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- John Adams (1735-1826) - American revolutionary and president
- Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) - post-war German chancellor
- Agricola (40 - 93 AD) - Roman governor of Britain
- Akhenaten (reigned 1352-1336 BC) - apostate Egyptian pharaoh
- Prince Albert (1819 - 1861) - husband of Queen Victoria
- Alexander III (1241 - 1286) - king of Scotland, remembered for period of peace
- Alexander the Great (356 - 323 BC) - Macedonian king, general, empire builder
- Alfred the Great (849 AD - 899 AD) - Anglo-Saxon king of Wessex, repelled the Danes
- Muhammad Ali (1942 - ) - Boxer and sporting legend
- Amenhotep III (c.1391 - c.1354 BC) - pharaoh at the height of Egyptian civilisation
- St Andrew - patron saint of Scotland
- Anne (1665 - 1714) - last Stuart monarch
- Sir Edward Appleton (1892 - 1965) - 20th century physicist, Nobel prize winner
- Archimedes (c.287 - c.212 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician
- Sir Richard Arkwright (1732 - 1792) - 18th century pioneer of the factory system
- Arthur (dates unknown) - mythical king of the Britons
- HH Asquith (1852 - 1928) - World War One Liberal prime minister
- Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) - founder of modern Turkey
- Athelstan (c. 895 - 939 AD) - first king of all the English, Anglo-Saxon
- Clement Attlee (1883 - 1967) - post-war Labour prime minister
- WH Auden (1907 - 1973) - 20th century poet
- Augustus (63 BC - AD 14) - first Roman emperor
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) - 19th century author
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