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Anastasius II (emperor)
Anastasius II (Artemios), Byzantine emperor 713–715, ex-protoasekretis raised after Philippicus' fall; fortified Constantinople against the Arabs, deposed by Opsikion revolt in favor of Theodosius III, beheaded 719 after a failed Bulgar-backed restoration.
Anastasius III
Anastasius III, a Roman and son of Lutianus, was the 120th pope, reigning from 911 until his death in 913; his one accepted authentic act was a 912 pallium grant to the bishop of Vercelli.
Anastasius IV
Anastasius IV, born Corrado, was the 168th pope, reigning from July 1153 to December 1154; he settled the Magdeburg and York disputes and restored the Pantheon.
Anasuya (अनसूया)
Anasuya (अनसूया), also Anusuya or Sati Anusuya, is a revered sage's wife in Hindu tradition, wife of the sage Atri and mother of the gods Dattatreya, Durvasa, and Soma.
Anasyrma
Anasyrma (ἀνάσυρμα), the ritual lifting of the skirt to expose the genitals, an apotropaic and fertility gesture in Greek, Egyptian, and Near Eastern religion, known from the Baubo myth, Herodotus's Bubastis account, and anasyromene figurines.
Anat
Anat (Anath, Anatu; Ugaritic 'nt) is a Northwest Semitic goddess of war and love, sister and consort of Baal in the Ugaritic myths, adopted into Egypt under Ramesses II, later fused into Atargatis.
Anat Ashkenazi (ענת אשכנזי)
Anat Ashkenazi (ענת אשכנזי) is a corporate finance executive who served as Eli Lilly's CFO from 2021 to 2024 and became Alphabet and Google's CFO in July 2024.
Anat-her
Anat-her, also written Anat-har or Anather, is a poorly attested ruler of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, known from a single scarab and possibly the first 16th Dynasty king.
Anathapindika
Anathapindika (अनाथपिण्डिक), whose personal name was Sudatta, was a wealthy merchant-banker of Savatthi remembered for buying Prince Jeta's grove and building the Jetavana monastery, a principal residence of the Buddha.
Anathema
Anathema (Greek Ανάθεμα, plural Anathemata) began as a Greek word for a votive offering and became the church's gravest condemnation of heretics, used by councils from Nicaea in 325 to Trent.
Anatolian beyliks
Anatolian beyliks: Turkish principalities (beyliks/begliks) such as Karaman, Germiyan, Aydın, Menteshe, Sarukhan, and Qarasi that emerged in Anatolia after the Seljuks' 1243 defeat at Köse Dağ, and were absorbed by the Ottomans by the fifteenth century.
Anatolian hieroglyphs
Anatolian hieroglyphs, also called Luwian hieroglyphs or Hieroglyphic Luwian, are a mixed logo-syllabic script used mainly for the Luwian language from about 1420 to 700 BC.
Anatolian languages
The Anatolian languages are an extinct branch of the Indo-European family, spoken in ancient Anatolia and northern Syria and including Hittite, Luwian, Lycian, and Lydian; Hittite is the earliest attested Indo-European language.
Anatolie Nosatii
Anatolie Nosatii, also known as Anatolie Nosatîi, born 1972, is a Moldovan politician and retired military officer serving as Minister of Defense since 2021, appointed under the Action and Solidarity Party.
Anatolius
Anatolius, who died in 458, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 449 to 458, presiding at Chalcedon in 451 and securing Constantinople's rank after Rome.
Anatoly Alexandrov (Анатолий Петрович Александров) (physicist)
Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov (Анатолий Петрович Александров, 1903–1994), Soviet physicist, Kurchatov Institute director and USSR Academy of Sciences president 1975–1986, scientific leader of the Soviet nuclear submarine fleet and RBMK reactor program.
Anatoly Antonov (Анатолий Иванович Антонов)
Anatoly Ivanovich Antonov (Анатолий Иванович Антонов), born 1955 in Omsk, is a Russian career diplomat and arms-control specialist who was Russia's ambassador to the United States from August 2017 to October 2024, after serving as deputy defense minister and deputy foreign minister.
Anatoly Derevyanko
Anatoly Derevyanko, born 1943, is a Russian archaeologist and academician who led the Denisova Cave excavations in the Altai that led to the discovery of the Denisovans.
Anatoly Koni
Anatoly Koni, or Anatoly Fyodorovich Koni (Анатолий Фёдорович Кони), was a Russian jurist, judge, and court orator who presided over the 1878 trial that acquitted Vera Zasulich.
Anatoly Lunacharsky
Anatoly Lunacharsky (Анатолий Луначарский) was a Russian revolutionary, writer, and Soviet statesman who served as the first People's Commissar of Enlightenment from 1917 to 1929, building secular schooling and the literacy campaign.
Anatoly Moskvin (Анатолий Юрьевич Москвин)
Anatoly Yuryevich Moskvin (Анатолий Юрьевич Москвин), born 1966 in Gorky, is a Russian Celticist, philologist, and cemetery researcher found in 2011 with 26 to 29 mummified bodies from graves in his Nizhny Novgorod flat; judged insane, he has been in compulsory psychiatric treatment since 2012.
Anatoly Onoprienko (Анатолій Юрійович Онопрієнко)
Anatoly Onoprienko (Анатолій Онопрієнко), the Beast of Ukraine or Terminator, Ukrainian serial killer convicted of 52 murders in 1989 and 1995–1996; death sentence commuted to life, died in Zhytomyr prison in 2013.
Anatoly Shariy
Anatoly Shariy (Анатолій Шарій), Ukrainian-born video blogger and pro-Russian politician, founder of Sharij.net and the banned Party of Shariy; exiled since 2012, charged with treason, convicted in absentia.
Anatoly Slivko
Anatoly Slivko (Анатолий Сливко) was a Soviet serial killer who murdered seven boys in Nevinnomyssk between 1964 and 1985 while leading a children's tourist club.
Anatoly Sobchak
Anatoly Sobchak (Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak; 1937–2000) was a Soviet and Russian jurist and politician, the first mayor of Saint Petersburg from 1991 to 1996 who helped draft Russia's 1993 Constitution.
Anatoly Stessel
Anatoly Stessel (Анатолий Михайлович Стессель) was a Russian lieutenant general who surrendered Port Arthur to the Japanese in December 1904, then was sentenced to death.
Anatoly Suprunovsky
Anatoly Suprunovsky (born 1973 in Tomsk) is a Russian official serving as Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations and Chief State Inspector for Fire Supervision, with the rank of Colonel General.
Anaukpetlun
Anaukpetlun (Burmese: အနောက်ဘက်လွန်) was a king of Burma's Toungoo dynasty who reigned from 1605 to 1628, reunifying the kingdom after its collapse in the late sixteenth century.
Anaveon
Anaveon is a Basel-based Swiss biotechnology company founded in December 2017 as a University of Zurich spinout by immunologist Onur Boyman, developing IL-2 cancer drugs before pivoting to autoimmune disease.
Anawrahta
Anawrahta (အနော်ရထာ) was king of Pagan from 1044 to 1077, remembered as the first ruler to unify Burma and to establish Theravada Buddhism there.