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Ashish Sood (आशीष सूद)

Ashish Sood (आशीष सूद, born 1966) is a BJP politician, MLA for Janakpuri since February 2025 (68,986 votes), and Delhi cabinet minister for Home, Power, Urban Development, and Education & Training; former DUSU president, SDMC councillor, and BJP Goa in-charge.

Ashish Vidyarthi

Ashish Vidyarthi is an Indian actor known for villain and character roles across Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil cinema, who won the National Film Award for Droh Kaal (1994).

Ashish Vidyarthi filmography

Ashish Vidyarthi filmography: career of the National Award-winning Indian actor known for villain and character roles in over 300 films across 11 languages, from Anand (1986) and Drohkaal (1994) to Aavesham and Kill (2024).

Ashishkumar Chauhan

Ashishkumar Chauhan, also known as Ashish Chauhan, is an Indian exchange executive who has been MD and CEO of the National Stock Exchange of India since 2022.

Ashita no Joe (あしたのジョー)

Ashita no Joe (あしたのジョー) is a 1968–1973 boxing manga by writer Asao Takamori (Ikki Kajiwara) and artist Tetsuya Chiba, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine; it follows Joe Yabuki and Danpei Tange, inspired two Osamu Dezaki anime series, and became a Japanese cultural landmark.

Ashkan Shoamanesh

Ashkan Shoamanesh is a Canadian stroke neurologist and clinical-trialist at McMaster University and the Population Health Research Institute in Hamilton, Ontario, who led the OCEANIC-STROKE trial of asundexian.

Ashkelon

Ashkelon (Hebrew אשקלון) is a coastal city in Israel's Southern District, founded 1948, with about 171,000 residents. Ancient Philistine Pentapolis city; Canaanite gate of 1850 BCE, national park, Barzilai hospital.

Ashkelon dog cemetery

The Ashkelon dog cemetery is a Persian-period burial ground at Ashkelon, Israel, with at least 1,250 dog burials of the 5th century B.C.E., the largest known from the ancient Near East.

Ashkelon shipwrecks

The Ashkelon shipwrecks, Tanit and Elissa, are two Phoenician merchant vessels from the eighth century BC found 400 m off Ashkelon; their cargo reveals Phoenician maritime trade.

Ashkenazi Hebrew

Ashkenazi Hebrew (Ashkenazic, "Whole Hebrew") is the traditional Hebrew pronunciation and written language of Central and Eastern European Jewry, marked by qameṣ as o, taw as s, penultimate stress, and continued Haredi use.

Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence

Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence: research finding that Ashkenazi Jews average roughly half to one standard deviation above non-Jewish whites on IQ, verbally tilted, with contested genetic (Cochran-Harpending) versus cultural explanations.

Ashkenazi Jews (אשכנזים)

Ashkenazi Jews (אשכנזים, Ashkenazim) are the largest Jewish ethnic group, descended from medieval Rhineland communities; about 10 million people, roughly half European and half Middle Eastern ancestry, Yiddish-speaking heritage.

Ashkharhabar

Ashkharhabar (աշխարհաբար) is the modern literary Armenian language, formed from the 17th century and replacing Classical Armenian (Grabar), later split into Eastern and Western branches.

Ashkharhatsuyts

Ashkharhatsuyts (Աշխարհացոյց, "World Mirror") is the earliest surviving Armenian geographical work, penned between 591 and 610 and attributed to Anania Shirakatsi, describing the known world in detail.

Ashkur-Addu

Aškur-Addu, son of Samu-Addu, was king of Karana in the Upper Habur region during the Old Babylonian period, known almost entirely from the royal archive at Mari.

Ashland Inc.

Ashland Inc. is an American specialty chemicals company headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1924, it reports about $2.1 billion in net sales and 2,900 employees.

Ashland Oil

Ashland Oil, founded in 1924 as the Ashland Refining Company in Ashland, Kentucky, grew into one of the largest independent US refiners before becoming Ashland Inc.

Ashland, Oregon

Ashland, Oregon, is a city of 21,360 in the Rogue Valley near the California line, incorporated in 1874 and known for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Ashlar

Ashlar is masonry of finely dressed rectangular stone blocks with thin, uniform joints; it is stronger and costlier than rubble masonry and used for building facades.

Ashlee Evans-Smith

Ashlee Evans-Smith (born 1987, Ukiah, California), "Rebel Girl", American MMA fighter; UFC women's bantamweight/flyweight, pro record 6-6, UFC 3-6; known for 2013 TKO of Fallon Fox.

Ashlee Simpson

Ashlee Simpson, American singer and actress born 1984 in Waco, Texas; debut album Autobiography (2004) topped the Billboard 200; known for the October 23, 2004 SNL lip-sync malfunction.

Ashleigh Aitken

Ashleigh Aitken is an American Democratic politician and attorney serving as Mayor of Anaheim, California, elected in 2022 as the first woman to hold the office and seeking re-election in 2026.

Ashleigh and Pudsey

Ashleigh and Pudsey, the dog act of trainer Ashleigh Butler and her border collie-bichon frise-Chinese crested cross Pudsey, won Britain's Got Talent 2012 with the Mission Impossible routine, taking £500,000; Pudsey died in 2017, succeeded by Sully.

Ashleigh Banfield

Ashleigh Banfield is a Canadian-American broadcast journalist and anchor. She has worked for networks including MSNBC, CNN, and NewsNation, and launched the Drop Dead Serious podcast in 2025.

Ashleigh Barty

Ashleigh Barty is an Australian former tennis player, an Indigenous Ngaragu woman who won three Grand Slam titles and retired in 2022 at 25 while world No. 1.

Ashleigh Cummings

Ashleigh Cummings (born 1992, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) is an Australian actress known for Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Hounds of Love, NOS4A2, Citadel, and Long Bright River; 2016 Heath Ledger Scholarship winner and Venice Fedora Award Best Actress.

Ashleigh LaThrop

Ashleigh LaThrop is an American actress from Chicago known for Dr. Ericka Kinney in Brilliant Minds, Becky Todd in Utopia (2020), Breana in The Kominsky Method, and Ofmatthew in The Handmaid's Tale, with a 2020 SAG Award nomination.

Ashleigh McIvor

Ashleigh McIvor (born 1983, Vancouver) is a Canadian ski cross racer, 2009 world champion, and winner of the first Olympic gold in women's ski cross at Vancouver 2010; retired 2012.

Ashleigh Murray

Ashleigh Murray (born 1988, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American actress and singer, not the Australian namesake, known as Josie McCoy on Riverdale and Katy Keene, Deidra & Laney Rob a Train, and Tom Swift.

Ashley Abbott

Ashley Suzanne Abbott is a fictional character on CBS's The Young and the Restless, introduced in 1982 as a Jabot Cosmetics chemist and daughter of John Abbott, originated and mostly played by Eileen Davidson, known for the Victor Newman romance and a 2023-24 dissociative identity disorder storyline.