List of people by name, A
Subset of List of people by name
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
A
Aa-Ac
- A, Tod
- Aagaard, Jacob
- Aaron, Hank
- Abagnale, Frank
- Abani, Chris
- Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad
- Abbas, Mahmoud
- Abbey, Edward
- Abbey, Henry
- Abbot, Derek
- Abbot, Diane
- Abbot, Edwin
- Abbot, Jack
- Abbott, Shirley
- Abbott, Tony
- Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz
- `Abdu'l-Bahá
- Abdulbaki, Sabit Damulla
- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
- Abdul-Azeez ibn Abdullaah Aal ash-Shaikh
- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
- Abdusamatov, Khabibullo
- Abel, Reuben
- Abelard, Peter
- Abella, Isaac
- Abelson, Hal
- Abelson, Philip
- Abercrombie, Lascelles
- Aberjhani
- Abernethy, George
- Abiola, Hafsat
- Abish, Walter
- Abnett, Dan
- Abourezk, James
- Abraham
- Abraham, Daniel
- Abrams, Creighton
- Abrams, M. H.
- Abrikosov, Alexei Alexeyevich
- Abse, Dannie
- Abssi, Shaker
- Abu-Ghazaleh, Talal
- Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- AbuKhalil, As'ad
- Abzug, Bella
- Accius, Lucius
- Ace, Goodman
- Acharya, Manmohan
- Achebe, Chinua
- Acheson, Dean
- Acker, Kathy
- Ackerman, Diane
- Ackroyd, Peter
- Acton, Eliza
- Acton, John (Lord Acton)
Ad
- Adam
- 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
- Adele (singer)
- Adenauer, Konrad
- Adi Da
- Adiga, Aravind
- Adler, Felix
- Adler, Freda
- Adler, Hermann
- Adler, Mortimer
- Adorno, Theodor
- Adler, Alfred
- Adunis
Ae-Ak
- 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 IV
- Agnew, Jonathan
- Agnew, Spiro
- Agre, Peter
- Agresta, Robert
- Aguilar, Grace
- Aguilera, Christina
- Ahbez, Eden
- Ahern, Bertie
- Ahiqar
- Akhenaten
- Ah Koy, James
- Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
- Ahmed, Israr
- 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
- Akef, Mahdi
- Akenside, Mark
- Akhmatova, Anna
- Akhromeyev, Sergei
- Akiba ben Joseph
- Akinola, Peter Jasper (Archbishop)
Al-Alk
- al-Abidin, Ali Zayn
- Al-Din, Iyad Jamal
- al-Askari, Hasan
- al-Assad, Bashar
- al-Assad, Hafez
- al-Baqir, Muhammad
- al-Basri, Hasan
- Al-Afghani, Jamal al-Din
- Al-Farabi
- al-Hadi, Ali
- Al-Hallaj
- Al-Ansari, Abd Al-Hamid
- al-Kadhim, Musa
- Al-Khalili, Jim
- Al-Maktoum, Mohammed bin Rashid
- Al-Rodan, Nayef
- Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid
- Al-Sudais, Abdul Rahman
- al-Walid, Khalid ibn
- al-Zawahiri, Ayman
- AlArrayed, Thuraya
- Alas, Leopoldo
- Albee, Edward
- Albers, Joseph
- Albert, Prince Consort
- Alberti, Scipione
- Albom, Mitch
- Albrecht, Richard
- Albright, Madeleine
- Alcorn, Randy
- Alcott, Amos Bronson
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Alcuin
- Alda, Alan
- Alden, Henry Mills
- Aldington, Richard
- Aldiss, Brian
- Aldrich, Henry
- Aldrich, James
- Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
- Aldrin, Buzz
- Alekhine, Alexander
- Alexander I of Macedon
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander, Cecil Frances
- Alexander, Christopher
- Alexander, Claudia
- Alexander, F. Matthias
- Alexander, James Waddel
- Alexander, Lloyd
- Alexander, Shana
- Alexander, William
- Alexandrova, Larisa
- Alexie, Sherman
- Alfano I, Archbishop of Salerno
- Al-Fayed, Mohamed
- Alfieri, Vittorio
- Alfonso X of Castile
- Alford, Henry
- Alfred the Great
- Alfven, Hannes
- Alger, William R.
- Algren, Nelson
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Ali, Ahmed (politician)
- Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
- Ali, Hasan ibn
- Ali, Husayn ibn
- Ali, Muhammad
- Ali, Tariq
- Alighieri, Dante
- Alinsky, Saul
- Alito, Samuel
- Aliyev, Heydar
- Alizadeh, Javad
All-Am
- Allais, Alphonse
- Allais, Maurice
- Allan, Jani
- Allardyce, Sam
- Allee, W. C.
- Alleine, Joseph
- Alleine, Richard
- Allen, Lily
- Wicked01
- 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, Salvador
- Aller, Lawrence H.
- Alley, Kirstie
- Allin, GG
- Allingham, Margery
- Allingham, William
- Allison, Dorothy
- Allott, Kenneth
- Allred, Bill
- Allston, Washington
- al-Mahdi, Muhammad
- Alonso, Fernando
- al-Qaisi, Fakhri
- al-Rida, Ali
- al-Sadiq, Ja'far
- Muqtada al-Sadr see Sadr, Muqtada
- al-Sahhaf, Muhammed Saeed
- al-Taqi, Muhammad
- Alther, Lisa
- Alvarez, Al
- Alvarez, Bryan
- Amaechi, John
- Amat, Nuria
- Ambani, Dhirubhai
- Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji
- Amber (pop star)
- Ambrose
- Ambrosio, Alessandra
- Ames, Fisher
- Ames, Mark
- Amiel, Henri-Frédéric
- Amin, Idi
- Amini, Ebrahim
- Amis, Kingsley
- Amis, Martin
- Amos, Tori
- Ampère, André-Marie
- Amr, Suhayl ibn
- Amritanandamayi, Mata
- Amstell, Simon
- Amundsen, Roald
An
- Anacharsis
- Anastacia
- Anaxagoras
- Anaximander
- Anderson, Carl David
- Anderson, Chris (writer)
- Anderson, Gillian
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- Anderson, Ian
- Anderson, John
- Anderson, Jon
- Anderson, Laurie
- Anderson, Margaret Caroline
- Anderson, Pamela
- Anderson, Phillip Warren
- Anderson, Poul
- Anderson, Sherwood
- Andersson, Benny
- Andrade, Edward
- Andre, Carl
- Andreessen, Marc
- Andreou, Constantine
- Andreski, Stanislav
- Andrésen, Björn
- Andretti, Mario
- Andrew, Keith
- Andrewes, Lancelot
- Andrews, Julie
- Andrews, Roy Chapman
- Andric, Ivo
- Andrieux, François
- Aneirin
- Angelis, Barbara De
- Angell, Norman
- Angelou, Maya
- Angle, Sharron
- Angleton, James Jesus
- Aniston, Jennifer
- Ankier, Jo
- Annan, Kofi
- Anne of Great Britain
- Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom
- Anscombe, G. E. M.
- Anouilh, Jean
- Ansip, Andrus
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Anslinger, Harry J.
- Anstey, F., pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie
- Antheil, George
- Anthony of Padua
- Anthony the Great
- Anthony B
- Anthony, Piers
- Anthony, Susan B.
- Antin, Mary
- Antisthenes
- Antonioni, Michelangelo
- Antoniou, Laura
- Antunes, António Lobo
- Anzaldúa, Gloria E.
Ap-Ash
- Apollinaire, Guillaume
- Appel, Karel
- Appel, Jacob M.
- Apple, Fiona
- Applegate, Christina
- Appleton, Jon
- Appleton, Thomas Gold
- Apuleius
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Arabin, William
- Araeen, Rasheed
- Arafat, Yasser
- Arago, François
- Arakawa, Hiromu
- Araki, Sadao
- Arany, János
- Arbuckle, Roscoe
- Arbuthnot, John
- Archer, Jeffrey
- Archilochus
- Archimedes
- Archpoet
- Arden, Don
- Ardrey, Robert
- Arellano, Elvira
- Arendt, Hannah
- Aretino, Pietro
- Arif, Abdul Rahman
- Ariosto, Ludovico
- Argenson, René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'
- Aristophanes
- Aristotle
- Arius
- Arlott, John
- Armey, Dick
- Armitage, Simon
- Armstrong, Billie Joe
- Armstrong, Edwin Howard
- 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, Edwin
- Arnold, George
- Arnold, Matthew
- Arnold, Thomas
- Arp, Hans
- Arrian
- Arroyo, Stephen
- Arrupe, Pedro
- Arslan, Alp
- Artaud, Antonin
- Arthur, Chester A.
- Arthur, William (minister)
- Artsimovich, Lev
- Arudou, Debito (born David Christopher Aldwinckle)
- Ashbery, John
- Asch, Sholem
- Ascham, Roger
- Ashcroft, John
- 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
- Ashurst, Henry Fountain
Asi-Az
- Asimov, Isaac
- Aslaksen, Elias
- Aspect, Alain
- Asquith, Herbert
- Asquith, Margot
- Assa, Alberto
- Assange, Julian
- Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de
- Astaire, Fred
- Astley, Jacob
- Astley, Rick
- Astor, Brooke
- Astor, John Jacob
- Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
- Atchison, Tex
- Athavale, Pandurang Shastri
- Athenaeus
- Atrios
- Attali, Jacques
- Attar
- 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, Red
- Augier, Émile
- Augustine of Hippo
- Augustine, Norman Ralph
- Augustus
- Aumann, Robert
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Aurangzeb
- Aurobindo, Sri
- Ausonius
- Austen, Jane
- Auster, Paul
- Austin, Alfred
- Austin, Benjamin Fish
- Austin, J. L.
- Avanzini, John
- Avi (author)
- Avicenna
- Avila, Lixion
- Avlon, John
- Avnery, Uri
- Avram, Henriette
- Awan, Ameer Muhammad Akram
- Aweys, Hassan
- Axton, Hoyt
- Ayalon, Ami
- Ayckbourn, Alan
- Ayer, Alfred Jules
- Aykroyd, Dan
- Ayres, Pam
- Aytoun, W. E.
- Azikiwe, Nnamdi
- Aziz, Tariq
- Aznar, José María
- Azzam the American
- Azzam, Abdullah
- Azzopardi, John G.