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Biography & Culture

Andre Rosey Brown

1956–2006

Andre Rosey Brown (February 7, 1956 – July 18, 2006) was an American film and television actor, police officer, and football coach.

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Sports & Achievement

Andre Scrubb

1995–

Andre Darrell Scrubb (born January 13, 1995) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He played college baseball at High Point University. Scrubb was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the eighth round of the 2016 MLB draft and…

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Sports

Andre Shelby

1966–

Andre C. Shelby (born December 8, 1966) is a U.S. Paralympic archer and Paralympic and Parapan champion. Shelby was born in Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1966 to Lee and Etta Shelby. He graduated from Jeffersonville High School in 1985.

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Science & Inventions

André Taylor

Biography

André Taylor is an American scientist who is an associate professor of chemical engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. Taylor works on novel materials for energy conversion and storage. He was awarded the Presidential Early…

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Sports & Achievement

Andre Thornton

1949–

André Thornton (born August 13, 1949), nicknamed "Thunder", is an American former professional baseball player and business entrepreneur. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman and designated hitter from 1973 to 1987, most prominently as a…

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Sports

Andre Tippett

1959–

Andre Bernard Tippett Sr. (born December 27, 1959) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons with the New England Patriots. He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes,…

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Music

André Troutman

Biography

André Lavern Troutman (born November 25, 1989) is an American musician and songwriter known for his work in hip-hop and R&B music. He is best known for his appearance as a featured artist and producer on Kanye West's twelfth studio album, Bully (2026), and…

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Sports & Achievement

Andre Wakefield

1955–

Andre Wakefield (born January 1, 1955) is an American former professional basketball player. He was a 6 ft 2+1⁄2 in (189 cm) 175 pounds (79 kg) point guard. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he played high school basketball at Crane High School and collegiately…

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Business

Andre Walker

1956–

Andre Walker (born October 19, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois) is a hairstylist from Chicago who developed the Andre Walker Hair Typing System and served as personal hairstylist to Oprah Winfrey from 1985 to 2015. He created Halle Berry's signature short pixie…

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Film & Television

Andre Walker (designer)

Dates not recorded

Andre Walker (born 1965) is a British-born fashion designer. Walker emerged from the downtown New York fashion scene in the 1980s. Known for his eclectic style and avant-garde silhouettes, former Vogue creative director André Leon Talley called him an…

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Sports

Andre Ward

1984–

Andre Michael Ward (born February 23, 1984) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2017. He retired with an undefeated record and held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including unified super middleweight…

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Music

André Watts

1946–2023

André Watts (June 20, 1946 – July 12, 2023) was an American classical pianist. Across six decades, he performed with major orchestras in the United States and internationally.

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Music

Andre Williams

1936–2019

Zephire Andre Williams (November 1, 1936 – March 17, 2019) was an American R&B musician who started his career in the 1950s at Fortune Records in Detroit. His most famous songs include the hits "Jail Bait", "Greasy Chicken", "Bacon Fat" (1957) and…

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Sports

Andre Wisdom

1993–

Andre Alexander Shaquille Wisdom (born 9 May 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right back or centre back for Northern Premier League Premier Division club FC United of Manchester. Wisdom began his career at Bradford City before…

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Andrea

1972

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A black and white photographic portrait of a woman, Andrea, wearing a turtleneck sweater with an Afro hairstyle. The woman is looking directly at the camera and leaning against a wooden door or wall. On the back is the title, date, location and…

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Literature

Andrea Bain

Biography

Andrea Bain is a Canadian television personality, who was announced in August 2023 as a new co-host of the daytime panel talk show The Social. She has previously been a host of programming for Slice and HGTV, including Three Takes, Revamped and Live Here,…

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Literature

Andrea Barnwell Brownlee

Biography

Andrea Barnwell Brownlee is an American art curator and author. She is the former CEO of the Cummer Museum and the former director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Her work has historically focused on the promotion of female African-American artists.

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Politics

Andrea Barthwell

Biography

Andrea Grubb Barthwell (born 1953 or 1954) worked in the White House under President of the United States George W. Bush as deputy director for Demand Reduction at the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

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Politics & Public Life

Andrea Bonilla

1978–

Celia Andrea Bonilla Gemio (born 4 August 1978) is a Bolivian agricultural worker, politician, and trade unionist who served as a party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz from 2015 to 2020. An ethnic Afro-Bolivian, Bonilla's career got its…

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Arts & Performance

Andrea Bordeaux

1987–

Andrea Bordeaux (born March 31, 1987) is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as Harley Hidoko in the TV series NCIS: Los Angeles.

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Politics & Public Life

Andrea Cabral

1959–

Andrea J. Cabral (born 1959) is an American lawyer and former Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety and Sheriff of Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

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Politics & Public Life

Andrea Campbell

1982–

Andrea Joy Campbell is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the 45th attorney general of Massachusetts since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served on the Boston City Council from 2016 to 2022, serving as council…

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Arts & Performance

Andrea Clark

1945–2025

Andrea Clark (March 19, 1945 – October 29, 2025) was an African-American photographer living in Asheville, North Carolina. She is best known for her black and white photographs that document Asheville's East End community taken circa 1968-1972.

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