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- Abbasi, Riza-yi (artist)
- Abd al-Karim al-Misri (instrument maker)
- Abd al-Malik (Umayyad caliph)
- Abraham (Hebrew patriarch)
- Achaemenes (legendary king of Persia)
- Achilles (Greek hero)
- Actaeon (Greek mythological hunter)
- Adad (Mesopotamian god)
- Adad-Nirari I (king of Assyria)
- Aeneas (Trojan prince)
- Agathocles (king of Bactria)
- Agnes (Christian saint)
- Ahmose (king of Egypt)
- Ahmose Merytamun (queen of Egypt)
- Ahmose Nefertari (queen of Egypt)
- Ahura-Mazda (Persian god)
- Akbar (Mughal emperor of India)
- Alberti, Leon Battista (humanist scholar)
- Aldegrever, Heinrich (artist)
- Alexander III 'the Great' (king of Macedon)
- Alexander, William (artist)
- Alfonso VIII (king of Castile)
- Alfred the Great (king of Wessex)
- Allectus (Roman emperor of Britain)
- al-Mansur (cAbbasid caliph)
- Almaqah (South Arabian god)
- Altdorfer, Albrecht (artist)
- Amenemhat III (king of Egypt)
- Amenemhat IV (king of Egypt)
- Amenhotep III (king of Egypt)
- Amenhotep IV (king of Egypt)
- Amman, Jost (artist)
- Amun (Egyptian god)
- Anahita (Iranian goddess)
- Anastasi, Giovanni (collector)
- Anderson, William (surgeon and collector)
- Andokides (Greek potter)
- Andrews, Sybil (printmaker)
- Andrieu, Bertrand (medallist)
- Ang Duong (king of Cambodia)
- Anning, Mary (Fossil collector)
- Antoinette, Marie (queen of France)
- Antoninus Pius (Roman emperor)
- Antwerpen, Hans van (goldsmith)
- Anu (Mesopotamian god)
- Anubis (Egyptian god)
- Any (Egyptian royal scribe)
- Apelles (Greek artist)
- Aphrodite (Greek goddess)
- Apollinaire, Guillaume (artist)
- Apollo (Greek god)
- Apsu (Sumero-Akkadian god)
- Arbinas (king of Lykia)
- Ardashir I (Sasanian king)
- Aretino, Pietro (Renaissance poet)
- Ariadne (daughter of King Minos)
- Aristaios (Greek god)
- Aristotle (Greek philosopher)
- Ariwara no Narihira (Japanese courtier and poet)
- Arnold, John (clockmaker)
- Arridaeus, Philip (king of Macedonia)
- Arsinoe II (queen of Egypt)
- Arsinoe III (queen of Egypt)
- Artaxerxes I (king of Persia)
- Artaxerxes III (king of Persia)
- Artemis (Greek goddess)
- artist)
- Arwa (Sulayhid queen of Yemen)
- Ashur (Assyrian god)
- Ashurbanipal (king of Assyria)
- Ashurnasirpal II (king of Assyria)
- Asklepios (Greek god)
- Asoka (Mauryan emperor of India)
- Astarte (Phoenician goddess)
- Aten (Egyptian god)
- Athanasi, Giovanni d' (collector)
- Athelstan (king of Mercia and Wessex)
- Athena (Greek goddess)
- Attakhushu (governor of Elam and ruler of Susa)
- Atum (Egyptian god)
- Augustine (Christian saint)
- Augustus Caesar (Roman emperor)
- Augustus III (elector of Saxony and king of Poland)
- Aurelian (Roman emperor)
- Avalokiteshvara (Buddhist bodhisattva)
- Avedissian, Chant (artist)
- Avelli, Francesco Xanto (maiolica painter)
- Azes I (Scythian king)
- Azuma Tōyō (artist)