List of people by name, A
Subset of List of people by name
- Ba to Byron - C to Cyrus
Dabashi to Dzagoev - Eagleburger to Fyleman - Gabirol to Gyllenhaal
Ha'am to Hywel - Iacocca to Juyi - Ka'bi to Kyuma
Laar to Lytton - M'Cheyne to Myss - Nabokov to Özal
Paasikivi to Pythagoras - Qaradawi to Ryōkan - Saadi to Szymborska
T to Vygotsky - Waagen to Zwicky - Collaborations
Dabashi to Dzagoev - Eagleburger to Fyleman - Gabirol to Gyllenhaal
Ha'am to Hywel - Iacocca to Juyi - Ka'bi to Kyuma
Laar to Lytton - M'Cheyne to Myss - Nabokov to Özal
Paasikivi to Pythagoras - Qaradawi to Ryōkan - Saadi to Szymborska
T to Vygotsky - Waagen to Zwicky - Collaborations
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A
Aa–Ac
- Abdullah Öcalan
- A, Tod
- Aagaard, Jacob
- Aaliyah
- Aalto, Alvar
- Aaron, Hank
- Aaronovitch, Ben
- Aaronovitch, David
- Abagnale, Frank
- Abani, Chris
- Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad
- Abbas, Mahmoud
- Abbensetts, Michael
- Abbey, Edward
- Abbey, Henry
- Abbot, Andrew
- Abbot, Bernice
- Abbott, Charles, 1st Baron Tenterden
- Abbot, Derek
- Abbot, Diane
- Abbot, Edwin
- Abbot, Jack
- Abbott, Shirley
- Abbott, Tony
- Abdel-Fattah, Randa
- `Abdu'l-Bahá
- Abdulbaki, Sabit Damulla
- Abdul Kalam
- Abdul Sattar Edhi
- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
- Abdul-Azeez ibn Abdullaah Aal ash-Shaikh
- Abdullah, Omar
- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
- Abdusamatov, Khabibullo
- Abel, Reuben
- Abelard, Peter
- Abella, Isaac
- Abelson, Hal
- Abelson, Philip
- Abercrombie, Lascelles
- Aberjhani
- Abernethy, George
- Abernathy, Ralph
- Abiola, Hafsat
- Abish, Walter
- Abnett, Dan
- Abourezk, James
- Abraham
- Abraham, Daniel
- Abrams, M. H.
- Abrikosov, Alexei Alexeyevich
- Abse, Dannie
- Abssi, Shaker
- Abu-Ghazaleh, Talal
- Abu-Jaber, Diana
- Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- AbuKhalil, As'ad
- Abzug, Bella
- Accius, Lucius
- Acconci, Vito
- Ace, Goodman
- Acevedo, Elizabeth
- Acharya, Manmohan
- Achebe, Chinua
- Acheson, Dean
- Acker, Kathy
- Ackerman, Diane
- Ackman, Bill
- Ackoff, Russell L.
- Acosta, Oscar Zeta
- Ackroyd, Peter
- Acton, Eliza
- Acton, John (Lord Acton)
Ad
- Adair, Robert
- Adam
- Adam, Corinna
- Adam, Thomas
- Adams, Abigail
- Adams, Ansel
- Adams, Brooks
- Adams, Bryan
- Adams, Charles Francis, Sr.
- Adams, Charles Follen
- Adams, Douglas
- Adams, Franklin Pierce
- Adams, Gerry
- Adams, Henry
- Adams, James Truslow
- Adams, John
- Adams, John Bodkin
- Adams, John Quincy
- Adams, Nehemiah
- Adams, Patch
- Adams, Ryan
- Adams, Samuel
- Adams, Sarah
- Adams, Scott
- Adams, William
- Adbhutananda, Swami
- Addams, Jane
- Adderley, Cannonball
- Addison, Joseph
- Addleshaw, Percy
- Ade, George
- Adebayo, Ayobami
- Adele (singer)
- Adenauer, Konrad
- Adeyemi, Tomi
- Adi Da
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- Adu, Sade
- Aduba, Uzo
- Adiga, Aravind
- Adityanath, Yogi
- Adjani, Isabelle
- Adler, Felix
- Adler, Freda
- Adler, Hermann
- Adler, Mortimer
- Adorno, Theodor
- Adler, Alfred
- Adler, Renata
- Adler, Stella
- Adunis
- Adyashanti
Ae–Ak
- Aerts, Diederik
- Aeschines
- Aeschylus
- Aesop
- Aesop Rock
- Afek, Yochanan
- Affleck, Ben
- Aflaq, Michel
- Africanus, Scipio
- Aga Khan III
- Aga Khan IV
- Aga Khan, Begum Inaara
- Agamben, Giorgio
- Agase, Alex
- Agassiz, Louis
- Agate, James
- Agathon
- Agayants, Ivan
- Agha, Riyad Naasan
- Aghazadeh, Gholam-Reza
- Agis II
- Agis IV
- Agnew, Jonathan
- Agnew, Spiro
- Agre, Peter
- Agresta, Robert
- Aguilar, Grace
- Aguilera, Christina
- Aguirre, Esperanza
- Ahbez, Eden
- Ahern, Bertie
- Ahiqar
- Akhenaten
- Ah Koy, James
- Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
- Ahmed, Fakhruddin Ali
- Ahmed, Israr
- Ahmed, Samira
- Ahtisaari, Martti
- Aide, Charles Hamilton, see Hamilton Aide, Charles
- Aiken, Clay
- Aiken, Conrad
- Aiken, George
- Aiken, Howard H.
- Ailes, Roger
- Ainger, Alfred
- Airy, George Biddell
- Aitken, Jonathan
- Aitkenhead, Decca
- Akbar
- Akef, Mahdi
- Akenside, Mark
- Akerlof, George
- Akerman, Chantal
- Akhavan-Sales, Mehdi
- Akhmatova, Anna
- Akhromeyev, Sergei
- Akhtar, Begum
- Akiba ben Joseph
- Akihito
- Akin, Todd
- Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Adewale
- Akinola, Peter Jasper (Archbishop)
- Akpan, Uwem
Al–Ale
- al-Abidin, Ali Zayn
- Al-Din, Iyad Jamal
- al-Askari, Hasan
- al-Assad, Bashar
- al-Assad, Hafez
- al-Baqir, Muhammad
- al-Bashir, Omar
- al-Basri, Hasan
- Al-Afghani, Jamal al-Din
- al-Dulaimi, Adnan
- Al-Farabi
- Al-Ghalib, Muhammad Asadullah
- al-Hadi, Ali
- Al-Hallaj
- Al-Ansari, Abd Al-Hamid
- Al-Hariri, Wahbi
- Al-Husseini, Haj Amin
- al-Kadhim, Musa
- Al-Khalili, Jim
- al-Maliki, Nouri
- Alameddine, Rabih
- al-Misri, Dhul-Nun
- Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid
- al-Ouda, Salman
- Al-Maktoum, Mohammed bin Rashid
- Al-Rodan, Nayef
- Al-Sudais, Abdul Rahman
- al-Walid, Khalid ibn
- al-Zahar, Mahmoud
- al-Zawahiri, Ayman
- Alagiah, George
- Alarcón, Francisco X
- AlArrayed, Thuraya
- Alas, Leopoldo
- Alba, Jessica
- Albee, Edward
- Albers, Josef
- Albert, Prince Consort
- Alberti, Scipione
- Albom, Mitch
- Albright, Madeleine
- Alcorn, Randy
- Alcott, Amos Bronson
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Alcuin
- Alda, Alan
- Alden, Henry Mills
- Alder, Kurt
- Alderson, Edward Hall
- Aldington, Richard
- Aldiss, Brian
- Aldrich, Henry
- Aldrich, Howard E.
- Aldrich, James
- Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
- Aldrin, Buzz
- Alekhine, Alexander
- Aleksander, Igor
- Alexander I of Macedon
- Alexander II of Russia
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander, Amir R.
- Alexander, Archibald
- Alexander, Cecil Frances
- Alexander, Christopher
- Alexander, Claudia
- Alexander, F. Matthias
- Alexander, Harold
- Alexander, James Waddel
- Alexander, Lloyd
- Alexander, Michelle
- Alexander, Shana
- Alexander, William
- Alexandrova, Larisa
- Alexie, Sherman
Alf–Alk
- Alfano I, Archbishop of Salerno
- Alfaro, Luis
- Alfassa, Mirra
- Al-Fayed, Mohamed
- Alfieri, Vittorio
- Alfonso X of Castile
- Alford, Henry
- Alfred the Great
- Alfvén, Hannes
- Alger, William R.
- Algren, Nelson
- Al-Hathloul, Loujain
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
- Ali, Hasan ibn
- Ali, Husayn ibn
- Ali, Ibrahim
- Ali, Leila Ben
- Ali, Muhammad
- Ali, Tariq
- Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin
- Alighieri, Dante
- Alinsky, Saul
- Alison, James
- Alito, Samuel
- Aliyev, Heydar
- Alizadeh, Javad
- Alkan, Charles-Valentin
- Alkobaisi, Mohammed
- Allais, Alphonse
- Allais, Maurice
- Allan, Jani
- Allee, W. C.
- Alleine, Joseph
- Alleine, Richard
- Allen, Lily
- Allen, Dave
- Allen, David
- Allen, Elizabeth Chase
- Allen, Ethan
- Allen, Fred
- Allen, Frederick Lewis
- Allen, Gracie
- Allen, H. Stanley
- Allen, James
- Allen, James Van
- Allen, Patrick
- Allen, Ray
- Allen, Steve
- Allen, Tim
- Allen, Woody
- Allende, Isabel
- Allende, Salvador
- Aller, Lawrence H.
- Alley, Kirstie
- Alliluyeva, Svetlana
- Allin, GG
- Allingham, Margery
- Allingham, William
- Allington, Edward
- Allison, Dorothy
- Allott, Kenneth
- Allred, Bill
- Allred, Gloria
- Allston, Washington
Alm–Am
- al-Mahdi, Muhammad
- Almaraz, Carlos
- Almodóvar, Pedro
- Alonso, Fernando
- al-Qaisi, Fakhri
- al-Rida, Ali
- Als, Hilton
- al-Sadiq, Ja'far
- Alsalem, Reem
- Muqtada al-Sadr see Sadr, Muqtada
- al-Sahhaf, Muhammed Saeed
- Alsop, Marin
- al-Taqi, Muhammad
- Alther, Lisa
- Althusser, Louis
- Altizer, Thomas J. J. Altizer
- Alvanly, Richard Arden, 1st Baron
- Alvarado, Mando
- Alvarez, Al
- Alvarez, Bryan
- Alvarez, Julia
- Álvarez-Gaumé, Luis
- Amacher, Maryanne
- Amaechi, John
- Amat, Nuria
- Ambani, Dhirubhai
- Ambani, Mukesh
- Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji
- Amber (pop star)
- Ambler, Scott
- Ambrose
- Ambrosio, Alessandra
- Amdahl, Gene
- Amelina, Victoria
- Ames, Fisher
- Ames, Frances
- Ames, Mark
- Amiel, Henri-Frédéric
- Amin, Hafizullah
- Amin, Idi
- Amini, Ebrahim
- Amis, Kingsley
- Amis, Martin
- Amos, James F.
- Amos, Tori
- Ampère, André-Marie
- Amr, Suhayl ibn
- Amritanandamayi, Mata
- Amstell, Simon
- Amte, Baba
- Amundsen, Roald
An
- Anacharsis
- Anand, Mulk Raj
- Anand, Viswanathan
- Anastacia
- Anaxagoras
- Anaximander
- Anaya, Rudolfo
- Anda, Géza
- Andersen, Larry
- Anderson, Beth
- Anderson, Christina (playwright)
- Anderson, Carl David
- Anderson, Chris (writer)
- Anderson, Gillian
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- Anderson, Ian
- Anderson, John
- Anderson, John B.
- Anderson, Jon
- Anderson, Laurie
- Anderson, Lee
- Anderson, Loni
- Anderson, Margaret Caroline
- Anderson, Pamela
- Anderson, Perry
- Anderson, Phillip Warren
- Anderson, Poul
- Anderson, Robert (playwright)
- Anderson, Sherwood
- Anderson, Theodore Wilbur
- Andersson, Benny
- Andrade, Edward
- Andre, Carl
- Andreessen, Marc
- Andreou, Constantine
- Andreski, Stanislav
- Andrésen, Björn
- Andretti, Mario
- Andrew, Keith
- Andrew, Duke of York
- Andrewes, Lancelot
- Andrews, Julie
- Andrews, Mary Kay
- Andrews, Roy Chapman
- Andrić, Ivo
- Andrieux, François
- Aneirin
- Angela of Foligno
- Angelis, Barbara De
- Angell, Norman
- Angelou, Maya
- Angle, Sharron
- Angleton, James Jesus
- Anglund, Joan Walsh
- Anielewicz, Mordechai
- Aniston, Jennifer
- Ankier, Jo
- Annan, Kofi
- Anne of Great Britain
- Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom
- Añó, Núria
- Anscombe, G. E. M.
- Anouilh, Jean
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Anshen, Ruth Nanda
- Ansip, Andrus
- Anslinger, Harry J.
- Anstey, F., pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie
- Antheil, George
- Anthony of Padua
- Anthony the Great
- Anthony B
- Anthony, Marc
- Anthony, Piers
- Anthony, Susan B.
- Antin, Mary
- Antisthenes
- Antognazza, Maria Rosa
- Antonioni, Michelangelo
- Antoniou, Laura
- Antrobus, Raymond
- Antunes, António Lobo
- Anzaldúa, Gloria E.
Ap–Ash
- Apollinaire, Guillaume
- Apollonius of Tyana
- Appel, Karel
- Appel, Jacob M.
- Apple, Fiona
- Applegate, Christina
- Appleton, Jon
- Appleton, Thomas Gold
- Apuleius
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Aquino, Benigno, III
- Arabin, William
- Araeen, Rasheed
- Arafat, Yasser
- Arago, François
- Aragón, Francisco
- Arakawa, Hiromu
- Araki, Sadao
- Arany, János
- Arbuckle, Roscoe
- Arbuthnot, John
- Arceneaux, Michael
- Archer, Jeffrey
- Archilochus
- Archimedes
- Archpoet
- Archytas
- Arden, Don
- Ardrey, Robert
- Arellano, Elvira
- Arenas, Reinaldo
- Arendt, Hannah
- Aretino, Pietro
- Arif, Abdul Rahman
- Arion, Frank Martinus
- Ariosto, Ludovico
- Argenson, René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'
- Argüelles, José
- Argyris, Chris
- Aristophanes
- Aristotle
- Arius
- Ariyaratne, A. T.
- Arkwright, Richard
- Arlott, John
- Armatrading, Joan
- Armey, Dick
- Armitage, Simon
- Armour, Richard
- Armstrong, Billie Joe
- Armstrong, Edwin Howard
- Armstrong, Hilary
- Armstrong, John
- Armstrong, Karen
- Armstrong, Lance
- Armstrong, Louis
- Armstrong, Neil
- Arnault, Antoine-Vincent
- Arnaut Daniel
- Arnett, Will
- Arnheim, Gus
- Arnim, Bettina von
- Arnold, Benedict
- Arnold, Dana
- Arnold, Edwin
- Arnold, George
- Arnold, Matthew
- Arnold, Thomas
- Arnold, Vladimir
- Arp, Hans
- Arrau, Claudio
- Arrian
- Arrow, Kenneth
- Arroyo, Stephen
- Arrupe, Pedro
- Arslan, Alp
- Artaud, Antonin
- Arthur, Beatrice
- Arthur, Chester A.
- Arthur, William (minister)
- Artsimovich, Lev
- Arudou, Debito (born David Christopher Aldwinckle)
- Aryabhata
- Asad, Muhammad
- Ashbery, John
- Asch, Sholem
- Asch, Solomon
- Ascham, Roger
- Ascherson, Neal
- Ascott, Roy
- Ashcroft, John
- Ashcroft, Richard
- Ashe, Arthur
- Ashdown, Paddy
- Ashford, Daisy
- Ashjian, Scott
- Ashlag, Baruch
- Ashlag, Yehuda
- Ashley, Maurice
- Ashley, Robert
- Ashley Cooper, Anthony, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
- Ashley-Cooper, Anthony, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
- Ashoka the Great
- Ashton, Dore
- Ashurst, William Henry
- Ashurst, Henry Fountain
Asi–Az
- Asimov, Isaac
- Aslaksen, Elias
- Aspect, Alain
- Asquith, Herbert
- Asquith, Margot
- Assa, Alberto
- Assange, Julian
- Asselineau, François
- Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de
- Astaire, Fred
- Astell, Mary
- Astley, Jacob
- Astley, Rick
- Aston, Richard
- Astor, Brooke
- Astor, John Jacob
- Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
- Atchison, Tex
- Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athavale, Pandurang Shastri
- Athenaeus
- Atkins, Peter
- Atkyns, Robert
- Atran, Scott
- Atrios
- Atta, Mohamed
- Attali, Jacques
- Attar of Nishapur
- Attell, Dave
- Attenborough, David
- Attlee, Clement
- Attila the Stockbroker
- Atwan, Abd al-Bari
- Atwater, Lee
- Atwood, Margaret
- Auber, Harriet
- Aubigné, Jean-Henri Merle d'
- Aubrey, John
- Auden, Wystan Hugh
- Audubon, John James
- Auerbach, Erich
- Auerbach, Red
- Augier, Émile
- Augustine of Hippo
- Augustus
- Aulenti, Gae
- Aumann, Robert
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Aurangzeb
- Aurobindo, Sri
- Ausonius
- Austen, Jane
- Auster, Paul
- Austin, Alfred
- Austin, Benjamin Fish
- Austin, J. L.
- Avi (author)
- Avicenna
- Avila, Lixion
- Avlon, John
- Avnery, Uri
- Avram, Henriette
- Awan, Ameer Muhammad Akram
- Aweys, Hassan
- Awkwafina
- Axelrod, Alan
- Axelrod, Robert
- Axton, Hoyt
- Ayalon, Ami
- Ayckbourn, Alan
- Ayer, Alfred Jules
- Aykroyd, Dan
- Ayoob, Massad F.
- Ayres, Pam
- Aytoun, W. E.
- Azalea, Iggy
- Azania, Malcolm
- Azikiwe, Nnamdi
- Aziz, Tariq
- Aznar, José María
- Azurmendi, Joxe
- Azzam the American
- Azzam, Abdullah
- Azzopardi, John G.