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Asibandhakaputta
Asibandhakaputta (Pali; Burmese အသိဗန္ဓကပုတ္တ) was a village headman of the Buddha's time, a Nigaṇṭha follower whose four dialogues with the Buddha, SN 42.6–9, led him to take refuge.
Asibikaashi and the origin of the dreamcatcher
Asibikaashi, the Ojibwe Spider Woman, is a guardian spirit who wove protective webs over infants' cradleboards; as the Anishinaabeg spread, women wove the webs themselves, the origin of the dreamcatcher.
ASIC1
ASIC1 (ACCN2, BNaC2), human gene on 12q13.12 encoding acid-sensing ion channel 1a/1b, proton-gated amiloride-sensitive DEG/ENaC sodium channels; ASIC1a is the brain's principal proton sensor, involved in fear, learning, pain, and ischemic injury.
Asics (アシックス)
Asics (アシックス) is a Kobe-based Japanese sporting-goods maker founded in 1949 by Kihachiro Onitsuka, renamed ASICS in the 1977 Onitsuka-GTO-JELENK merger; known for GEL cushioning, Onitsuka Tiger, and record FY2025 sales of 810.9 billion yen.
Asid ibn Hudhayr
Asid ibn Hudhayr (أسيد بن الحضير) was a companion of Muhammad from the Aws tribe in Medina, appointed one of the twelve captains at the second pledge of al-'Aqaba.
Asiento de negros (South Sea Company)
The Asiento de negros was a 1713 contract between Spain and England giving the South Sea Company a thirty-year monopoly on supplying enslaved Africans to Spanish America.
Asier Illarramendi
Asier Illarramendi (Illarra), Spanish midfielder born 1990 in Motrico. Real Sociedad academy product and captain, 2021 Copa del Rey winner; Real Madrid 2013-2015 for about €39m, winning the 2014 Champions League; later FC Dallas and Kitchee in Hong Kong.
Asieris Pharmaceuticals (亚虹医药)
Asieris Pharmaceuticals (亚虹医药), legally Jiangsu Yahong Meditech Co., Ltd., is a Chinese clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on urogenital tumors, founded in 2010 and listed on the Shanghai STAR Market since 2021.
Asif Akbar
Asif Akbar (আসিফ আকবর) is a Bangladeshi playback and pop singer, born in 1972 in Comilla, whose 2001 album O Priya Tumi Kothay sold about 6 million copies.
Asif Ali (comedian)
Asif Ali is an American stand-up comedian and actor from Phoenix, Arizona, a Goatface founder, star of Wrecked and WandaVision, and co-lead and executive producer of Hulu's Deli Boys; not the Malayalam film actor of the same name.
Asif Ali (ആസിഫ് അലി) (actor)
Asif Ali (ആസിഫ് അലി), born 1986 in Thodupuzha, is a Malayalam film actor and producer who debuted in Ritu (2009), rose with Traffic and Salt N' Pepper, and had a career-best 2024 with Thalavan and Kishkindha Kandam.
Asif Ali Zardari (آصف علی زرداری)
Asif Ali Zardari (آصف علی زرداری) is a Pakistani politician of the Pakistan Peoples Party, and the widower of Benazir Bhutto, who served as president from 2008 to 2013 and again since 2024.
Asif Aziz
Asif Aziz, born in Malawi in 1967, is a British property investor who founded Criterion Capital, converting underused central London buildings into hotels and housing, including the Trocadero.
Asif Basra
Asif Basra (आसिफ बसरा), 1967–2020, Indian film, TV and theatre actor from Amravati, Maharashtra, known for Outsourced, Black Friday, Parzania, Paatal Lok; died by apparent suicide in Dharamshala at 53.
Asif Ghafoor (آصِف غفور)
Asif Ghafoor (آصِف غفور) is a retired three-star Pakistan Army general, 20th Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (December 2016 to January 2020), later Lieutenant General, commissioned in 1988 in the artillery.
Asif Kapadia
Asif Kapadia (born 1972, Hackney, London) is a British director known for the archive-only documentaries Senna, Amy, and Diego Maradona; Amy won the 2016 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, and 2073 (2024) premiered at Venice.
Asif Mahmud (আসিফ মাহমুদ সজিব ভূইয়ান)
Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan (আসিফ মাহমুদ সজিব ভূইয়ান), Bangladeshi student leader of the Anti-Discrimination Students' Movement in the July 2024 uprising, adviser (Youth and Sports, LGRD, Labour) in the Yunus interim government, later National Citizen Party spokesperson.
Asif Raza Mir (آصف رضا میر)
Asif Raza Mir (آصف رضا میر), Pakistani actor and producer famous as Zain in the 1980s PTV serial Tanhaiyaan; films include Playboy and Saathi. Founded A&B Entertainment, played Asif Afridi in Gangs of London, father of actor Ahad Raza Mir.
Asifa Akhtar
Asifa Akhtar is a Pakistani-born molecular biologist in Germany who directs chromatin regulation research at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg and is known for work on X-chromosome dosage compensation.
Asil chicken
Asil (Aseel) chicken: ancient Indian subcontinent gamefowl breed, Arabic for 'pure', fought with taped natural spurs for 2,000+ years; ancestor of the Cornish and modern broilers; Critical conservation status.
Asilidae
Asilidae, the robber flies or assassin flies, are a large worldwide family of predatory Diptera (about 7,003 species) that ambush flying insects, inject paralyzing venom, and suck out liquefied prey contents.
Asilomar AI Principles
The Asilomar AI Principles are a set of 23 guidelines for the safe and beneficial development of artificial intelligence, adopted at the Beneficial AI 2017 conference in Asilomar, California.
Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA
The Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA was a 1975 meeting of about 140 biologists in Pacific Grove, California, whose safety recommendations shaped the first government genetic engineering guidelines.
Asim Chaudhry
Asim Chaudhry (born 1986, Hounslow, London) is a British actor, writer and comedian; also known as Chabuddy G. Co-creator and star of the BBC mockumentary People Just Do Nothing about pirate radio station Kurupt FM, with RTS award, BAFTA nominations, and roles in The Sandman, Barbie, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
Asim ibn Ali ibn Asim al-Taymi
Asim ibn Ali ibn Asim al-Taymi (عاصم بن علي بن عاصم التيمي) was a Sunni hadith scholar of Wasit and Baghdad who died in 836.
Asim ibn Muhammad ibn Zayd
Asim ibn Muhammad ibn Zayd (عاصم بن محمد بن زيد) was a Medinan hadith transmitter and jurist, a great-great-grandson of Caliph Umar, judged trustworthy and cited in Sahih al-Bukhari.
Asim ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab
Asim ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab (عاصم بن عمر بن الخطاب) was a son of Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab and a Medinan hadith narrator who died in 689 CE.
Asim Malik (محمد عاصم ملک)
Muhammad Asim Malik (محمد عاصم ملک) is a Pakistani lieutenant general, 26th Director General of the ISI since 30 September 2024 and concurrently National Security Adviser since April 2025, the first serving ISI chief to hold both posts.
Asim Munir (عاصم منیر) (general)
Asim Munir (عاصم منیر), Pakistani field marshal, Chief of Army Staff since November 2022 and first Chief of Defence Forces; former DG of both ISI and Military Intelligence; elevated after the May 2025 India war.
Asima Chatterjee
Asima Chatterjee was an Indian organic chemist who specialized in natural products from Indian medicinal plants, developing the anti-epileptic drug Ayush-56 and the anti-malarial Ayush-64.