Egyptian Christian monk, hermit, and saint (died 356)
Anthony the Great
Anthony the Great was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint.
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Flemish Baroque artist (1599–1641)
Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist, who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.
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French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.
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French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biolog
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Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов;
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Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist and politician.
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American lawyer and diplomat (born 1962) and former United States Secretary of State (2021–2025)
Antony Blinken
Antony John Blinken is an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the 71st United States secretary of state from 2021 to 2025.
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British playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689)
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era.
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2nd-century Numidian Latin-language writer, rhetorician and philosopher
Apuleius
Apuleius, also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis, was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician.
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