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Aryadeva

Aryadeva (Tibetan Pakpa Lha, Chinese Tipo) was a Buddhist Madhyamaka philosopher active around 225–250 CE, traditionally a Sri Lankan prince who became Nāgārjuna's foremost disciple and wrote the Catuḥśataka.

Aryaka Networks

Aryaka Networks is a privately held networking company in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2009, that provides managed SD-WAN and SASE services over its own global private backbone.

Aryam

Aryam (أريام) is an Emirati female pop singer, born Reem Shaban Ibrahim Hassan, who has performed khaleeji music since 1995, known for "Ya Ma'zil", written by Sheikh Zayed.

Aryamani

Aryamani was a king of Kush who ruled from Meroë in the early Meroitic period, first half of the 3rd century BC, known above all from donation stelae found at Kawa.

Aryan

Aryan: English form of Sanskrit ā́rya and Avestan airiia, self-designation of ancient Indo-Iranian speakers; properly names the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European, later misused as a racial label by race theorists and Nazi ideology.

Aryan Brotherhood

Aryan Brotherhood (AB, "the Brand"): white supremacist prison gang formed in California prisons in the 1960s, now also in the federal system; RICO prosecutions, drug trafficking, murder-for-hire; distinct from Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.

Aryan Brotherhood of Texas

Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT), white supremacist prison gang and organized crime group founded in the early 1980s in the Texas prison system; unrelated to the California Aryan Brotherhood; run by five generals; dismantled by federal racketeering prosecutions in 2012-2014 and 2017.

Aryan Khan (आर्यन खान)

Aryan Khan (आर्यन खान) is an Indian filmmaker, the son of actor Shah Rukh Khan and producer Gauri Khan, who made his directing debut with the 2025 Netflix series The Ba*ds of Bollywood.

Aryan Nations

Aryan Nations, also the Church of Jesus Christ Christian, was Richard Butler's Christian Identity and neo-Nazi white supremacist group at Hayden Lake, Idaho, from the mid-1970s; it lost its compound in a 2000 lawsuit and collapsed after his 2004 death.

Aryan race

Aryan race: obsolete pseudoscientific concept racializing "Aryan" (ārya, airya), originally a linguistic self-designation of Indo-Iranian peoples; developed by Gobineau and philology, codified in Nazi law, scientifically refuted.

Aryana Engineer

Aryana Engineer (born 2001, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian hearing-impaired actress, discovered signing with her deaf mother, known as Max in Orphan (2009) and Becky in Resident Evil: Retribution (2012).

Aryasaptasati

The Āryāsaptaśatī (आर्यासप्तशती) is a Sanskrit anthology of single-stanza poems, mostly on erotic love, composed by Govardhana, court poet of King Lakṣmaṇasena of Bengal, in the late twelfth century.

Aryashura

Aryashura (आर्यशूर) was a 4th-century Indian Buddhist monk and Sanskrit poet, from the same school as Ashvaghosha, who composed the Jatakamala, 34 stories of the Buddha's past lives.

Aryat (Aksumite general)

Aryat, also written Ariat, is the commander whom Arabic tradition credits with leading the Aksumite invasion of Himyarite Yemen around 525, ending with his death in a duel with Abraha.

Aryavarta campaigns of Samudragupta

The Aryavarta campaigns of Samudragupta (समुद्रगुप्त) were the Gupta emperor's northern conquests, in which he uprooted nine kings of north India and annexed their kingdoms to the Gupta Empire.

Arye Gross

Arye Gross (born 1960, Los Angeles) is an American character actor known for Adam Green on Ellen, M.E. Sidney Perlmutter on Castle, Broadway's Brooklyn Boy, films like Big Eden and Minority Report, and Antaeus Theatre Company stage work.

Arye Kohavi

Arye Kohavi is an Israeli entrepreneur and former IDF Special Forces company commander who founded Watergen in 2009; its patented technology condenses humidity into drinking water.

Arye Nehorai

Arye Nehorai is a signal processing researcher, the Eugene & Martha Lohman Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, known for posterior Cramér–Rao bounds and vector-sensor array processing.

Aryeh Dvoretzky

Aryeh Dvoretzky (1916–2008) was an Israeli mathematician, born in Ukraine, known for Dvoretzky's theorem on almost Euclidean subspaces and for serving as president of the Weizmann Institute.

Aryeh Routtenberg

Aryeh Routtenberg (1939–2016) was an American behavioral neuroscientist and professor of psychology at Northwestern University, best known for proposing that the enzyme protein kinase C helps store long-term memories.

Aryenis

Aryenis was a princess of Lydia, daughter of King Alyattes and sister of Croesus, given in marriage to Astyages of Media to seal the peace of 585 BC.

Aryl ethers

Aryl ethers are ethers in which the oxygen atom is attached to at least one aromatic ring, a strong C(sp2)–O linkage abundant in drugs, natural products, and lignin.

Aryl halide

An aryl halide, or haloarene, is an organic compound with one or more halogen atoms bonded directly to an aromatic ring, such as bromobenzene or fluorobenzene.

Arylamine N-acetyltransferase

Arylamine N-acetyltransferases (NATs, EC 2.3.1.5) are phase II enzymes transferring an acetyl group from acetyl-CoA to arylamine and hydrazine drugs and carcinogens. Human NAT1 and NAT2 at 8p22 show a Cys-His-Asp triad, ping-pong kinetics, and the NAT2 slow-acetylator polymorphism.

Arylcyclohexylamine

An arylcyclohexylamine, or arylcyclohexanamine, is a synthetic psychoactive compound built from an aryl group, a cyclohexane ring, and an amine, acting as an NMDA receptor antagonist; the class includes PCP, ketamine, and many newer designer drugs.

Aryloxypropanolamine

An aryloxypropanolamine is an organic compound in which an aromatic group links through an ether oxygen to a propanolamine chain, the structural motif of beta blockers like propranolol.

Arylsulfatase

Arylsulfatase (aryl sulfate sulfohydrolase, EC 3.1.6.1; forms A-K) is a sulfatase hydrolyzing aryl sulfate esters via a formylglycine residue; found in microbes, mammals, algae, not higher plants; ARSA deficiency causes metachromatic leukodystrophy.

Arylsulfatase B

Arylsulfatase B (ARSB, EC 3.1.6.12, N-acetylgalactosamine-4-sulfatase) is a lysosomal enzyme removing 4-sulfate groups from chondroitin 4-sulfate and dermatan sulfate; ARSB gene mutations cause mucopolysaccharidosis type VI (Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome).

Arylsulfatase K

Arylsulfatase K, also known as glucuronate-2-sulfatase (GDS), is a lysosomal sulfatase enzyme that removes 2-O-sulfate groups during glycosaminoglycan degradation; its deficiency causes a mild mucopolysaccharidosis, MPS subtype X.

Aryna Sabalenka

Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player (born 1998, Minsk), four-time Grand Slam singles champion (Australian Open 2023, 2024; US Open 2024, 2025), year-end WTA No.1 in 2024 and 2025, coached by Anton Dubrov, rival of Iga Swiatek.