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Augusto A. Litonjua

Augusto A. Litonjua is a pulmonologist and epidemiologist who is Chief of Pediatric Pulmonology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, known for leading the VDAART trial of prenatal vitamin D to prevent childhood asthma.

Augusto B. Leguía

Augusto B. Leguía was a Peruvian businessman and politician who served twice as President of Peru, from 1908 to 1912 and from 1919 to 1930.

Augusto Boal

Augusto Boal (Augusto Pinto Boal, 1931-2009), Brazilian director and creator of Theatre of the Oppressed (Teatro do Oprimido), including Forum Theatre and the spect-actor; arrested in 1971, exiled, returned 1984; methods spread to over 100 countries.

Augusto C. Sandino International Airport

Augusto C. Sandino International Airport, also known as Managua International Airport, is the country's main international gateway and is situated 11 kilometers east of downtown Managua.

Augusto César Sandino

Augusto César Sandino (Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino, 1895-1934) was a Nicaraguan revolutionary general who led the 1927-1933 guerrilla war against the U.S. occupation, was assassinated by Anastasio Somoza García's National Guard, and gave his name to the Sandinista FSLN.

Augusto de Campos

Augusto de Campos, born in São Paulo in 1931, is a Brazilian poet who founded the concrete poetry movement in the 1950s with Haroldo de Campos and Décio Pignatari.

Augusto dos Anjos

Augusto dos Anjos (1884–1914) was a Brazilian poet from Paraíba whose only book, Eu (1912), made him one of Brazil's most read poets despite his early death at 30.

Augusto Frederico Schmidt

Augusto Frederico Schmidt (1906–1965) was a Brazilian poet, editor, and journalist of the second modernist generation, whose debut Canto do brasileiro (1928) is considered its inaugural work.

Augusto Gansser-Biaggi

Augusto Gansser-Biaggi (1910–2012) was a Swiss geologist who crossed into Tibet in disguise in 1936 and identified the India–Asia suture zone, earning the title Father of the Himalaya.

Augusto Guzmán

Augusto Guzmán (Augusto Guzmán Martínez, 1903–1994) was a Bolivian novelist, historian, and literary critic of the Generación Combativa, best known for his Chaco War novel Prisionero de guerra (1937).

Augusto Meyer

Augusto Meyer (1902–1970) was a Brazilian poet, essayist, and critic from Rio Grande do Sul, a leading figure of Gaúcho modernism alongside Raul Bopp and Mário Quintana.

Augusto Monterroso

Augusto Monterroso, born José Augusto Monterroso Bonilla, was a Guatemalan writer, master of microfiction, best known for the one-sentence story "El dinosaurio" and exiled in Mexico from 1944.

Augusto Pierantoni

Augusto Francescopaolo Pierantoni (1840–1911) was an Italian international lawyer, parliamentarian, and Garibaldian veteran who co-founded the Institut de droit international in 1873 and held chairs at Modena, Naples, and Rome.

Augusto Pinochet

Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (1915-2006), Chilean general who led the 11 September 1973 coup against Salvador Allende and ruled Chile's military dictatorship until 1990; DINA/CNI repression, 1980 Constitution, defeated in the 1988 plebiscite, arrested in London 1998.

Augusto Righi

Augusto Righi (1850–1920) was an Italian physicist at the University of Bologna who showed that electromagnetic waves reflect, refract, and diffract like light, and whose oscillator underpinned Marconi's early wireless telegraphy.

Augusto Roa Bastos

Augusto Roa Bastos (1917–2005) was a Paraguayan novelist, considered the most important Paraguayan writer of the twentieth century, known for Yo el Supremo and the 1989 Cervantes Prize.

Augusto Sakai

Augusto Sakai (born 1991) is a Brazilian heavyweight MMA fighter from Curitiba, ex-Bellator and UFC (5-4), now in KSW; Muay Thai-based striker with 11 KO wins, losses to Overeem, Rozenstruik, Tuivasa.

Augusto Smerzi

Augusto Smerzi is an Italian theoretical physicist at CNR-INO's Institute of Optics in Florence, known for the 1997 prediction of macroscopic quantum self-trapping and for entanglement-based quantum metrology.

Augusto Villanueva

Augusto Villanueva Rodriguez is a Spanish-trained hepatologist known for widely cited reviews of hepatocellular carcinoma and for directing the Liver Cancer Program at NYU Langone's Perlmutter Cancer Center.

Augusto, Michaela, and Lorenzo Odone

Augusto, Michaela, and Lorenzo Odone: the family behind Lorenzo's oil, a 4:1 trioleate/trierucate mixture for adrenoleukodystrophy, the 1992 film, and the Myelin Project.

Augustus

Augustus (Gaius Octavius, 63 BCE–AD 14), first Roman emperor, given the name Augustus by the Senate on 16 January 27 BC after victory at Actium in 31 BCE; reformed taxation, the army, and provincial administration.

Augustus (title)

Augustus, plural Augusti: honorific surname ("venerable one") granted Octavian by the Senate in January 27 BC; became the senior title of Roman emperors, with Augusta for imperial women; Greek Sebastos.

Augustus Addison Gould

Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866) was an American physician and conchologist in Boston whose 1841 Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts described about 275 mollusk species.

Augustus B. Kinzel

Augustus B. Kinzel was an American metallurgist who led research at Union Carbide and served as the first president of the National Academy of Engineering.

Augustus Braun Kinzel

Augustus Braun Kinzel (1900–1987) was an American metallurgist who led research at Union Carbide and served as the first president of the National Academy of Engineering.

Augustus De Morgan

Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871), British mathematician and logician, first professor of mathematics at University College London; author of Formal Logic (1847) and the logic of relations, namesake of De Morgan's laws and the De Morgan Medal.

Augustus Desiré Waller

Augustus Desiré Waller (1856–1922) was a British physiologist, born in Paris, who recorded a human electrocardiogram and published the first report of one, in 1887 at St Mary's Hospital, London.

Augustus Edward Hough Love

Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863–1940) was an English mathematician and geophysicist, Sedleian Professor at Oxford, known for Love waves and the Love numbers describing how Earth yields to tides.

Augustus II the Strong

Augustus II the Strong (August II Mocny; Friedrich August I, der Starke, 1670–1733), Wettin elector of Saxony and elected king of Poland–Lithuania 1697–1706 and 1709–33; converted to Catholicism for the crown, deposed by Charles XII, restored after Poltava, patron of Dresden baroque and Meissen porcelain.