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Antony Perumbavoor

Antony Perumbavoor (Malekudy Joseph Antony; ആന്റണി പെരുമ്പാവൂർ) is a Malayalam film producer who began as Mohanlal's chauffeur, founded Aashirvad Cinemas in 1999, produced Narasimham and Empuraan, and feuded with Suresh Kumar.

Antony Rosen

Antony Rosen is an American rheumatologist and immunologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Vice Dean for Research since 2013, known for linking autoimmunity and cancer.

Antony Sher

Antony Sher (1949–2021), South African-born British actor, knighted RSC Honorary Associate Artist; Richard III on crutches (1984), Olivier and Tony honours, actor-writer-painter, husband of Gregory Doran.

Antony Starr

Antony Starr is a New Zealand actor best known for playing Homelander in the Prime Video series The Boys, and earlier the twins Van and Jethro West in Outrageous Fortune.

Antony Worrall Thompson

Antony Worrall Thompson (Henry Antony Cardew Worrall Thompson), English chef and TV broadcaster born in Stratford-upon-Avon; opened Ménage à Trois in 1981, won the Meilleur Ouvrier de Grande Bretagne in 1987, wrote over 30 books, and ran Notting Grill and The Greyhound.

Antora Energy

Antora Energy is an American energy storage company founded in 2018 and based in San Jose, California, that builds thermal batteries storing electricity as heat in blocks of solid carbon.

Antrafenine

Antrafenine (Stakane) is a piperazine-derivative non-narcotic analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug, COX-inhibiting, with naproxen-comparable efficacy in 1983 osteoarthritis trials; now largely replaced, it holds a 2024 US orphan designation for rare epilepsies.

Antratsytivs’kyy Rayon

Antratsytivs’kyy Rayon (Антрацитівський район), a former district of southern Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Antratsyt; created 1936 as Bokove-Antratsytivskyi Raion, abolished in the 2020 reform and assigned to Rovenky Raion.

Antrel Rolle

Antrel Rolle (born 1982, Homestead, FL) is a former NFL safety, Miami Hurricanes All-American, drafted 8th overall in 2005 by Arizona; three-time Pro Bowler and Super Bowl XLVI champion with the Giants.

Antro delle Sorti

Antro delle Sorti (Cave of the Lots), Palestrina, ancient Praeneste: a rock-cut grotto on the forum's west side, paved with the late 2nd-century BC Fish Mosaic seabed; once misidentified as the oracle's sortes repository, likely a nymphaeum or Isis sanctuary.

Antrodia

Antrodia, a brown-rot polypore fungus genus in Polyporales (Fomitopsidaceae), introduced by Karsten 1879, type A. serpens; polyphyletic in broad sense, reduced to a small sensu stricto clade; includes the medicinal Taiwanese A. camphorata (Taiwanofungus camphoratus).

Antrodia cinnamomea beta-glucans

Antrodia cinnamomea beta-glucans (Antrodia mushroom beta-glucan, ABG, Antrocan) are beta(1,3)/beta(1,6)-linked glucose polymers from the Taiwan endemic medicinal mushroom A. cinnamomea strain ATCC 200183; GRAS Notice GRN 995 received an FDA no-questions letter in 2022 for food use up to 150 mg per serving.

Antrodiaetidae

Antrodiaetidae, folding-door spiders, is a mygalomorph spider family of 4 genera and 38 species in North America and Japan, placed in Atypoidea with Atypidae and Mecicobothriidae, sister to all other mygalomorphs, with Cretaceous origins and burrows ranging from collared burrows to trapdoors.

Antrostomy

Antrostomy is a surgical opening into the maxillary sinus to restore drainage and ventilation in chronic sinusitis, done endoscopically through the nose and largely replacing the Caldwell-Luc procedure.

Antrozous

Antrozous (pallid bats) is a New World vesper bat genus, type species A. pallidus (LeConte, 1856), ranging from British Columbia to central Mexico; ground-gleaning, low-flying bats with four lower incisors.

Antrum (film)

Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made is a 2018 Canadian mockumentary horror film by David Amito and Michael Laicini about a cursed 1979 film whose screenings allegedly killed viewers, including 56 deaths in a Budapest cinema fire.

Ants Antson

Ants Antson (Antson, Ants), 1938–2015, Estonian speed skater for the USSR; won the 1964 Innsbruck Olympic 1,500 m gold, the first Estonian Winter Olympic gold, and was Estonia's 1992 Albertville flag bearer.

Ants Piip

Ants Piip (1884–1942) was an Estonian diplomat, professor of international law, and statesman who served as Estonia's first head of state and negotiated the Tartu Peace Treaty.

Antti Arponen

Antti Arponen is a Finnish fintech entrepreneur, co-founder of the Abu Dhabi payments company Pyypl, which he led as Group CEO from January 2020 to September 2024.

Antti Häkkänen

Antti Häkkänen, born 1985, is a Finnish National Coalition Party politician who has served as Minister of Defence since 2023 and was Minister of Justice from 2017 to 2019.

Antti Hyvarinen

Antti Hyvärinen (Antti Abram Hyvärinen, 1932–2000), Finnish ski jumper; first non-Norwegian Olympic ski jumping champion, winning large hill gold at Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 with 227.0 points; career ended by a broken hip in 1957.

Antti Kupiainen

Antti Kupiainen (born 1954) is a Finnish mathematical physicist, professor at the University of Helsinki, known for rigorous renormalization group methods and Liouville conformal field theory.

Antti Rinne

Antti Rinne (b. 3 November 1962), Finnish SDP lawyer, trade union leader, and politician: finance minister 2014–2015, SDP chair 2014–2020, and Prime Minister of Finland 6 June–10 December 2019 before resigning over the postal dispute.

Antti Vaheri

Antti Vaheri is a Finnish physician-scientist and professor emeritus of virology at the University of Helsinki, known for co-discovering fibronectin and for five decades of hantavirus research.

Antti Viskari

Antti Viskari (1928–2007), Finnish marathon runner, won the 1956 Boston Marathon in 2:14:14, the fastest Finn's time there, set a ratified 25 km world record of 1:20:15 in 1958, and placed 53rd in the 1960 Rome Olympic marathon.

Antuco

Antuco, active basaltic stratovolcano (2,979 m) in Chile's Biobío Region, Southern Volcanic Zone; Holocene sector collapse (6.4 km³ debris avalanche), 27 historical eruptions, last in 1869, 13th-ranked high-threat Chilean volcano.

Antun Gustav Matoš

Antun Gustav Matoš (1873–1914) was a Croatian writer, poet, and critic, the central figure of Croatian Moderna, whose 1892 story Moć savjesti began the period.

Antun Sa'adeh

Antun Sa'adeh (أنطون سعادة), born 1904 in Mount Lebanon, founded the Syrian Social Nationalist Party seeking a unified Greater Syria; Lebanon executed him in 1949.

Antwaan Randle El

Antwaan Randle El (born 1979, Riverdale, Illinois), former Indiana quarterback turned NFL wide receiver for Pittsburgh and Washington, first wide receiver to throw a TD pass in a Super Bowl (XL), now Bears assistant head coach.

Antwan McClellan

Antwan McClellan is an American Republican politician who has represented New Jersey's 1st district in the General Assembly since 2020, and is the first African American Republican in the legislature since 2002.