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Anis Hadj Moussa (أنيس حاج موسى)

Anis Hadj Moussa (أنيس حاج موسى), born 2002 in France, is an Algerian wide forward for Feyenoord (contract to 2029) and Algeria, a left-footed inverted winger who won the 2024/25 Super Cup and played at AFCON 2025 and the 2026 World Cup.

Anisa Makhlouf (أنيسة مخلوف)

Anisa Makhlouf (أنيسة مخلوف), also spelled Anissa, was the wife of Syrian president Hafez al-Assad and mother of successor Bashar, dying in Damascus in 2016.

Anisa Nandaula

Anisa Nandaula, Ugandan-born Australian stand-up comedian, poet, and author based in Brisbane; 2016 Queensland Poetry Slam champion, TikTok comedy star, Taskmaster Australia and Thank God You're Here contestant, touring You Can't Say That and No Small Talk.

Anisakiasis

Anisakiasis (herring worm disease), also called anisakidosis, is a foodborne parasitic disease from Anisakis, Pseudoterranova, or Contracaecum nematode larvae in raw or undercooked fish or squid, causing gastric, intestinal, ectopic, or allergic illness, common in Japan.

Anisakis

Anisakis (herring worm) is a genus of marine parasitic roundworms whose L3 larvae in raw or undercooked fish cause anisakiasis and allergic reactions; adults live in cetacean stomachs, with the A. simplex complex of three sibling species.

Anisaldehyde

Anisaldehyde (4-methoxybenzaldehyde, anisic aldehyde) is an aromatic aldehyde with a sweet, anise-like odor, occurring in anise and fennel essential oils and used as a fragrance ingredient and laboratory TLC stain.

Anise

Anise (Pimpinella anisum, aniseed) is an annual Apiaceae herb native from SE Türkiye to central Israel, grown for aniseed fruits and anethole-rich essential oil used in food, drink, and medicine since ancient Egypt.

Aniseikonia

Aniseikonia (also ocular image size inequality) is a binocular vision condition where the two eyes perceive images of different size or shape, from optical causes like anisometropia or retinal causes like epiretinal membrane; symptoms begin around 1-3%.

Anisette

Anisette: a sweet aniseed liqueur, about 25% ABV and 250 g sugar/L, from French Anisette de Bordeaux (attested 1821); Marie Brizard (Bordeaux, 1755) is the historic reference, distinct from stronger, drier pastis.

Anish Dayal Singh

Anish Dayal Singh (अनीश दयाल सिंह), 1988-batch Manipur-cadre IPS officer; nearly 30 years in the Intelligence Bureau; Director General of ITBP and CRPF (2023-2024); appointed India's Deputy National Security Advisor in August 2025.

Anish Giri

Anish Giri, Dutch chess grandmaster born 1994 in Saint Petersburg, became a GM at 14 years 7 months, peaked at 2798 and world No. 3, won Tata Steel 2023, and finished second at the 2026 Candidates.

Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor (born 1954, Mumbai) is a British-Indian sculptor known for pigment voids, Cloud Gate ('the Bean') in Chicago, Marsyas at Tate Modern, exclusive Vantablack rights, and the Turner Prize (1991).

Anish Sarkar

Anish Sarkar (born 2021), Kolkata chess prodigy; youngest ever FIDE-rated player at 3 years 281 days with a 1555 classical rating in November 2024, coached by GM Dibyendu Barua; record broken by Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha in 2025.

Anish Shah (businessman)

Anish Shah is an Indian businessman who has led the Mahindra Group as CEO and Managing Director since 2021, its first head from outside the founding family.

Anish Sood

Anish Sood is an Indian DJ and producer from Goa who became a breakthrough dance music act in India, touring with Kygo and David Guetta before relaunching as Anyasa in 2021.

Anish Thomas

Anish Thomas is a medical oncologist at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for clinical trials of DNA repair inhibitors in small cell lung cancer.

Anisha

Anisha, also known as Anisha Jo, is a French singer born in Madagascar who won the tenth season of Star Academy in 2022 and released her debut album Lumière in 2023.

Anisha Rosnah

Anisha Rosnah binti Adam (Anisha Rosnah Isa-Kalebic), born 1994, is the wife of Brunei's Prince Abdul Mateen, titled Pengiran Anak Isteri; married January 2024, daughter born 2026.

Anishinaabe

Anishinaabe (Anishinaabeg) is the collective identity of Great Lakes Indigenous peoples including Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, united historically in the Three Fires alliance, with oral treaty traditions and modern self-government agreements.

Anishinaabe beadwork

Anishinaabe beadwork is the decorative art of sewing glass beads onto leather, cloth, and bark, practiced for centuries by the Anishinaabeg of the Great Lakes.

Anishinaabe birchbark scrolls

Anishinaabe birchbark scrolls, called mide-wiigwaas in ceremony, are pictographic records on birch bark used by the Midewiwin, or Grand Medicine Society, to preserve songs, rituals, and teachings.

Anishinaabe treaty areas

The Anishinaabe treaty areas are Upper Great Lakes and northwestern Ontario territories that the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi ceded to the United States and Canada between the 1820s and 1873.

Anishma Anilkumar

Anishma Anilkumar (അനിഷ്മ അനില്‍കുമാര്‍), Indian actress born 1999 in Kattakkada, Kerala; Malayalam debut Poovan (2023), known for I Am Kathalan, Maranamass, and Tamil films Sirai, Youth, and Modha Rathiri.

Anisidine

Anisidine is the name for three positional isomers of methoxyaniline, C₇H₉NO, used chiefly as dye intermediates; p-anisidine gives its name to the p-anisidine value test for oil oxidation.

Anisindione

Anisindione (Miradon) is a synthetic oral anticoagulant of the indanedione class that acts as a vitamin K antagonist. It was approved in 1957 and is discontinued.

Anísio Cabral

Anísio Cabral (Anísio Cláudio Fernandes dos Reis Cabral), Portuguese centre-forward born 2008 in Lisbon, plays for Benfica. Won the 2025 U17 EURO and FIFA U-17 World Cup with Portugal, Silver Boot with 7 goals; renewed by Benfica until 2031.

Anísio Teixeira

Anísio Spínola Teixeira (1900–1971) was a Brazilian educator and jurist who led education reform in Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, founded CAPES, and co-founded the University of Brasília.

Anisoara Sorohan Minea

Anisoara Sorohan Minea (born 1963, Târgu Frumos) is a Romanian rower; Olympic gold in coxed quadruple sculls at Los Angeles 1984 and bronze in quadruple sculls at Seoul 1988.

Anisoara Stanciu Cusmir

Anișoara Stanciu-Cușmir (Cușmir-Stanciu), Romanian long jumper born 1962 in Brăila; 1984 Olympic champion (6.96 m) who set four world records in 1982-83, her 7.43 m still the Romanian record.

Anisocoria

Anisocoria, unequal pupil sizes, is a common sign ranging from benign physiologic anisocoria (up to 20% of people, ≤1 mm) to Horner syndrome, Adie pupil, third nerve palsy, and pharmacologic causes, evaluated by light/dark comparison and drug tests.