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Aviva Chomsky
Aviva Chomsky (born 1957), daughter of Noam Chomsky, is an American historian at Salem State University and author of Undocumented, They Take Our Jobs!, Central America's Forgotten History, and Is Science Enough?, active in Latin American solidarity and immigrants' rights movements since the 1980s.
AVN (magazine)
AVN (Adult Video News), American monthly trade magazine for the adult video industry, first issued February 1983 by Paul Fishbein and Darren Roberts; publisher of AVN Awards and Las Vegas expo, 500th issue 2024.
Avni Rustemi
Avni Rustemi (1895–1924) was an Albanian revolutionary, teacher, and democratic activist who shot Esad Pasha Toptani in Paris in 1920 and was acquitted by a French court.
Avnish Bajaj
Avnish Bajaj is an Indian venture capital investor who co-founded Matrix Partners India in 2006, rebranded as Z47 in 2024, and backed Ola, Quikr, and Practo.
Avoidance task
An avoidance task is a behavioral paradigm in which an animal or person learns a response that prevents or terminates an aversive stimulus, typically electric shock.
Avolta
Avolta AG is a Swiss travel retail and food & beverage company formed in 2023 from the merger of Dufry and Autogrill, headquartered in Basel with outlets in over 75 countries.
Avon Barksdale
Avon Randolph Barksdale is a fictional drug kingpin in the HBO television series The Wire, the leader of a West Baltimore drug organization, played by Wood Harris.
Avon Products
Avon Products, originally the California Perfume Company, is an American direct-selling beauty company founded in 1886 by David H. McConnell; its holding company filed for bankruptcy in 2024.
Avondale College
Avondale College is a co-educational state secondary school in Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand, opened in 1945 on the site of an American naval hospital and offering both NCEA and Cambridge International qualifications.
Avoro Ventures
Avoro Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm investing in development-stage life sciences and biotechnology companies, the private-market venture affiliate of Avoro Capital Advisors.
Avraamy Palitsyn
Avraamy Palitsyn (Авраамий Палицын) was a Russian church-political figure, cellarer of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery from 1608 to 1619, whose Tale is a principal source on the Time of Troubles.
Avraham Mordechai Alter (Imrei Emes)
Avraham Mordechai Alter (Hebrew: אברהם מרדכי אלתר), known as the Imrei Emes, was the third Rebbe of the Ger Hasidic dynasty from 1905 until his death in Jerusalem in 1948.
Avraham Shapira
Avraham Shapira (אברהם שפירא) was an Israeli rabbi, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1983 to 1993 and head of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in Jerusalem.
Avram Iancu
Avram Iancu (1824–1872) was a Romanian lawyer from Transylvania who commanded peasant and miner bands in the Apuseni Mountains against Lajos Kossuth's Hungarian government during the 1848–1849 revolution.
Avram Petronijević
Avram Petronijević (Аврам Петронијевић) was a Serbian politician and merchant who served several times as prime minister and foreign minister of the Principality of Serbia between 1839 and 1852.
Avril Haines
Avril Danica Haines (born 1969), American national security official; seventh Director of National Intelligence 2021-2025, first woman to lead the U.S. intelligence community, earlier CIA deputy director and principal deputy national security advisor; named eleventh president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 2026.
Avril Lavigne replacement conspiracy theory
The Avril Lavigne replacement conspiracy theory, also called the Melissa Vandella or 'Avril Está Morta' hoax, falsely claims the Canadian singer died in 2003 after Let Go and was replaced by a lookalike; it began as a 2011 Brazilian blog demonstration and was denied by Lavigne.
Avshalom Caspi
Avshalom Caspi, born 1960 in Jerusalem, is a developmental psychologist at King's College London and Duke University known for longitudinal studies of genes and environments shaping mental health.
Avunculate marriage
Avunculate marriage, also called avuncular or uncle-niece marriage, is marriage between a man and his sister's daughter. Documented among the Caribs, Kanarese, Nama, and Tupinamba; rare, and often traced through kinship terminology.
Avvaiyar
Avvaiyar (ஔவையார்) was a Tamil poet of the Sangam period, a close friend of the chieftain Atiyaman Neduman Anji of Takatur and the most prolific female contributor to the Purananuru anthology.
Avvakum Petrov
Avvakum Petrov (Аввакум Петров), also called Avvakum Petrovich, was a Russian archpriest who led the early Old Believers against Patriarch Nikon's reforms and was burned at the stake in 1682.
AW Rostamani Group
AW Rostamani Group (AWR Group) is a Dubai-based, family-owned conglomerate founded in 1954 as a bookshop, now spanning automotive, real estate, logistics, and travel, chaired by Khalid Al Rostamani.
Awa III
Mar Awa III, also known as Mar Awa Royel, is the 122nd Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, elected in Erbil, Iraq, in 2021.
Awaam Pakistan (عوام پاکستان)
Awaam Pakistan (عوام پاکستان), also styled Awam Pakistan, is a Pakistani political party founded in 2024 by ex-PML-N leaders Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Miftah Ismail, slogan "Badlein ge nizam", enlisted by the ECP in 2025 and delisted in 2026 over intra-party elections.
Awadh regular brigades
The Awadh regular brigades (فوج نواب وزیر) were infantry battalions of the Nawab of Awadh, drilled and led by British and French officers in the late eighteenth century.
Awadhesh Kumar Bharti
Air Marshal Awadhesh Kumar Bharti (Awadesh Kumar Bharti), Indian Air Force fighter pilot (18781 F(P)), commissioned 1987; DG Air Operations during Operation Sindoor 2025, then Deputy Chief of Air Staff; retired 31 July 2026; Purnia, Bihar native; Vayu Sena Medal, AVSM, Uttam Yudh Seva Medal.
Awadhesh Narain Singh
Awadhesh Narain Singh is an Indian politician from Bihar and a BJP member of the Bihar Legislative Council, first elected in 1993 and its chairperson since 2024.
Awadhesh Prasad (अवधेश प्रसाद)
Awadhesh Prasad (अवधेश प्रसाद), Samajwadi Party MP from Faizabad since 2024, is a nine-time Uttar Pradesh MLA, Pasi Dalit leader, and SP founder member who defeated BJP's Lallu Singh in Ayodhya's constituency by 54,567 votes.
Awadhi language
Awadhi (अवधी), also called Kosali or Baiswari, is an Eastern Hindi Indo-Aryan language of the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh, home of Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas, now counted under Hindi in the census.
Awahan
Awahan (আৱাহন) was an Assamese-language monthly magazine published from Calcutta from 1929, edited by Dinanath Sharma; it is a landmark of Assamese literature and gives its name to the Awahon era.