# List of people by name, A

Subset of List of people by name
* (Anonymous)
* 2 Chainz
* 50 Cent

## 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
* 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.