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Anjarium Biosciences

Anjarium Biosciences AG was a Swiss biotechnology company founded in Schlieren in 2017 by Joël de Beer to develop non-viral gene therapies; it was dissolved in 2025.

Anjem Choudary

Anjem Choudary, also known as Abu Luqman, is a British Islamist preacher who led the banned network Al-Muhajiroun and was sentenced to life in 2024 for directing a terrorist organization.

Anji Microelectronics

Anji Microelectronics (安集科技) is a Shanghai semiconductor materials company founded in 2004 by returnee scientist Wang Shumin, listed on the STAR Market in 2019 and known for CMP slurries.

Anji Pharma (安济药业(上海)有限公司) (安济药业)

Anji Pharmaceuticals, also known as Anji Pharma, is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in 2018 that develops treatments for metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease.

Anjifang and Louzeyuan (charity hospitals and public cemeteries)

Anjifang (安濟坊) and Louzeyuan (漏澤園) were Northern Song government charity hospitals and public cemeteries, established from 1102 under Emperor Huizong and extended nationwide by Cai Jing.

Ankaravî Mehmed Emin Efendi

Ankaravî Mehmed Emin Efendi (1619–1687) was an Ottoman Hanefî scholar from Ankara who served as Shaykh al-Islam from 1686 until his death, and wrote the Fetâvâ-yı Ankaravî.

Ankarette Twynho

Ankarette Twynho (Twynyho), 15th-century Englishwoman and former servant of Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence; hanged at Warwick in 1477 on Clarence's poisoning accusation, with the verdict voided by parliament in 1478.

Anke Rehlinger

Anke Rehlinger is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party who serves as Minister-President of Saarland and as a deputy chair of the SPD at the federal level.

Ankh

Ankh (ʿaṅḫ, 𓋹, crux ansata), the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for "life", a loop-topped cross held by gods to pharaohs' noses, used as an amulet, and adopted by Coptic Christians as a cross form.

Ankhefenkhonsu

Ankhefenkhonsu, also written Ankh-af-na-khonsu, was a Theban priest of the god Montu around 700–675 BCE, known for his Cairo sarcophagus and the Stele of Revealing.

Ankhefenmut

Ankhefenmut was a priest and temple sculptor of the goddess Mut at Thebes during Egypt's 21st Dynasty, known chiefly from his inscribed coffin found at Bab el-Gasus.

Ankhefensekhmet

Ankhefensekhmet was High Priest of Ptah at Memphis at the end of Egypt's Twenty-first Dynasty, around 982–962 BC. He is known almost entirely through his son and successor, the High Priest Shedsunefertem.

Ankhesenamun

Ankhesenamun (Ankhesenpaaten), c. 1350 BCE, third daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti and great royal wife of Tutankhamun; after his 1327 BCE death she wrote to the Hittite king Suppiluliuma I for a husband, the prince was killed, and she vanished from history; her mummy is unconfirmed.

Ankhesenpaaten Tasherit

Ankhesenpaaten Tasherit, meaning "Ankhesenpaaten the Younger", was a princess of Egypt's 18th Dynasty, generally thought to be the daughter of princess Ankhesenpaaten, though her parentage is disputed.

Ankhesenpepi I

Ankhesenpepi I, also written Ankhesenmeryre I, was a Sixth Dynasty Egyptian queen consort of pharaoh Pepi I, commonly credited as the mother of Merenre I.

Ankhesenpepi II

Ankhesenpepi II, also written Ankhenespepi II or Ankhenesmeryre II, was a Sixth Dynasty Egyptian queen, wife of Pepy I and Merenre I, mother of Pepy II, and his regent.

Ankhesenpepi III

Ankhesenpepi III, also written Ânkhnespépy III, was a Sixth Dynasty queen of ancient Egypt, a daughter of Merenre I and wife of Pepi II, buried at South Saqqara.

Ankhesenpepi IV

Ankhesenpepi IV was a queen consort of ancient Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, a wife of King Pepy II and a possible mother of King Neferkare Neby.

Ankhhaf

Ankhhaf was a prince and vizier of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty who served under Khufu and Khafre and owned the largest mastaba in Giza's Eastern Cemetery.

Ankhka

Ankhka, also written Ankh-ka or Anchka, was a high official of Egypt's First Dynasty, the first of three chancellors serving under King Den around 3000 BCE.

Ankhmahor

Ankhmahor, also written Ankhmahor-Sesi, was a vizier under King Teti, first king of Egypt's Dynasty 6, around 2340 BC, buried in a Saqqara mastaba called the Tomb of the Physician for its circumcision relief.

Ankhmare

Ankhmare was a prince and vizier of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, a royal son probably of King Khafre, attested in the Giza necropolis by his own mastaba, G 8460.

Ankhnesneferibre

Ankhnesneferibre, also written Ankhenesneferibre, was a 26th Dynasty Egyptian princess, daughter of Psamtik II, who became the last attested God's Wife of Amun at Thebes.

Ankhtifi

Ankhtifi, also written Ankhtify, was a nomarch of Edfu and Hierakonpolis in Egypt's First Intermediate Period around 2100 BC, whose rock-cut tomb at Mo'alla holds one of the era's best-preserved autobiographies.

Ankhu (vizier)

Ankhu was a vizier of ancient Egypt who held the southern half of a divided vizierate, seated at Thebes, during the Thirteenth Dynasty around 1790 BC.

Ankhwa

Ankhwa was an ancient Egyptian official of the Third Dynasty, around 2686–2613 BC, who held the titles royal acquaintance and shipwright, known from a granite statue in the British Museum.

Ankhwennefer (Egyptian rebel ruler)

Ankhwennefer, called Chaonnophris in Greek, was an Egyptian rebel pharaoh of Upper Egypt during the Great Theban Revolt, defeated and executed by Ptolemy V in 186 BC.

Ankit Fadia

Ankit Fadia (born 1985, Ahmedabad) is an Indian author and self-proclaimed ethical hacker famous from his 2001 book An Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking; his hacking claims are widely disputed and his books documented as heavily plagiarized.

Ankit Sobti

Ankit Sobti is an Indian software engineer who co-founded Postman, the API platform, and serves as its chief technology officer; he previously worked at Yahoo and Adobe.

Ankiti Bose

Ankiti Bose (अंकिति बोस) is an Indian-born, Singapore-based entrepreneur who co-founded the fashion startup Zilingo in 2015 and led it as chief executive until 2022.