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Ayatollah (آیتالله)
Ayatollah (Persian/Arabic Ayatullah, "Sign of God") is an honorific for high-ranking Twelver Shia clerics who reach mujtahid rank, conferred by seminary and scholarly consensus rather than by any appointing body.
Ayauhcihuatl
Ayauhcihuatl was a Mexica noblewoman, daughter of the Tepanec lord Tezozomoc of Azcapotzalco, whose marriage to Huitzilihuitl of Tenochtitlan reduced Aztec tribute to a nearly symbolic payment.
Ayaz Mutallibov
Ayaz Mutallibov (Ayaz Niyazi oğlu Mütəllibov, 1938–2022) was the last First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan and first president of independent Azerbaijan (1990–1992), ousted after the Khojaly tragedy and Karabakh defeats.
Aybak
Aybak (الملك المعز عز الدين أيبك) was the first sultan of the Mamluk state in Egypt, ruling from 1250 to 1257, when his wife Shajar al-Durr had him strangled.
Aydin Senkut
Aydin Senkut (Aydın Şenkut) is a Turkish-born venture capitalist who founded Felicis Ventures in Menlo Park in 2006 after serving as Google's first product manager.
Aydinids
The Aydinids (آیدیناوغوللاری) were a Turkoman dynasty ruling the emirate of Aydin in western Anatolia from 1308 to 1425, founded by Aydinoglu Mehmed Bey, a subashi of the Germiyanid emir.
Ayelet Shaked (איילת שקד)
Ayelet Shaked (איילת שקד), born 1976, Israeli right-wing politician; justice minister 2015–2019 and interior minister 2021–2022; co-founder of New Right and leader of Yamina; sat out the 2026 election.
Ayesha Gaddafi (عائشة القذافي)
Ayesha Gaddafi (عائشة القذافي), Aisha Muammar Muhammed Abu Minyar Qadhafi, Libyan lawyer and only biological daughter of Muammar Gaddafi; UNDP Goodwill Ambassador 2009-2011, Saddam Hussein defense team member, UN-sanctioned in 2011, travel ban lifted 2023, EU delisted 2023, resident in Oman.
Aygaz
Aygaz is a Turkish liquefied petroleum gas company that imports, exports, and distributes LPG in cylinder, bulk, and autogas form, holding 26.3% of the Turkish market in 2025.
Ayi Chufang
Ayi Chufang (阿姨厨房) was a Shanghai peer-to-peer home-cooked meal delivery platform launched in 2013 by founder Hu Dusheng, which burned over 4 million yuan and stopped after nine months.
Ayin
Ayin (עַיִן) is the 16th Hebrew letter, originally a pharyngeal fricative cognate of Arabic ʿayn, silent in modern Hebrew, meaning "eye", with numeral value 70.
Ayine-ye Sekandari
Ayine-ye Sekandari (آیینه اسکندری, "The Alexander Mirror") is a nationalist history of Iran in Persian, written by Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani in the early 1890s.
Aylimas
Ailymas was a North African ruler called "king of the Libyans" by Diodorus Siculus, allied with Agathocles in 310 BC, when he was defeated and killed.
Ayllu
An ayllu is a traditional Andean social group whose members share labor, land, resources, and ritual obligations, central to community organization in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador since pre-Hispanic times.
Aylo
Aylo, formerly named MindGeek, is a Montreal-based technology and media company that owns and operates more than 100 pornographic websites, including Pornhub, YouPorn, RedTube, and Brazzers.
Ayman al-Zawahiri (أيمن الظواهري)
Ayman al-Zawahiri (أيمن الظواهري), Egyptian eye surgeon, Egyptian Islamic Jihad co-founder, and al-Qaeda deputy then emir from 2011; killed in a US drone strike in Kabul on 31 July 2022.
Ayman Alsanad
Ayman Alsanad is a Saudi software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the Riyadh-based delivery platform Mrsool (مرسول) in 2015 and served as its chief executive for 11 years.
Ayman Asfari
Ayman Asfari, born 1958, is a Syrian-born British businessman who joined Petrofac in 1991, led its 2005 London flotation, and was chief executive until late 2020.
Ayman Essawy
Ayman Essawy is an Egyptian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Lucky, an Egypt-based consumer credit and cashback platform, and earlier co-founded the loyalty company Dsquares in 2012.
Ayman Hariri (أيمن رفيق الحريري)
Ayman Hariri (أيمن الحريري) is a Lebanese billionaire businessman, fifth son of assassinated prime minister Rafik Hariri, cofounder and CEO of the ad-free social platform Vero.
Ayman Mohyeldin (أيمن محيي الدين)
Ayman Mohyeldin (أيمن محيي الدين), born 1979 in Cairo, is an Egyptian-American journalist and MS NOW anchor who was Al Jazeera English's only Gaza-based foreign correspondent (2008-2010), covered the 2011 Egyptian revolution, and hosted MSNBC's Ayman.
Aymara dialects
Aymara dialects are the regional varieties of the Aymaran languages of the Andean altiplano, spoken by roughly 2 million people, mainly in Bolivia and Peru; they include Aymara proper and the smaller Jaqaru and Kawki.
Aymara language
Aymara (aymar aru) is an agglutinative Indigenous Andean language of the Aru (Aymaran) family, spoken by over two million people in Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Argentina, official in Bolivia and Peru, with fifteen stops in plain, ejective and aspirated series and vowel elision as grammar.
Aymara people
The Aymara are an Andean Indigenous people of about 3 million around Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, Peru, and Chile, tied to Tiwanaku, speaking the Aymara language, organized in ayllus, and centered demographically in El Alto, Bolivia.
Aymaran languages
Aymaran (Aru, Jaqi) is a small Andean language family of Bolivia, Peru, and Chile with about 2.5 million speakers, comprising Aymara and the endangered Jaqaru–Kawki; its deep resemblance to Quechuan is attributed to language contact, not common descent.
Aymeric Caron
Aymeric Caron is a French politician, founder and leader of the Révolution Écologique pour le Vivant party, and a National Assembly deputy for Paris since 2024.
Ayn Rand (Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум)
Ayn Rand (Alisa Zinovievna Rosenbaum, 1905-1982), Russian-born American novelist-philosopher, creator of Objectivism; author of The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), advocating reason, egoism, and laissez-faire capitalism.
Ayocuan
Ayocuan (Ayocuan Cuetzpaltzin) was a Nahuatl-language poet and sage of Tecamachalco, Puebla, active in the late 15th century; three songs survive in the Cantares Mexicanos.
Ayodhya dispute
Ayodhya dispute (Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case): land and religious conflict over a 2.77-acre Ayodhya site where the Babri Masjid stood until its 1992 demolition; resolved by the Supreme Court's unanimous 2019 verdict awarding the land to Ram Lalla with 5 alternate acres for a mosque.
ayoon alamasi
ayoon alamasi (عيون الاماسي, كازينو عيون الاماسي) is a casino and restaurant in the Utafiyah area of Baghdad, Iraq, on the Tigris near Station C and Medical City Marina, coordinates 33.34991 N, 44.37002 E.