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Ashutosh Rana (अशुतोष राणा)

Ashutosh Rana (अशुतोष राणा), born Ashutosh Ramnarayan Neekhra in 1967, is an Indian actor known for villainous roles in Hindi cinema who won consecutive Filmfare negative-role awards for Dushman and Sangharsh.

Ashvaghosha

Ashvaghosha (Aśvaghoṣa, 馬鳴; c. 1st–2nd century CE) was a Buddhist monk and Sanskrit poet at Ayodhya, India, the earliest known author of Sanskrit kāvya and best known for the epic Buddhacarita.

Ashvamedha (अश्वमेध)

Ashvamedha (अश्वमेध), the horse sacrifice, is the grandest Vedic royal rite of ancient India, in which a king released a stallion to wander for a year before sacrificing it.

Ashvamedha coin type of Samudragupta

The Ashvamedha coin type of Samudragupta (अश्वमेध मुद्रा) is a series of gold dinars the Gupta emperor issued to commemorate his performance of the Vedic horse sacrifice.

Ashville Formation

Ashville Formation: Albian-Cenomanian (about 113-94 Ma) grey-black noncalcareous shale unit, up to 115 m thick, in southern Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan; members Skull Creek, Newcastle, Westgate, Belle Fourche; type locality Wilson River near Ashville, Manitoba.

Ashvin Bachireddy

Ashvin Bachireddy is an American venture capitalist who leads SV Angel's growth fund and is known for investments in OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral and six Forbes Midas List appearances.

Ashvin Vishwanath

Ashvin Vishwanath is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and George Vasmer Leverett Professor at Harvard, known for predicting Weyl semimetals and winning the 2024 Buckley Prize.

Ashvins (अश्विन्)

Ashvins (अश्विन्, Nāsatyas, Dasras) are the twin horsemen-physicians of the Vedic pantheon, sons of the Sun, praised in over fifty Rigveda hymns, rescuers and healers, comparable to the Greek Dioscuri and Baltic Ašvieniai.

Ashvir Singh Johal

Ashvir Singh Johal is an English football coach and manager who, upon appointment to Morecambe FC in 2025, became the first Sikh to lead a professional British club.

Ashwath Marimuthu

Ashwath Marimuthu (அஷ்வத் மாரிமுத்து) is an Indian Tamil film director and screenwriter, debutant of Oh My Kadavule (2020), director of the Telugu remake Ori Devuda (2022) and the hit Dragon (2025), now filming Rajinikanth's Dharman.

Ashwathaman

Ashwathaman (ಅಶ್ವತ್ಥಾಮನ್) is a 1929 Kannada stage play by the Mysore poet B. M. Srikantia that recasts Sophocles' Ajax as a Mahabharata story about Ashwatthama.

Ashwin

Ashwin is a conserved eukaryotic protein family, first isolated from the African clawed frog, whose members act in embryonic development and as a subunit of the tRNA splicing ligase complex.

Ashwin Chari

Ashwin Chari is a structural biochemist who has led a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen since 2020, known for work on the proteasome and fatty acid synthase.

Ashwin Kumar Lakshmikanthan (அஸ்வின் குமார் லட்சுமிகாந்தன்)

Ashwin Kumar Lakshmikanthan (அஸ்வின் குமார் லட்சுமிகாந்தன்), also Ashwin Kumar, Indian Tamil and Telugu actor born 1991 in Coimbatore; TV debut Office (2013), film debut OK Kanmani (2015), known for Cooku with Comali season 2 and first lead Enna Solla Pogirai (2022).

Ashwin Shahani

Ashwin J. Shahani is an American materials scientist and Associate Professor at the University of Michigan who studies how metallic alloys solidify using synchrotron X-ray imaging.

Ashwini Bhave (अश्विनी भावे)

Ashwini Bhave (अश्विनी भावे), also spelled Ashvini Bhave, Indian actress in Marathi and Hindi cinema of the 1990s; debut Rajlakshmi (1987), Hindi debut Henna (1991), known as Madhuri Madam in Ashi Hi Banwa Banwi; producer of Kadachit, lives in San Francisco.

Ashwini Bhide Deshpandey

Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande (अश्विनी भिडे-देशपांडे) is a Hindustani classical vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana who left biochemistry for music and received the Padma Shri in 2025.

Ashwini Kalsekar

Ashwini Kalsekar (अश्विनी काळसेकर), Indian actress in Hindi and Marathi TV and film; Jigyasa in Kasamh Se, Maham Anga in Jodha Akbar, Inspector Asha in C.I.D.; married to actor Murli Sharma since 2009.

Ashwini Kumar Choubey (अश्विनी कुमार चौबे)

Ashwini Kumar Choubey (अश्विनी कुमार चौबे), BJP politician from Bihar, five-term MLA and Buxar MP 2014-2024; Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare 2017-2021, then Environment and Consumer Affairs until 2024.

Ashwini Ponnappa (ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ ಪೊನ್ನಪ್ಪ ಮಾಚಿಮಂದ)

Ashwini Ponnappa Machimanda (ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ ಪೊನ್ನಪ್ಪ ಮಾಚಿಮಂದ), born 1989, is an Indian doubles badminton player: 2010 Commonwealth Games gold and 2011 World Championships bronze with Jwala Gutta, three Olympics, later partners Sikki Reddy and Tanisha Crasto.

Ashwini Roy Sarkar

Ashwini Roy Sarkar is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who serves as a Cabinet Minister in Assam, holding the Social Justice and Empowerment and Soil Conservation departments.

Ashwini Vaishnaw (अश्विनी वैष्णव)

Ashwini Vaishnaw (अश्विनी वैष्णव), born 1970, is India's Union Cabinet Minister for Railways, Information & Broadcasting, and Electronics & IT, a Rajya Sabha MP from Odisha, former IAS officer, and key figure behind Kavach and the Semicon India semiconductor program.

Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari (born 1979, Mumbai), Indian filmmaker, writer, and producer; director of Nil Battey Sannata, Bareilly Ki Barfi, Panga, and System; ex-Leo Burnett creative director; co-founder of Earthsky Pictures with Nitesh Tiwari; author of Mapping Love.

Ashworth Hospital

Ashworth Hospital (Ashworth High Secure Hospital), Maghull, Liverpool: one of three high secure psychiatric hospitals in England and Wales, run by Mersey Care NHS Trust, 13 wards, 210 beds, formed 1989 from Moss Side and Park Lane hospitals.

Asi Keliya

Asi Keliya, also called Sonaru, is a traditional Sri Lankan cross-and-cross race game for four players in two teams, related to Pachisi, played with cowrie shells and the special So-hatara throw, documented by Parker in 1909.

Asia

Asia, the largest and most populous continent (about 30% of land area, 60% of population, ~4.84 billion people in 2025), spans tropical to polar climates from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, bounded from Europe by the Urals and Caucasus.

Asia (Asia album)

Asia (1982) is the self-titled Geffen debut by the supergroup of John Wetton, Steve Howe, Geoff Downes, and Carl Palmer; produced by Mike Stone, it topped the Billboard 200 for nine weeks and was 1982's best-selling US album.

Asia (band)

Asia is an English rock supergroup formed in London in 1981 by John Wetton, Steve Howe, Geoff Downes, and Carl Palmer, veterans of 1970s progressive rock bands.

Asia (site)

Asia (site): a geographically themed Asian plant collection within a botanical garden, as at UC Berkeley's Asian Collection, Leiden's Hortus botanicus, and Bern's Asia area; distinct from the continent of Asia itself.

Asia Alternatives Capital Partners

Asia Alternatives Capital Partners is a San Francisco-based private equity fund-of-funds focused on Asia, co-founded by Melissa Ma, Laure Wang, and Rebecca Xu in 2007.