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Sir Andre Konstantinovich Heim, FRS (Russian: Андрей Константинович Гейм, English: Sir Andre Konstantin Geim, born October 21, 1958), is a Russian-born British physicist, director of the Manchester Research Center for Mesoscopic Science and Nanotechnology, Regius Professor at the University of Manchester, UK, research professor at the Royal Society, director of the "Shenzhen Geim Graphene Research Center" at Tsinghua University-Berkeley Shenzhen College, foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, academician of the Royal Society, foreign academician of the US National Academy of Sciences, and winner of the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics. He won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Konstantin Novoselov for "pioneering experiments on two-dimensional graphene materials" and received the Copley Medal in 2013. On February 25, 2026, the University of Hong Kong issued a press release announcing that Sir Andre Geim, the Nobel Prize winner in physics and a top scientist famous internationally for the discovery of graphene, will officially join the Faculty of Science of the University of Hong Kong in April 2026.

André Paul Guillaume Gide (French: André Paul Guillaume Gide French pronunciation: [ɑdʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid], November 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951), French writer, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Literature. Gide's early literature was characterized by symbolism, which gradually developed into anti-imperialist ideas until the interwar period. Gide was good at writing fiction and autobiography. In his words, he revealed the two sides of his personality that were split by his conservative education and narrow social moralism: conflict and ultimate harmony. His works depict freedom and empowerment under strict moral constraints, and you can feel his continuous and honest efforts in the pursuit of knowledge. His self-exploratory writing reflects his thoughts on how to become fully himself, including embracing one's gender essence without betraying one's personal values. Gide's political activities were affected by the social trends of the time; he traveled to the Soviet Union in 1936 and declared his abandonment of communism.

André Gorz (French: André Gorz, French pronunciation: [ɑdʁe ɡɔʁts]; February 9, 1923 – September 22, 2007) was a French left-wing writer, social philosopher, and journalist.

Andreas Kofler (German: Andreas Kofler, born May 17, 1984), Austrian male ski jumping athlete. He represented Austria in the ski jumping competition at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics, winning two gold medals and one silver medal.

Andrea Pozzo (November 30, 1642 - August 31, 1709) was an Italian Jesuit monk, Baroque art painter, architect, decorator, stage designer and art theorist.

Andrea Fischbacher (German: Andrea Fischbacher, October 14, 1985 -), Austrian female alpine skier. She represented Austria in alpine skiing at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics, winning a gold medal.

Andrés Iniesta Luján (Spanish: Andrés Iniesta Luján, May 11, 1984 -) is a Spanish male professional football player. He plays as a midfielder or winger and was born in Barcelona's La Masia youth academy. After his debut, he played for the La Liga team Barcelona until May 2018, and also played for the Japanese professional team Vissel Kobe. He won a total of 35 championship trophies in his career, and became the Triple Crown twice with Barcelona in 2009 and 2015. He has played for the Spanish national football team.

Andrea Mantegna (circa 1431 - September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter and the first Renaissance painter in Northern Italy. He was the son-in-law and student of the Roman archaeologist Jacopo Bellini. Andrea made many experiments with perspective in order to create a grander and more shocking visual effect. For example, in "Lamentation of the Dead Christ" he chose to depict the body of Christ from the perspective of Christ's feet. The metallic feel of his landscapes and the stone texture of some of the figures attest to the way painters of the time painted based on the principles of statues. The studio he led was the main printmaking studio in Venice before 1500.

Andrew Russell Garfield (English: Andrew Russell Garfield, August 20, 1983 -) is an American-British dual national actor. He was born in Los Angeles and began his acting career in British stage plays and television productions. Garfield made his film debut in Thrones (2007). He first gained international attention in the 2010 film "The Social Network", for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a British Academy Film Award. Before that, he also won a Saturn Award for the 2010 "Love Never Let Me Go". Garfield starred as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the 2012 reboot of the "Spider-Man film series", "Spider-Man: Astonishment", and received good reviews. He then played Spider-Man again in the 2014 sequel "The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Electro". In 2012, he co-starred with Philip Seymour Hoffman in Arthur Miller's stage play "Death of a Salesman," for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Play. In 2016, Garfield starred in two acclaimed historical films, Milo Gison's Hacksaw Ridge and Martin Scorsese's Silence. His role as Desmond T. Duss in the former earned him nominations for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor. In 2021, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Movie for "Countdown", and returned to play Spider-Man in "Spider-Man: Homeless Day", which received great positive response.

Andrew Carnegie (English: Andrew Carnegie, November 25, 1835 - August 11, 1919), American philanthropist and entrepreneur. The world's steel king in the early 20th century.

Andre De Grasse (English: Andre De Grasse, November 10, 1994 -) is a Canadian male sprinter. He is the men's 100m and 200m gold medal winner at the 2015 Pan American Games and is the current Canadian national record holder in the 200m. He won two bronze medals in the men's 100m and 4×100m relay at the 2015 World Athletics Championships. In 2016, he won the bronze medal in the men's 100 meters at the Rio Olympics in 9.91 seconds, and then won the silver medal in the 200 meters in 20.02 seconds. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, he won the men's 100m bronze medal in 9.89 seconds and the 200m gold medal in 19.62 seconds. Won gold medal in 4x100m relay at Paris 2024 in 37.50 seconds

Andrew Zachary Fire (English: Andrew Zachary Fire, April 27, 1959 -) was born in California. He is an American medical scientist and professor of pathology and genetics at Stanford Medical School. In 2006, he and Craig Mello, professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, discovered the phenomenon of RNA interference in eukaryotes and proved that double-stranded RNA can efficiently and specifically block the expression of corresponding genes. Fire called this RNAi (RNA interference), and they jointly won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Andrew Fahe graduated from MIT in 1983 with a Ph.D. Then he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Sydney Brenner's research group at the University of Cambridge, UK. In 1986, he transferred to the Carnegie Institution of the United States and began research on RNA interference. He has held a professorship at Johns Hopkins University since 1986. In 2003, Fae served as professor of pathology and genetics at Stanford Medical School in the United States.

Amber An (English: Amber An, September 18, 1985 -), whose real name is Liao Jingling, is a Taiwanese actor, singer, host, and model. Born in Taichung, Taiwan, he is also a native of Tainan. She was discovered by an agent when she was a model. She participated in "The Biggest Party" as a placard girl in 2008 and became a regular cast member in 2009. She has imitated characters such as Michelle Chen, Guo Shuyao, and Kou Naixin, and participated in variety shows, advertising endorsements, and magazine shoots. Later, she became an artist under producer Wang Weizhong. In 2014, she was highly recognized for her acting skills in the eight idol drama "Sister". As of 2022, it has more than 2 million Facebook fans and more than 500,000 Instagram fans.

Antoine Pesne (French: Antoine Pesne, French pronunciation: [pɛːn], May 29, 1683 – August 5, 1757) was a French-born Prussian court painter. He began painting in the Baroque style and became one of the fathers of the Rococo school.

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (French: Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier; August 26, 1743 - May 8, 1794), a French aristocrat, chemist, and biologist, was honored as the "Father of Modern Chemistry" by later generations. He transformed chemistry from qualitative to quantitative, named oxygen and hydrogen, and predicted the existence of silicon. He helped establish the metric system. Lavoisier proposed the definition of "element". Based on this definition, he published the first modern list of chemical elements in 1789, listing 33 elements, including light and heat and some compounds that were considered elements at the time. Lavoisier's contribution made chemistry in the 18th century more physical and mathematical. He proposed standardized chemical nomenclature and wrote the first truly modern chemistry textbook, Traité Élémentaire de Chimie. He advocated and improved quantitative analysis methods and used them to verify the law of conservation of mass. He founded the oxidation theory to explain experimental phenomena such as combustion, pointing out that animal respiration is essentially slow oxidation. These epoch-making contributions made him one of the greatest chemists in history. Lavoisier was a tax collector, so he had ample funds for scientific research. But because of this, he was guillotined and died during the French Revolution.

Ahn So-hee (Korean: Sohee Ahn, born June 27, 1992), whose stage name is So-hee (Korean: Sohee), is a South Korean female singer and actress who debuted as a member of Wonder Girls on February 10, 2007. On July 20, 2015, JYP Entertainment issued an official statement announcing Sohee's official withdrawal from Wonder Girls. She is currently an actress under BH Entertainment.

Anti (April 1975 -, English name: Michael Anti), whose real name is Zhao Jing, is a Hui ethnic Christian and an active Chinese news writer. He was a reporter at Southern Press and Media Group, a researcher at the Beijing Office of the New York Times, and a Nieman Scholarship recipient at Harvard University. He is also the founder of Caixin Shishishuo, a new media that mainly reports international news.

Anjelica Huston (English: Anjelica Huston, July 8, 1951 -) is an American actress who won the 58th Academy Award for Supporting Actress for her starring role in the 1985 film "Pryzzi Honor". She became the third generation of the Huston family to win Academy Awards, following her grandfather Walter Huston and father John Huston. She was also nominated for Academy Awards twice for "Enemy, a Love Story" in 1989 and "The Bet" in 1990.

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury, DBE (English: Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury, October 16, 1925 - October 11, 2022), a British-Irish-American triple national actor and singer, has enjoyed great success in television, film, and stage. She has won a total of five Tony Awards (four times winning the title of Lead Actress in a Musical, which is still unmatched), six Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and has been nominated for three Oscar Awards, eighteen Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. She won an Oscar Honorary Award in 2013, and was awarded the Commander of the Order of the Order by the Queen in 2014, becoming a Dame. She is best remembered for her film roles in Gaslight (1944), Quantico (1962), and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971); musical theater credits in Mame (1966), Gypsy (1975), and Sweeney Todd (1979); and her voice-over roles as Mrs. Tea Pot in Beauty and the Beast (1991), in the episode Beauty and the Beast is her masterpiece.

Angela Deneece Alsobrooks (English: Angela Deneece Alsobrooks, February 23, 1971 -), born in Suitland, Maryland, United States, is an American lawyer, politician, member of the Democratic Party, and currently serves as a U.S. Senator from Maryland. He served as county commissioner of Prince George's County, Maryland, and served two terms as the county's state attorney from 2010 to 2018. Osso Brooks is the first female county commissioner of Prince George’s County and the first black female county commissioner in Maryland history. Ossobrooks ran for the Maryland U.S. Senate in 2024, defeating Congressman David Trump in the Democratic primary and defeating Republican former Governor Larry Hogan in the general election.

Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein (Russian: Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн, November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor. In Chinese-speaking areas, Anton Rubinstein is generally called by his first name and surname to distinguish him from his brother Nikolai Rubinstein, who is also a pianist, or from the modern Polish piano master Artur Rubinstein.

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (English: Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, born December 31, 1937), is a Welsh actor. In 1992, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the movie "Silence of the Lambs". In 2021, he won the Oscar for Best Actor again with "Can Dad Never Get Old" and became the oldest actor winner in Oscar history at the age of 83.

Angela Dorothea Merkel, maiden name Kasner, is a German female politician, physicist, and quantum chemist. She was the former Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, a member of the German Christian Democratic Union, and served as the leader of the party for many years. He graduated from the University of Leipzig with a master's degree in physics and a doctorate in quantum chemistry. In addition to German, he also speaks Russian, English and other languages.

Angus Stanley King, Jr. (English: Angus Stanley King, Jr.; March 31, 1944 -) is an American independent politician and lawyer who has served as a U.S. Senator from Maine since 2013 and previously served as the Governor of Maine from 1995 to 2003. King was born and raised in Virginia and moved to Maine after graduating from law school. In 1989, he founded Northeast Energy Management, Inc., which develops and operates electric energy conservation projects. In the 1994 Maine gubernatorial election, he won a four-way race as an independent candidate and was re-elected in a landslide in the 1998 Maine gubernatorial election. As the nation's only independent governor, King enjoyed high approval ratings during his tenure. After leaving office in 2003, King returned to the business world. King won Maine's 2012 Senate election, succeeding retiring Maine Republican Olympia Snow. He was successfully re-elected to a second term in 2018 after the state first adopted ranked-choice elections, and won a third term in 2024. He aligned himself with Democrats in the caucuses because of how the U.S. Senate committees are grouped. He is one of two independents in the Senate; the other is Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also aligned with Democrats.