Remarkable people
Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.
Jennifer Aniston
American actress
Jennifer Joanna Anistonis an American actress and producer. She rose to international fame for her role as Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends from 1994 to 2004, for which she earned Primeti...
Christina Applegate
American actress
Christina Applegateis an American actress. She gained recognition in the late 1980s for playing Kelly Bundy in the Fox sitcom Married... with Children (1987–1997). Her titular role in the sitcom Jesse...
Steffan Aquarone
UK entrepreneur
Steffan Luke Aquaroneis a UK entrepreneur in the film and technology sectors. His projects involve collaboration between large groups of people with a common interest and are often crowd-source financ...
Robert Aramayo
English actor
Robert Michael Aramayois an English actor. From 2016 to 2017, he played the role of young Eddard Stark in the sixth and seventh season of the HBO series Game of Thrones. In 2021, he starred in the Net...
Cameron Archer
English professional footballer
Cameron Desmond Archeris an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League football club Sheffield United. Archer is a product of the Aston Villa Academy. He joined the Asto...
The Lee Miller Archives
Science and education
The Lee Miller Archives is a small privately run archive which is dedicated to conserving, publishing and cataloguing the lifestyle and holding of work by Lee Miller, the photography of her husband Ro
Fanny Ardant
French actress and film director
Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardantis a French actress and film director. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two César Awards and a Lumières Award. Career By the early 1980s, Ardant was ...
Argus
Advertising and media
Argus is an independent media organisation with almost 1100 staff. It is headquartered in London and has 26 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading and production centres. Argus produ
Alan Arkin
American actor
Alan Wolf Arkinwas an American actor, filmmaker and musician. In a career spanning seven decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a...
Giorgio Armani
Consumer goods
Giorgio Armani S.p.A., commonly known as Armani, is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in Milan by Giorgio Armani which designs, manufactures, distributes
Harrison Armstrong
English rapper
Harrison James Armstrong, known professionally asAitch, is an English rapper from Manchester. He rose to fame in 2018 with the track "Straight Rhymez". His debut studio album Close to Home (2022) reac...
Lisa Armstrong
Make-up artist
Lisa Marie Armstrongis a former member of pop band Deuce and was make-up artist for the ITV programme This Morning, until becoming make-up supervisor for the ITV quiz show Pick Me and ITV prime-time e...
Alexander Armstrong
English actor
Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrongis an English actor, comedian, radio personality, television presenter and singer. He is the host of the BBC One game show Pointless, as well as the morning show on Cl...
Matteo Arnaldi
Italian professional tennis player
Matteo Arnaldiis an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 38, achieved on 29 January 2024, and a career high doubles ranking of world No. 286, achie...
William Arnett
Canadian and American actor and comedian
William Emerson Arnettis a Canadian and American actor and comedian. He is widely known for his roles as Gob Bluth in the Fox/Netflix sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and the t...
Andrea Arnold
English filmmaker and former actor
Andrea Arnoldis an English filmmaker and former actor. She won an Academy Award for her short film Wasp in 2005. Her feature films include Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009), and American Honey (2016),...
Darren Aronofsky
American filmmaker
Darren Aronofskyis an American filmmaker. His films are noted for their surreal, melodramatic, and often disturbing elements, frequently in the form of psychological fiction. Aronofsky studied film an...
Gemma Arterton
English actress
Gemma Christina Artertonis an English actress. After her stage debut in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe Theatre (2007), Arterton made her feature-film debut in the comedy St Trinian's ...
Mikel Arteta
Spanish professional football manager
Mikel Arteta Amatriainis a Spanish professional football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Premier League club Arsenal. As a manager, he is known for his tactical innovation and...
Ascential
Advertising and media
Ascential plc, formerly EMAP, is a British business-to-business media business specialising in exhibitions & festivals and information services. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange