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BiographiesSelected Biographies A to Z
A- Aaliyah, rhythm-and-blues singer, actress
- Hank Aaron, baseball player
- Claudio Abbado, conductor
- Edward Abbey, writer
- Berenice Abbott, photographer choreographer
- Bud Abbott, comedian
- George Abbott, playwright, actor, director
- Paula Abdul, TV personality, singer, choreographer
- King Abdullah, royalty
- F. Murray Abraham, actor
- Spencer Abraham, George W. Bush's secretary of energy
- Jack Abramoff, political figure
- Kathy Acker, writer, performance artist
- Roy Acuff, country musician, songwriter
- Red Adair, firefighter
- Adam, biblical figure
- Abigail Adams, U.S. first lady
- Amy Adams, actor
- Ansel Adams, photographer
- Bryan Adams, singer, songwriter
- Cindy Adams, gossip columnist
- Douglas Adams, writer
- George Washington Adams, lawyer
- Scott Adams, cartoonist
- Victoria Adams, singer
- Joy Adamson, writer, conservationist
- Freddy Adu, soccer player
- Aerosmith, hard-rock band
- Ben Affleck, actor, screenwriter
- Andre Agassi, tennis player
- James Agee, writer
- Spiro Agnew, U.S. Vice President
- Christina Aguilera, singer
- Jenny Agutter, actor
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, political figure, political leader
- Ai , poet
- Danny Aiello, actor
- Clay Aiken, talent show contestant, pop singer
- Troy Aikman, football player, TV personality
- Alvin Ailey, Jr., modern dancer, choreographer
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka , U.S. senator
- Rania Al-Abdullah, royalty
- Jessica Alba, actor
- Edward Albee, playwright
- Eddie Albert, actor
- Fat Albert, animated character
- Prince Albert, royal consort
- Prince Albert of Monaco, royalty
- Jack Albertson, actor
- Horace Marden Albright, conservationist, business executive
- Madeleine Albright, government official, political figure
- Alan Alda, actor
- Ira Frederick Aldridge, 19th-century American actor
- Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
- Archibald Alphonso Alexander, design and construction engineer
- Jason Alexander, actor
- Lamar Alexander, political figure
- Sherman Alexie, writer
- Al-Ghazali, philosopher
- Muhammad Ali, boxer
- Samuel Alito, lawyer, jurist
- Debbie Allen, actor, producer, director
- Gracie Allen, actress
- Joan Allen, actor
- Kirstie Alley, actress
- Paul Allen, business personality, inventor
- Paula Gunn Allen, poet, novelist, critic
- Peter Allen, singer, songwriter
- Steve Allen, TV personality, writer, composer
- Tim Allen, actor
- Woody Allen, filmmaker
- Isabel Allende, author
- Chris Van Allsburg, writer, Illustrator
- Danny Almonte, baseball player
- Muqtada al-Sadr, religious figure, political figure
- Carol Alt, model
- Linda Alvarado, entrepreneur
- Julia Alvarez, author
- Michelle Alves, model
- Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri , al-Qaeda's theological leader
- Jorge Amado, novelist
- Amanirenas, queen of cush
- Christiane Amanpour, TV news correspondent
- Stephen Ambrose, military historian, writer
- Alessandra Ambrosio, model
- Don Ameche, actor
- Hossein Amini, screenwriter
- Elias Milton Ammons, rancher, public official
- Tori Amos, singer, pianist
- Roald Amundsen, explorer
- Rudolfo Anaya, writer
- Gillian Anderson, actor
- Ian Anderson, rock musician, songwriter
- Marian Anderson, singer
- Pamela Anderson, actor, model, Internet celebrity
- Paul Thomas Anderson, writer, director
- Wes Anderson, filmmaker
- Marc Andreessen, computer scientist, business personality
- Julie Andrews, actress
- Naveen Andrews, actor
- Mark Andrus, screenwriter
- Maya Angelou, writer, actor
- Jennifer Aniston, actor
- Rick Ankiel, baseball player
- Kofi Annan, political figure
- Jean-Jacques Annaud, director, screenwriter
- Princess Anne, princess royal
- Ann-Margret, actress
- Jean Anouilh, playwright, screenwriter, director
- Adam Ant, singer
- Marc Anthony, singer, actor
- Michael Anthony, bass player
- Susan B. Anthony, social reformer
- Mary Antin, writer, activist
- Gabrielle Anwar, actress
- Virginia Apgar, physician and anesthesiologist
- Apollo, mythical figure
- Fiona Apple, musician
- Christina Applegate, actor
- Michael Apted, director, producer
- Aragorn, fictional character
- Gregg Araki, director, screenwriter
- Jessie Arbogast, shark victim
- Fatty Arbuckle, comedian, filmmaker
- Diane Arbus, photographer
- Kevin Archer, fraud
- Jeffrey Archer, author, politician
- Elizabeth Arden, beautician, business executive
- Eve Arden, actress
- Ariel, animated character
- Francis Arinze, religious figure
- Adam Arkin, actor, director
- Armand Assante, actor
- Giorgio Armani, fashion designer
- James Armistead, patriot of the american revolution
- Karen Armstrong, writer, catholic nun
- Lance Armstrong, bicycle racer
- Louis Armstrong, jazz musician
- Neil Armstrong, astronaut
- James Arness, actor
- Patricia Arquette, actress
- Rosanna Arquette, actor
- Aaron Arrowsmith, cartographer
- John Arrowsmith, cartographer
- Shoko Asahara, religious figure, criminal
- Ashanti, singer
- John Ashcroft, political figure
- Dame Peggy Ashcroft, actress
- Arthur Ashe, tennis player
- Mary Kay Ash, business executive
- Elizabeth Ashley, actress
- Laura Ashley, fashion designer
- Ed Asner, actor
- Fred Astaire, dancer, actor
- Mary Astor, actress
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, political leader
- David Rice Atchison, U.S. senator
- Muhammed Atef, former al-Qaeda military leader
- Chet Atkins, guitarist, music producer, country musician
- Rowan Atkinson, actor, writer
- Charles Atlas, bodybuilder
- Paul Attanasio, screenwriter
- Sir Richard Attenborough, director, actor
- Crispus Attucks, revolutionary war figure
- Margaret Atwood, writer
- René Auberjonois, actor
- W. H. Auden, poet, dramatist
- Gene Autry, singer, actor
- Frankie Avalon, singer, actor
- Eric Avery, bassist
- Tex Avery, animator
- Avi, writer
- Teresa of Avila, saint, mystic
- Amedeo Avogadro, physicist
- Dan Aykroyd, comedian, actor
- Anne Ayres, protestant nun
- Lew Ayres, actor
- Hank Azaria, actor
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