People with A Initials

From AA to AZ, name the famous person with each set of initials.

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First submitted	November 26, 2010
Times taken	63,755
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	Clue	Person
AA	Tennis player whose main rival was Pete Sampras	Andre Agassi
AB	Second wife of Henry VIII	Anne Boleyn
AC	Gangster called "Scarface"	Al Capone
AD	"The Three Musketeers" author	Alexandre Dumas
AE	E = mc², he theorized	Albert Einstein
AF	"R-E-S-P-E-C-T", she sang	Aretha Franklin
AG	Paul Simon's partner	Art Garfunkel
AH	Notable führer	Adolf Hitler
AI	Basketball player with corn rows nicknamed "The Answer"	Allen Iverson
AJ	U.S. President who killed a man in a duel	Andrew Jackson
AK	Director of "Seven Samurai"	Akira Kurosawa
AL	The 16th U.S. President	Abraham Lincoln
AM	Canadian singer with a poor grasp of the word "irony"	Alanis Morissette

	Clue	Person
AN	Inventor of dynamite	Alfred Nobel
AO	Second husband of Jackie Kennedy	Aristotle Onassis
AP	"The Godfather" actor	Al Pacino
AQ	Star of "Zorba the Greek"	Anthony Quinn
AR	Author of "Atlas Shrugged"	Ayn Rand
AS	Austria's most famous bodybuilder	Arnold Schwarzenegger
AT	Late "Jeopardy" host	Alex Trebek
AU	Four-time Indy 500 winner	Al Unser
AV	Mapmaker and namesake of two continents	Amerigo Vespucci
AW	She didn't want to go to rehab, no no no	Amy Winehouse
AY	Singer of "Amish Paradise" and "Like a Surgeon"	Al Yankovic
AZ	He filmed the Kennedy assassination	Abraham Zapruder

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74 Comments

Level 31

May 3, 2013

Scarface clue threw me. I kept thinking about the movie.

Level 59

Jan 18, 2019

IKR. All I though of was "Tony Montana doesn't have AC initials." Totally forgot that real world exists too :-D

Level 57

Jun 1, 2025

Well Tony is probably short for Anthony or Antonio

Level 29

May 6, 2013

al roker should have been on there, and alex trevek needs more spelling options, but fun quiz

+19

Level 80

May 30, 2014

There is another spelling option for Trevek. Try "Trebek".

Level 80

May 30, 2014

Kept putting "Puzo" for the Godfather, doh! I guess Mario doesn't start with an "A".

Level 74

Mar 10, 2015

I tried that first, too, then looked at the first initial.

Level 70

Jun 14, 2018

Didn't notice a pattern before that, huh? ;)

Level 89

Feb 22, 2016

I tried various spellings for Puzo then gave up. If only I had known his first name ^^.

Level 51

May 9, 2024

Puzo was the writer though. He didn't act in it

Level 89

Jun 1, 2025

Maybe it was worded differently at the time. Or I had read poorly the question...

Level 80

Jun 20, 2018

I tried that too. Unfortunately I couldn't remember Puzo's first name, or I would have realized my error instantly.

Level 64

May 27, 2016

I only knew Zapruder 'cos he was named in a Marilyn Manson song - PostHuman I think?

Level 65

Jun 20, 2018

You are correct. And now I have that song in my head.

Level 57

May 30, 2016

Vespucci was a traveler and letter writer, not a mapmaker.

Level 82

Apr 22, 2018

According to Wikipedia, he was an "explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer".

Level 73

Jun 1, 2016

There is only one AB - Al Bundy

Level 87

May 19, 2018

I'm disappointed that so few people have apparently heard of the Zapruder film.

Level 80

Jan 24, 2019

It's not that I haven't heard of it. Just didn't know how to spell it. Kept trying 'Zebruder'.

Level 66

Mar 18, 2019

I tried zaputer

Level 74

Mar 2, 2021

why?

Level 71

Apr 28, 2020

I've never heard of Allen Iverson but that's the name (different spelling) of my old boyfriend!

Level 82

Oct 6, 2020

You could've gone with Alexander Hamilton instead of Adolf Hitler.

+12

Level 71

Oct 6, 2020

He could have gone for Adam Smith instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger. And so on. He's not glorifying Hitler by including him in this quiz, but rather educating people about one of the most important characters in history, in the hope that we learn and try to avoid such men rising to power once more.

Level 79

Mar 2, 2021

not to disagree with you at all, but it’s interesting to consider that in many ways hamilton was a more important character in history than hitler in terms of lasting impact and how different the world might look without them

+13

Level 72

Mar 2, 2021

Surely you meant "in the history of musical theater"? Otherwise, that's just an absurd statement.

Level 83

Mar 2, 2021

@stylus: Claiming Hamilton is more historically significant than Hitler is silly. Hitler's orchestration of the Holocaust assuredly led to directly affecting tens of millions of lives. It inspired the UN to create the Genocide Convention. It caused a lasting effect on global politics and international cooperation. Not to mention that WWII can be blamed on Hitler, too.

Level 18

Mar 5, 2021

"notable" fuhrer

Level 63

Oct 6, 2020

Absolutely LOVE that 'Ahnold' was accepted for Schwarzenegger, typed it as a joke and it took it!

Level 76

Oct 20, 2020

I did the same. Wonder if Ahhnold would have worked now LOL

Level 90

Oct 7, 2020

Kept wondering why Arthur Ashe wasn't working for the tennis player. :)

Level 73

Mar 3, 2021

Me too! I tried every combination of Ashe with different letters until I realized who it really was.

Level 74

Oct 7, 2020

I appreciate some letters are harder than others, but some of those clues are very American centric. As a Brit the five

I missed are all ones that I would say 99% of people over here would get wrong. Basketball and Indy 500 have no presence in Europe. “Jeopardy” never it made it over the pond and if it did we would have had a different host so that one is incredibly difficult.

In the spirit of not just moaning snd trying to help, how about Alfred Tennyson, Alan Turing (possibly not well known outside the UK), Andreas Iniesta (possibly not well known outside of football fans), or Anna Ivanovic?

Level 78

Mar 2, 2021

I wouldn't say that Alan Turing was that well known inside the UK but I do agree that most people outside of the US will not have heard of the basketball player, Indy 500 driver or the Jeopardy host and probably would not get Al Yankovic or Abraham Zapruder either

Level 79

Mar 2, 2021

Yankovic has toured before through Europe and Australia, maybe other places, and I've personally seen his music videos playing in multiple places in Asia.

Level 66

Mar 4, 2021

Yeah, that's not a hard question - particularly since "Weird Al" works as a type in. The NBA's pretty popular in Europe as well (maybe not the UK but definitely in other countries) and Trebek is relatively well known. The only question I would maybe call USA-centric is the Indy 500, but even that's followed by some people.

But whinging is a hobby for a lot of the British which, as a Brit (more or less), I find somewhat saddening.

Level 79

Mar 2, 2021

Knew this was coming when I was just 3 question in to the quiz. And probably from Algernon. If you didn't spend so much time complaining about the questions you don't know you could probably learn some of the answers.

Level 83

Mar 2, 2021

Nothing like reading these insulting comments from kalbahamut--singlehandedly trying to lower the level of discord on these quiz site comments to YouTube levels of disrespect.

Level 79

Mar 6, 2021

rubber. glue.

Level 87

May 11, 2023

Alan Turing is DEFINITELY well known outside of the UK. Just because you don't like learning about cultures other than your own doesn't mean the rest of us don't.

Level 83

Oct 7, 2020

Accepted "k-i-r-a-s-a-w-a" for Kurosawa - so forgiving!

Level 87

Dec 30, 2020

Unfortunately now it's former or late host of Jeopardy

Level 73

Mar 2, 2021

Sad.

Level 72

Dec 31, 2020

I didn't know Allen Iverson was the answer to anything.

Level 64

Mar 2, 2021

Is it just me or are these quizzes getting a bit meaner? I'm not saying that the "Ironic" clue was out of bounds, but it's just a little...mean...in contrast with the other clues, none of which contain value judgments. If we have to be mean, at least be mean to Hitler.

Level 68

Mar 2, 2021

Isn't that ironic?

Level 65

Mar 2, 2021

Don't you think?

Level 83

Mar 2, 2021

A little too ironic.

Level ∞

Feb 20, 2025

Like rai-i-in on your wedding day.

Level 66

Mar 4, 2021

A song called "Ironic" that lists many supposed examples of irony that actually aren't in any way ironic is, in fact, ironic.

Level 73

Mar 2, 2021

great one, enjoyed it

Level 68

Mar 2, 2021

I'm not a tennis fan so I spent around half a minute trying various spellings of Arthur Ashe before moving on lol

Level 70

Mar 2, 2021

That was a very good quiz, based on a clever concept. I had never heard of the basketball player or the Indy500 driver, though.

Level 67

Mar 2, 2021

Got all but Zapruder. Tried several spelling but kept trying to put a 'b' in there.

Level 67

Mar 2, 2021

If I was American this would have been a good quiz.

Level 74

Mar 2, 2021

I'm guessing that the Jeopardy-question is really hard for anyone outside the U.S. The franchise has aired in a lot of other countries with their own hosts, so most people will probably know their local version only?

Level 74

Mar 2, 2021

I'm British and I've vaguely heard of him a few times. I've seen Jeopardy in films and series so I'm vaguely aware of what it is. I managed to get his name, perhaps because he died not too long ago and it was reported on the BBC.

A cute fact is that if you type 'Alex Trebek' in Google it says:

Did you mean: WHO IS Alex Trebek

Level 81

Mar 2, 2021

I've only heard of the names Morrissette and Onassis, never seen them written down.

Took like 90 seconds of guessing to get a spelling it accepted lol

Level 77

Mar 2, 2021

Abel Xavier for AX

Level 66

Mar 2, 2021

https://peoplebyinitials.com/?q=AX

Level 65

Mar 2, 2021

Quizmaster, please add "late" to the Alex Trebek clue. Or possibly his years of tenure: 1984 - 2020

Level 69

Apr 21, 2021

Ah yes, because when I think of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the first thing I think of is "Austrian bodybuilder"

Level 80

Aug 17, 2021

It may not be the first thing, but it's definitely one of the first things. I mean, if you want to make a parody character of Schwarzenegger, all you really have to do is have a bodybuilder's physique and a thick Austrian accent and everyone will know exactly who you're referencing.

Level 78

Jul 7, 2021

For some reason when I read Fuhrer I thought Kaiser

Level 66

Sep 23, 2021

Trebek is now the *former* Jeopardy host.

Level 76

May 31, 2024

Could you accept "Amerigo" as well? Normally I wouldn't comment this but the quiz is specifically about the letter A and it is asking who the continents are named after and it is the Amerigo part that fits the question. On many of the other questions first initials are accepted

Level 78

Feb 20, 2025

22, love to see Kurosawa

Level 70

Jun 1, 2025

Only 31% of you knowing Allen Iverson is disappointing.

Level 89

Jun 1, 2025

I wouldn't be surprised if 30% of takers are American or so :).

Level 53

Jun 1, 2025

AM made me think it was Abel Makkonen

Level 51

Jun 1, 2025

Allen Iverson's cornrows are named "The Answer"?!? :D

Level 59

Jun 1, 2025

spent decades trying to spell Schwarzenegger. it should have more type-in possibilities!

Level 36

Sep 8, 2025

Is it just me that guessed only AH?

Level 61

Oct 5, 2025

I think Fuhrer would have been fine for Hitler, he is notable no doubt but there isn't many famous fuhrers out there with those initials!

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