Society and history

Andrius Kubilius

Andrius Kubilius is a Lithuanian politician of the Homeland Union, born in 1956 in Vilnius, who has been European Commissioner for Defence and Space since December 2024.

Andriy Kuharsky (also rendered Andrew Kuharsky) is a Ukrainian-born quantitative researcher who worked at the Houston trading firm Quantlab, then co-founded SXP Analytics, a high-frequency trading firm.

Andriy Raykovych

Andriy Raykovych (Андрій Райкович), born 1956, is a Ukrainian politician appointed by President Zelensky in 2022 as head of Kirovohrad Oblast, after two terms as mayor of Kropyvnytskyi.

Androgyny

Androgyny describes a single person who combines masculine and feminine traits in gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, and may also denote a third gender category.

Andromache (Ἀνδρομάχη)

Andromache (Ἀνδρομάχη), Hector's wife and Astyanax's mother in the Iliad; enslaved by Neoptolemus in Euripides' tragedy; later marries Helenus and rules Molossia in Epirus.

Andromeda (Ἀνδρομέδα) (mythology)

Andromeda (Ἀνδρομέδα), Greek mythology princess, daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia of Aethiopia; chained for sacrifice to Cetus, rescued and married by Perseus; mother of Perses, ancestor of Persian kings; constellation namesake.

Andrónico Luksic Abaroa

Andrónico Luksic Abaroa (1926–2005) was a Chilean businessman born in Antofagasta who built the Luksic Group, a mining, banking, and beer empire; Forbes valued him at US$4.2 billion.

Andronikos I Komnenos

Andronikos I Komnenos (Ἀνδρόνικος Αʹ Κομνηνός), last Komnenian Byzantine emperor (1183–1185), cousin-rival of Manuel I, reformer of taxation and offices, tyrant, overthrown and killed by the Constantinople mob in 1185.

Androphilia and gynephilia

Androphilia and gynephilia are behavioral-science terms for sexual attraction to adult males and to adult females respectively; ambiphilia denotes both. They classify attraction by its object, independent of the person's own sex or gender identity, and are preferred over homosexual/heterosexual for cross-cultural and transgender research.

Andry Rajoelina

Andry Nirina Rajoelina (born 1974, Antsirabe), Malagasy ex-DJ and entrepreneur, TGV founder, transitional president 2009–2014 after the CAPSAT-backed coup, president 2019–2025, ousted October 2025, impeached and stripped of Malagasy nationality.

Oct 22, 2026

Andrzej Bobola

Andrzej Bobola, venerated as Saint Andrew Bobola, was a Polish Jesuit missionary known as the Apostle of Polesie, martyred by Cossacks in 1657 and canonized in 1938.

Andrzej Domański

Andrzej Domański, born in 1981 in Kraków, is a Polish Civic Coalition politician, a Sejm member since 2023, and Minister of Finance and Economy since 2025.

Andrzej Duda

Andrzej Duda, President of Poland 2015–2025, PiS-backed two-term head of state; signed PiS judicial overhauls, vetoed two 2017 court bills, blocked Tusk-era reforms, raised defense spending to about 4% of GDP.

Sep 24, 2026

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (Latin: Andreas Fricius Modrevius, c. 1503 to 1572) was a Polish Renaissance political writer and royal secretary, best known for the treatise De Republica emendanda.

Andrzej Halicki

Andrzej Halicki, born in Warsaw in 1961, is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament since 2019 for Civic Coalition, known for advocacy on Ukraine and European security.

Andrzej J. Strojwas

Andrzej J. Strojwas is an electrical engineer and Carnegie Mellon professor emeritus who co-founded PDF Solutions, the semiconductor yield-analytics company, and serves as its Chief Technology Officer.

Andrzej Poznański

Andrzej Poznański is a Polish video-game developer who co-founded the Warsaw studio People Can Fly in 2002 with Adrian Chmielarz and Michał Kosieradzki, leaving in 2012 after Epic Games acquired the studio.

Oct 10, 2026

Andrzej Walicki

Andrzej Walicki (1930–2020) was a Polish historian of ideas and philosopher who co-founded the Warsaw school and won the 1998 Balzan Prize for the Cultural and Social History of the Slavonic World.

Oct 22, 2026

Andrzej Zamoyski

Andrzej Zamoyski (1716–1792) was a Polish magnate, lawyer, and reformer who served as Grand Crown Chancellor from 1764 to 1767 and wrote the Zbiór praw sądowych, a proposed codification of Commonwealth law rejected in 1780.

Andy Arenas

Andy Arenas, full name Andres Arenas, is a Peruvian business executive who co-founded Kitopi, the Dubai-based food technology company, in January 2018 as chief property officer.

Andy Baker (national security advisor)

Andy Baker (Andrew C. Baker), American former Foreign Service officer and Oxford-trained academic; White House deputy national security adviser and Vance's national security adviser concurrently in the second Trump administration; left in August 2026 for American Global Strategies.