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Angus Ogilvy

Sir Angus Ogilvy (Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 1928–2004) was a British businessman who married Princess Alexandra of Kent in 1963 and was central to the Lonrho affair of 1973–77.

Angus Taylor

Angus Taylor is an Australian politician who has led the Liberal Party and the Opposition since February 2026, and has represented the seat of Hume since 2013.

Aṅguttara Nikāya

The Aṅguttara Nikāya, or Numerical Discourses of the Buddha, is the fourth division of the Sutta Piṭaka in the Pali Canon, arranging thousands of the Buddha's discourses in eleven numbered books.

Anhak Palace

Anhak Palace (安鶴宮) is a large walled palace site at Mt. Taesong in Pyongyang, North Korea, long attributed to the Goguryeo period, though its dating is disputed.

Anhedonia

Anhedonia is the reduced ability to experience pleasure and a core symptom of major depressive disorder and schizophrenia. Coined by Ribot in 1896, it now spans anticipatory, consummatory, social, and physical reward deficits.

Anhui Conch Cement

Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited (海螺水泥) is a Chinese cement and clinker producer based in Anhui Province, among China's largest and listed in Hong Kong since 1997.

Anhui Construction Engineering Group

Anhui Construction Engineering Group (安徽建工) is a large state-owned construction group founded in 1952, controlled by Anhui province and listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange as 600502.

Anhui Gujing Distillery

Anhui Gujing Distillery (安徽古井贡酒股份有限公司) is a Chinese strong-aroma baijiu producer based in Bozhou, Anhui Province, listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and Anhui's largest distiller by sales since 2012.

Anhui Jingmei (安徽晶镁)

Anhui Jingmei (安徽晶镁), also reported as Jingmei Photomask, is a Chinese photomask startup founded in 2025 in Hefei, Anhui, with technology transferred from the foundry Nexchip.

Anhui Medical University

Anhui Medical University (安徽医科大学, AHMU), founded in Shanghai in 1926 as Southeast Medical University, is a provincial key medical university in Hefei, Anhui, with 6 affiliated hospitals, clinical medicine and pharmacy doctoral programs, and ESI top-1% clinical medicine and pharmacology.

Anhui Shenji Technology

Anhui Shenji Technology, also known as GeniTech or Shenji, is a Hefei-based Chinese semiconductor company spun off from NIO in 2025 to design intelligent-driving chips, including the 5nm NX9031.

Anhui Yufeng Intelligent Technology

Anhui Yufeng Intelligent Technology Co. (宇锋智能) is a Chinese maker of unmanned forklift AGVs and warehouse automation systems in Hefei, Anhui, acquired by Anhui Heli in 2024 for RMB 371 million.

Aníbal Pinto

Aníbal Pinto was a Chilean Liberal politician who served as President of Chile from 1876 to 1881, during an economic crisis and the War of the Pacific.

Aniceto Arce

Aniceto Arce was a Bolivian silver-mining magnate and the 22nd president of Bolivia from 1888 to 1892, known for building railways linking the mines to the Pacific coast.

Anicetus

Anicetus was the eleventh bishop of Rome, holding the office around 155 to 166 between Pius I and Soter, remembered for meeting Polycarp over the Easter date.

Aniconism in Islam

Aniconism in Islam, also called Islamic aniconism, is the avoidance of visual depictions of animate beings, applied most strictly in mosques and to God and the prophets.

Aniello Dellacroce

Aniello "Neil" Dellacroce (1914–1985), underboss of New York's Gambino crime family under Carlo Gambino and Paul Castellano, mentor of John Gotti, operator of the Ravenite Social Club, Time-reported FBI informant, died of cancer before his 1985 racketeering trial.

Anies Baswedan

Anies Rasyid Baswedan, born 1969, Indonesian academic-politician; Paramadina rector, education minister 2014–2016, Jakarta governor 2017–2022 (57.95% win), independent 2024 presidential candidate backed by NasDem, PKS, Demokrat with Muhaimin Iskandar.

Anige

Anige (阿尼哥, 1245–1306) was a Nepalese sculptor, painter, and master builder who served the Yuan dynasty for over forty years and directed Beijing's White Stupa.

Anika Wells

Anika Wells (Anika Shay Wells, born 1985) is an Australian Labor MP for Lilley since 2019, Minister for Communications and Sport, and a former Maurice Blackburn lawyer, known for the 2025 parliamentary travel expenses controversy and IPEA audit.

Aniket Nikam

Aniket Ujjwal Nikam, Indian criminal advocate at the Bombay High Court and Supreme Court, son of prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, B.L.S. Mumbai and LL.M. NYU, founder of the Nyay Vishwas Foundation legal-aid charity.

Anikey Stroganov

Anikey Stroganov (Аникей Строганов), born around 1488 in Novgorod, was a Russian salt magnate and colonizer who founded the Stroganov dynasty, whose enterprise later financed Yermak's Siberian expedition.

Anikita Repnin

Anikita Repnin (Аникита Иванович Репнин) was a Russian prince and general-feldmarshal of Peter the Great's generation who commanded the center at Poltava in 1709, captured Riga, and governed Livonia.

Anil Agarwal (अनिल अग्रवाल) (industrialist)

Anil Agarwal (अनिल अग्रवाल) is an Indian-born, London-based mining industrialist who founded Sterlite Industries in 1986 and built it into Vedanta, a metals and mining group.

Anil Baluni

Anil Baluni is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a member of the Lok Sabha for Garhwal, Uttarakhand since 2024 and a former Rajya Sabha member.

Anil Beephan

Anil Beephan Jr. is an American Republican politician elected to the New York State Assembly's 105th district in 2022, after serving as an East Fishkill councilman.

Anil Bonde

Anil Bonde is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha since 2022, after serving as Maharashtra's agriculture minister.

Anil Chauhan (अनिल चौहान)

General Anil Chauhan (अनिल चौहान), born 1961, is a retired Indian Army officer of the 11 Gorkha Rifles who served as India's second Chief of Defence Staff from 30 September 2022 to 30 May 2026, championing jointness, theatre commands, and Operation Sindoor reforms.

Anil Chawla

Anil Chawla is an Indian financial services executive who served as the D. E. Shaw group's country head and head of private equity in India from 2006 to 2012.

Anil Deshmukh (अनिल वसंतराव देशमुख)

Anil Vasantrao Deshmukh (अनिल वसंतराव देशमुख), born 1950 in Nagpur, is an NCP leader and longtime Katol MLA who was Maharashtra home minister 2019-2021, resigned over Param Bir Singh's corruption allegations, faced a CBI FIR, and was arrested in November 2021.