Society and history

Ashish Hemrajani

Ashish Hemrajani is an Indian entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive of BookMyShow, which he started in 1999 and built into India's dominant seller of movie, event, and sports tickets.

Ashish Kacholia

Ashish Kacholia is an Indian investor who founded Lucky Investment Managers in Mumbai in 1995, known for small- and mid-cap stock picking and a closely tracked portfolio.

Ashish Kumar Saha

Ashish Kumar Saha is an Indian National Congress politician who has been president of the Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee since 2023, after serving as a Tripura legislator from Town Bardowali.

Ashish Shelar

Ashish Shelar, born 1972, is an Indian BJP politician serving as Maharashtra's cabinet minister for Information Technology and Cultural Affairs since December 2024 under Devendra Fadnavis.

Ashish Singh Patel

Ashish Singh Patel is an Indian politician of the Apna Dal (Soneylal) party, a cabinet minister in Uttar Pradesh holding the technical education portfolio since 2022.

Ashish Sood (आशीष सूद, born 1966) is a BJP politician, MLA for Janakpuri since February 2025 (68,986 votes), and Delhi cabinet minister for Home, Power, Urban Development, and Education & Training; former DUSU president, SDMC councillor, and BJP Goa in-charge.

Ashishkumar Chauhan

Ashishkumar Chauhan, also known as Ashish Chauhan, is an Indian exchange executive who has been MD and CEO of the National Stock Exchange of India since 2022.

Ashkenazi Hebrew

Ashkenazi Hebrew (Ashkenazic, "Whole Hebrew") is the traditional Hebrew pronunciation and written language of Central and Eastern European Jewry, marked by qameṣ as o, taw as s, penultimate stress, and continued Haredi use.

Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence

Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence: research finding that Ashkenazi Jews average roughly half to one standard deviation above non-Jewish whites on IQ, verbally tilted, with contested genetic (Cochran-Harpending) versus cultural explanations.

Ashkenazi Jews (אשכנזים)

Ashkenazi Jews (אשכנזים, Ashkenazim) are the largest Jewish ethnic group, descended from medieval Rhineland communities; about 10 million people, roughly half European and half Middle Eastern ancestry, Yiddish-speaking heritage.

Ashkur-Addu

Aškur-Addu, son of Samu-Addu, was king of Karana in the Upper Habur region during the Old Babylonian period, known almost entirely from the royal archive at Mari.

Ashleigh Aitken

Ashleigh Aitken is an American Democratic politician and attorney serving as Mayor of Anaheim, California, elected in 2022 as the first woman to hold the office and seeking re-election in 2026.

Ashleigh Banfield

Ashleigh Banfield is a Canadian-American broadcast journalist and anchor. She has worked for networks including MSNBC, CNN, and NewsNation, and launched the Drop Dead Serious podcast in 2025.

Ashley Alexandra Dupré

Ashley Alexandra Dupré (born Ashley Youmans, 1985), alias "Kristen" of the Emperor's Club VIP, the escort linked to Governor Eliot Spitzer's 2008 resignation; later a New York Post advice columnist and singer, now known as Ashley Earle.

Ashley Aune

Ashley Aune is an American politician and Democratic member of the Missouri House of Representatives, first elected in 2020, who became House Minority Leader in January 2025.

Ashley Bell (North Carolina politician)

Ashley Bell is an American politician, physician associate, and educator who is the Democratic nominee challenging Republican incumbent Pat Harrigan for North Carolina's 10th district in 2026.

Ashley Biden

Ashley Blazer Biden is an American social worker and entrepreneur, daughter of Joe Biden, who spent 15 years in Delaware child welfare before founding Livelihood in 2017.

Ashley Bryant Bailey

Ashley Bryant Bailey is an American politician and Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 26th district, a Cincinnati district including Evanston, Bond Hill, Hyde Park, and Oakley.

Ashley Hinson

Ashley Hinson is an American Republican politician who has represented Iowa's 2nd district in the U.S. House since 2023, after serving the 1st district from 2021.

Ashley Lundström

Ashley Lundström is a US-born, Stockholm-based venture capitalist who spent ten years as a General Partner at EQT Ventures, backing Peakon, Instabee, AnyDesk, and Baller League.

Ashley Madison

Ashley Madison: Toronto-founded (2002) Canadian discreet-dating service for people seeking affairs, run by Ruby Corp (formerly Avid Life Media); credit-based payments, the 2015 Impact Team breach exposing 36 million accounts, FTC settlement, and fembot controversy.

Ashley Menezes

Ashley Menezes is an Indian private equity executive who serves as senior partner and chief operating officer of ChrysCapital, one of India's largest homegrown private equity firms.

Ashley Montagu

Ashley Montagu (Israel Ehrenberg, 1905–1999), British American anthropologist, author of Man's Most Dangerous Myth (1942) and main author of UNESCO's 1950 Statement on Race rejecting biological race.

Ashley Moody

Ashley Moody, Republican U.S. senator from Florida (appointed January 21, 2025 by Gov. Ron DeSantis to Marco Rubio's seat), former Florida attorney general 2019-2025, Hillsborough County circuit judge, federal prosecutor; running in the 2026 special election against Angie Nixon.

Ashley Parker

Ashley Parker is an American political journalist, a staff writer at The Atlantic and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who covered Trump's presidency for The Washington Post.

Ashley Smith inquest

The Ashley Smith inquest was an Ontario coroner's inquest (2012-2013, Dr. John Carlisle) into the 2007 death of a 19-year-old woman in segregation at Grand Valley Institution; the jury ruled homicide and issued 104 recommendations to the Correctional Service of Canada.