Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1954)
Ang Lee
Ang Lee is a Taiwanese filmmaker.
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American political activist, scholar, and author (born 1944)
Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis is an American Marxist feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, author.
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Russian poet (1889–1966)
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, known by her pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian and Soviet poet.
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Russian journalist (1958–2006)
Anna Politkovskaya
Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was a Russian investigative journalist who reported on political and social events in Russia, in particular, the Second Chechen War.
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British novelist and poet (1820-1849)
Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë was an English novelist and poet.
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American author (1941–2021)
Anne Rice
Anne Rice was an American author of Gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Bible fiction.
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British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator (1847-1933)
Annie Besant
Annie Besant was an English socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and activist, educationist, involved in women's rights, Home Rule, and Indian nationalism.
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French writer (born 1940)
Annie Ernaux
Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements, and collective restraints of personal memory".
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11th‑century Benedictine monk, Archbishop of Canterbury, philosopher and theologian
Anselm of Canterbury
Anselm of Canterbury, also known as Anselm of Aosta after his birthplace and Anselm of Bec after his monastery, was a Benedictine abbot, philosopher and theologian who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109.
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