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Anthology series

Anthology series: television or radio series presenting a different story and different characters each episode or season, unified by theme or genre; examples include The Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, and American Horror Story.

Anthomyiidae

Anthomyiidae (root-maggot flies), calyptrate Diptera family of about 2,000 species in ~40 genera, mostly Holarctic; larvae mine roots, leaves, fungi, or dung; 2026 phylogenomics subsumes Scathophagidae within it.

Anthoni Salim

Anthoni Salim is an Indonesian businessman who leads the Salim Group conglomerate and has been President Director and CEO of Indofood, maker of Indomie noodles, since 2004.

Anthony (film)

Anthony (அந்தோணி) is a 2026 Tamil-language drama set in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, directed by Sukirthan Christhuraja and Jenosan Rajeswar, starring Kayal Vincent and TJ Bhanu, with music by Ilaiyaraaja; released 13 March 2026 and submitted for 99th Academy Awards consideration.

Anthony A. Amato

Anthony A. Amato is an American neurologist in neuromuscular medicine, a professor at Harvard Medical School and Vice Chairman of Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Anthony A. Grace

Anthony A. Grace, also published as Anthony Grace, is a neuroscientist at the University of Pittsburgh known for research on dopamine system regulation in schizophrenia.

Anthony A. Kossiakoff

Anthony A. Kossiakoff is a molecular biologist and protein engineer, the Otho S.A. Sprague Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and a National Academy of Sciences member.

Anthony A. Williams

Anthony A. Williams, fourth mayor of Washington, D.C. since home rule (1999-2007), former Clinton-appointed CFO who restored city finances, ended federal control board oversight, and revitalized the District.

Anthony Adams

Anthony "Spice" Adams (born 1980, Detroit) is a former NFL defensive tackle, Penn State product drafted 57th overall by the 49ers in 2003, who played 121 games with 10.5 sacks for San Francisco and the Chicago Bears, then became a comedian and Bears broadcaster.

Anthony Aguilar

Anthony Aguilar, a retired US Army Special Forces officer, alleged witnessing war crimes at Gaza aid sites in 2025. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation rejected his account.

Anthony Ainley

Anthony Ainley (1932–2004), British actor, played the Master in Doctor Who 1981–1989, the longest-serving Master, introduced as Tremas in The Keeper of Traken and cast without audition by John Nathan-Turner.

Anthony Albanese

Anthony Albanese, Australian Labor Party leader and 31st prime minister of Australia since 23 May 2022, member for Grayndler since 1996, re-elected 3 May 2025 with 94 of 150 seats and 55.3% two-party-preferred.

Anthony Allen Shore

Anthony Allen Shore, Houston's "Tourniquet Killer," was an American serial killer who strangled four females aged 9 to 21 between 1986 and 1995, was caught by a 2003 DNA match, and was executed in Texas on January 18, 2018.

Anthony Anderson

Anthony Anderson (born 1970) is an American actor, comedian, producer, and game show host, star and executive producer of ABC's black-ish (2014–2022), Detective Kevin Bernard on Law & Order, host of the 75th Emmy Awards, and a 2022 Disney Legend.

Anthony Andrews

Anthony Andrews (born 1948) is an English actor, full name Anthony Corin Gerald Andrews, known for Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited (BAFTA and Golden Globe winner), The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Stanley Baldwin in The King's Speech.

Anthony Angelozzi

Anthony Angelozzi is an American Democratic politician and member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 8th district, previously a teacher and labor union leader in Hammonton.

Anthony Arguez

Anthony Arguez is a research climatologist at NOAA in Asheville, North Carolina, who led the 1981-2010 U.S. Climate Normals and won a 2011 PECASE award.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), English philosopher and Whig politician, author of Characteristicks (1711); founder-figure of the British moral sense school influencing Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith, and claimant that beauty and good are one.

Anthony Atala

Anthony Atala is an American urologic surgeon and regenerative medicine researcher who directs the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, where his team implanted the first laboratory-grown bladders in patients.

Anthony B (musician)

Anthony B, born Keith Blair in 1976 in Trelawny, Jamaica, is a Rastafarian roots reggae singer whose banned 1996 hit "Fire Pon Rome" made him a leading figure of the 1990s revival.

Anthony B. Bleecker

Anthony B. Bleecker was an American plant biologist and professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who identified ETR1, the first hormone receptor identified in any plant.

Anthony Baldinucci

Anthony Baldinucci (Antonio Baldinucci; 1665–1717) was an Italian Jesuit priest who preached 448 barefoot penitential missions across central Italy and was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1893.

Anthony Bamford

Anthony Bamford, Lord Bamford, is a British industrialist who has chaired JCB since 1975, growing it into a global construction equipment maker, and sits as a Conservative in the House of Lords.

Anthony Barnes Atkinson

Anthony Barnes Atkinson (1944–2017) was a British economist, a founder of modern inequality measurement who created the Atkinson index, studied long-run top incomes with Thomas Piketty, and chaired the World Bank's Commission on Global Poverty.

Anthony Barnett (physician-scientist)

Anthony H. Barnett, known as Tony Barnett, is a British diabetes and endocrinology researcher, Emeritus Professor at Birmingham who led a 2004 telmisartan kidney-protection trial.

Anthony Barr (American football)

Anthony Barr, born 1992 in South Bend, Indiana, is a former NFL linebacker drafted ninth overall by the Minnesota Vikings in 2014 out of UCLA; four-time Pro Bowler, 116 games, 18.5 sacks, retired after 2023.

Anthony Bebbington

Anthony Bebbington is a Higgins Professor of Environment and Society at Clark University, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a scholar of rural livelihoods and extractive-industry conflict in the Andes.

Anthony Bennett (basketball)

Anthony Bennett (born 1993, Brampton, Ontario) is a Canadian basketball forward, first Canadian taken No. 1 overall (Cavaliers, 2013 NBA Draft); a four-season NBA career of 151 games made him a noted draft bust, with a long Canadian national-team career.

Anthony Blunt

Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), British art historian, Courtauld director and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, was the Cambridge Five's 'fourth man', a wartime MI5 Soviet spy secretly confessed in 1964 and unmasked by Thatcher in 1979.

Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain (1956–2018), American chef, author, and TV host; wrote Kitchen Confidential and hosted A Cook's Tour, No Reservations, The Layover, and CNN's Parts Unknown.