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Anna Anderson
Anna Anderson, also known as Franziska Schanzkowska, was the most famous woman to claim to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia; a 1994 DNA test proved she was not.
Anna Harris Stein
Anna Harris Stein, First Lady of North Carolina since January 1, 2025, wife of Governor Josh Stein; UNC-trained attorney and former NC Division of Public Health legal specialist focused on substance policy and prison reentry.
Annabelle Neilson
Annabelle Neilson (1969-2018), British socialite, model, and muse of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano; ex-wife of Nat Rothschild; Ladies of London cast member and children's author.
Anne Abel Smith
Anne Abel Smith, also known as Anne Liddell-Grainger, is a British missionary and royal relative whose life includes a 1957 Windsor wedding and Christian service in Britain and Africa.
Anne Parsons, Countess of Rosse
Anne Parsons, Countess of Rosse (née Messel; 1902–1992), London-born social figure, mother of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, and wife of the 6th Earl of Rosse of Birr Castle.
Anne Tennant, Baroness Glenconner
Anne Tennant, Baroness Glenconner (Lady Anne Coke, born July 1932) is a British aristocrat, maid of honour at Elizabeth II's 1953 coronation, and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret 1971-2002, author of the bestselling memoir Lady in Waiting.
Annual immigration statistics of Canada
Annual immigration statistics of Canada record yearly permanent resident admissions, peaking at 400,870 in 1913 and 483,640 in 2024, governed by IRPA and the Immigration Levels Plan tabled in Parliament.
Anthony Martin Sinatra
Anthony Martin (Antonino Martino) "Marty" Sinatra, Sicilian-born bantamweight boxer who fought as Marty O'Brien, later Hoboken tavern keeper and fire captain; father of Frank Sinatra.
Anti-Filipino sentiment
Anti-Filipino sentiment is prejudice and discrimination against Filipinos, historically in the United States through colonial-era labor recruitment, the 1929-1930 West Coast riots including Watsonville, immigration exclusion politics, and persistent discrimination reported by Filipino Americans today.
Anti-Indian sentiment
Anti-Indian sentiment is prejudice and discrimination against Indians and South Asians, from colonial Natal's "coolie curse" legislation and US Asian exclusion to the 2020s surge in online anti-Indian hate.
Anti-Italianism
Anti-Italianism is prejudice against Italians and people of Italian ancestry, especially in the United States. Also called the Italian-American experience of discrimination, it involved racialist 'Mediterranean inferiority' theories, the 1911 Dillingham Commission's north/south race division, anarchist and Mafia stereotypes, WWII loyalty suspicions, and persistent mobster media images.
Anti-Polish sentiment
Anti-Polish sentiment: hostility toward Poles as a national group, also called Polonophobia. Covers Prussian Germanization, Nazi propaganda from 1939, Polish American stereotyping, and racialisation of Polish migrants in Brexit-era Britain.
Apache
Apache: collective name for Southern Athabaskan-speaking peoples (Western Apache, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan, Plains Apache), also self-designated Ndé. Migrated from the north between 1100 and 1600; reservations in New Mexico and Arizona; Oak Flat dispute ongoing.
Apollo Quiboloy
Apollo Carreon Quiboloy, Filipino televangelist and founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) in Davao, 1985, calls himself Appointed Son of God; indicted in the US in 2021 for sex trafficking, arrested in the Philippines in September 2024, now facing extradition.
Aqllawasi
An aqllawasi, also written acllawasi, was an Inca institution, the "House of the Chosen Women," where secluded girls were trained in textile production and religious service.
Arab Americans
Arab Americans: a panethnic American group from Arabic-speaking Middle Eastern and North African countries, defined by shared Arabic language and culture; roughly 1.2 million by Census 2000 ancestry data, about 3.7 million by advocacy estimates; first major wave from Ottoman Greater Syria, 1880–1914.
Arab Christians
Arab Christians are Arabic-speaking Christians of the Arab world, present since pre-Islamic tribes such as the Ghassanids, organized in Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant churches, active in Arab nationalism, and declining through emigration.
Arab citizens of Israel
Arab citizens of Israel, also called Israeli Arabs, are Palestinian Arabs holding Israeli citizenship, mostly descendants of those who remained after the 1948 war, and the country's largest minority.
Arab diaspora
The Arab diaspora comprises people of Arab origin outside the Middle East and North Africa, formed by the mahjar migration of 1860-1930 to Brazil, Argentina, and the United States, later conflict-driven displacement such as Syria's 6.8 million refugees, and modern MENA identity debates in US census classification.
Arab migration into Nubia
Arab migration into Nubia was the centuries-long movement of Arabic-speaking tribes from Egypt and Arabia into the Christian Nubian kingdoms, beginning after the Muslim conquest of Egypt.
Arabella Churchill (charity founder)
Arabella Spencer Churchill (1949-2007), granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, co-founded the Glastonbury Festival and founded the children's charity Children's World in 1981; distinct from the 17th-century Arabella Churchill, mistress of James II.
Arabs (العرب)
Arabs (العرب, al-ʿArab) are the Arabic-speaking peoples of the Arabian Peninsula, Middle East, and North Africa. The name first denoted northern nomad tribes, expanded to all peninsula inhabitants, and Arab identity was shaped in the early Islamic Caliphate.
Arain
Arain (آرائین), also Raeen or Rayeen, a large predominantly Muslim agricultural caste and biradari of the Punjab in Pakistan and India; about 1.1 million in the 1921 census, classified colonial 'agriculturalists', largely resettled in Pakistani Punjab after 1947.
Araneta family
Araneta family: Spanish-Filipino family of Basque origin, arrived Manila 1723 aboard La Sacra Familia. Known for Juan Anacleto Araneta's Negros revolt, Araneta Center in Cubao, Araneta Coliseum, and marriages into the Roxas, Marcos, and Arroyo clans.
Arapaho
Arapaho: a Plains Algonquian Native American people, also Hinono'eitiit speakers, split after 1864 into the Northern Arapaho of Wyoming's Wind River Reservation and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.
Arawak
Arawak is South America's largest indigenous language family in geographic extension. Its speakers met Columbus in 1492, and words like canoe, hammock, and hurricane entered European languages.
Arbëreshë people
Arbëreshë (Arbërisht speakers), also called Italo-Albanians: an Albanian ethnolinguistic minority of southern Italy, settled 15th–18th centuries after Skanderbeg's death, about 100,000 speakers in 50 villages, Eastern-rite Catholics distinct from Greece's Arvanites.
Argentines
Argentines: the people of Argentina, population 46,234,830 (2022 census), shaped by mass European immigration (about 7 million arrivals, 1870–1930, nearly half Italian) and by the 2022 census's first Afrodescendant category and indigenous count of 2.9%.
Arikara
The Arikara (Sahnish) are a Caddoan-speaking Missouri River earth lodge people of North and South Dakota, closely related to the Pawnee, now one of the Three Affiliated Tribes at Fort Berthold.
Aristocracy (class)
Aristocracy (class): hereditary privileged elite, also meaning rule by a small privileged minority (Greek-derived term, cognate with nobility). Distinguished by inherited land, titles, and legal privilege; classical examples include Rome's patricians and Europe's medieval nobility.