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André Carson

André Carson, Democratic U.S. representative for Indiana's 7th District since a March 2008 special election, grandson of Julia Carson, second Muslim elected to Congress, serves on Intelligence and Transportation committees.

André de Melo e Castro

André de Melo e Castro, 4th Count of Galveias (1668–1753), was a Portuguese nobleman, diplomat, and colonial administrator who served as the fifth viceroy of Brazil from 1735 to 1749.

André Desmarais

André Desmarais, born in 1956, is a Canadian financier who was President and Co-CEO of Power Corporation from 1996 to 2020 and remains its Deputy Chairman.

Andre Dickens

Andre Dickens is an American politician and the 61st Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, taking office in 2022 after serving eight years on the Atlanta City Council.

André Ebanks

André Ebanks, Caymanian lawyer and politician, leader of The Caymanian Community Party, became Premier of the Cayman Islands in May 2025 via a coalition of TCCP, the Cayman Islands National Party and independents, also holding the Financial Services & Commerce portfolio.

André François-Poncet

André François-Poncet is a French growth-equity investor who joined Partech in Paris in 2015 and became Partner in 2022, known for investments including Made.com, Brandwatch, Brevo, and EcoVadis.

André Guedes

André Guedes is a physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Flomics Biotech in Barcelona in 2018, a liquid-biopsy company using cell-free RNA sequencing for early cancer detection.

Andre Hakkak

Andre Hakkak is an American financier who co-founded White Oak Global Advisors, a San Francisco private debt and direct lending firm, in 2007 and leads it as CEO.

André Hoffmann (Swiss businessman)

André Hoffmann is a Swiss businessman and investor who has been Vice-Chairman of Roche since 2006, representing the founding family, and a leading voice in sustainable finance.

André Jacque

André Jacque (born 1980) is an American Republican politician who has represented Wisconsin's 1st Senate district since 2019 and served in the State Assembly from 2010 to 2019.

André Jakurski

André Jakurski is a Brazilian banker and investor who co-founded Banco Pactual in Rio de Janeiro in 1983, left in 1998 to found the asset manager JGP, and is credited with the bank's risk-management culture.

André Lalande (philosopher)

André Lalande (1867–1963) was a French philosopher at the Sorbonne, director of the Vocabulaire technique et critique de la philosophie, known in France as "Le Lalande".

André Leon Talley

André Leon Talley (1948–2022) was an American fashion journalist and author, first Black creative director of Vogue (1988–1995) and its editor-at-large 1998–2013, raised in Durham, North Carolina, mentor and memoirist.

Andre Marion

André Marion, born 1935 in Nîmes, France, is an engineer who left Hewlett-Packard to cofound Applied Biosystems, led it as CEO and chairman, and sold it to Perkin-Elmer in 1993.

Andre Melendez

Andre "Angel" Melendez (May 1971–1996) was a Colombian-born NYC Club Kid killed and dismembered in March 1996 by Michael Alig and Robert "Freeze" Riggs; both pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter.

André Oscar Wallenberg

André Oscar Wallenberg (1816–1886) was a Swedish banker and financier who founded Stockholms Enskilda Bank in 1856 and co-founded the engineering company Atlas, today's Atlas Copco, in 1873.

Andre Penha

André Penha is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who co-founded QuintoAndar, the São Paulo rental platform, led its product and engineering until 2024, and now runs IBBX.

Andre Rand

Andre Rand, born Frank Rostum Rushan in 1944, is a convicted Staten Island kidnapper serving 25-years-to-life terms for the 1987 Jennifer Schweiger and 1981 Holly Ann Hughes kidnappings, suspected in other child disappearances.

André Rigaud

André Rigaud (1761–1811) was a free-colored general and political leader of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) who led the South, fought Toussaint Louverture in the War of Knives, and died in 1811.

André Stander

André Stander (1946–1984) was a South African police captain at Kempton Park who robbed banks from 1977, escaped prison in 1983, and led the Stander Gang through about 20 heists before being shot dead by police in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in February 1984.

André Street

André Street is a Brazilian payments entrepreneur who co-founded StoneCo in Rio de Janeiro in 2012, chaired it through its 2018 Nasdaq IPO, and earlier founded Braspag and Pagafacil.

André Tardieu

André Tardieu (1876–1945) was a French statesman and journalist who served three times as premier from 1929 to 1932 and helped draft the Treaty of Versailles.

André Trocmé

André Trocmé (1901–1971) was a French Reformed pastor who led Le Chambon-sur-Lignon's rescue of thousands of Jews in occupied France, later working in the peace movement.

André Vauchez

André Vauchez (born 1938 in Thionville) is a French medievalist whose 1981 study of papal canonization reshaped the history of sainthood; he won the 2013 Balzan Prize.

André Ventura

André Ventura is a Portuguese politician who founded and leads the Chega party, the second-largest force in parliament, and lost the 2026 presidential runoff to António José Seguro.

André Vidal de Negreiros

André Vidal de Negreiros (c. 1606–1680) was a Brazilian-born colonial commander and governor who helped lead the 1645–1654 uprising that expelled the Dutch from northeastern Brazil.

André Weiss

André Weiss (1858–1928) was a French jurist who held the international law chair at the University of Paris and served as vice-president of the Permanent Court of International Justice.

Andrea

Andrea is a given name: the feminine form of Andrew in most European languages but a masculine name in Italy, from Greek andreios, "manly, brave". About 4.1 million bearers; peaked #23 for US girls in 1978.

Andrea Abodi

Andrea Abodi is an Italian politician who has served as Minister for Sport and Youth under Giorgia Meloni since 2022, overseeing stadium reform and the sport decree.

Andrea Bailey

Andrea Bailey is an American politician and Republican member of the New York State Assembly from the 133rd district, elected in November 2024 after serving on the Geneseo Town Board.