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Ariyanatha Mudaliar

Ariyanatha Mudaliar (அரியநாத முதலியார்) was chief minister and commander-in-chief of the sixteenth-century Madurai Nayak kingdom under Visvanatha Nayak, credited with organizing its poligar system of territorial administration.

Ariz-i Mumalik

The Ariz-i Mumalik (عارض ممالک) headed the diwan-i arz, the military department of the Delhi Sultanate, overseeing recruitment, pay, and reviews; under the Mughals its functions passed to the mir-bakhshi.

Arizona SB 1070

Arizona SB 1070, the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (2010), required state police to check immigration status and criminalized unauthorized work; the Supreme Court struck most provisions in 2012.

Arizona State Prison Complex – Florence

Arizona State Prison Complex – Florence (ASPC Florence) is an ADCRR state prison complex in Florence, Arizona, including South Unit housing and GEO-run Florence West (750 beds, opened 1997); Florence town also hosts CoreCivic's 5,003-bed Central Arizona Florence Correctional Complex and state execution site.

Arizona State University

Arizona State University (ASU), founded 1885 as the Arizona Territorial Normal School in Tempe, is a public research university and the largest U.S. public university under one administration, with 200,000+ students and repeated No. 1 innovation rankings.

Arizona's congressional delegations

Arizona's congressional delegations comprise the state's US senators and House members since 1912. The House delegation has nine districts, six Republicans and three Democrats, alongside two Democratic senators.

Arizona's congressional districts

Arizona's nine U.S. House districts, drawn by the five-member Independent Redistricting Commission created by Proposition 106 (2000), upheld by the Supreme Court in 2015; current map adopted January 2022, yielding a 6-3 Republican delegation.

Arjan Singh (ਅਰਜਨ ਸਿੰਘ)

Arjan Singh (ਅਰਜਨ ਸਿੰਘ), 1919–2017, Indian Air Force Chief of the Air Staff 1964–1969 who led the IAF in the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War and in 2002 became the IAF's first and only Marshal of the Air Force.

Arjun Balaji

Arjun Balaji is an American cryptocurrency investor who joined Paradigm as a Partner in 2019, known for research on crypto market structure and investments including the restaking protocol Symbiotic and Bitcoin staking project Babylon.

Arjun Chautala

Arjun Chautala (Arjun Singh Chautala), INLD politician and MLA for Rania, Haryana, since 2024; younger son of Abhay Singh Chautala, great-grandson of Devi Lal; former 2019 Kurukshetra Lok Sabha candidate.

Arjun Gandhi

Arjun Gandhi is a venture capital investor at Nexus Venture Partners who joined in 2018, backs B2B software and AI startups, and was promoted to Principal in 2026.

Arjun Infrastructure Partners

Arjun Infrastructure Partners is an independent infrastructure fund manager founded in London in 2015 by Surinder Toor, investing in European mid-market core and core-plus assets.

Arjun Modhwadia

Arjun Modhwadia is an Indian politician and BJP cabinet minister in Gujarat, formerly a longtime Congress leader who served as Gujarat Congress president and opposition leader before joining the BJP in 2024.

Arjun Munda (अर्जुन मुंडा)

Arjun Munda (अर्जुन मुंडा), BJP politician born 1968 in Jamshedpur, three-time Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Union Minister of Tribal Affairs 2019-2024, Khunti MP; lost the 2024 election to Kali Charan Munda.

Arjun Ram Meghwal (अर्जुन राम मेघवाल)

Arjun Ram Meghwal (अर्जुन राम मेघवाल), also known as Arjun Meghwal, is an Indian BJP politician who has represented Bikaner, Rajasthan, in the Lok Sabha since 2009.

Arjun Singh (West Bengal politician)

Arjun Singh (born 1962) is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as a West Bengal minister for transport and labor, after representing Barrackpore in the Lok Sabha from 2019 to 2024.

Arjun Singh (अर्जुन सिंह) (Congress politician)

Arjun Singh (अर्जुन सिंह, 1930–2011) was an Indian National Congress leader, three-time Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Governor of Punjab, and Union HRD Minister who implemented 27% OBC reservation in central educational institutions.

Arjunavarman

Arjunavarman was a king of the Paramara dynasty of Malwa in central India, attested by inscriptions between 1210 and 1215, who claimed victory over a Chaulukya king of Gujarat.

ARK Invest

ARK Invest, formally ARK Investment Management LLC, is a St. Petersburg, Florida investment adviser founded by Cathie Wood in 2014, known for actively managed ETFs focused on disruptive innovation.

ArK Kapital

ArK Kapital is a Stockholm-based fintech founded in 2021 that lends €1–10 million to early-stage European technology companies on a non-dilutive basis, rebranding as Gilion in December 2023.

Ark of the Covenant (ארון הברית)

The Ark of the Covenant is, in the biblical description, a gold-covered wooden chest holding the tablets of the Law, kept in the Tabernacle and Solomon's Temple.

Ark-La-Tex

The Ark-La-Tex is a tri-state region of southwest Arkansas, northwest Louisiana, and northeast Texas, typically covering 39 counties and parishes with no official boundaries; the name was promoted by a 1932 Shreveport tourism campaign.

Arkadiy Abramovich (Аркадий Романович Абрамович)

Arkadiy Abramovich, also Arkadiy Romanovich Abramovich (Аркадий Романович Абрамович), is a Russian-born London-based investor, eldest son of Roman Abramovich, who ran oil and agricultural investments through ARA Capital and Sigma.

Arkady Karpman

Arkady Karpman is an Israeli technology executive and co-founder of Rapyd, the London-headquartered fintech company, where he serves as Chief Technology Officer. He started the venture in 2015 as CashDash with Arik Shtilman and Omer Priel.

Arkady Rotenberg

Arkady Rotenberg (Аркадий Романович Ротенберг), born 1951 in Leningrad, is a Russian businessman and childhood judo partner of Vladimir Putin whose companies received contracts for the Sochi Olympics and the Kerch bridge to Crimea.

Arkan

Arkan, the nom de guerre of Željko Ražnatović (1952–2000), was a Serbian criminal and paramilitary commander who founded Arkan's Tigers and was killed in Belgrade in 2000.

Arkansas State University

Arkansas State University (A-State), public university in Jonesboro, Arkansas, founded 1909 as an agricultural school, university status 1967, Carnegie R2, 17,926 fall 2025 enrollment, Red Wolves athletics.

ArkEdge Space Inc.

ArkEdge Space Inc. (株式会社アークエッジ・スペース) is a Japanese space technology company founded in Tokyo in 2018 by Takayoshi Fukuyo, building micro-satellites and a lunar navigation system.

Arleigh Burke

Arleigh Burke (1901–1996), "31-knot Burke," was a US Navy admiral, 15th Chief of Naval Operations 1955–1961, WWII Destroyer Squadron 23 commander, and head of the Polaris program; USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) is named for him.

Arleigh Burke-class destroyer

Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (DDG 51): US Navy Aegis guided-missile destroyer class, commissioned 1991, four flights (I, II, IIA, III), 90-96 VLS cells, Flight III with SPY-6 radar, longest US large-warship production run.