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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)
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