap is an American economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business known for research on banking regulation and Japan's banking crisis.

Anil Kumar

Anil Kumar is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh and a Rashtriya Lok Dal minister holding the Science and Technology portfolio in the Yogi Adityanath government.

Anil Kumar Bhattacharya

Anil Kumar Bhattacharya, also spelled Bhattacharyya (1915–1996), was an Indian statistician whose 1943 measure of divergence between populations survives as the Bhattacharyya distance, used in statistics, computer vision, and machine learning.

Anil Kumar Gupta

Anil Kumar Gupta is an Indian academic who taught at IIM Ahmedabad from 1981 to 2017 and founded the Honey Bee Network, documenting village-level inventors across India.

Anil Kumar Tiwari

Anil Kumar Tiwari is an Indian politician who joined the BJP in 1990 and became president of its Andaman and Nicobar Islands unit in July 2025.

Anil Kumble (ಅನಿಲ್ ಕುಂಬ್ಳೆ)

Anil Kumble (ಅನಿಲ್ ಕುಂಬ್ಳೆ), nicknamed Jumbo, Indian leg-spinner born 1970 in Bangalore; 619 Test wickets, India's record, and 10/74 v Pakistan 1999, second perfect ten in Test history.