List of people by name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z
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- Abacha, Sani (1943-1998), dictator of Nigeria
- Abagnale, Frank (b. 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
- Abancourt, Charles d', (1758-1792), French statesman
- Abaris, priest of Apollo
- Abati (Niccolo Dell'Abbato), (1512-1571) artist
- Abba Mari (Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph), 14th century French rabbi
- Abbandando, Frank, (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
- Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert, (1848-1881), author
- Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d', (1810-1897), traveler
- Abbadie, Jakob, (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
- Abbas I, (1813-1854), pasha of Egypt
- Abbas I, (e. 1557-1628 or 1629), shah of Persia
- Abbas II, (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
- Abauzit, Firmin, (1679-1767), French scientist
- Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad, (1914-1987), film director
- Abbe, Ernst, (1840-1905), physicist
- Abbey, Edwin Austin, (1852-1911)
- Abbey, Lynn, US author
- Abbot, Archbishop George, (1562-1633), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Abbott, Diane Julie, (born September 27, 1953) British Labour MP
- Abbot, Ezra, (1819-1884), American biblical scholar
- Abbot, George, (1603-1648), English writer
- Abbot, Robert, (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine
- Abbot, William, (1798-1843), British actor
- Abbott, Bud, (1895-1974), US actor
- Abbott, Edwin Abbott, (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
- Abbott, Emma, (1849-1891), American singer
- Abbott, Jacob, (1803-1879), American writer
- Abbott, John Stevens Cabot, (1805-1877), American writer
- Abbott, Lyman, (1835- ), American divine and author
- Abbott, Russ, British comedian
- Abdul, Paula, (born 1962), US musician
- Abdul-Baha
- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, (born 1947), US athlete
- Abe Kobo, (1924-1993), Japanese author of The Woman In the Dunes, The Magic Chalk
- Abeken, Heinrich, (1809-1872)
- Abel, Karl Friedrich, (1723-1787), German composer
- Abel, Niels Henrik, (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician
- Abel, Thomas, (c. 1497-1540), an English priest
- Abd-ar-rahman I, (d.788), Muslim Spain ruler
- Abd-ar-rahman II, (d.852), Spanish Umayyad
- Abd-ar-rahman III, (912-961), prince of the Ummayad dynasty in Spain
- Abd-ar-rahman IV, (1017), Muslim Spain ruler
- Abd-ar-rahman V, (1023-1024), Muslim Spain ruler
- Abd-el-Aziz IV, (1880- ), sultan of Morocco
- Abd-el-Kader, (c. 1807-1883), Emir of Mascara
- Abd-el-latif, (1162-1231), physician and traveller
- Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa, (b. 1976), Yemeni pilot
- Abeille, Louis, (1765-1832), German composer
- Abelard, Peter, (1079-1142), French scholastic philosopher
- Abell, George Ogden, (USA, 1927-1983), astronomer
- Abercrombie, James (1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War
- Abercrombie, James (?-1775), British Colonel, killed at Bunker Hill.
- Abercrombie, John, (1780-1844), musician
- Abercromby, Robert, (1532-1613), Jesuit
- Aberhart, William, (1878-1943), Canadian politician
- Abernathy, Ralph, (1936-1996), US civil rights leader
- Abgar, (29 BC-26 BC)
- Abhijeet Kale, cricketer from Maharashtra, India, in the center of a selection scam
- Abhishek Bachhan, actor from India, son of Amitabh Bachhan
- Abich, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von, (1806-1886), German mineralogist, geologist
- Abington, Frances, (1737-1815), actor
- Abraham, (ca. 1800 BC), Biblical figure
- Abraham of Alexandria, (d.978), Coptic Pope
- Abraham, F. Murray, (born 1939), actor
- Abraham, Ralph, mathematician
- Abram, Joze, (1875-1938), poet
- Abrams, Albert, fraudulent doctor
- Abrams, Pete, cartoonist
- Abreu, Luis, actor
- Absalom, (ca. 1000 BC), Biblical figure, third son of David
- Absalon, (c. 1128-1201), Danish archbishop
- Abse, Dannie, (born 1923)
- Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi, (864-930)
- Abu Nidal, (1937-2002), Syrian terrorist
- Abu-Jamal, Mumia, (Wesley Cook, b. 1954), US journalist & activist
- Abulfeda, (1273-1331), geographer