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Avi Lewis

Avi Lewis is a Canadian politician, journalist, and documentary filmmaker who was elected leader of the New Democratic Party in March 2026 with 56 percent of the vote.

Avi Schnall

Alexander "Avi" Schnall is an American Democratic politician representing New Jersey's 30th district in the General Assembly since 2024, where he chairs the Oversight, Reform & Federal Relations Committee; he previously advocated for Agudath Israel.

Aviad Harell

Aviad Harell is an Israeli venture capitalist and Managing Partner at Team8, where he invests in cyber and data infrastructure startups after co-founding Sisense, where he spent fifteen years as COO.

Aviad Maizels

Aviad Maizels is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded the 3D sensing company PrimeSense in Tel Aviv in 2005, licensed its depth technology to Microsoft's Kinect, and sold it to Apple in 2013.

Aviator badge

Aviator badge (wings): US military qualification insignia for rated pilots and aircrew. Spans the 1913 gold Military Aviator badge, 1917 embroidered wings, Herbert Adams' 1919 shape, and Naval aviator wings of 1917.

Aviator DC REIT Holdings

Aviator DC REIT Holdings is a family of Delaware holding and co-investment vehicles holding data-center interests within the DigitalBridge platform, managed by DB Aviator Manager, LLC of Boca Raton, Florida.

AVIC Capital

AVIC Capital (中航资本), renamed AVIC Industry-Finance Holdings in 2021, was the Shanghai-listed financial holding platform of China's state aviation group AVIC, delisted in May 2025.

AVIC Chengdu Aircraft

AVIC Chengdu Aircraft (成飞, CAC), formally Chengdu Aircraft Industrial Group, is a Chinese state-owned fighter manufacturer in Chengdu founded in 1958, best known for the J-10 and J-20 stealth fighter.

AVIC Heavy Machinery (中航重机)

AVIC Heavy Machinery (中航重机) is a Guiyang-based, Shanghai-listed Chinese aviation forging and casting company controlled by state-owned AVIC, supplying the C919, C929, Boeing, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, and Safran.

Aviceda Therapeutics

Aviceda Therapeutics, formerly Aviceda Ophthalmics, is a private clinical-stage biotechnology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2019, developing immunomodulators for eye disease, with lead candidate AVD-104 for geographic atrophy.

Avicenna

Avicenna, Arabic Ibn Sina (Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina), c. 980–1037, Persian polymath of Bukhara and Hamadan; author of the Canon of Medicine, Europe's primary medical textbook until the 17th century, and the Book of Healing in philosophy.

AviChina Industry & Technology

AviChina Industry & Technology Company Limited is a Chinese state-controlled holding company making aircraft, components, and aviation engineering services through AVIC subsidiaries, listed in Hong Kong since 2003.

Avīci (अवीचि)

Avīci (अवीचि), also known as Avici Hell, is the lowest and most severe of the eight hot hells in Buddhist cosmology, where suffering continues without interruption.

Avidbots

Avidbots is a Canadian robotics company based in Kitchener, Ontario, founded in 2014 by Pablo Molina and Faizan Sheikh, known for its Neo autonomous commercial floor scrubber.

Avidity Biosciences

Avidity Biosciences, formerly Avidity NanoMedicines LLC, was a San Diego biopharmaceutical company that developed antibody oligonucleotide conjugate RNA therapies for rare neuromuscular diseases before Novartis acquired it in 2026.

Avigdor Lieberman

Avigdor Lieberman (אביגדור ליברמן), born 1958 in Chișinău, is an Israeli politician, founder and leader of Yisrael Beiteinu since 1999, and former foreign, defense, and finance minister known for kingmaker coalition roles.

Avigdor Willenz

Avigdor Willenz, also known as Avi Willenz, is an Israeli semiconductor entrepreneur who co-founded Galileo Technology, sold to Marvell for $2.7 billion in 2001, and later chaired Habana Labs.

Avignon Punic inscription

The Avignon Punic inscription is a Punic funerary stele found at Avignon, France, in 1897, commemorating a woman named Zaybeqat and cataloged as KAI 70.

Avijit Misra

Avijit Misra (अविजीत मिश्रा), born 1962, is a retired Indian Army colonel cashiered after a 2006 court martial and reinstated by the Armed Forces Tribunal in 2012.

Avimanyu Sethi

Avimanyu Sethi, born 1970, is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Bhadrak, Odisha in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati

Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, born Umashankar Pandey, is an Indian sannyasi installed as Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath on 12 September 2022, a succession the Supreme Court has stayed.

Avinash Dixit

Avinash Dixit, born 1944 in Bombay, is an Indian-born American economist, Princeton's Sherrerd University Professor Emeritus, known for the Dixit–Stiglitz model and option-value investment theory.

Avinash Gehlot

Avinash Gehlot is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who serves as Rajasthan's minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, representing Jaitaran in the state assembly.

Avinita

Avinita (ಅವಿನೀತ) was a king of the Western Ganga dynasty of India who reigned until 529 CE and is documented by copper-plate grants to Jain institutions.

Aviral Bhatnagar

Aviral Bhatnagar is an Indian venture capital investor and founder of ajvc (A Junior VC), a pre-seed fund investing Rs 15 million (Rs 1.5 crore) for 9% in Indian startups.

Avishai Abrahami

Avishai Abrahami (אבישי אברהמי) is an Israeli software entrepreneur who co-founded the website-building company Wix in Tel Aviv in 2006 and has served as its chief executive officer ever since.

Avistone (Anshi Biotech)

Avistone, formally Beijing Avistone Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (鞍石生物科技), is a Beijing-based oncology biopharmaceutical company founded by Dr. Hepeng Shi and known for vebreltinib, a MET inhibitor approved in China in 2023.

Avita Technology (阿维塔科技)

Avita Technology (阿维塔科技) is a Chongqing-based smart electric vehicle maker created under Changan Automobile, with Huawei and CATL as strategic partners, selling premium Avita-brand cars.

Avito (Авито) (company)

Avito (Авито) is a Russian online classifieds company founded in 2007 by Jonas Nordlander and Filip Engelbert, operating the country's largest marketplace across goods, cars, real estate, jobs, and services.

Aviva

Aviva plc is a British insurance, wealth, and retirement group, the UK's largest life insurer with a 25% market share, operating principally in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Canada.