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• A. Barton HepburnBanker; chairman of the Chase National Bank in 1912–15.
• A. Piatt AndrewHarvard economics professor, adviser to the National Monetary Commission, later assistant Treasury secretary.
• Aaron SapiroLawyer who organised farmers’ marketing co-operatives. The Dearborn Independent falsely accused him of a conspiracy; he sued Henry Ford for libel in 1925.
• AbrahamPatriarch revered in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
• Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865Sixteenth President of the United States.
• Adam D'AngeloAmerican entrepreneur, CEO of Quora; an OpenAI board member since at least 2019.
• Adam ToozeEconomic historian; The Wages of Destruction (2006) gives the money of 1933 more weight than Turner does.
• Adolf Hitler 1889–1945Leader of the Nazi Party and German Chancellor from 30 January 1933; the Nuremberg Judgment records the extermination policy of his regime.
• Agathe Uwilingiyimana until 7 Apr 1994Prime Minister of Rwanda; killed on 7 April 1994.
• Ahmed RashidPakistani journalist and author on the Taliban.
• Ahmed Zaki Yamani 1930–2021Saudi Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Wealth in 1973.
• Alain WertheimerCo-owner of Chanel, with his brother Gérard, by Reuters’s account.
• Alan AttalAppointed to GameStop's board in January 2021, with Ryan Cohen, under an agreement with RC Ventures.
• Alan CranstonU.S. senator (D) from California in 1991; one of the Keating Five; reprimanded by the Senate Ethics Committee in November 1991.
• Alan GreenspanChairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006.
• Alan J. ZiobrowskiFinance and real estate scholar; lead author of the 2004 Senate study and the 2011 House study.
• Albert Einstein 1879–1955Physicist who signed the letter of 1939 warning President Roosevelt of a possible atomic bomb.
• Albert of Brandenburg 20 Jun 1490 – 24 Sep 1545Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, under whose name the indulgence of 1517 was preached in much of Germany.
• Albert Wohlstetter 1913–1997American strategist at the RAND Corporation.
• Alexander Butterfield 1926 –White House aide who told the Senate committee about the taping system.
• Alexander HamiltonFirst U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, responsible for the debt owed to France.
• Alexander Kerensky 4 May 1881 – 11 Jun 1970Russian politician; head of the Provisional Government from July 1917 until its overthrow in November 1917.
• Alexander KochLead author of a 2019 study of the population of the Americas in 1492 and its collapse.
• Alexander Parvus 27 Aug 1867 – 12 Dec 1924Russian-born German socialist and businessman who urged the German government to finance revolution in Russia.
• Alexander RamseyGovernor of Minnesota in 1862 and 1863.
• Alexander Ulyanov 1866 – 20 May 1887Vladimir Lenin's elder brother; a St Petersburg University student hanged in 1887 for taking part in an attempt on the life of Emperor Alexander III.
• Alexander YoungUnitarian minister who in 1841 put a footnote on Winslow’s letter calling it the first Thanksgiving.
• Alexandr Wang Jan 1997 –Co-founder of Scale AI and its CEO until June 2025; Chief AI Officer at Meta since June 2025.
• Alexis PleusFounder of Truth Pharm; mother of a son who died of an overdose in 2014.
• Alfred Hugenberg 1865–1951Press owner and chairman of the German National People’s Party from 1928.
• Alfred W. CrosbyHistorian who in 1976 defined the "virgin soil epidemic".
• Alfried Krupp 1907–1967Owner and head of the Krupp firm from December 1943; defendant in the Krupp case.
• Alice HamiltonAmerican physician of industrial medicine at Harvard who spoke at the 1925 conference on tetraethyl lead.
• Aliya Nazarbayeva 1980 –Businesswoman; head of a construction company.
• Allen Dulles 1893–1969Director of Central Intelligence from 1953 to November 1961; later a member of the Warren Commission.
• Allen StanfordFinancier convicted in 2012 of fraud and of obstructing an SEC investigation.
• Amadeus VI of Savoy 1334–1383Count of Savoy, in whose name an inquiry at Châtel in 1348 interrogated prisoners under torture.
• Anand GiridharadasWriter; author of Winners Take All.
• Andreas KarlstadtWittenberg theologian who debated Eck at Leipzig in 1519 before Luther took the floor.
• Andrei ShleiferAmerican economist; professor at Harvard University. Project director of a U.S.-funded advisory project in Russia run by the Harvard Institute for International Development.
• Andrew Carnegie 1835–1919Scottish-born Pittsburgh steelmaker and philanthropist.
• Andrew EggersPolitical scientist; co-author of Capitol Losses. A lecturer at the London School of Economics when the paper was written.
• Andrew FastowChief financial officer of Enron; pleaded guilty in 2004 and was sentenced in 2006 to six years.
• Andrew JacksonSeventh President of the United States; signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
• Andrew WalderSociologist; with Yang Su, author of a 2003 study of the Cultural Revolution in rural China.
• Andrés Manuel López ObradorPresident of Mexico from 2018 to 2024; in March 2019 he wrote to the King of Spain and the Pope asking for apologies.
• Andrés ReséndezHistorian of colonial Latin America and author of The Other Slavery (2016).
• Andy BechtolsheimCo-founder of Sun Microsystems; invested in Google in 1998.
• Angelo BecciuCardinal; formerly Substitute in the Vatican Secretariat of State; convicted by the Vatican Tribunal in 2023.
• Angelo CaloiaPresident of the Institute for the Works of Religion until 2009 (appointed 1989 per the Financial Times); convicted by the Vatican Tribunal in 2021.
• Angelo MoziloChief executive of Countrywide Financial.
• Ann TelnaesEditorial cartoonist; worked for The Washington Post from 2008 until she resigned in January 2025.
• Anna Paulina LunaU.S. Representative from Florida; chair of the House task force on declassifying federal secrets, which handled the 2025 Joannides release.
• Anne ApplebaumHistorian; author of Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine.
• Anne WojcickiCo-founder of the genetics company 23andMe and its CEO from 2010 to 2025; younger sister of Susan Wojcicki and former wife of Sergey Brin.
• Anne-Marie SlaughterCEO of New America in 2017.
• Anthony KennedyU.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote the Court’s opinion in Citizens United v. FEC (2010).
• Anthony RussoAmerican analyst, formerly at the RAND Corporation, who helped Daniel Ellsberg copy the Pentagon Papers.
• Antony C. Sutton 14 Feb 1925 – 17 Jun 2002British-born American economist and author of books on Western financing of the Soviet Union.
• Anwar Sadat 25 Dec 1918 – 6 Oct 1981President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981.
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand 1863–1914Heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, shot in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
• Archibald Cox 1912–2004American lawyer, the first Watergate Special Prosecutor.
• Arsène Pujo 1861–1939Louisiana congressman who chaired the House subcommittee on the money trust.
• Arthur Balfour 1848–1930British Foreign Secretary who signed the Balfour Declaration in November 1917.
• Arthur Conan Doyle 1859–1930British writer; author of The Crime of the Congo (1909).
• Arthur LevinsonBiochemist and Genentech chief executive; Google director from 2004.
• Arthur LevittChairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1998.
• Arthur Zimmermann 1864–1940German State Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1917.
• AtahualpaInca ruler taken prisoner at Cajamarca on 16 November 1532 and put to death in July 1533.
• Augusto Pinochet 1915–2006Chilean general who led the military junta from 1973.
• Avi ShlaimHistorian of Israel and the Arab world.