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Avani Chaturvedi (अवनी चतुर्वेदी)

Avani Chaturvedi (अवनी चतुर्वेदी, born 1993) is an Indian Air Force officer, one of India's first three women fighter pilots and the first Indian woman to fly a fighter solo, in 2018.

Avani Lekhara

Avani Lekhara (born 2001, Jaipur) is an Indian Paralympic rifle shooter, SH1 class. First Indian woman to win Paralympic gold (Tokyo 2020, R2 10m air rifle, 249.6) and to defend it (Paris 2024, 249.7).

Avanidhar Subrahmanyam

Avanidhar Subrahmanyam is Distinguished Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management, known for behavioral finance work linking investor psychology and market liquidity to stock returns.

Avannaarsua

Avannaarsua, also known as Nordgrønland or the Thule District, is the northernmost of Greenland's three traditional regions, home to Qaanaaq and the Inughuit, whose Thule trading post was founded by Knud Rasmussen in 1910.

Avanse

Avanse Financial Services, founded in 2013 as Abhivruddhi Holdings, is an Indian education-loan NBFC majority-owned by Warburg Pincus, with Rs 189.8 billion (Rs 18,985 crore) in assets and 24% of India's overseas education loan market.

Avanse Financial Services

Avanse Financial Services, incorporated in 1992 as Abhivruddhi Holdings Private Limited, is a Mumbai-based education-finance NBFC, India's second-largest private education lender, majority-owned by Warburg Pincus.

Avant (singer)

Avant (born Myron Lavell Avant, 1978, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American R&B singer and songwriter known for the early-2000s hits "Separated," "My First Love," and "Read Your Mind."

Avant Gardner

Avant Gardner is an 80,000-square-foot music venue complex occupying a full city block in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, best known as the home of the open-air Brooklyn Mirage.

Avant Nova

AVANT NOVA is a six-track, 16-minute EP by Philadelphia rapper-producer slayr, released July 10, 2026 via Columbia Records as the prelude to his album Fabula Nova; it blends rage, digicore and hyperpop and samples underscores' "The Peace."

Avant-garde

Avant-garde (French, 'advance guard') names experimental, boundary-pushing art and artists, from Saint-Simon's 1825 usage through Courbet, Impressionism, Dada, Surrealism, and Constructivism, distinguished from modernism by Bürger and Greenberg in opposing ways.

Avant-garde and free jazz ensembles

Avant-garde and free jazz ensembles are jazz groups that depart from tonal harmony, fixed meter, and standard roles, replacing them with collective improvisation in performance.

Avant-garde metal

Avant-garde metal, also called experimental metal, is a heavy metal style using unconventional instruments, song structures, and outside genres like jazz and classical; bands include Arcturus, Mr. Bungle, and Imperial Triumphant.

Avant-garde music

Avant-garde music: music that deliberately defies or extends accepted musical conventions, spanning Schoenberg's twelve-tone works, Cage's chance operations, Stockhausen's electronic textures, IRCAM, and influences on jazz, rock, and pop.

Avant-pop

Avant-pop, also known as avant-garde pop, is music that balances avant-garde traits with practices drawn from popular music, a term also used for radical American fiction.

Avantasia

Avantasia is a German symphonic power metal project founded in 1999 by Edguy singer Tobias Sammet; known for concept 'metal opera' albums with guest vocalists like Michael Kiske and Geoff Tate, ten albums including Moonglow (2019) and Here Be Dragons (2025).

Avantgardey (アバンギャルディ)

Avantgardey (アバンギャルディ) is a Japanese all-female dance team formed February 2022 by choreographer akane of Babuly Dance fame, known for bob haircuts, school uniforms, and AGT 2023 finals.

AvantGuard

AvantGuard is an unmanned ground combat vehicle built by G-NIUS, a joint venture of Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, and delivered to the Israel Defense Forces in June 2010.

Avanti (car)

The Avanti, also known as Avanti II, is a four-passenger fiberglass performance coupe introduced by Studebaker in 1962, designed by Raymond Loewy and produced until the mid-2000s.

Avanti kingdom

Avanti (अवंति) was an ancient Indian kingdom in present-day Madhya Pradesh and one of the sixteen mahajanapadas, a leading power under King Pradyota before absorption into Magadha.

Avanti West Coast

Avanti West Coast is a British train operating company running West Coast Main Line services from London Euston since December 2019, owned by FirstGroup and Trenitalia.

Avantisundarikatha

Avantisundarikatha (अवन्तिसुन्दरीकथा), also called the Avantisundari, is a Sanskrit prose romance attributed to the South Indian poet Dandin (late-seventh to early-eighth century CE), telling the love story of Rajavahana and Avantisundari and surviving only in fragments.

Avantium

Avantium N.V. is an Amsterdam-based renewable-chemistry company founded in 2000 as a Shell spin-off, listed on Euronext, whose technology turns plant sugars into FDCA and the 100% plant-based polymer PEF.

Avantivarman (king of Kashmir)

Avantivarman (अवन्तिवर्मन्) was the founder of Kashmir's Utpala dynasty, reigning from 855 to 883 CE, known for his minister Suyya's river works and the twin temples at Avantipora.

Avanzada regia

Avanzada regia is the rock and urban music scene that emerged in Monterrey, Mexico, in the mid-1990s, covering bands such as Control Machete, Plastilina Mosh, Jumbo, and El Gran Silencio.

Avapritinib

Avapritinib (Ayvakit/Ayvakyt, BLU-285), Blueprint Medicines' oral kinase inhibitor of KIT D816V and PDGFRA D842V, FDA-approved 2020 for PDGFRA exon 18 GIST and systemic mastocytosis.

Avar Khanate

The Avar Khanate, also called the Khunzakh Khanate, was a state in the mountains of central Dagestan from the late 12th century until Russia abolished it in 1864.

Avar migration into Pannonia

The Avar migration into Pannonia was the movement of mounted steppe warriors into the Carpathian Basin in 567–568 after the Turks destroyed the Rouran Empire, founding the Avar Khaganate.

Avare

Avare is a free, open-source moving-map aviation GPS and electronic flight bag app for Android devices, developed by volunteer nonprofit Apps4Av and first released in 2012.

Avaris

Avaris, also known as Tell el-Dab'a, was a harbor city in the eastern Nile Delta and capital of the Hyksos from about 1640 to 1530 BC.

Avars (Caucasus)

Avars (Caucasus), self-name ma'arulal, largest indigenous people of Dagestan, Russia, speaking the Northeast Caucasian Avar language (~700,000 speakers), historically centered on the Khunzakh khanate; distinct from the Pannonian Avars.