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Ashikaga Yoshizumi

Ashikaga Yoshizumi (足利義澄) was the eleventh shogun of the Ashikaga, or Muromachi, shogunate, installed after the Meio Coup of 1493 and removed in 1508 when Yoshitane was restored.

Ashikari

Ashikari (蘆刈, "The Reed Cutter") is a 1932 novella by Japanese writer Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, first published in the magazine Kaizō and among his classical-return works.

Ashikule Volcanic Field

Ashikule Volcanic Field (阿什库勒火山群, Kunlun Volcanic Group): a ~5,000 m-high cluster of ~10 trachyandesitic cones in the western Kunlun Mountains, Xinjiang, site of China's most recent eruption, Ashishan, 27 May 1951.

Ashildr

Ashildr, later called Me, is a Doctor Who character played by Maisie Williams in four 2015 Series 9 episodes. A Viking girl made immortal by a Mire repair kit, she appears as a highwayman, mayor of an alien London refugee camp, and last being at the end of time.

Ashim Kumar Ghosh

Ashim Kumar Ghosh, Indian political scientist and BJP leader from West Bengal, 19th Governor of Haryana since July 2025; former BJP West Bengal president (1999–2002) and Kolkata college professor.

Ashîma (crater on Ganymede)

Ashima (Ashîma) is an 84-km-wide IAU-named impact crater on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, centered at -39.05 degrees latitude, 122.98 degrees west longitude, named in 1985 for a Semitic-Arab god of fate.

Ashina Helu

Ashina Helu (阿史那贺鲁), died 659, was a Western Turkic prince and Tang vassal who rebelled, proclaimed himself Shabolüe Khagan, and was defeated by Su Dingfang in 657.

Ashina She'er

Ashina She'er (阿史那社爾), c. 604 to 655, was an Eastern Turkic prince who submitted to the Tang in 635 and became one of its foremost generals.

Ashina Simo

Ashina Simo (阿史那思摩), also known as Li Simo, was a member of the Türk royal Ashina clan who served Emperor Taizong of Tang and was buried at Zhaoling in 647.

Ashinas

Ashinas (أشناس), kunya Abu Ja'far, was a Turkic commander and governor under the Abbasid caliphs al-Ma'mun and al-Mu'tasim who died in 844 as governor of Egypt.

Ashing (analytical chemistry)

Ashing is a sample-preparation method in analytical chemistry that destroys a sample's organic matter by ignition or acid oxidation, leaving an inorganic residue weighed as total ash or dissolved for elemental analysis.

Ashington

Ashington AFC, the Colliers, football club founded 1883 in Ashington, Northumberland; Football League Third Division North 1921-1929, now Northern Premier League East Division at Woodhorn Lane, hometown of the Charltons and Jackie Milburn.

Ashio Copper Mine

Ashio Copper Mine (足尾銅山) in Nikko, Tochigi: a copper mine worked from 1610 to 1973, Japan's top producer under Furukawa Ichibee, site of Japan's first major pollution incident, now a trolley-tour attraction.

Ashiq Qarib

Ashiq Qarib (Aşıq Qərib), also known as Ashiq Qarib and Shahsanam, is a famous Azerbaijani love dastan, an oral epic about the minstrel Qarib and his beloved Shahsanam.

Ashirma

Ashirma (Aşırma), traditional belt wrestling of Azerbaijan and Iran's Tabriz region; wrestlers hold a fixed leather-belt grip and try to throw the opponent onto his back; bouts run two 3-minute periods in five weight categories.

Ashish Agarwal

Ashish Agarwal is an Indian venture capital investor who spent thirteen years at Sequoia Capital India, now Peak XV Partners, and is best known for backing Groww.

Ashish Agrawal

Ashish Agrawal is an Indian venture capital investor who spent 13 years at Peak XV Partners, rising to managing director and leading its Series A investment in Groww.

Ashish B. Rughwani

Ashish B. Rughwani is a private equity investor who co-founded Dominus Capital in New York in 2008, after earlier work at Bain Capital and Quad-C.

Ashish Chugh

Ashish Chugh is a Delhi-based value investor in Indian small and microcap equities, founder-director of Hidden Gems Advisory since 2003 and a longtime CNBC commentator.

Ashish Dhawan

Ashish Dhawan is an Indian private equity investor and education philanthropist who co-founded ChrysCapital in 1999 and left in 2012 to found Ashoka University and the Central Square Foundation.

Ashish Dubey

Ashish Dubey, born 1970, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician elected to the 18th Lok Sabha in 2024 from the Jabalpur constituency of Madhya Pradesh.

Ashish Fafadia

Ashish Fafadia is a Partner at Blume Ventures, a Mumbai-based early-stage venture capital firm he joined in 2012 as chief financial officer, leading its Fintech and Growth portfolios.

Ashish Gupta

Ashish Gupta is an Indian venture capitalist who co-founded Helion Venture Partners in 2006, after co-founding software companies Junglee and Tavant and seed-funding Daksh, later bought by IBM.

Ashish Hemrajani

Ashish Hemrajani is an Indian entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive of BookMyShow, which he started in 1999 and built into India's dominant seller of movie, event, and sports tickets.

Ashish K. Jha

Ashish K. Jha is an American physician and health policy researcher who was dean of the Brown University School of Public Health from 2020 to 2025.

Ashish Kacholia

Ashish Kacholia is an Indian investor who founded Lucky Investment Managers in Mumbai in 1995, known for small- and mid-cap stock picking and a closely tracked portfolio.

Ashish Kumar Saha

Ashish Kumar Saha is an Indian National Congress politician who has been president of the Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee since 2023, after serving as a Tripura legislator from Town Bardowali.

Ashish Sharma (आशीष शर्मा)

Ashish Sharma (आशीष शर्मा), also credited as Aashiesh Sharrma, is an Indian actor born in Delhi in 1984, known for Gunahon Ka Devta, Rangrasiya, Siya Ke Ram as Ram, winning Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7, and Khejdi.

Ashish Shelar

Ashish Shelar, born 1972, is an Indian BJP politician serving as Maharashtra's cabinet minister for Information Technology and Cultural Affairs since December 2024 under Devendra Fadnavis.

Ashish Singh Patel

Ashish Singh Patel is an Indian politician of the Apna Dal (Soneylal) party, a cabinet minister in Uttar Pradesh holding the technical education portfolio since 2022.