Terms from Aalst to Alexius IV (Angelus)
- Aalst
- Aardvark
- Aardwolf
- Aare, River (Fr Aar)
- Aaron Biography (15th–13th-c BC)
- Aaron Arrowsmith Biography (1750–1823)
- Aaron B(ernard) Wildavsky Biography (1930–93)
- Aaron Bohrod Biography (1907–92)
- Aaron Burr Biography (1756–1836)
- Aaron Ciechanover Biography (1947– )
- Aaron Copland Biography (1900–90)
- Aaron Lansky Biography (1955– )
- Aaron Lopez Biography (1731–82)
- Aaron Montgomery Ward Biography (1843–1913)
- Aaron Siskind Biography (1903–91)
- Aaron Spelling Biography (1923–2006)
- Aaron T(emkin) Beck Biography (1921– )
- Aart Van Der Leeuw Biography (1876–1931)
- Abaca
- Abacus
- Abadan
- Abalone
- Abba
- Abba (Solomon) Eban Biography (1915–2002) (originally Aubrey Solomon Meir)
- Abba Hillel Silver Biography (1893–1963)
- Abba Louise Woolson Biography (1838–1921) (née Goold)
- Abbas Biography (c.566–c.652)
- Abbas Hilmi I Biography (1813–54)
- Abbas Hilmi II Biography (1874–1944)
- Abbas I Biography (1571–1629) (known as Abbas the Great)
- Abbasids
- Abbey
- Abbey Lincoln Biography (1930– ) (originally Anna Marie Wooldridge)
- Abbey Theatre
- Abbeyleix
- Abbie Hoffman Biography (1936–89)
- Abbot (Handerson) Thayer Biography (1849–1921)
- Abbots Langley
- Abbott And Costello
- Abbreviation
- Abby (Greene) Aldrich Rockefeller Biography (1874–1948)
- Abby Kelley Biography (1810–87) (popular name of Abigail Kelley)
- Abby Lillian Marlatt Biography (1869–1943)
- Abbé De L' Epée, Charles Michel Biography (1712–89)
- Abbé De Raynal, Guillaume Thomas Biography (1713–96)
- Abbé Pierre Biography (1912– ) (originally Henri Antoine Grouès)
- ABC Islands
- Abd-ar-Rahman I Biography (731–88)
- Abd-ar-Rahman III Biography (891–961)
- Abd-el-Kader Biography (1807–83)
- Abd-el-Krim Biography (1882–1963) (nickname the Wolf of the Rif Mountains)
- Abd-ul-Hamid II Biography (1842–1918) (nickname The Great Assassin)
- Abd-ul-Medjid Biography (1823–61)
- Abdication
- Abdim's Stork
- Abdomen
- Abdou Diouf Biography (1935– )
- Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Biography (1880–1953) (in full Abdul Aziz ibn Abd al-Rahman Al Saud)
- Abdul Karim Kassem Biography (1914–63)
- Abdullah (ibn Hussein) Biography (1882–1951)
- Abdullah Ibrahim Biography (1934– ) (formerly Dollar Brandborn Adolph Johannes Brand)
- Abdus Salam Biography (1926–96)
- Abe Fortas Biography (1910–82)
- Abe Saperstein Biography (1902–66) (popular name of Abraham M Saperstein)
- Abebe Bikila Biography (1932–73)
- Abel
- Abel (Tendekayi) Muzorewa Biography (1925– )
- Abel Agenbegyan Biography (1932– )
- Abel Bonnard Biography (1883–1968)
- Abel Gance Biography (1889–1981)
- Abel Hermant Biography (1862–1952)
- Abel Jacob Herzberg Biography (1893–1989)
- Abel Janszoon Tasman Biography (1603–c.59)
- Abel Parker Upshur Biography (1791–1844)
- Abele Spelen
- Aberdare
- Aberdeen (ancient Devana)
- Aberfan
- Aberhard Arnold Biography (1883–1935)
- Aberrations (astronomy)
- Aberrations (optics)
- Aberystwyth
- Abidjan
- Abigail Adams Biography (1744–1818) (née Smith)
- Abigail Fillmore Biography (1798–1853) (née Powers)
- Abigail Jane Duniway Biography (1834–1915) (née Scott)
- Abigail Van Buren Biography (1918– ) (popular name of Pauline Esther Philips Van Burenoriginally Friedman)
- Abilene
- Ablaut
- Abner Doubleday Biography (1819–93)
- Abner Kneeland Biography (1774–1844)
- Abnormal Psychology
- Abolhassan Bani-Sadr Biography (1935– )
- Abolitionist Movement
- Abomey
- Aboriginal Art
- Aboriginal Land Rights
- Aborigines
- Abortion
- Aboukir Bay, Battle Of (Aug 1798)
- Aboukir Bay, Battle Of (Jul 1799)
- Abraham (Harold) Maslow Biography (1908–70)
- Abraham A(rden) Brill Biography (1874–1948)
- Abraham Adrian Albert Biography (1905–72)
- Abraham Ben Meir Ben Ezra Biography (1092–1167)
- Abraham Cahan Biography (1860–1951)
- Abraham Cowley Biography (1618–67)
- Abraham Crijnssen Biography (d.1669)
- Abraham Darby Biography (c.1678–1717)
- Abraham De Moivre Biography (1667–1754)
- Abraham Flexner Biography (1866–1959)
- Abraham Gottlob Werner Biography (1750–1817)
- Abraham Ibn Hasdai Biography (d.1240)
- Abraham Jacobi Biography (1830–1919)
- Abraham Joshua Heschel Biography (1907–72)
- Abraham Kuyper Biography (1837–1920)
- Abraham Lincoln Biography (1809–65)
- Abraham Rattner Biography (1895–1978)
- Abraham Robinson Biography (1918–74)
- Abraham Walkowitz Biography (c.1878–1965)
- Abraham, Plains / Heights Of
- Abram (Joseph) Chayes Biography (1922– )
- Abram Bergson Biography (1912– )
- Abram L(eon) Sachar Biography (1899–1993)
- Abrasives
- Abruzzi Or Abruzzo
- Absalom Biography (11th-c BC)
- Absalon Or Axel Biography (1128–1201)
- Abscess
- Absolute Zero
- Absolution
- Absolutism
- Absolutismus, Aufgeklärter
- Absolutismus, Höfischer
- Abstract Art
- Absurdism
- Abu Al-Faraj Biography (1226–86) (also known as Bar-Hebraeus)
- Abu Al-Faraj Al- Isfahani Biography (897–967)
- Abu Bakr Ibn Al- Qutia Biography (d. 997) (Span Abenal-Cutia)
- Abu Dhabi Or Abu Zabi
- Abu Hamid Mohammed Al- Ghazali Biography (1058–1111)
- Abu Mena
- Abu Muhammad 'Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn Sa'id Ibn Hazm Biography (994–1064)
- Abu Simbel
- Abu-Bakr Or Abu-Bekr Biography (c.573–634)
- Abuja
- Abulia
- Abuse Of Process
- Abyssal Hills
- Abyssal Plains
- Abyssinian Cat
- Academia Cadálsica
- Academia De Los Nocturnos
- Academy
- Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences
- Acadia
- Académie Française
- Acanthus
- Acapulco (or Acapulco de Juárez)
- ACAS
- Acceleration
- Acceleration Due To Gravity
- Accelerometer
- Accent (prominence)
- Accent (regional)
- Accentor
- Acceptance
- Accepting House
- Access
- Access Course
- Access Time
- Accomplice
- Accordion
- Accountancy
- Accra
- Accretion
- Accrington
- Acculturation
- Accumulator
- Ace Tyler Biography (1922– ) (popular name of Harold Russell Tyler Jr)
- Acetaldehyde
- Acetals
- Acetic Acid
- Acetone
- Acetyl
- Acetylcholine
- Acetylene
- Achaeans (Homer)
- Achaeans (of Achaea)
- Achaemenids
- Achelous, River (Gr Akhelóös)
- Achene
- Acheron
- Acheulian
- Achille (François) Bazaine Biography (1811–88)
- Achille Bizzoni Biography (1841–1904)
- Achille Campanile Biography (1900–77)
- Achille Lauro Biography ( 1887–1982)
- Achille Occhetto Biography (1936– )
- Achille Starace Biography (1889–1945)
- Achilles
- Achim Von Arnim Biography (1781–1831) (originally Karl Joachim Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim)
- Achondroplasia
- Achsenmächte
- Acid
- Acid Rain
- Acker Bilk Biography (1929– ) (popular name of Bernard Stanley Bilk)
- Acne
- Aconcagua, Cerro
- Acorn
- Acornworm
- Acouchi
- Acoustic Coupler
- Acoustics
- ACP Countries
- Acre (Hebrew Akkoancient Ptolemais)
- Acridine
- Acromegaly
- Acronym
- Acropolis, The
- Acrylic Acid
- Acrylic Painting
- Act Of Congress
- Act Of God
- Act Of Parliament
- Actaeon
- Actinides
- Actinomorphic Flower
- Actinomycete
- Actinomycosis
- Action
- Action Painting
- Action Potential
- Actium, Battle Of
- Activated Charcoal
- Activated Complex
- Active Optics
- Actors' Studio
- Acts Of The Apostles
- Actuary
- Actuator
- Acueducto De Segovia
- Acuity
- Acupressure
- Acupuncture
- Acyl
- Ad Zuiderent Biography (1944– )
- Ad(olph Dietrich Friedrich) Reinhardt Biography (1913–67)
- Ada Biography (1158–c.1223)
- ADA
- Ada Cambridge Biography (1844–1926)
- Ada Louise Huxtable Biography (?1921– ) (née Landman)
- Ada Negri Biography (1870–1945)
- Ada Rehan Biography (1860–1916) (originally Crehan)
- Adad
- Adah Isaacs Menken Biography (1835–68)
- Adalbert Biography (c.1000–72)
- Adalbert Falk Biography (1827–1900)
- Adalbert Stifter Biography (1805–68)
- Adalberto I Biography (9th-c)
- Adalberto II Biography (?–915) (known as the Rich)
- Adam (Bernard) Mickiewicz Biography (1798–1855)
- Adam (Bruno) Ulam Biography (1922– )
- Adam And Eve
- Adam De La Halle Biography (c.1250–c.1306) (known as Adam le Bossu (‘Adam the Hunchback’) or le Bossu trouvère)
- Adam Elsheimer Biography (1578–1610)
- Adam Ferguson Biography (1723–1816)
- Adam Forepaugh Biography (1831–90)
- Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger Biography (1779–1850)
- Adam Lindsay Gordon Biography (1833–70)
- Adam Marian Dziewonski Biography (1936– )
- Adam Mars-Jones Biography (1954– )
- Adam Of Bremen Biography (?–c.1085)
- Adam Sedgwick Biography (1785–1873)
- Adam Smith Biography (1723–90)
- Adam's Needle
- Adam's Peak (Sinhala Sri Pada)
- Adams
- Adams–Stokes Attacks
- Adana (city)
- Adana (province)
- Adaptation (biology)
- Adaptation (literature)
- Adaptation (literature)
- Adaptive Optics
- Adaptive Radiation
- Adaptive Suspension
- Adaptogen
- Addax
- Adder
- Adder's Tongue
- Addis Ababa Or Adis Abeba
- Addison's Disease
- Addition Reaction
- Additives
- Adel Sellimi Biography (1972– )
- Adela Rogers St John Biography (1894–1988)
- Adelaide
- Adelaide Alsop Robineau Biography (1865–1929)
- Adelaide Crapsey Biography (1878–1914)
- Adelaide Of Savoia Biography (1020–91)
- Adelbert Ames Biography (1835–1933)
- Adelbert Von Chamisso Biography (1781–1838) (originally Louis Charles Adelaide Chamisso de Boncourt)
- Adelchis Biography (d.c.788)
- Adele Lewisohn Lehman Biography (1882–1965)
- Adelina Patti Biography (1843–1919)
- Aden Or Adan
- Aden, Gulf Of
- Adenet Biography (c.1240–1300) (nickname king of minstrels)
- Adenine
- Adenoids
- Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)
- Adhesives
- Adi Granth ((Hindi ‘First Book’))
- Adiabatic Process
- Adige, River (Ger Etschancient Athesis)
- Adin Ballou Biography (1803–90)
- Adipic Acid
- Adirondack Mountains
- Adja Yunkers Biography (1900–83)
- Adjutant
- Adlai E(wing) Stevenson Biography (1835–1914)
- Admetus
- Administrative Law
- Admiral's Cup
- Admiral's Men
- Admiral-general
- Admiralty Court
- Admiralty Islands
- Admiralty, Boards Of (Dutch Admiraliteiten)
- Adna (Romanza) Chafee Biography (1842–1914)
- Adnan Menderes Biography (1899–1961)
- Adolescence
- Adolf (Karl Gustav) Von Harnack Biography (1851–1930)
- Adolf Bastian Biography (1826–1905)
- Adolf Busch Biography (1891–1952)
- Adolf Damaschke Biography (1865–1935)
- Adolf Endler Biography (1930– )
- Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt Biography (1903–95)
- Adolf Grimme Biography (1889–1963)
- Adolf Hildebrand Biography (1847–1921)
- Adolf Hitler Biography (1889–1945) (popular name der Führer (‘the Leader’))
- Adolf Loos Biography (1870–1933)
- Adolf Meyer Biography (1866–1950)
- Adolf Muschg Biography (1934– )
- Adolf Reichwein Biography (1898–1944)
- Adolf Stoecker Biography (1835–1909)
- Adolf Van Haemstede Biography (1520–85)
- Adolfo Albertazzi Biography (1865–1924)
- Adolfo Marsillach Biography (1928–2002) (in full Adolfo Marsillach Soriano)
- Adolph (Francis Alphonse) Bandelier Biography (1840–1914)
- Adolph (Frederick) Rupp Biography (1901–77)
- Adolph Alexander Weinman Biography (1870–1952)
- Adolph Bolm Biography (1884–1951)
- Adolph Coors Biography (1847–1929)
- Adolph Edward Borie Biography (1809–80)
- Adolph Eugen Fick Biography (1829–1901)
- Adolph Gottlieb Biography (1903–74)
- Adolph H(ans) Schultz Biography (1891–1976)
- Adolph J Sabath Biography (1866–1952)
- Adolph K(urt) Placzek Biography (1913– )
- Adolph Knopf Biography (1882–1966)
- Adolph Simon Ochs Biography (1858–1935)
- Adolph Sutro Biography (1830–98)
- Adolphe (Charles) Adam Biography (1803–56)
- Adolphe Appia Biography (1862–1928)
- Adolphe Brisson Biography (1860–1925)
- Adolphe Max Biography (1869–1939)
- Adolphe William Bouguereau Biography (1825–1905)
- Adolphus Busch Biography (1839–1913)
- Adolphus Washington Greely Biography (1844–1935)
- Adoniram Judson Biography (1788–1850)
- Adonis
- Adoption
- Adoptionism
- Adrastea
- Adrenal Glands
- Adrenaline Or Adrenalin
- Adrenocorticotrophic Hormone (ACTH)
- Adriaan Morriën Biography (1912– )
- Adriaan Roland Holst Biography (1888–1976) (popular name of Adrianus Roland Holst)
- Adriaan Van Der Veen Biography (1916– )
- Adriaan Van Dis Biography (1946– )
- Adriaen Brouwer Or Brauer Biography (c.1605–38)
- Adriaen Valerius Biography (c.1575–1625)
- Adriaen Van Ostade Biography (1610–85)
- Adrian (David) Moorhouse Biography (1964– )
- Adrian (Gilbert) Biography (1903–59) (originally Adrian Adolph Greenburg)
- Adrian (Keith) Noble Biography (1950– )
- Adrian Constantine Anson Biography (1852–1922) (known as Cap Anson)
- Adrian IV Biography (c.1100–59) (also Hadrianoriginally Nicholas Breakspear)
- Adrian VI Or Hadrian VI Biography (1459–1523) (originally Adriaan Florisz Boeyens)
- Adrian Willaert Biography (c.1490–1562)
- Adriano Del Valle Biography (1895–1958)
- Adriano Olivetti Biography (1901–60)
- Adrianople, Battle Of
- Adrianus (Petrus Wilhelmus) Melkert Biography (1956– )
- Adrianus Michael De Jong Biography (1888–1943)
- Adriatic Sea
- Adrien Van Der Donck Biography (1620–55)
- Adrien-Marie Legendre Biography (1752–1833)
- Adrienne (Cecile) Rich Biography (1929– )
- Adrienne Kennedy Biography (1931– )
- Adsorption
- Adult Education
- Advaita ((Sanskrit‘non-dual’))
- Advent
- Adventists
- Adversary Politics
- Adverse Possession
- Advertising
- Advocacy Planning
- Advocate
- Adélaïde Labille-Guiard Biography (1749–1803)
- Adélie Land (or Adélie CoastFr Terre Adélie)
- Aechmea
- Aedes
- Aegean Civilization
- Aegean Islands
- Aegean Sea
- Aegina (Gr Aiyna)
- Aegis
- Aegisthus
- Aelian Biography (c.170–c.235) (in full Claudius Aelianus)
- Aelius Donatus Biography (c.300–c.399)
- Aemilian Way
- Aeneas
- Aeolian Harp
- Aeolians
- Aeolus
- Aerial Photography
- Aernout Drost Biography (1810–34)
- Aernout Or Aert Van Der Neer Biography (1603/4–77)
- Aerobatics
- Aerobe
- Aerobics
- Aerocapture
- Aerodynamics
- Aerometry
- Aeronautics
- Aerophone
- Aeroplane / Airplane
- Aerosol
- Aerospace Medicine
- Aeschines Biography (c.390 BC–?)
- Aeschylus Biography (c.525–c.456 BC)
- Aesculapius
- Aesop Biography (?6th-c BC)
- Aesthetic / Esthetic Movement
- Aestheticism
- Aesthetics / Esthetics
- Affenpinscher
- Affinity
- Affirmative Action
- Affix
- Affonso D' Albuquerque Biography (1453–1515) (known as Affonso the Great)
- Afforestation
- Afghan Hound
- Afghan Wars
- Afghanistan
- Aflatoxin
- Afrancescados (Eng ‘Frenchified Spaniards’)
- Africa
- Africa, Partition Of
- African Art
- African Buffalo
- African Dance
- African History
- African Horse Sickness
- African Hunting Dog
- African Languages
- African Lily
- African Literature
- African Marigold
- African Methodist Episcopal Church
- African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- African Music
- African National Congress (ANC)
- African Union
- African Violet
- Africar
- Afrika Bambaataa Biography (1958– )
- Afrika Korps
- Afrikaans
- Afrikaners
- Afro-Asiatic Languages
- Afsluitdijk Sea Dam
- Afterburning
- Aga Khan
- Aga Khan I Biography (1800–81) (originally Hasan Ali Shah)
- Aga Khan II Biography (1830–85) (originally Ali Shah)
- Aga Khan III Biography (1877–1957) (in full Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah)
- Agadir
- Agamemnon
- Agamid
- Agar
- Agate
- Agathocles Biography (361–289 BC)
- Agave
- Agaña
- Age-sets
- Agence France-Press (AFP)
- Agenda Setting
- Agent Orange
- Agesilaus Biography (444–360 BC)
- Aggiornamento
- Agglomerate
- Agglutinating Language
- Agilulf Biography (d.616)
- Agincourt, Battle Of
- Agitprop
- Agnellus (Matthew) Andrew Biography (1908–87)
- Agnes (George) De Mille Biography (1905–93)
- Agnes Arber Biography (1879–1960) (née Robertson)
- Agnes Bernice Martin Biography (1912–2004)
- Agnes Chase Biography (1869–1963) (née Meara)
- Agnes Fay Morgan Biography (1884–1968) (originally Jane Agnes Fay)
- Agnes Maclehose Biography (1759–1841) (née Craig)
- Agnes Macphail Biography (1890–1954) (née Campbell)
- Agnes Maud Royden Biography (1876–1956)
- Agnes Nestor Biography (1880–1948)
- Agnes Smedley Biography (1894–1950)
- Agnes Von Poitou Biography (c.1025–77) (also known as Agnes von Poitiers)
- Agni
- Agnolo Firenzuola Biography (1493–1543) (pseudonym of Michelangiolo Giovannini)
- Agnolo Gaddi Biography (c.1350–1396)
- Agnosia
- Agnosticism
- Agnès Varda Biography (1928– )
- Agostino (di Duccio) Biography (1418–81)
- Agostino Bertani Biography (1812–86)
- Agostino Depretis Biography (1813–87)
- Agostino Magliani Biography (1824–91)
- Agostino Maria Bassi Biography (1773–1856)
- Agouti
- Agra
- Agranulocytosis
- Agrarkommunismus
- Agrarsozialismus
- Agribusiness
- Agrichemicals
- Agricultural Revolution
- Agriculture
- Agrimony
- Agrippina Biography (15–59) (known as Agrippina the Younger)
- Agrippina Biography (c.14 BC–AD 33) (known as Agrippina the Elder)
- Agroforestry
- Agronomy
- Agulhas, Cape
- Agustina Otero Biography (1868–1965) (known as Bella Otero)
- Agustí Pujol Biography (1585–1629)
- Agustín De Horozco Biography (c.1550–c.1620)
- Agustín De Itúrbide Biography (1783–1824)
- Agustín De Rojas Villandrando Biography (c.1572–c. 1625)
- Agustín Javier Delgado Chalá Biography (1974– ) (known as Tín)
- Ahab Biography (9th-c BC)
- Ahaggar Mountains (or Hoggar Mountains)
- Aharonov–Bohm Effect
- Ahimsa
- Ahmad Jamal Biography (1930– ) (originally Fritz Jones)
- Ahmad Shah Durrani Biography (1724–73)
- Ahmadabad Or Ahmedabad
- Ahmadiyya
- Ahmadou Ahidjo Biography (1924–89)
- Ahmed Arabi Biography (1839–1911) (also known as Arabi Pasha)
- Ahmed H(assan) Zewail Biography (1946– )
- Ahmed Ibn Mohammed Al- Ashari Biography (873/4–935/6)
- Ahmet (Munir) Ertegun Biography (1923– )
- Ahmose I Biography (16th-c BC)
- Ahmose II Biography (6th-c BC)
- Ahriman
- Ahura Mazda ((Persian ‘Wise Lord’))
- Ahvenanmaa (Swed Åland [awland])
- Ai Qing Biography (1910–96)
- AIDS
- Aikido
- Aileen Carol Wuornos Biography (1956–2002)
- Aimé (Fernand) Césaire Biography (1913– )
- Aimé Argand Biography (1755–1803)
- Aimé Jacquet Biography (1941– )
- Aimée Semple McPherson Biography (1890–1944) (née Kennedy)
- Ainsworth Rand Spofford Biography (1825–1908)
- Ainu
- Air Conditioning
- Air Cushion Vehicle (ACV)
- Air Force
- Air Miles
- Air Traffic Control (ATC)
- Airborne Warning And Control System (AWACS)
- Airbrush
- Aircraft
- Aircraft Carrier
- Airedale Terrier
- Airship
- Aisles
- Ait-Ben-Haddou
- Aix-en-Provence
- Ajaccio
- Ajanta Caves
- Ajax
- Ajman
- Akan
- Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge
- Akbar The Great Biography (1542–1605) (in full Jalal ud-Din Muhammad Akbar)
- Akerlof, George A Biography (1940– )
- Akhenaton Biography (14th-c BC) (also Akh(e)naten or Amenhotep (Amenophis) IV [amenhohtep])
- Akiba Ben Joseph Biography (c.50–135) (also spelled Akiva)
- Akihito Biography (1933– )
- Akio Morita Biography (1921–99)
- Akira Kurosawa Biography (1910–98)
- Akkadian
- Akron
- Akrotiri
- Aksum
- Aktion Sorgenkind
- Aktion Sühnezeichen/Friedensdienste E.V.
- Aktyubinsk
- Akutagawa Prize
- Al Capp Biography (1909–79) (originally Alfred Gerald Caplin)
- Al Held Biography (1928–2005)
- Al Jolson Biography (1886–1950) (originally Asa Yoelson)
- Al Saud
- Al Sieber Biography (1844–1907) (popular name of Albert Sieber)
- Al Unser Biography (1939– )
- Al(bert Goodwill) Spalding Biography (1850–1915)
- Al(bert Greene) Green Biography (1946– )
- Al(bert) Hirschfeld Biography (1903–2003)
- Al(fred James) Reach Biography (1840–1928)
- Al(fred) Oerter Biography (1936– )
- Al(fredo) Pacino Biography (1940– )
- Al(oysius Harry) Simmons Biography (1902–56) (originally Aloys Szymanskinickname Bucketfoot)
- Al(phonse) Capone Biography (1899–1947)
- Al- Mansur Biography (c.710–75) (in full Abu Jafar Abd Allah al-Mansur ibn Muhammad)
- Al- Tabari Biography (839–923) (in full Abu Jafar Mohammed Ben Jarir al-Tabari)
- Al-Qaeda Or Al-Qaida / Al-Qa'ida ((Arabic ‘The Base’))
- Al-Sabah
- Alabama
- Alabaster
- Alain
- Alain Anatole Bosquet Biography (1919– )
- Alain Chartier Biography (c.1385–c.1435)
- Alain Colas Biography (1943–78)
- Alain Corneau Biography (1943– )
- Alain Decaux Biography (1925– )
- Alain Delon Biography (1935– )
- Alain Enthoven Biography (1930– )
- Alain Gilles Biography (1945– )
- Alain Le Roy Locke Biography (1886–1954)
- Alain Louis Bombard Biography (1924–2005)
- Alain Mimoun Biography (1921– )
- Alain Prost Biography (1955– ) (nickname the Professor)
- Alain René Lesage Biography (1668–1747) (also spelled Le Sage)
- Alain Resnais Biography (1922– )
- Alain Robbe-Grillet Biography (1922– )
- Alain Tanner Biography (1929– )
- Alamo
- Alan (Cochevelou) Stivell Biography (1944– )
- Alan (Cyril) Walker Biography (1938– )
- Alan (Donald) Whicker Biography (1925– )
- Alan (Dudley) Bush Biography (1900–95 )
- Alan (Fraser) Truscott Biography (1925–2005)
- Alan (Fred) Titchmarsh Biography (1949– )
- Alan (Frederick) Plater Biography (1935– )
- Alan (Kenneth McKenzie) Clark Biography (1928–99)
- Alan (MacGregor) Cranston Biography (1914–2000)
- Alan (Mathison) Turing Biography (1912–54)
- Alan (Philip Eric) Knott Biography (1946– )
- Alan (Stewart) Paton Biography (1903–88)
- Alan (Tower) Waterman Biography (1892–1967)
- Alan (Wilson) Watts Biography (1915–73)
- Alan Alda Biography (1936– )
- Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton Biography (1863–1930)
- Alan Bennett Biography (1934– )
- Alan Bleasdale Biography (1946– )
- Alan Bond Biography (1938– )
- Alan Caiger-Smith Biography (1930– )
- Alan Coren Biography (1938– )
- Alan Davie Biography (1920– )
- Alan Dundes Biography (1934– )
- Alan Freed Biography (1922–65)
- Alan G MacDiarmid Biography (1927– )
- Alan G(oodrich) Kirk Biography (1888–1963)
- Alan García Perez Biography (1949– )
- Alan Greenspan Biography (1926– )
- Alan Hovhaness Biography (1911–2000) (originally Chakmajian)
- Alan J Heeger Biography (1936– )
- Alan Jay Lerner Biography (1918–86)
- Alan Kooi Simpson Biography (1931– )
- Alan L(aVern) Bean Biography (1932– )
- Alan Lomax Biography (1915–2002)
- Alan M(orton) Dershowitz Biography (1938– )
- Alan Minter Biography (1951– )
- Alan Rawsthorne Biography (1905–71)
- Alan Rickman Biography (1946– )
- Alan Seeger Biography (1888–1916)
- Alan Shearer Biography (1970– )
- Alan Sillitoe Biography (1928– )
- Alan Yentob Biography (1947– )
- Alaric I Biography (c.370–410)
- Alaric II Biography (450–507)
- Alasdair (Chalmers) MacIntyre Biography (1929– )
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- Alastair Burnet Biography (1928– ) (popular name of Sir James William Alexander Burnet)
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- Alben W(illiam) Barkley Biography (1877–1956)
- Alberico Da Barbiano Biography (c.1348–1409)
- Alberico Di Roma Biography (c.912–54) (Eng Alberic of Rome)
- Albert Biography (1490–1568)
- Albert (Bruce) Sabin Biography (1906–93)
- Albert (Cabell) Ritchie Biography (1876–1936)
- Albert (Charles Paul Marie) Roussel Biography (1869–1937)
- Albert (Davis) Lasker Biography (1880–1952)
- Albert (Francis) Blakeslee Biography (1874–1954)
- Albert (Gregory) Meyer Biography (1902–65)
- Albert (Henry) Marckwardt Biography (1903–75)
- Albert (Henry) Vestal Biography (1875–1932)
- Albert (John Mvumbi) Luthuli Or Lutuli Biography (c.1899–1967)
- Albert (Perry) Brigham Biography (1855–1932)
- Albert (Pinkham) Ryder Biography (1847–1917)
- Albert (the Bold) Biography (1443–1500) (known as the Bold)
- Albert (von Nagyrapolt) Szent-Györgyi Biography (1893–1986)
- Albert A(ugustus) Pope Biography (1843–1909)
- Albert Ayler Biography (1936–70)
- Albert B Grossman Biography (1926–86)
- Albert Bandura Biography (1925– )
- Albert Bierstadt Biography (1830–1902)
- Albert Brisbane Biography (1809–90)
- Albert C(lanton) Spaulding Biography (1914–90)
- Albert C(oady) Wedemeyer Biography (1897–1989)
- Albert Camus Biography (1913–60)
- Albert Chevalier Biography (1861–1923)
- Albert Claude Biography (1898–1983)
- Albert Coombs Barnes Biography (1872–1951)
- Albert Cuyp Or Cuijp Biography (1620–91)
- Albert Davis Taylor Biography (1883–1951)
- Albert Desalvo Biography (?–1973)
- Albert Einstein Biography (1879–1955)
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- Albert Fink Biography (1827–97)
- Albert Finney Biography (1936– )
- Albert Frederick Pollard Biography (1869–1948)
- Albert Friedrich Frey-Wyssling Biography (1900–88)
- Albert Gleizes Biography (1881–1953)
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- Albert J(eremiah) Beveridge Biography (1862–1927)
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- Albert Spalding Biography (1888–1953)
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- Albert William Ketèlbey Biography (1875–1959) (pseudonym of Anton Vodorinski)
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- Alberto (Count) La Marmora-Ferrero Biography (1789–1863)
- Alberto Arbasino Biography (1930– )
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- Alberto Cantoni Biography (1841–1904)
- Alberto Cavalcanti Biography (1897–1982) (originally Alberto de Almeida-Cavalcanti)
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- Alberto Closas Biography (1921–94) (in full Alberto Closas Lluró)
- Alberto Da Giussano Biography (12th-c)
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- Alberto Giacometti Biography (1901–66)
- Alberto Lista (y Aragón) Biography (1775–1848)
- Alberto Moravia Biography (1907–90) (pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle)
- Alberto R Gonzales Biography (1955– )
- Alberto Santos-Dumont Biography (1873–1932)
- Alberto Savinio Biography (1891–1952) (pseudonym of Andrea de Chirico)
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- Albius Tibullus Biography (c.54–19 BC)
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- Albrecht Dürer Biography (1471–1528)
- Albrecht I Von Habsburg Biography (1255–1308)
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- Albrecht Kossel Biography (1853–1927)
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- Alcmaeon (mythology)
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- Alcmene
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- Alden James Laborde Biography (1915– )
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- Alder
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- Aldo Busi Biography (1948– )
- Aldo Moro Biography (1916–78)
- Aldo Palazzeschi Biography (1885–1974) (pseudonym of Aldo Giurlani)
- Aldosterone
- Aldous (Leonard) Huxley Biography (1894–1963)
- Aldred Or Ealdred Biography (?–1069) (also found as Alred)
- Aldus Manutius Biography (c.1450–1515) (Latin name of Aldo Manucci or Manuzio)
- Ale
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- Alec (James) Stewart Biography (1963– )
- Alec Issigonis Biography (1906–88) (popular name of Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis)
- Alec Waugh Biography (1898–1981) (popular name of Alexander Raban Waugh)
- Alec Wilder Biography (1907–80) (popular name of Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder)
- Aleister Crowley Biography (1875–1947) (originally Edward Alexander Crowley)
- Alejandrino (Eng alexandrine)
- Alejandro Pérez Lugín Biography (1870–1926)
- Alejandro Sawa Biography (1862–1909)
- Alejo Carpentier Biography (1904–80)
- Alejo Fernández Biography (1470–1543)
- Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Fadeyev Biography (1901–56)
- Aleksei Balabanov Biography (1959– )
- Aleksis Kivi Biography (1834–72) (pseudonym of Alexis Stenvall)
- Aleluyas ((Eng ‘small religious prints’))
- Alen Boksic Biography (1970– )
- Alene (Bertha) Duerk Biography (1920– )
- Alentejo
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- Alessandro (Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio) Volta Biography (1745–1827)
- Alessandro Algardi Biography (1598–1654)
- Alessandro Allori Biography (1535–1607)
- Alessandro Baricco Biography (1958– )
- Alessandro Bonsanti Biography (1904–84)
- Alessandro Farnese Biography (1545–92)
- Alessandro Fortis Biography (1842–1909)
- Alessandro Guidi Biography (1650–1712)
- Alessandro Manzoni Biography (1785–1873)
- Alessandro Parronchi Biography (1914– )
- Alessandro Pavolini Biography (1903–45)
- Alessandro Pertini Biography (1896–1990)
- Alessandro Piccolomini Biography (1508–78)
- Alessandro Stradella Biography (1642–82)
- Alessandro Tassoni Biography (1565–1635)
- Alessandro Verri Biography (1741–1816)
- Alesso Baldovinetti Biography (c.1425–99)
- Aletsch
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- Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs Biography (1854–1929)
- Aleut
- Aleutian Islands (or Aleutiansformerly Catherine Archipelago)
- Alewife
- Alex Katz Biography (1927– )
- Alex La Guma Biography (1925–85)
- Alex Murphy Biography (1939– ) (popular name of Alexander James Murphy)
- Alex North Biography (1910–91)
- Alex Toth Biography (1928–2006)
- Alex(ander Gillespie) Raymond Biography (1905–56)
- Alex(ander Gordon) Higgins Biography (1949– ) (nickname Hurricane Higgins)
- Alex(ander Murray Palmer) Haley Biography (1921–92)
- Alex(ander Semeonovitch) Liberman Biography (1912–99)
- Alex(ander) Comfort Biography (1920–2000)
- Alexander (Archer) Vandegrift Biography (1887–1973)
- Alexander (Emmanuel Rodolphe) Agassiz Biography (1835–1910)
- Alexander (Isayevich) Solzhenitsyn Biography (1918– )
- Alexander (Ivanovich) Lebed Biography (1950–2002)
- Alexander (Konstantinovich) Glazunov Biography (1865–1936)
- Alexander (Marshall) Grant Biography (1925– )
- Alexander (Martin) Lippisch Biography (1894–1976)
- Alexander (McCarrell) Patch Biography (1889–1945)
- Alexander (Meigs) Haig Biography