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Augustus Montague Toplady

Augustus Montague Toplady (1740–1778) was a Church of England clergyman and Calvinist hymn writer, best known for "Rock of Ages" and his polemics against John Wesley's Arminianism.

Augustus Oemler Jr.

Augustus Oemler Jr. is an astronomer and former Director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena whose studies of cluster galaxies established the morphology–density relation and the Butcher–Oemler effect.

Augustus of Prima Porta

Augustus of Prima Porta: over-life-size marble statue of Emperor Augustus in cuirass, found 1863 at Livia's villa, Prima Porta, Rome; 2.03 m; Vatican Braccio Nuovo; Parthian standards scene, Cupid on dolphin, Doryphoros pose.

Augustus Pugin

Augustus Welby Pugin (1812–1852) was an English architect who led the Gothic Revival in Britain and designed most of the interiors of the Palace of Westminster.

Augustus Robert Buckland

Augustus Robert Buckland (1857–1942) was a Church of England clergyman, born in Newport, Monmouthshire, who edited the Record, wrote missionary biographies, and led the Religious Tract Society.

Augustus Roi Felty

Augustus Roi Felty (1895–1964) was an American physician who described Felty syndrome, a rare complication of rheumatoid arthritis, in 1924 while a resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), Irish-born American Beaux-Arts sculptor active in New York, Paris, Rome, and Cornish, New Hampshire; creator of the Farragut Monument, Shaw Memorial, Standing Lincoln, Adams Memorial, and the 1907 Saint-Gaudens double eagle gold coin.

Augustus Schultze

Augustus Schultze (August Schultze) was a German-born Moravian theologian who taught for over 40 years and served as president at Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Augustus Sol Invictus

Augustus Sol Invictus (Austin Gillespie, born 1983) is a Florida lawyer and far-right figure who lost the 2016 Libertarian Senate primary, spoke at Unite the Right-era rallies, and filed as a Republican in 2017.

Augustus Trowbridge

Augustus Trowbridge (1870–1934) was an American physicist, professor of physics, and dean of the Graduate School at Princeton University, known for infrared measurements of metals.

Augustyn Rotundus

Augustyn Rotundus (Augustinas Rotundas, c. 1520–1582) was a Polish-born lawyer and royal secretary, wójt of Vilnius, best known for his 1564 dialogue Rozmowa Polaka z Litwinem.

Aui 2000

Aui_2000 (Kurtis Daniel Ling, born 1992) is a retired Canadian Dota 2 coach and former player; he won The International three times, with Evil Geniuses (2015, player), Tundra Esports (2022, coach), and Team Falcons (2025, coach), retiring in August 2026.

Auk

Auk (Alcidae): Northern Hemisphere wing-propelled diving seabirds including puffins, murres, and auklets; 23 extant species, Pacific Paleocene origin, extinct flightless Great Auk with penguin-like wing loading.

AuK (AI model)

AuK is a 1.5-billion-parameter open-source speech model from Tencent that unifies speech generation and editing under natural-language instructions, released with an MIT license in September 2026.

Auke Ijspeert

Auke Ijspeert (Auke Jan Ijspeert) is a robotics professor at EPFL in Switzerland who heads the Biorobotics Laboratory and is known for amphibious salamander robots controlled by central pattern generators.

Aukštakiemiai, Palanga, Šernai

Aukštakiemiai (Oberhof), Palanga, and Šernai: Baltic-coast Lithuanian archaeological cemeteries of the former Memelland, spanning the Roman Iron Age to the Middle Ages, with Tischler's chronology, lost Prussia-Museum finds, and Viking Age Palanga trade finds.

AUKUS

AUKUS is the trilateral Australia-UK-US security partnership announced 15 September 2021: Pillar I delivers nuclear-powered submarines to Australia from the early 2030s, Pillar II develops advanced military technologies such as AI, quantum, and undersea systems.

Aulacoseira

Aulacoseira is a genus of freshwater centric diatoms, chain-forming algae with silica cell walls that are widespread and abundant in lakes and large rivers, with a fossil record reaching back to the Paleocene.

Aulacostephanus

Aulacostephanus Tornquist, 1896 is an extinct Late Jurassic ammonite genus of the family Aulacostephanidae; its species index the Kimmeridgian mutabilis, eudoxus, and autissiodorensis zones.

Aulazon

Aulazon is an ancient toponym of Africa Proconsularis, attested on the Tabula Peutingeriana (sheet 7C1) and in the Ravenna Cosmographer, identified near Bir el-Asela and dated Late Antique.

Auld Alliance

The Auld Alliance (Vieille Alliance) was the Franco-Scottish alliance begun by the treaties of Paris of 22–23 October 1295 against Edward I of England, ending militarily in 1560 but enduring commercially and culturally.

Auld Bourtreebush

Auld Bourtreebush (Old Bourtreebush) is a recumbent stone circle and cairn near Portlethen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, dated c. 2500-1500 BC, with an eastward recumbent, protected as Scheduled Monument SM980 near the Aquhorthies circle.

Auld Lang Syne

Auld Lang Syne is a Scots song, title meaning "old long since" or "for old time's sake," written down by Robert Burns in 1788, published 1796, paired with its standard tune in 1799, and made a New Year's Eve institution by Guy Lombardo from 1929.

Auli, India

Auli (Garhwali for meadow) is a ski resort town in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, called the ski capital of India, with FIS-approved slopes, a Joshimath ropeway, and a December-to-March ski season.

Aulic titulature

Aulic titulature is the system of court ranks and honorific titles that regulated protocol and precedence among officials and courtiers of Ptolemaic Egypt, with titles like philos and syngenes.

Auliʻi Cravalho

Auliʻi Cravalho (born 2000, Kohala, Hawaii) is the American actress and singer who voiced Disney's first Polynesian princess in Moana (2016) at age 14, sang "How Far I'll Go" at the 2017 Oscars, and later starred in Mean Girls, The Power, and Broadway's Cabaret.

Aulikara dynasty

The Aulikara dynasty (औलिकर) ruled western Malwa in central India from the fourth to the sixth century, centered on Dashapura, and rose briefly to independence under Yashodharman, who defeated the Alchon Huns.

Aulton New Energy (奥动新能源)

Aulton New Energy (奥动新能源) is a Chinese battery-swapping company headquartered in Guangzhou, founded in 2016, operating swap stations for electric taxis and ride-hailing fleets and seeking a Hong Kong IPO.

Aulus Gellius

Aulus Gellius was a Roman miscellanist of the second century CE, author of the Noctes Atticae, twenty books of notes on grammar, philosophy, law, and history.

Aum Shinrikyo

Aum Shinrikyo (オウム真理教), also called Aum Supreme Truth, was a Japanese doomsday cult founded by Asahara Shoko that carried out the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack.