| AAbigail AdamsFirst Lady of the United States | Politician | American | 18th century | 3 | 3.5 |
 Abraham LincolnLawyer, politician 16thPresident of the United States[Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth] | Politician | American | 19th century | 106 | 4.4 |
 Adolf HitlerGerman Dictator | Politician | German | 19th century | 41 | 3.3 |
| AAeschylusGreek dramatist | Writer | Greek | 6th century BC | 15 | 4.2 |
| AAesopGreek fabulist | Writer | Greek | 7th century BC | 16 | 4.8 |
 Alan GreenspanAmerican Economist | Economist | American | 20th century | 77 | 3.3 |
 Alan TuringEnglish Mathematician | Mathematician | English | 20th century | 8 | 4.3 |
 Albert CamusFrench novelist, essayist and dramatist [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957] | Novelist | French | 20th century | 70 | 3.6 |
 Albert EinsteinGerman-Statless-Swiss-Austrian -American scientist | Physicist | German | 19th century | 116 | 3.3 |
 Albert SchweitzerGerman theologian, philosopher, and physician[Citizenships: German (1875–1919) French (1919–1965)] | Theologian | German-French | 19th century | 26 | 4.0 |
 Aldous HuxleyBritish author ['Brave New World'] | Author | British | 19th century | 67 | 4.4 |
 Alexander PopeEnglish poet and satirist | Poet | English | 17th century | 77 | 3.1 |
| AAlexander SolzhenitsynRussian novelist, dramatist and historian | Novelist | Russian | 20th century | 13 | 3.6 |
| AAlexis CarrelFrench surgeon, biologist and eugenicist | Scientist | French | 19th century | 5 | 3.1 |
 Alexis de TocquevilleFrench social philosopher | Philosopher | French | 19th century | 23 | 4.8 |
| AAlfred AdlerAustrian medical doctor, and psychotherapist | Scientist | Austrian | 19th century | 10 | 4.5 |
 Alfred HitchcockBritish-born film director | Film director | British | 19th century | 1 | 4.3 |
 Alfred North WhiteheadEnglish mathematician | Mathematician | English | 19th century | 19 | 3.8 |
| AAllen GinsbergAmerican poet | Poet | American | 20th century | 2 | 3.4 |
| AAlphonse DaudetFrench short-story Writerand novelist, now rememb | Writer | French | 19th century | 1 | 4.6 |
 Ambrose BierceAmerican newspaperman and short-story writer | Writer | American | 19th century | 75 | 3.2 |
 Amos Bronson AlcottAmerican educator | Educator | American | 18th century | 20 | 4.9 |
| AAnaïs NinFrench author | Author | French | 20th century | 12 | 3.9 |
 Anatole FranceFrench Writer[Born François-Anatole Thibault] | Writer | French | 19th century | 28 | 4.5 |
 André BretonFrench writer, poet, and surrealist theorist | Writer | French | 19th century | 11 | 3.8 |
 André MauroisFrench writer | Writer | French | 19th century | 19 | 4.1 |
 Andy WarholAmerican artist and filmmaker | Painter | American | 20th century | 13 | 4.9 |
 Angela MerkelGerman Politician | Politician | German | 20th century | 46 | 3.4 |
| AAnonymous | — | — | — | 1299 | 4.0 |
| AAnthony BurgessEnglish author | Author | English | 20th century | 6 | 3.2 |
 Antoine de Saint-ExuperyFrench aviator and writer['Le Petit Prince'] | Writer | French | 19th century | 27 | 3.9 |
 Antoine RivarolFrench Writerand epigrammatist | Writer | French | 18th century | 7 | 4.3 |
| AAnton ChekhovRussian author | Author | Russian | 19th century | 7 | 3.0 |
| AAntonin ArtaudFrench playwright, and poet | Poet | French | 19th century | 6 | 3.0 |
 Arabian proverb | — | Arabian | — | 23 | 4.8 |
| AArchimedesGreek Mathematician | Mathematician | Greek | 3rd century BC | 3 | 4.4 |
 AristotleGreek philosopher and scientist [Tutor of Alexander the Great] | Philosopher | Greek | 4th century BC | 91 | 4.2 |
| AAristotle OnassisGreek Businessman | Businessman | Greek | 20th century | 7 | 4.4 |
| AArnold BennettEnglish novelist | Novelist | English | 19th century | 16 | 3.8 |
| AArnold SchoenbergAustrian Musician | Musician | Austrian | 19th century | 2 | 4.2 |
| AArthur MillerAmerican Dramatist | Writer | American | 20th century | 4 | 3.9 |
 Arthur RimbaudFrench poet and adventurer | Poet | French | 19th century | 10 | 3.0 |
 Arthur SchopenhauerGerman philosopher['Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung'] | Philosopher | German | 18th century | 60 | 4.1 |
 Auguste RodinFrench sculptor | Scientist | French | 19th century | 2 | 4.2 |
 Ayn RandRussian-born American writer | Writer | American | 20th century | 8 | 4.4 |
