Avinash Kamalakar Dixit is an Indian-American economist. He is the John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University, and has been Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at Lingnan University, senior research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and Sanjaya Lall Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford.
Avishai Margalit is an Israeli professor emeritus in philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2006 to 2011, he served as the George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Avitus of Braga was an early fifth-century literary priest of Braga (Portugal), who travelled to consult with Augustine and attend the Council of Jerusalem (415) that found against Pelagius. He is remembered for having produced a Latin translation of the first-person account of the miraculous finding of Saint Stephen's tomb near Jerusalem in 415, which he prefaced by a general letter. His personal concern was embodied in relics of the Protomartyr, which would have encouraged the pilgrimage trade at Braga and which he entrusted to Paulus Orosius, also of Braga, to deliver there. Orosius, however, reaching Majorca and hearing daunting news of conditions in Hispania, which was disordered by the invasion of the Vandals, left the relics, which have disappeared, and returned to North Africa.
Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus was a Latin poet and bishop of Vienne in Gaul. His fame rests in part on his poetry, but also on the role he played as secretary for the Burgundian kings.
Aviv Geffen is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter and the son of writer and poet Yehonatan Geffen and Nurit Makover, brother of actress Shira Geffen, and an alumnus of Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. In addition to his solo career, Geffen is a founding member of the band Blackfield, he was also the global music director for WeWork.
Avksenty Tsagareli was a Georgian playwright particularly known for his comedies. He was described in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia as "one of the finest representatives of realistic drama."
Avner Friedman is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Physical Sciences at Ohio State University. His primary field of research is partial differential equations, with interests in stochastic processes, mathematical modeling, free boundary problems, and control theory.
Avraamy Palitsyn was a 17th-century Russian historian. Born near Rostov, he was the cellarer at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra from 1606 to 1613. Palitsyn died in the Solovetsky Monastery on 13 September 1626.
Avraham "Avrum" Burg is an Israeli author, politician and businessman. He was a member of the Knesset, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Speaker of the Knesset, and Interim President of Israel. He was the first Speaker of the Knesset to have been born in Israel after its declaration of independence in 1948. A member of the Labor Party when he was a member of the Knesset, Burg announced in January 2015 that he had joined Hadash.
Abraham Dov Ber Lebensohn, also known by the pen names Abraham Dov-Ber Michailishker and Adam ha-Kohen, was a Lithuanian Jewish Hebraist, poet and educator.
