| Mark Akenside (1721–1770), English poet and physician |
| John Yonge Akerman (1806–1873), English antiquarian, distinguished chiefly in the department of numismatics |
| Akhṭal (c. 640–c. 710), one of the most famous Arabian poets of the Omayyad period |
| William Alabaster (1567–1640), English Latin poet and scholar |
| Saint Marguerite Marie Alacoque (1647–1690), French nun and mystic |
| Alain de Lille (d. 1202), French theologian and poet |
| Lucas Alamán (1792–1853), Mexican statesman and historian |
| Luigi Alamanni (1495–1556), Italian statesman and poet |
| Baltasar Alamos de Barrientos (c. 1555–c. 1640), Spanish scholar |
| Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (1833–1891), Spanish writer |
| Jean Delphin Alard (1815–1888), French violinist and teacher |
| Alaric (c. 370–410), Gothic conqueror |
| Alaric II. (d. 507), eighth king of the Goths in Spain |
| Don Miguel Ricardo de Álava (1772–1843), Spanish general and statesman |
| Duke of Alba (1507–1583), Spanish soldier |
| Saint Alban, the protomartyr of Britain |
| Emma Albani (1847–1930), Canadian singer |
| Francesco Albani (1578–1660), Italian painter |
| Dukes of Albany |
| Countess of Albany (1752–1824), eldest daughter of Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Stolberg-Gedern |
| Albategnius (c. 850–929), Arab prince and astronomer |
| Earls and Dukes of Albemarle |
| George Monk, Duke of Albemarle (1608–1670), English soldier |
| Giulio Alberoni (1664–1752), Spanish-Italian Cardinal and statesman |
| Albert (1522–1557), Prince of Bayreuth, surnamed the Warlike |
| Albert I. (c. 1100–1170), Margrave of Brandenburg, surnamed the Bear |
| Albert III. (1414–1486), Elector of Brandenburg, surnamed Achilles |
| Albert (1819–1861), Prince-consort of England |
| Albert I. (c. 1250–1308), German King, and Duke of Austria |
| Albert II. (1397–1439), German King, King of Bohemia and Hungary, and Duke of Austria |
| Albert (1490–1545), Elector and Archbishop of Mainz, and Archbishop of Magdeburg |
| Albert (1490–1568), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, and first Duke of Prussia |
| Albert III. (1443–1500), Duke of Saxony, surnamed Animosus or the Courageous |
| Frederick Augustus Albert (1828–1902), King of Saxony |
| Albert (c. 1240–1314), Landgrave of Thuringia |
| Archduke Albert (1817–1895), Austrian field-marshal |
| Albert I. (1875–1934), King of the Belgians |
| Madame Albert (1805–1846), French actress |
| Albert of Aix (fl. c. 1100), historian of the First Crusade |
| Domenico Alberti (c. 1710–1740), Italian musician |
| Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), Italian painter, poet, philosopher, musician and architect |
| Mariotto Albertinelli (1474–1515), Italian painter |
| Saint Albertus Magnus (1193?–1280), Scholastic philosopher |
| Erasmus Alberus (c. 1500–1553), German humanist, reformer and poet |
| James Albery (1838–1889), English dramatist |
| Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1750), Italian musician |
| Albinovanus Pedo (First Century A.D.), Roman poet |
| Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697–1770), German anatomist |
| Joseph Albo (Fifteenth Century), Spanish Jewish theologian |
| Alboin (d. 572), King of the Lombards, and conqueror of Italy |
| Marietta Alboni (1826–1894), Italian opera-singer |
| Gil Alvarez Carrillo de Albornoz (1310–1367), Cardinal |
| Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736–1809), Austrian musician |
| Albret, name of one of the most powerful feudal families of France in the middle ages |
| Jacob Albright (1759–1808), American clergyman |
| Alphonso d’Albuquerque (1453–1515), Governor of Portuguese India |
| Alcæus (c. 620–c. 580 B.C.), Greek lyric poet |
| Alcamenes (fl. Fifth Century B.C.), Greek sculptor |
| Andrea Alciati (1492–1550), Italian jurist |
| Alcibiades (c. 450–404 B.C.), Athenian general and politician |
| Alcidamas (Fourth Century B.C.), Greek sophist and rhetorician |
| Alcinous (Second Century A.D.?), Platonic philosopher |
| Pietro Alcionio (1487–1527), Italian classical scholar |
| Alciphron (Second Century), Greek rhetorician |
| Alcmaeonidae, noble Athenian family |
| Alcman (Seventh Century B.C.), the founder of Doric lyric poetry |
| John Alcock (c. 1430–1500), English divine |
| Sir John Alcock (1892–1919), British airman |
| Sir Rutherford Alcock (1809–1897), British consul and diplomatist |
| Mariana Alcoforado (1640–1723), Portuguese authoress |
| Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888), American educationalist and writer |
| Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), American author |
| Alcuin (735–804), celebrated ecclesiastic and man of learning |
| Heinrich Aldegrever (1502–1558), German painter and engraver |
| Henry Mills Alden (1836–1919), American editor |
| John Alden (1599?–1687), one of the “Pilgrims” |
| Joseph Alden (1807–1885), American educator |
| William Livingston Alden (1837–1908), American author |
| Saint Aldhelm (640?–709), Bishop of Sherborne, English scholar |
| Giovanni Aldini (1762–1834), Italian physicist |
| Aldred (d. 1069), English ecclesiastic |
| Henry Aldrich (1647–1710), English theologian and philosopher |
| Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (1841–1915), American politician |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907), American author |
| Ira Aldridge (1807–1867), American negro tragedian |
| Count Johann von Aldringer (1588–1634), Austrian soldier |
| Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605?), Italian naturalist |
| Aleardo Aleardi (1812–1878), Italian poet |
| Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890), Rumanian lyric poet |
| Aleksandar Obrenović (1876–1903), King of Servia |
| Louis Aleman (c. 1390–1450), French Cardinal |
| Mateo Alemán (1547–1614?), Spanish novelist and man of letters |
| Jean le Rond d’Alembert (1717–1783), French mathematician and philosopher |
| Counts and Dukes of Alençon |
| Giulio Alenio (1582–1649), Italian Jesuit missionary |
| Alexander Alesius (1500–1565), Scottish divine |
| Galeazzo Alessi (1512–1572), Italian architect |
| Alexander I. (Fourth Century B.C.), King of Epirus |
| Alexander II. (Third Century B.C.), King of Epirus |
| Alexander the Great (356–323 B.C.), King of Macedon |
| Alexander (1461–1506), King of Poland and Grand-duke of Lithuania |
| Alexander, name of eight popes |
| Alexander I. (c. 1078–1124), King of Scotland |
| Alexander II. (1198–1249), King of Scotland |
| Alexander III. (1241–1285), King of Scotland |
| Alexander (1857–1893), first Prince of Bulgaria |
| Alexander I. (1777–1825), Emperor of Russia |
| Alexander II. (1818–1881), Emperor of Russia |
| Alexander III. (1845–1894), Emperor of Russia |
| Alexander (1893–1920), King of the Hellenes |
| Alexander I. (1888–1934), King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
| Alexander (Second Century), Greek rhetorician |
| Mrs. Alexander (1825–1902), British novelist |
| Archibald Alexander (1772–1851), American Presbyterian divine |
| Boyd Alexander (1873–1910), British soldier and explorer |
| Francis Alexander (1800–1880), American portrait-painter |
| Sir George Alexander (1858–1918), English actor |
| Sir James Edward Alexander (1803–1885), British soldier and traveller |
| John White Alexander (1856–1915), American painter |
| Joseph Addison Alexander (1809–1860), American biblical scholar |
| William Alexander, Archbishop of Armagh (1824–1911), Protestant Archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland |
| William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (1567?–1640), Scottish poet and statesman |
| William Lindsay Alexander (1808–1884), Scottish divine |
| Alexander Aetolus (fl. c. 280 B.C.), Greek poet and man of letters |
| Alexander Balas (d. 145 B.C.), ruler of the Greek kingdom of Syria |
| Alexander Jannaeus (c. 126–76 B.C.), King of the Jews |
| Saint Alexander Nevsky (1220–1263), Grand-duke of Vladimir |
| Alexander Polyhistor (c. 105–c. 35 B.C.), Greek grammarian |
| Alexander the Paphlagonian (Second Century A.D.), celebrated impostor and worker of false oracles |
| Alexander ab Alexandro (1461–1523), Italian jurist |
| Alexander of Aphrodisias (Second–Third Century), pupil of Aristocles of Messene |
| Alexander of Hales (c. 1185–1245), celebrated English theologian |
| Alexander of Pherae (Fourth Century B.C.), Tagus or despot of Pherae in Thessaly |
| Alexander of Tralles (c. 525–c. 605), Greek physician |
| Noël Alexandre (1639–1724), French theologian and ecclesiastical historian |
| Mikail Alexeyev (1857–1918), Russian general |
| Alexis (c. 375–c. 287 B.C.), Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy |
| Wilhelm Hüring (Willibald Alexis) (1798–1871), German historical novelist |
| Alexius I. Comnenus (1048–1118), Emperor of the East |
| Alexius II. Comnenus (1169–1183), Emperor of the East |
| Alexius III. Angelus (d. 1211), Emperor of the East |
| Alexius V. (fl. 1204), Eastern Roman Emperor |
| Alexius Mikhailovich (1629–1676), Tsar of Muscovy |
| Alexius Petrovich (1690–1718), Russian tsarevich |
| Domenico Alfani (c. 1483–1553), Italian painter |
| Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi (1013–1103), Jewish rabbi and codifier |
| Vittorio Alfieri (1749–1803), Italian dramatist |
| Henry Alford (1810–1871), English divine and scholar |
| Alfred of Beverley (Twelfth Century), Sacristan of the church of Beverley |
| Alfred the Great (849–899), King of England |
| Alessandro Algardi (1598–1654), Italian sculptor |
| Francesco Algarotti (1712–1764), Italian philosopher and writer on art |
| Alger of Liége (c. 1060–c. 1131), learned French priest |
| Horatio Alger (1834–1899), author and Unitarian minister |
| Russell Alexander Alger (1836–1907), American soldier and politician |
| William Rounseville Alger (1822–1905), American clergyman and author |
| Algirdas (1296?–1377), Grand-duke of Lithuania |
| Alhazen (965–1039), Arabian mathematician of the 11th century |
| Syed Ameer Ali (1849–1928), Indian jurist and Moslem leader |
| Ali Bey (1766–1818), Spanish traveller |
| Ali Pasha (1744?–1822), Turkish pasha of Iannina, surnamed Arslan, “the Lion” |
| Alice Maud Mary, Grand-Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt (1843–1878), second daughter and third child of Queen Victoria |
| ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (c. 600–661), fourth of the caliphs or successors of Mahomet |
| Oscar Josef Alin (1846–1900), Swedish historian and politician |
| Archibald Alison (1757–1839), Scottish author |
| Sir Archibald Alison (1792–1867), Scottish historian |
| Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888), French musical composer |
| Leone Allacci (1586–1669), Greek scholar and theologian |
| David Allan (1744–1796), Scottish historical painter |
| Sir Hugh Allan (1810–1882), Canadian financier |
| John Allan (1746–1805), American soldier |
| William Allan (1782–1850), Scottish painter |
| Louise Allan-Despréaux (1810–1856), French actress |
| Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1836–1925), English physician |
| Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652), Italian priest and musical composer |
| Joseph Alleine (1634–1668), English Nonconformist divine |
| Richard Alleine (1611–1681), English Puritan divine |
| Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832–1911), American poetess |
| Ethan Allen (1738–1789), American soldier |
| Grant Allen (1848–1899), English author |
| Horatio Allen (1802–1889), American civil engineer |
| Sir James Allen (1855–1942), New Zealand statesman |
| James Lane Allen (1849–1925), American novelist |
| John Allen (1476–1534), English divine |
| Thomas Allen (1542–1632), English mathematician |
| William Allen (1532–1594), English Cardinal |
| William Allen (1784–1868), author and educator |
| William Allen (1803–1879), American Democratic Senator from Ohio |
| William Francis Allen (1830–1889), American classical scholar |
| Edmund Henry Hyndman, Viscount Allenby (1861–1936), British field marshal |
| Isaac Allerton (1586–1658/9), one of the “Pilgrim Fathers” |
| Richard Allestree (1619–1681), royalist divine and Provost of Eton College |
| Edward Alleyn (1566–1626), English actor and founder of Dulwich College |
| Samuel Austin Allibone (1816–1889), American author and bibliographer |
| Thomas William Allies (1813–1903), English historical writer |
| William Allingham (1824–1889), Irish man of letters and poet |
| William Boyd Allison (1829–1908), American legislator |
| Pierre Allix (1641–1717), French Protestant divine |
| George James Allman (1812–1898), British biologist |
| Henry Allon (1818–1892), English Nonconformist divine |
| Alessandro Allori (1535–1607), Italian painter of the Florentine school |
| Sir James Joseph Allport (1811–1892), English railway manager |
| Samuel Allport (1816–1897), English petrologist |
| Washington Allston (1779–1843), American historical painter and poet |
| Abū l-‘Alā’ al-Ma‘arrī (973–1057), Arabian poet and letter-writer |
| Diego de Almagro (1475–1538), Spanish commander |
| Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912), British artist |
| Dom Francisco de Almeida (c. 1450–1510), first viceroy of Portuguese India |
| João Baptista da Silva Leitão, Visconde de Almeida-Garrett (1799–1854), perhaps the greatest Portuguese poet since Camões |
| John Almon (1737–1805), English political pamphleteer and publisher |
| Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793–1866), Swedish writer |
| Al-Muqaddasī (fl. 967–985), Arabian traveller |
| Al-Muqanna (fl. 778), man who posed as an incarnation of Deity, and headed a revolt in Khorāsān |
| A. L. O. E. (1821–1893), English author |
| Solomon Alofsen (1808–1876), historian and bibliophile |
| Aloung P’houra Alompra (1714–1760), founder of the last Burmese dynasty |
| Alp Arslan (1029?–1072), second sultan of the dynasty of Seljuk |
| Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (1817–1891), French civil engineer |
| Saint Alphege (954–1012), Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Alphonse I. (1103–1148), Count of Toulouse |
| Alphonse (1220–1271), Count of Toulouse and of Poitiers |
| Alphonso, name borne by a number of Portuguese and Spanish kings |
| Prospero Alpini (1553–1617), Italian physician and botanist |
| ‘Alqamah ibn ‘Abadah (Sixth Century), Arabian poet |
| Moses Alshekh (fl. Sixteenth Century), Jewish rabbi |
| Richard Alsop (1761–1815), American author |
| Vincent Alsop (c. 1630–1703), English Nonconformist divine |
| Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588–1638), German Protestant divine |
| Charles Alston (1683–1760), Scottish botanist |
| Theodosia Burr Alston (1783–1813), only daughter of Aaron Burr |
| Jonas Alströmer (1685–1761), Swedish industrial reformer |
| Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834–1893), Mexican soldier and poet |
| Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480–1538), German painter and engraver |
| Sir Charles Alten (1764–1840), Hanoverian and British soldier |
| John Peter Altgeld (1847–1902), American politician |
| Heinrich Alting (1583–1644), German divine |
| Jean-Jacques Altmeyer (1804–1877), Belgian historian |
| Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl (1578–1650), Mexican historian |
| Pedro de Alvarado (1485?–1541), one of the Spanish leaders in the discovery and conquest of America |
| Francisco Álvarez (c. 1465–1541?), Portuguese missionary and explorer |
| José Álvarez Cubero (1768–1827), Spanish sculptor |
| Juan Álvarez (1790–1867), Mexican general |
| Manuel Álvarez (1727–1797), Spanish sculptor |
| Nicasio Álvarez de Cienfuegos (1764–1809), Spanish poet and publicist |
| Max Alvary (1856–1898), German singer |
| Constantin von Alvensleben (1809–1892), Prussian general |
| Richard Everard Webster, Viscount Alverstone (1842–1915), Lord Chief Justice of England |
| Alyattes (d. 560 B.C.), King of Lydia |
| Alypius, Greek writer on music |
| Johannes Baptist Alzog (1808–1878), German theologian |
| Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur (1830–1913), Egyptian pasha and Sudanese governor |
| Albert Gérard Léo d’Amade (1856–1941), French general |
| Amadeo I. (1845–1890), King of Spain |
| José Amador de los Ríos (1818–1878), Spanish historian |
| Amal, name of the noblest family among the Ostrogoths |
| Amalaric (d. 531), King of the Visigoths |
| Amalasuntha (498–535), Queen of the Ostrogoths |
| Amalric, name of two kings of Jerusalem |
| Amalric of Bena (d. c. 1204–1207), French theologian |
| Amalteo, name of an Italian family belonging to Oderzo, Treviso |
| Pomponio Amalteo (1505–1588), Italian painter of the Venetian school |
| Sixtinus Amama (1593–1629), Dutch orientalist |
| Amarasiṃha (fl. c. 375 A.D.), Sanskrit grammarian and poet |
| Michele Amari (1806–1889), Italian orientalist and patriot |
| Amasis, name of two kings of ancient Egypt |
| Amati, name of a family of Italian violin-makers |
| Ambiorix (fl. 54 B.C.), Prince of the Eburones |
| Georges d’Amboise (1460–1510), French Cardinal and minister of state |
| August Wilhelm Ambros (1816–1876), Austrian composer and historian of music |
| Ambrose (fl. 1190), Norman poet, and chronicler of the Third Crusade |
| Saint Ambrose (c. 340–397), Bishop of Milan, one of the most eminent fathers of the church |
| Ambrose (1708–1771), Archbishop of Moscow |
| Autpert Ambrose (d. 784), French Benedictine monk |
| Isaac Ambrose (1604–1664), English Puritan divine |
| Bartolommeo Ambrosini (1588–1657), Italian naturalist |
| Johanna Ambrosius (1854–1939), German poetess |
| Ambrosius Aurelianus (Fifth Century), leader of the Britons against the Saxons |
| Johannes Amerbach (1441?–1513), celebrated printer |
| Fisher Ames (1758–1808), American statesman, orator and political writer |
| Joseph Ames (1689–1759), English author |
| Oakes Ames (1804–1873), American manufacturer, capitalist and politician |
| William Ames (1576–1633), English Puritan divine |
| Jeffrey, Baron Amherst (1717–1797), British soldier |
| William Pitt, Earl Amherst (1773–1857), Governor-general of India |
| Nicholas Amhurst (1697–1742), English poet and political writer |
| Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863), Italian astronomer and microscopist |
| Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881), Swiss philosopher and critic |
| Joseph Marie Amiot (1718–1793), French Jesuit missionary |
| Johann Conrad Amman (1669–1724), Swiss physician |
| Jost Amman (1539–1591), Swiss artist |
| Paul Amman (1634–1691), German physician and botanist |
| Bartolomeo Ammannati (1511–1592), Florentine architect and sculptor |
| Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 325/30–c. 391), last Roman historian of importance |
| Scipione Ammirato (1531–1601), Italian historian |
| Christoph Friedrich von Ammon (1766–1850), German theological writer and preacher |
| Ammonius Hermiae (Fifth Century), Greek philosopher |
| Ammonius Saccas (Third Century), Greek philosopher of Alexandria |
| Guillaume Amontons (1663–1705), French experimental philosopher |
| Eusebius Amort (1692–1775), German Catholic theologian |
| Thomas Amory (1691?–1788?), British author |
| Amos, in the Bible, an Israelitish prophet |
| Sheldon Amos (1835–1886), English jurist |
| Lucius Ampelius (Third Century?), possibly a tutor or schoolmaster, and author |
| André Marie Ampère (1775–1836), French physicist |
| Jean Jacques Ampère (1800–1864), French philologist and man of letters |
| Amram (d. c. 875), a famous gaon or head of the Jewish Academy of Sura |
| ‘Amr ibn al-‘Āṣ (570–663), one of the most famous of the first race of the Saracen leaders |
| ‘Amr ibn Kulthūm, Arabian poet |
| Nicolaus von Amsdorf (1483–1565), German Protestant reformer |
| Samuel Amsler (1791–1849), Swiss engraver |
| Miguel Luis Amunátegui (1828–1888), Chilean historian |
| Roald Amundsen (1872–1928), Norwegian polar explorer |
| Amyntas I. (c. 540–498 B.C.), King of Macedonia |
| Amyntas II. (Fourth Century B.C.), King of Macedonia |
| Jacques Amyot (1513–1593), French writer |
| Moïse Amyraut (1596–1664), French Protestant theologian and metaphysician |
| Anacharsis (fl. c. 600 B.C.), Scythian philosopher |
| Anacletus (First Century), second Bishop of Rome |
| Anacreon (582–485 B.C.), Greek lyric poet |
| ‘Anan Ben David (Eighth Century), Persian Jew |
| Ānanda, one of the principal disciples of the Buddha |
| Ananias, name occurring several times in the Old Testament and Apocrypha |
| Anastasius, name of four popes |
| Anastasius I. (c. 430–518), Roman Emperor |
| Anastasius II. (d. 721), Roman Emperor in the East |
| Jacob Anatoli (c. 1194–1256), Hebrew translator from the Arabic
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