John André was born on May 2, 1750, or 1751, in London, England.

He was a major in the British Army. He was educated at St. Paul's School, Westminster School, and in Geneva. In 1771, at age of 20, he joined the army, first being commissioned a second lieutenant in the 23rd Regiment (Royal Welch Fusiliers) but soon exchanging as a lieutenant in the 7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers). He was on leave of absence in Germany for nearly two years and, in 1774, re-joined his regiment in British Canada. In 1779, André became adjutant general of the British Army in North America with the rank of major. In April 1779, he became head of the British Secret Service in America during the American Revolutionary War. By the next year, he had briefly taken part in Clinton's invasion of the South, starting with the siege of Charleston, South Carolina. He was assigned the task of negotiating General Benedict Arnold's secret offer to surrender the fort at West Point, New York, to the British. Through a series of mishaps and unforeseen events, André was forced to return from a meeting with Arnold through American territory while wearing civilian clothes. He was captured by Colonials on September 23, 1780. He was convicted of espionage and hanged as a spy by the Continental Army on the orders of George Washington. The day before his hanging, André drew a likeness of himself with pen and ink, which is now owned by Yale College. A religious poem was found in his pocket after his execution, written two days beforehand. André is typically remembered favourably by historians as a man of honour, and several prominent U.S. leaders of the time, including Alexander Hamilton and the Marquis de Lafayette, did not agree with his fate.

He was executed on October 2, 1780, in Tappan, New York, and is buried in Westminster Abbey, London.

John Andreassen was born in Bloomer, Wisconsin, and studied at Tulane, Wisconsin (Ph.B., 1931) and Louisiana State (M.A., 1935) Universities. His career as an archivist began in 1937 with his appointment as regional director of the Historical Records Survey of Louisiana. He supervised service projects for the Work Projects Administration from 1941 to 1943, and from 1943 to 1950, he was the administrative officer of the Federal Works Administration. As a displaced persons specialist for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA), he worked in London (1944-1945), Sweden (1945), and on a relief mission to Austria (1945-1946). From 1946 to 1952, Andreassen was Director of Administration of the Library of Congress and held the chair of aeronautics there from 1952 to 1953. He returned to Louisiana to become Associate Director of the state archives survey (1955-1956), and later, Director of the Louisiana Archives and Records Commission (1958-1960). After completing a paperwork survey for the New Orleans government (1961), Andreassen came to Montréal as archivist of the Canadian National Railway. He has also acted as a consultant in archives administration as a partner in the Records Management Company, Montréal. From 1968 until his retirement in 1977, he was McGill University Archivist. Andreassen was one of the founders of the Society of American Archivists and of the Montreal Chapter of the Association of Records Managers and Administrators.

B.E. Andress was an agent of sale who worked for Henry Watts & Co in 1912, selling land in Alberta to interested buyers.

After graduating from the University of British Columbia, l'Université Laval and the University of Toronto, Caroline Andrew became a distinguished member of the Ottawa and Canadian political science communities and an internationally recognized expert on municipal politics, governance, feminism, and urban issues. Caroline was Professor of Political Science, Dean of Social Sciences and Director of the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa. She was an active member of the Canadian Political Science Association. In 1984, she moderated the first and only national leaders' debate on women's issues. Caroline Andrew was also the co-chair of the Steering Committee for the Women's World Congress held at the University of Ottawa in 2011. In 2015 she was invested into the Order of Canada.

She died on November 23, 2022, in Hamilton, Ontario.

Herbert Edward Andrewes was born on November 9, 1863, in Reading, Berkshire, England.

He was a British stockbroker and entomologist who specialized in beetles of the order Coleoptera. He was educated at the Forestry school in Nancy, France, now INRA. In 1885, he entered the Indian Forest Service. His next post was at the British Museum (Natural History), where he specialized in Carabidae. He was a prolific author, writing over 120 short scientific papers in addition to catalogues, taxonomic works, faunal monographs, and identification manuals. Andrewes was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society from 1910 until his death (Council 1920-22). The Society holds his library. Most of Andrewes' personal collection is in the Natural History Museum, London, together with beetles from Sikkim collected by Herbert Stevens. Further collections, including syntypes and a collection from India, Burma, New Guinea, Natal, and Tennessee, including syntypes of Martin Jacoby, Walther Hermann Richard Horn, and Maurice Auguste Régimbart (1900), are in the Oxford University Museum. Other parts of Andrewes' collection are found in the Natural History Museum of Giacomo Doria, Genoa, Italy.

He died on December 16, 1950, in Highgate, London, England.

Charles William Andrews was born on October 30, 1866, in Hampstead, Middlesex, England.

He was a British paleontologist and a curator of the British Museum. He graduated from the University of London and began his career as a schoolmaster. He was, however, always deeply interested in biological and geological science. In 1892, he became a successful candidate in a competitive examination for an assistantship in the Department of Geology in the British Museum (Natural History). His first concerns were with fossil birds, and he described Aepyornis titan, the extinct "Elephant Bird" of Madagascar (1894). He noticed the connections among widely separated flightless rails of Mauritius, the Chatham Islands and New Zealand and deduced that their flightless character had independently evolved on the spot. In 1900, he received the degree of D.Sc. in the University of London as a recognition of the value of his original research. Alfred Nicholson Leeds' gifts of Jurassic marine reptiles from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough to the British Museum elicited his interest in plesiosaurs and other sea reptiles, which culminated in a catalogue of the Leeds collection at the British Museum (2 vols., 1910-13). His last posthumously published paper concerned the skin impressions and other soft structures preserved in an ichthyosaur paddle from Leicestershire. In 1897, he was selected to spend several months at Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean to inspect it before the phosphate mining compromised its natural history. The results were published by the British Museum in 1900. After 1900, his health began slowly to fail. He was sent to spend winter months in Egypt, where he joined Beadnell of the Geological Survey of Egypt, inspecting fossils of freshwater fishes in the Fayoum. Andrews noticed mammalian fauna not previously detected and published Moeritherium and an early elephant, Palaeomastodon, followed by his Descriptive Catalogue. In 1916, he was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and an active member of the Zoological Society.

He died on May 25, 1924.

Edmund Andrews was born on April 22, 1824, in Putney, Vermont.

He was an American doctor, a pioneer in surgery and medical education of the Western United States. In 1849, he received the degree of B.A. from the University of Michigan. In 1851, he received his degree in medicine, and in 1852, he became a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Michigan. He was one of the founders of the Michigan State Medical Society, and in 1853, he began the publication of the Peninsular Journal of Medical and Collateral Sciences. In 1856, he devoted himself to practice, especially surgery. He helped to found the Chicago Academy of Science and the Chicago Medical College where he became its first professor of surgery. When the Civil War broke out, he was made surgeon of the First Illinois Light Artillery, but after a year he had to resign due to illness incurred in the service. He was the first to make and keep complete medical records of the sick and wounded in the war, and his records were accepted by the surgeon general and formed the basis on which records of that office have since been kept. He was a pioneer in practical antisepsis and was the first man in the west to employ Lister's method after its exploitation.

In 1853, he married Sarah Eliza Taylor (d. 1875). In 1877, he re-married Frances Maria Taylor Barrett. He died on January 22, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois.