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Ayelu

Ayelu (Ayalu) is a 2,145 m vegetated rhyolitic stratovolcano in southern Afar, Ethiopia, paired with Abida/Adwa and part of the Adda'do Magmatic Segment, with only an uncertain 1928 eruption on record.

Ayesha Curry

Ayesha Curry (born 1989, Toronto) is a Canadian-American TV personality, cookbook author, and entrepreneur, wife of Stephen Curry. Known for Food Network's Ayesha's Home Kitchen, The Seasoned Life, International Smoke with Michael Mina, and the Sweet July brand.

Ayesha Dharker

Ayesha Dharker (born 1977 or 1978, Bombay) is a British actress known for The Terrorist (1998), Queen Jamillia in Star Wars: Episode II, The Father (2020), Bombay Dreams, and RSC and National Theatre stage roles.

Ayesha Erotica

Ayesha Erotica, stage name of Ayesha Alexis Aucellio (born 1996, Huntington Beach, California), is an American hyperpop-inspired singer and producer; active 2015–2018, retired, returned 2023, known for "Emo Boy" and Slayyyter collaborations.

Ayesha Gaddafi (عائشة القذافي)

Ayesha Gaddafi (عائشة القذافي), Aisha Muammar Muhammed Abu Minyar Qadhafi, Libyan lawyer and only biological daughter of Muammar Gaddafi; UNDP Goodwill Ambassador 2009-2011, Saddam Hussein defense team member, UN-sanctioned in 2011, travel ban lifted 2023, EU delisted 2023, resident in Oman.

Ayesha Jhulka

Ayesha Jhulka, Indian actress born 1972 in Srinagar, known for Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992) and Khiladi; about 70 Hindi and regional films, later OTT work in Hush Hush and Happy Family: Conditions Apply.

Ayesha Madon

Ayesha Madon (born 1998) is an Australian actress and singer-songwriter, lead as Amerie Wadia in Netflix's Heartbreak High (2022–2026), AACTA and Logie nominee, debut EP The Unanticipated Prequel.

Ayesha Nurdjaja

Ayesha Nurdjaja is a Brooklyn-born chef of Italian-Indonesian heritage, executive chef and partner of NYC Eastern Mediterranean restaurants Shuka and Shukette, a James Beard finalist, Food Network's Bobby's Triple Threat Titan, and author of Mediterranean All the Way.

Ayesha Singh

Ayesha Singh (आयशा सिंह), born 1996, is an Indian television actress and qualified lawyer known for playing Sai Joshi in Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin (2020–2023) and the lead in Colors' Mannat Har Khushi Paane Ki (2025–present).

Ayesha Takia

Ayesha Takia (Ayesha Takia Azmi), born 1986 in Mumbai, is a former Indian actress and model. Debut Taarzan: The Wonder Car (2004, Filmfare Best Female Debut); acclaimed in Dor (2006); hit Wanted (2009); last film Mod (2011); married Farhan Azmi in 2009.

Ayeyarwady Region

Ayeyarwady Region (ဧရာဝတီ, formerly Irrawaddy), Myanmar's Delta region, capital Pathein, 26 townships, 35,964 km2, about 6.2 million people; rice bowl supplying up to 65% of national rice, devastated by Cyclone Nargis in 2008.

Ayeza Khan (عائزہ خان)

Ayeza Khan (عائزہ خان), born Kinza Khan in 1991 in Karachi, is a Pakistani Urdu-television actress, wife of Danish Taimoor, known for Pyarey Afzal, Mere Paas Tum Ho, and Mein.

Aygaz

Aygaz is a Turkish liquefied petroleum gas company that imports, exports, and distributes LPG in cylinder, bulk, and autogas form, holding 26.3% of the Turkish market in 2025.

Ayhancan Güven

Ayhancan Güven, Turkish racing driver born 1998 in Istanbul, Porsche factory driver and Red Bull athlete; 2025 DTM champion with Manthey EMA, first Turkish DTM champion, former Porsche Junior and Supercup vice-champion.

Ayi Chufang

Ayi Chufang (阿姨厨房) was a Shanghai peer-to-peer home-cooked meal delivery platform launched in 2013 by founder Hu Dusheng, which burned over 4 million yuan and stopped after nine months.

Ayi Kwei Armah

Ayi Kwei Armah (born 1939) is a Ghanaian novelist and essayist whose fiction examines colonialism and neocolonialism, most famously in The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968).

Ayia Napa (Αγία Νάπα)

Ayia Napa (Αγία Νάπα) is a resort town in southeast Cyprus's Famagusta district, named after a medieval monastery ('napa' = wooded glen). Known for 16 Blue Flag beaches, Nissi Beach, nightlife, a 0.14 km² marina, and monk seal sea caves; 15.9% of Cyprus tourists stayed there in 2024.

Ayin

Ayin (עַיִן) is the 16th Hebrew letter, originally a pharyngeal fricative cognate of Arabic ʿayn, silent in modern Hebrew, meaning "eye", with numeral value 70.

Ayine-ye Sekandari

Ayine-ye Sekandari (آیینه اسکندری, "The Alexander Mirror") is a nationalist history of Iran in Persian, written by Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani in the early 1890s.

Ayios Photios

Ayios Photios (Agios Fotios) is a sanctuary site near Athienou, Cyprus, belonging to ancient Golgoi; a male-god (Apollo) sanctuary dug by Cesnola in 1870, source of the Met's Cesnola limestone sculpture.

Ayirathil Oruvan

Ayirathil Oruvan (ஆயிரத்தில் ஒருவன், One in a Thousand) is a 1965 Tamil adventure film by B. R. Panthulu, the first screen pairing of MGR and Jayalalithaa, restored and re-released in 2014; distinct from the 2010 Selvaraghavan film.

Aylar Lie

Aylar Lie (Aylar Dianati Lie), born 1984 in Tehran, is an Iranian-Norwegian TV personality, former glamour model, singer, and professional poker player, disqualified from Miss Norway 2004 and ranked Europe's top female poker player 2017-2018.

Aylesbury

Aylesbury, the county town of Buckinghamshire, England, is a Domesday-recorded market town of over 90,000 people. Distinguished by its prescriptive medieval market, 1554 incorporation, 2017 Garden Town status, and a 16,000-home growth programme to 2033.

Aylimas

Ailymas was a North African ruler called "king of the Libyans" by Diodorus Siculus, allied with Agathocles in 310 BC, when he was defeated and killed.

Aylin Uysalcan

Aylin Uysalcan, born 2009 in Çorlu, is a Turkish opposite hitter for VakıfBank and the Türkiye women's national volleyball team; 2024 U18 Balkan MVP, 2025 EYOF gold medalist, 2026 VNL squad member.

Ayllu

An ayllu is a traditional Andean social group whose members share labor, land, resources, and ritual obligations, central to community organization in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador since pre-Hispanic times.

Aylmer

Aylmer: name of several Canadian places, including a town of about 8,500 in Elgin County, Ontario; a sector of Gatineau, Quebec; Aylmer Lake in the Northwest Territories (847 km2, Lockhart River); and Lac Aylmer, Quebec, named for Lord Aylmer.

Aylo

Aylo, formerly named MindGeek, is a Montreal-based technology and media company that owns and operates more than 100 pornographic websites, including Pornhub, YouPorn, RedTube, and Brazzers.

Ayló'chaxnim

Ayló'chaxnim is a red, roughly 2-kilometer asteroid, the first ever found orbiting entirely inside Venus's orbit, discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility at Palomar Observatory on 2020 January 4.

Ayman al-Zawahiri (أيمن الظواهري)

Ayman al-Zawahiri (أيمن الظواهري), Egyptian eye surgeon, Egyptian Islamic Jihad co-founder, and al-Qaeda deputy then emir from 2011; killed in a US drone strike in Kabul on 31 July 2022.