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- A Dominie's LogA.S. Neill's A Dominie's Log is a diary of his first year as headteacher at Gretna Green V
- A Man of MisconceptionsA Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change is a biography writt
- A. J. MundellaAnthony John Mundella PC (28 March 1825– 21 July 1897) was an English manufacturer and lat
- A. P. ElkinAustralian anthropologist (1891–1979)
- A. S. NeillScottish progressive school founder (1883–1973)
- Aaron BeckAmerican psychiatrist and academic (1921–2021)
- Aaron FriedbergAaron Louis Friedberg (born April 16, 1956) is an American political scientist. He served
- Aba IAba I (or, with his Syriac honorific, Mar Aba I) or Mar Abba the Great was the Patriarch o
- Abd El-Razzak El-SanhuriEgyptian legal scholar (1895-1971)
- Abraham FlexnerAmerican educator (1866–1959)
- Abraham OrteliusDutch cartographer, geographer and cosmographer (1527–1598)
- Adam FergusonScottish philosopher and historian (1723–1816)
- Adam František KollárSlovak jurist (1718–1783)
- Adam KuperSouth African social anthropologist
- Adam SmithScottish economist and philosopher (1723–1790)
- Adam WeishauptGerman philosopher and founder of the Bavarian Illuminati (1748–1830)
- Adel AbdessemedAdel Abdessemed (born 1971) is an Algerian-French contemporary artist. He has worked in a
- Adrian Henry Wardle RobinsonAdrian Henry Wardle Robinson (12 June 1925 – 22 November 2018) was a British geographer no
- Aesthetics of musicAesthetics of music is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of art, beauty an
- Agnes BusbyAgnes Busby (c. 1800 – 13 October 1889) was an early European settler in Australia and New
- Akhtar Hameed KhanPakistani scientist and activist (1914–1999)
- Alan DershowitzAmerican lawyer and author (born 1938)
- Alan LomaxAmerican musicologist (1915–2002)
- Alan RyanAlan James Ryan FBA (born 9 May 1940) is a British philosopher. He was Professor of Politi
- Alan WattsBritish and American writer and lecturer (1915–1973)
- Alberico GentiliItalian jurist (1552–1608)
- Albert J. ReissAlbert John Reiss Jr. (December 9, 1922 – April 27, 2006) was an American sociologist and
- Albert O. HirschmanAmerican economist (1915–2012)
- Albert of Saxony (philosopher)German theologian and philosopher (c.1320-1390)
- Albert SchweitzerGerman polymath (1875–1965)
- Albert SoboulFrench historian
- Aleksey KhomyakovRussian philosopher (1804–1860)
- Alexander VovinRussian-American linguist (1961–2022)
- Alexandre LacassagneFrench criminologist (1843–1924)
- Alf AhlbergAlf Ahlberg (21 October 1892 – 29 January 1979) was a Swedish academic, writer, humanist a
- Alfonso CasoMexican archaeologist (1896–1970)
- Alfred KroeberAmerican anthropologist (1876–1960)
- Alfred Radcliffe-BrownBritish social anthropologist (1881–1955)
- Alice Freeman PalmerAmerican educator (1855-1902)
- All Saints' Church, StamfordAll Saints' Church, Stamford is a parish church in the Church of England, situated in Stam
- Allan LukeAllan Luke AO (born 1950) is an educator, researcher, and theorist studying literacy, mult
- Allan NevinsAmerican historian and journalist (1890–1971)
- Alois AlzheimerGerman psychiatrist and neuropathologist (1864–1915)
- Alvin E. RothAmerican economist (born 1951)
- Amadou Hampâté BâMalian writer, historian and ethnologist
- American Federation of ArtsThe American Federation of Arts (AFA) is a nonprofit organization that creates art exhibit
- American Institutes for ResearchThe American Institutes for Research (AIR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan behavioral and soci
- American Studies AssociationThe American Studies Association (ASA) is a scholarly organization devoted to the interdis
- Amos Bronson AlcottAmerican educator (1799–1888)
- Anacharsis ClootsPrussian nobleman (1755–1794)
- Anatol RapoportRussian-born American mathematical psychologist (1911–2007)
- Anatoly KhazanovSoviet-American anthropologist and historian
- Anders ChydeniusSwedish-Finnish priest, politician, enlightenment thinker and economist (1729–1803)
- Andrew C. McLaughlinAndrew Cunningham McLaughlin (February 14, 1861 – September 24, 1947) was an American hist
- Andrey KorotayevRussian anthropologist (born 1961)
- Anita BrooknerEnglish novelist and art historian (1928–2016)
- Anita SarkeesianCanadian-American feminist media critic (born 1983)
- Anna E. CooperAnna E. Cooper (July 22, 1897 – 1988) was a Liberian educator, she was the first female de
- Anna J. CooperAfrican-American author, educator, speaker, and scholar (1858–1964)
- Anna Maria van SchurmanDutch artist, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist (1607-1678)
- Anna WierzbickaPolish linguist (born 1938)
- Anne HollanderAnne Helen Loesser Hollander (October 16, 1930 – July 6, 2014) was an American historian w
- Anne W. SimonAnne W. Simon (1914 – July 29, 1996) was an American writer and environmentalist.
- Anthony BluntBritish art historian and Soviet spy (1907–1983)
- Anthony PanizziItalian-British librarian (1797–1879)
- Anton MakarenkoSoviet educator, social worker and writer
- Antonin ScaliaUS Supreme Court justice from 1986 to 2016
- Antonio de NebrijaSpanish humanist (1444–1522)
- Antony BeevorEnglish military historian (born 1946)
- Archives of American ArtThe Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting th
- Ariel DurantAmerican historian (1898–1981)
- AristotleAncient Greek philosopher and polymath (384–322 BC)
- Arjun AppaduraiIndian-American anthropologist (born 1949)
- Arlene RavenAmerican art historian (1944–2006)
- Arno PetersGerman historian and filmmaker (1916–2002)
- Arnold J. ToynbeeBritish historian (1889–1975)
- Arthur Cecil PigouEnglish economist (1877–1959)
- Arthur H. RobinsonAmerican geographer and cartographer
- Arthur KeithBritish anatomist and anthropologist (1866–1955)
- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.American intellectual (1917–2007)
- Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.American historian (1888–1965)
- Ashley MontaguBritish-American anthropologist
- Athanasius KircherGerman Jesuit scholar and polymath (1602–1680)
- Audrey RichardsBritish anthropologist (1899–1984)
- August Immanuel BekkerAugust Immanuel Bekker (21 May 1785 – 7 June 1871) was a German philologist and critic.
- August SchleicherGerman philologist (1821–1868)
- Aurum, NevadaAurum is a ghost town in White Pine County, Nevada, United States.
- Autostrada A29 (Italy)The Autostrada A29 or Autostrada del Sale ("Salt motorway") is an autostrada (Italian for
- AvempaceArab Andalusian polymath (c. 1085 – 1138)
- Avi ShlaimIsraeli-British historian (born 1945)