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- 1 abbey
- 1 Abbey playwright
- 1 abbot
- 1 Aberdeen's first female general practitioner
- 2 abolitionists
- 1 abstract artist
- 1 academic
- 1 a central figure in coloured picture printing
- 1 acrobat
- 2 activists
- 67 actors
- 9 actor-managers
- 27 actresses
- 1 actuary of Yeovil's first savings bank
- 4 administrators
- 1 Administrator of S Carolina
- 10 Admirals
- 2 Admiral of the Fleets
- 3 adventurers
- 1 advertising writer
- 1 advocate
- 1 advocate of family planning
- 1 advocate of the Copyright Law of 1909
- 1 advocate of the crash helmet
- 1 aerodrome
- 1 aesthete
- 1 AFC
- 1 African missionary
- 1 agriculturist
- 1 a hero in America
- 1 aide-de-camp
- 1 Air Chief Marshal
- 3 aircraft designers
- 1 aircraft manufacturer
- 12 aldermen
- 1 all-round sportsman
- 4 almshouses
- 1 alternate delegate to the United Nations
- 5 ambassadors
- 1 ambassador extraordinary
- 1 Ambassador Extraordinary to China
- 8 Americans
- 1 American Civil War hero
- 1 American patriot
- 1 American Revolutionary Army Officer
- 1 American sculptor
- 1 American Union Army soldier
- 1 AMICE
- 5 anatomists
- 1 anchoress
- 1 anchorite
- 1 animator
- 4 Antarctic explorers
- 1 antechapel
- 2 anthropologists
- 1 anti-apartheid activist
- 4 antiquarians
- 11 antiquaries
- 2 antiques dealers
- 3 anti-slavery campaigners
- 1 anti-slavery pioneer
- 1 anti-war campaigner
- 1 Apostle of Church Unity
- 3 apothecaries
- 1 applied mathematician
- 1 applied scientist
- 1 apprentice Dutch loom weaver
- 1 apprentice Japanning artist
- 1 arbitrator in industrial disputes
- 1 arcade
- 8 archaeologists
- 1 Archbishop of Armagh
- 5 Archbishop of Canterburies
- 1 Archbishop of Paderborn
- 3 Archbishop of Yorks
- 1 Archbishop's Palace
- 140 architects
- 1 architect of 1937 Irish constitution
- 1 architect of Calverley New Town
- 1 architect of suburbia
- 1 architects
- 1 architectural historian
- 1 architectural visionary
- 3 Arctic explorers
- 1 arctic voyager
- 1 Argentine soldier
- 1 armaments manufacturer
- 1 Army Mother
- 1 ARPS
- 1 arranger
- 1 ARSM
- 1 art collector
- 1 art critic
- 1 art dealer
- 1 art gallery
- 133 artists
- 1 artiste
- 1 artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre
- 1 artist in wax
- 1 art lover
- 1 arts & crafts organisation
- 2 art teachers
- 1 art tutor to the children of Queen Victoria
- 1 assassin
- 3 assistants
- 1 assistant master at Eton College
- 1 assistant secretary of the NAACP
- 3 associations
- 1 astrologer
- 23 astronomers
- 3 Astronomer Royals
- 1 astrophysicist
- 1 astrophysics researcher
- 1 asylum
- 2 athletes
- 1 atomic structure researcher
- 1 Attorney General
- 1 aunt
- 2 aural surgeons
- 2 Australians
- 1 Australia's Queen of Song
- 1 Austrian Chancellor
- 1 Austrian statesman
- 98 authors
- 6 authoresses
- 1 authoress of "Tales for Children in Verse"
- 1 authoress of the hymn "Nearer my God to Thee"
- 1 author of a dissertation concerning the use of sea water in diseases of the glands
- 1 author of A Scots Quair
- 1 author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- 1 author of Barnsley Streets
- 1 author of Black Beauty
- 2 author of books for boys
- 1 author of Bruis
- 1 author of Christians Awake
- 1 author of Common Sense
- 1 author of Democracy and Education
- 1 author of Dick and Sal at Canterbury Fair
- 1 author of Discourse on the Method
- 1 author of Dracula
- 1 author of Experience and Nature
- 1 author of Festus
- 1 author of Frankenstein
- 1 author of "Geometrie der Lage"
- 1 author of Goodnight Moon
- 1 author of Gulliver's Travels
- 1 author of In My Father's House
- 1 author of Journey's End
- 1 author of "Land of Hope & Glory"
- 1 author of local history books
- 1 author of Moby Dick
- 1 author of Moll Flanders
- 1 author of more than 300 books including the 18 novels of his Dartmoor Cycle
- 1 author of more than fifty books including We The Accused
- 1 author of My Antonia
- 1 author of National Velvet
- 1 author of Native Son
- 1 author of Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood
- 1 author of Peter Pan
- 1 author of 'Principles of Physical Geology'
- 1 author of "Rechnung auff der Linihen"
- 1 author of Religio Medici
- 1 author of Rights Of Man
- 1 author of Robinson Crusoe
- 1 author of Rule Britannia
- 1 author of Runaway Bunny
- 1 author of "Testament of Youth"
- 1 author of The Age of Reason
- 1 author of The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
- 1 author of The Co-operator
- 1 author of the Cosmographia
- 1 author of The Cruel Sea
- 1 author of 'The Dear Little Shamrock'
- 1 author of the first History of Hampstead
- 1 author of The Great Gatsby
- 1 author of the Gregorian calendar
- 1 author of the hymn 'Amazing Grace'
- 1 author of the James Herriott books
- 1 author of The Lord of the Rings
- 1 author of The Maple Leaf Forever
- 1 author of 'The Sacred Allegories'
- 1 author of The Vampyre
- 1 author of The Young Visitors
- 2 author of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Stars
- 1 author of Ulysses
- 1 author of Vitruvius Britannicus
- 1 automobile engineer
- 5 Auxiliary Firemen
- 1 Auxiliary Firewoman
- 3 aviation pioneers
- 5 aviators