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Anyong
Anyong (安永), styled Muan, was a Chan (Zen) Buddhist monk of the Southern Song dynasty who led monasteries near Fuzhou until his death in 1173.
Ányos Jedlik
Ányos Jedlik (Jedlik Ányos, 1800–1895) was a Hungarian Benedictine monk and physicist who built the first electric motor in 1828 and formulated the dynamo's self-excitation principle before Siemens.
Anyscale
Anyscale is a San Francisco company founded in 2019 that sells a managed platform for scaling AI workloads across GPUs, agreed to be acquired by Nscale in 2026.
Anytime Fitness
Anytime Fitness is a franchised chain of 24-hour health and fitness clubs, co-founded in 2002 by Chuck Runyon and David Mortensen and headquartered in Woodbury, Minnesota.
AnyVision
AnyVision, rebranded Oosto in 2021, was a Tel Aviv-based startup founded in 2015 that built real-time face and object recognition software for surveillance; it was sold to Metropolis for $125 million.
ANZ (bank)
ANZ, formally the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, is one of Australia's big four banks, serving more than 11 million customers across 29 markets and ranking second by assets in 2025.
Anza expeditions
The Anza expeditions were two Spanish overland journeys led by Juan Bautista de Anza from Sonora to Alta California, the second bringing colonists to San Francisco Bay in 1776.
ANZAC Cove
ANZAC Cove (Anzak Koyu), a 600-metre cove on the Arıburnu coast of Turkey's Gallipoli Peninsula, where the ANZAC corps landed on 25 April 1915; site of the eight-month Anzac base, Birdwood's 1915 naming, and annual Anzac Day dawn services.
Anzac Day
Anzac Day, 25 April, is the shared national day of commemoration of Australia and New Zealand, marking the 1915 Gallipoli landing by the ANZAC corps; first observed 1916, a public holiday since 1927, marked by dawn services and veterans' marches.
Anzaf fortress inscriptions
The Anzaf fortress inscriptions are Urartian royal cuneiform texts from the twin fortresses of Lower and Upper Anzaf near Van, Turkey, naming kings Išpuini and Minua.
Anzapahhaddu
Anzapahhaddu was a ruler in the Arzawa sphere of western Anatolia in the second half of the 14th century BC, known only from Hittite texts.
Anže Logar
Anže Logar (born 1976) is a Slovenian politician of the Democrats, which he leads, serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy, Labour and Sport.
Anzeiger des Westens
Anzeiger des Westens, German-language St. Louis newspaper founded 1835 by Bimpage, led by Weber, Boernstein, and Daenzer; opposed slavery, merged into the Westliche Post in 1898, ceased 1912.
Anzhuer
Anzhuer (按竺迩) was a general of the Mongol Empire and Yuan dynasty who commanded on the Sichuan front and crushed the revolt at Yaobei Valley in 1260.
Anziku Kingdom
The Anziku Kingdom, also called the Teke or Tio Kingdom, was a pre-colonial state north of the Congo River, in parts of today's Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Anzû
Anzû, also called Imdugud, is a lion-headed eagle monster of Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian mythology, best known for stealing the Tablet of Destinies before being slain by Ninurta.
Anzu Industrial Capital Partners
Anzu Industrial Capital Partners is a family of venture capital funds managed by Anzu Partners, a Tampa, Florida firm founded in 2014 that backs industrial and life-science technology companies.
ANZUS
ANZUS, the Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty signed 1 September 1951, is a Pacific security pact providing for consultation on armed attack; it has operated as a US-Australia bilateral alliance since the US suspended obligations toward nuclear-free New Zealand in 1986.
AOA Dx
AOA Dx is a Denver-based cancer diagnostics company founded in 2020 by Oriana Papin-Zoghbi, Alex Fisher, and Anna Jeter, developing the AKRIVIS GD blood test for early ovarian cancer.
Aokiwei
Aokiwei (奥琦玮; Acewill) is a Chinese restaurant-digitalization software company founded in Beijing in 2006 by Kong Lingbo, selling cloud ordering and membership systems to chains including KFC and Starbucks.
Aole
Aole, also written Awole Arogangan or Áólẹ̀, was Alaafin of the Oyo Empire in what is now Nigeria from 1789 to 1796, overthrown in a coup around 1796.
Aon (company)
Aon plc is an Irish-domiciled professional services firm and one of the world's largest insurance brokers, advising on risk, retirement, and health in over 120 countries.
Aonio Paleario
Aonio Paleario, born Antonio Paleari at Veroli in 1503, was an Italian humanist, teacher of eloquence, and reforming writer executed by the Roman Inquisition in 1570.
Aontú
Aontú (Irish for "Unity") is an all-Ireland political party founded in January 2019 by Peadar Tóibín after leaving Sinn Féin over abortion; pro-life, republican, economically interventionist, with two TDs and rising 2026 polling.
Aop Finance Partners
AOP Finance Partners, L.P. is a Delaware private equity fund formed in 2021 and affiliated with Apollo Global Management, which sold $1.56 billion of securities in a single offering.
Aos Sí
Aos Sí (áes síde, "people of the mounds") are the supernatural race of Irish folklore, identified with the Tuatha Dé Danann after their defeat by the Milesians, living in fairy mounds, called the Good People, and active at Samhain.
Aosong Electronics (奥松电子)
Aosong Electronics (奥松电子), or Guangzhou Aosong Electronic Co., Ltd., is a Chinese MEMS sensor manufacturer founded by Zhang Bin in Guangzhou in 2003, building an 8-inch MEMS chip fab in Chongqing.
Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party
Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party (ALCP, The Cannabis Party): New Zealand single-issue cannabis-legalisation party founded 1996 by Michael Appleby, co-led with Maki Herbert, contesting nine general elections with no seats; best vote 1.66% in 1996.
Aowin
Aowin, also spelled Awowin, is an Akan people and precolonial state of southwestern Ghana and southeastern Côte d'Ivoire, the region's most powerful state before the rise of Denkyira and Asante.
Aozora Bank
Aozora Bank (株式会社あおぞら銀行) is a Japanese commercial bank created in 2001 from the failed Nippon Credit Bank, specializing in structured finance and syndicated lending, with Daiwa Securities Group as its largest shareholder since 2024.