Society and history

An Lushan Rebellion

The An Lushan Rebellion (安史之乱) was a revolt against the Tang dynasty, begun in 755 by the frontier general An Lushan from Fanyang, ostensibly to punish minister Yang Guozhong.

An Qingxu

An Qingxu (安庆绪) was the son of the rebel general An Lushan, whom he murdered in 757 to take over the rebellion against the Tang dynasty.

An Shigao

An Shigao (安世高), personal name An Qing, was a prince of Parthia who became the first known translator of Buddhist texts into Chinese, working in Luoyang for about twenty years until roughly 170.

An Unbelievable Story of Rape, a 2015 ProPublica and Marshall Project investigation by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and inspired Netflix's Unbelievable.

AN Venture Partners

AN Venture Partners is a Tokyo and San Francisco-based biotech venture capital firm, founded in 2022 in alliance with ARCH Venture Partners to build US startups from Japanese science.

Sep 19, 2026

An Wang

An Wang (王安) was a Chinese-American engineer who invented magnetic-core memory and founded Wang Laboratories in Boston in 1951, building it into a $3 billion company.

Sep 24, 2026

An Yu

An Yu, also known as An Hyang (안향), was a Goryeo civil official and Confucian scholar (1243–1306) who brought Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism to Korea from Yuan in 1289, laying the groundwork for Joseon's Confucian order.

An-Nasir Yusuf

An-Nasir Yusuf (الناصر يوسف) was the last Ayyubid ruler of Syria, governing Aleppo from 1236 and Damascus from 1250, and unifying the Syrian Ayyubid principalities before his death in 1260.

An-Nisa, 34

An-Nisa 34 (Quran 4:34), the contested verse on qawwamah, nushuz, and daraba: classical tafsir read it as permitting a husband to strike a rebellious wife, while modern exegetes and feminist scholars reinterpret its key terms.

AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System

The AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System, or LaWS, is a 30-kilowatt US Navy laser that in 2014 became the first deployed aboard a Navy ship, on USS Ponce.

AN/SPY-1

The AN/SPY-1 is a US Navy S-band phased-array radar serving as the primary sensor of the Aegis Combat System, first deployed in 1983 on Ticonderoga-class cruisers and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.

AN/SPY-6

AN/SPY-6, also called SPY-6, is a family of Raytheon-built shipboard radars the United States Navy uses for air and missile defense on seven ship classes.

AN/TWQ-1 Avenger

The AN/TWQ-1 Avenger, also known as the Avenger missile system, is an American short-range air defense system carrying eight Stinger missiles and a .50-caliber machine gun on a HMMWV, fielded since 1990.

Ana Brnabić (Ана Брнабић)

Ana Brnabić (Ана Брнабић), Serbian SNS politician, prime minister 2017–2024, National Assembly Speaker, and acting President of Serbia since 28 September 2026 after Aleksandar Vučić's resignation.

Ana C. Reyes

Ana Cecilia Reyes, born 1974 in Uruguay, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the District of Columbia since 2023, appointed by President Biden.

Ana Cabrera

Ana Cabrera (born 1982, Denver) is an American TV news anchor, Emmy winner for 2012 High Park Fire coverage, CNN correspondent and anchor 2013-2022, and MSNBC/MS NOW host of Ana Cabrera Reports from April 2023 to June 2026.

Ana Catarina Mendes

Ana Catarina Mendes, born in Coimbra in 1973, is a Portuguese Socialist Party politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2024.

Ana Cumpănaș

Ana Cumpănaș (Anna Sage), the "Woman in Red," was a Romanian-born brothel madam who informed on John Dillinger for a $5,000 reward and promised help against deportation; the FBI killed Dillinger at the Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934, and she was deported to Romania, dying there in 1947.

Ana Hernandez

Ana Hernandez is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing District 143, which covers part of Houston, since a December 2005 special election.

Ana I. de Alba

Ana Isabel de Alba is an American jurist serving as a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2023, appointed by President Biden.

Oct 22, 2026

Ana Ipătescu

Ana Ipătescu, born Ana Ghiulerasă (1805–1875), was a Romanian heroine of the 1848 Revolution in Wallachia who rallied the crowd of Bucharest to free the arrested provisional government.

Ana Kasparian

Ana Kasparian (born 1986) is an American political commentator, co-host and producer of The Young Turks, CSUN journalism lecturer, and founder of the Unaligned Substack newsletter.

Ana Lucía Pineda

Ana Lucía Pineda Aruachán (born 1987, Montería) is a Colombian business administrator, founder of Amoree Gelateria, and first lady of Colombia since 7 August 2026 as wife of President Abelardo de la Espriella; she leads the Colombia, Un Solo Corazón earthquake donation campaign.

Ana Maria Rodriguez

Ana Maria Rodriguez is an American Republican politician representing Florida's 40th Senate district since 2020, after serving in the Florida House and Doral City Council.

Ana Montes

Ana Belen Montes, born 1957, was the Defense Intelligence Agency's top Cuba analyst who spied for Cuban intelligence for about 16-17 years until her 21 September 2001 arrest; she pleaded guilty in 2002, drew a 25-year sentence, and was released in January 2023.

Ana Navarro

Ana Navarro (Ana Navarro-Cárdenas), Nicaraguan-born American political strategist and commentator; co-host of ABC's The View since 2022 and CNN senior political commentator; former McCain 2008 Hispanic co-chair and Jeb Bush immigration policy director, later a prominent anti-Trump Republican voice.