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Ai Ch'ing (Chinese poet)
Ai Weiwei (Chinese artist & architect)
Aiah (in the Old Testament)
Aidoo, Ama Ata (Ghanaian writer, poet & dramatist)
Aiken, Conrad (American writer & poet)
Ailey, Alvin, Jr. (American dancer)
Ailly, Pierre d' (French theologian & writer)
Airy, Sir George Biddell (English astronomer)
Aishah (personage)
Akayev, Askar (president)
Akbar (Indian emperor)
Akeley, Carl Ethan (American biologist, sculptor & writer)
Akenside, Mark (English physician & poet)
Akerlof, George Arthur (American economist)
Akhmadulina, Bella (Russian poet)
Akhmatova, Anna (Russian poet)
Aki, Keiiti (American-Japanese geologist)
Akiba ben Joseph (Palestinian theologian)
Akihito (Japanese emperor)
Akinola, Peter Jasper (Nigerian religious leader)
Akkub (in the Old Testament)
Aksakov, Konstantin Sergeyevich (Russian critic & writer)
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke (Japanese writer)
Al Aswany, Alaa (Egyptian novelist)
Al-Battani (Arab astronomer & mathematician)
Al-Farghani (Egyptian astronomer)
Al-Fasi, Isaac ben Jacob ha-Kohen (Spanish-African educator)
Al-Khowarizmi (Arab-Iraqi mathematician)
Alabaster, William (English theologian)
Alain de Lille (French philosopher)
Alain-Fournier (French novelist)
Alamán, Lucas (Mexican historian & statesman/stateswoman)
Alamanni, Luigi (Italian poet & politician)
Alarcón, Hernando de (Spanish explorer)
Alarcón, Juan Ruiz de (Spanish poet)
Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de (Spanish writer, politician & statesman/stateswoman)
Alaric I (Visigoth king)
Alaric II (Spanish-Gaul king)
Alas, Leopoldo (Spanish novelist & critic)
Alaungpaya (Burmese king)
Alba, Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, duque de (Spanish military leader & statesman/stateswoman)
Alban, Saint (English theologian)
Albanel, Charles (Canadian-French Catholic missionary & explorer)
Albee, Edward (American dramatist)
Albéniz, Isaac (Spanish musician)