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Avril Ramona Lavigne is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actress. By the age of 15, she had appeared on stage with Shania Twain, and by 16, she had signed a two-album recording contract with Arista Records worth more than $2 million.

Tim Bergling, known by his stage name Avicii, was a Swedish DJ, remixer, record producer, musician, and songwriter.

Avraam Russo is a Syrian-born Russian pop singer of Armenian origin. In 2006 he suffered an assassination attempt in Russia and was severely injured. He recovered and moved to New York City.

Ibn Sina, also known as Abu Ali Sina, Pur Sina (پورسینا), and often known in the West as Avicenna, was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age, and the father of early modern medicine. Sajjad H. Rizvi has called Avicenna "arguably the most influential philosopher of the pre-modern era". He was a Muslim Peripatetic philosopher influenced by Aristotelian philosophy. Of the 450 works he is believed to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine.

Avery Antonio Bradley Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Texas Longhorns before being drafted 19th overall by the Boston Celtics in the 2010 NBA draft. With the Celtics, he was twice recognized as an NBA All-Defensive Team member. Bradley has also played for the Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers, Memphis Grizzlies and Los Angeles Lakers.

Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress and singer. She first signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew critics' attention in 1946 with her performance in Robert Siodmak's Noir film The Killers. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1953 for her performance in John Ford's Mogambo, and in 1964 for best actress for both a Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for her performance in John Huston's The Night of the Iguana.

Avan Tudor Jogia is a Canadian actor, singer, and activist. He is best known for his television roles Beck Oliver in Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious, Danny Desai in ABC Family drama Twisted, Roman Mercer in Syfy paranormal action series Ghost Wars, and Ulysses Zane in Starz comedy Now Apocalypse.

Avi Barot was an Indian cricketer who played for Saurashtra. He played 38 first-class matches, 38 List A matches, and 20 Twenty20 matches during his career, including 21 matches in the Ranji Trophy, 17 List A and 11 domestic T20 matches for Saurashtra. He played as a right-handed wicket-keeper-batsman and scored 1,547 runs, 1,030 runs and 717 runs in first-class, List-A and T20 respectively.

Avril Danica Haines is an American lawyer and government official who is the director of national intelligence in the Biden administration. Haines previously served as Deputy National Security Advisor and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Obama administration, the first woman to hold this position. Prior to her appointment to the CIA, she served as Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in the Office of White House Counsel.

Avelino Trifón Guillén Jáuregui, is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. Since 4 November 2021, he has been Minister of the Interior of Peru in the Pedro Castillo government.

Ava Marie DuVernay is an American filmmaker. She won the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film Middle of Nowhere, becoming the first black woman to win the award. For her work on Selma (2014), DuVernay became the first black woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and also the first black female director to have her film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2017, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for her film 13th (2016).

Ibn Rushd, often Latinized as Averroes, was a Muslim Andalusian polymath and jurist who wrote about many subjects, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, Islamic jurisprudence and law, and linguistics. The author of more than 100 books and treatises, his philosophical works include numerous commentaries on Aristotle, for which he was known in the western world as The Commentator and Father of rationalism. Ibn Rushd also served as a chief judge and a court physician for the Almohad Caliphate.

Avni Yildirim is a Turkish professional boxer who challenged for the IBO super-middleweight title in 2017 and the WBC super-middleweight title in 2019.

Avriel Benjamin "Avi" Kaplan is an American singer and songwriter, best known as a past member of the a cappella group Pentatonix. He is known for his deep bass voice, and often acted as the vocal bass of Pentatonix. In May 2017, Kaplan announced that he was leaving Pentatonix following their upcoming tour.

Ava Michelle Cota is an American actress, dancer, singer and model. She is best known for her role as the character Jodi Kreyman in the Netflix comedy, Tall Girl. She is also well known from the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh seasons of Dance Moms, as well as being a member of the Select Ensemble team in season four for a short time.

Amanda Ava Koci, known professionally as Ava Max, is an American singer and songwriter. After moving across several states to pursue a music career during her childhood, Max signed with Atlantic Records in 2016, where she released the song "Sweet but Psycho" in August 2018. It became her breakthrough single after peaking at number one in 22 countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, and New Zealand. The song also peaked at number two in Australia, and number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Max released her debut studio album Heaven & Hell on September 18, 2020.

Avram A. "Avie" Glazer is an American businessman, a member of the Glazer family, who owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League and hold a majority ownership stake in English football club Manchester United F.C. He is the son of Malcolm Glazer.

Avery DeWitt Johnson is an American basketball coach and former player who most recently served as head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team.

Avani Lekhara is an Indian Paralympian and rifle shooter. She won a gold medal in 10m air rifle standing at Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Lekhara is currently World No 5 in Women's 10m Air Rifle standing SH1 and has competed in the 2018 Asian Para Games. She has been supported by GoSports Foundation through the Para Champions Programme.

Aviis Zhong is a Taiwanese actress. She is best known for her leading roles in the dramas Iron Ladies and The Wonder Woman.

Myron Lavell Avant, also known as Avant, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and a stage-play actor. He is known for his songs "Separated", "Read Your Mind", and "Makin' Good Love". He has produced three Platinum-selling albums. He has released 15 singles and 7 albums.

Avinash Tiwary is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films. He rose to prominence in 2018 with the leading role in the romantic movie Laila Majnu by Sajid Ali and Imitiaz Ali.

Avery Milton Williamson is an American football linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the fifth round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played college football at Kentucky.

Avi Nash, is an American actor known for his role as Siddiq in the AMC post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead (2017–2020).

Avishai Cohen is an Israeli jazz double bassist, composer, singer, and arranger.

Avika Gor is an Indian film and television actress. She predominantly works in Tollywood film industry and Hindi Television Soap Operas.She is known for playing the role Anandi in Hindi Television series Balika Vadhu. Some of her successful films include Uyyala Jampala (2013), Cinema Choopistha Mava (2015) and Raju Gari Gadhi 3 (2019).

Avigdor Lieberman is a Soviet-born Israeli politician who served as the Defense Minister of Israel from 2016 to 2018; on 14 November 2018, he resigned because of a ceasefire in Gaza which he characterized as "surrendering to terror." He served as Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2012, and again from 2013 to 2015. He has also served as member of the Knesset and as Deputy Prime Minister of Israel.

Avinash Sachdev is an Indian television actor known for portraying Dev in Chotti Bahu and Shlok Agnihotri in Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?...Ek Baar Phir.

Avesh Khan is an Indian cricketer. In December 2015 he was named in India's squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He made his Twenty20 debut for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2017 Indian Premier League on 14 May 2017.

Avraham "Avram" Grant is an Israeli football manager. Grant has spent the majority of his career coaching and managing in Israel, winning a number of national league and cup victories with different teams, and also managing the Israeli national team for four years.