Dominique Achour was an Associate Professor at the University of Montreal's School of Urbanism, a Professor of Applied Economics, and a Head of Section de gestion du développement urbain at the University of Laval.

Eleanor Margaret Acland, née Cropper, was born on February 28, 1878, in Kendal, Cumbria, England.

She was a British Liberal Party politician, suffragist, and novelist. She was educated at St. Leonards School, Scotland. She campaigned vigorously for the parliamentary vote for women and was Vice-President of the South-West Federation of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies from 1910 to 1914. In 1912, she organized local Women's Liberal Associations to pass resolutions in support of the 1912 Conciliation Bill. In 1913, she founded the Liberal Women's Suffrage Union. In 1926, when her husband succeeded to the family baronetcy, she became Lady Acland. She was President of the Exeter Women’s Welfare Association, and of the Exeter and District Society for Equal Citizenship, and campaigned for a maternity and birth control clinic in Exeter, which was eventually established after her death. From 1929 to 1931, Lady Acland served as President of the Women's National Liberal Federation. She was a Liberal candidate for the Exeter division of Devon at the 1931 General Election. She was also an author of several novels, e.g., “In the Straits of Hope” (1904), “Dark Side Out” (1921) and two memoirs about her daughters, “The Story of a Joyful Life” (1925) and “Goodbye for the Present” (1935).

In 1905, she married Sir Francis Edward Dyke Acland (1874-1939). She died on December 12, 1933, in Exeter, Devon, England.

Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st Baronet, was born on August 23, 1815, in Killerton, England.

He was an English physician and educator. He studied at Harrow and at Christ Church, Oxford and was elected Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1840. He then studied medicine in London and Edinburgh. Returning to Oxford, he was appointed Lee's reader in anatomy at Christ Church in 1845 and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1847. In 1851, he was appointed Radcliffe librarian and physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary. In 1858, he became Regius Professor of Medicine, a post which he retained till 1894. He took a leading part in the revival of the Oxford Medical School. He served on the Royal Commission on sanitary laws in England and Wales in 1869 and published a study of the outbreak of cholera at Oxford in 1854, together with various pamphlets on sanitary matters. He was also a curator of the university galleries and of the Bodleian Library.

In 1846, he married Sarah Cotton. He died on October 16, 1900, in Oxford, England.

Acquaviva was a Jesuit Catholic priest born in Rome who served as the Superior General of the Society of Jesus from 1581 to 1615.

E. R. Adair was born in London and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. During World War I, he was senior history master at Felstead School, Essex, and after the war served as senior assistant in history at University College, London. In 1925 he joined the History Department at McGill, serving as chairman from 1942 to 1947. He was President of the Canadian Historical Association for 1935-1936, and retired from McGill in 1954. He passed away a year later.

Parisian-born French composer Adolphe Charles Adam was the son of Alsatian composer and pianist Johann Ludwig (Jean-Louis) Adam. The latter opposed Adolphe’s musical inclinations, but young Adolphe liked to improvise and was secretive about his composing. At the age of 17 he was allowed to attend the Paris Conservatoire after he promised that his musical interests were only for his own amusement, not for a career. He studied organ and harmonium there under François Adrien Boieldieu but did not keep his promise to his father. By 1830 he had completed 28 works for the theater. To escape the political turmoil in Paris, he went to London for a couple of years. On his return in 1832, he composed more operas, the most popular of which was the 1834 comic operetta “Le Chalet,” a joint effort with his friend, librettist Eugene Scribe. His career was assured with another success, “Le postillon de Longjumeau.” After some differences with the Opéra de Paris, in 1847 he decided to open another opera house in Paris, the Théâtre National. The revolutionary political situation in 1848 meant that it was forced to close, causing him to lose both his own investment and the loans he had undertaken. After his father’s death and heavily in debt, he took a position teaching at the Conservatoire in 1849, where ballet composer Léo Delibes was among his pupils. He worked there until he died in his sleep in 1856. In the course of his prolific career he wrote 70 operas and 14 ballets, the best known of which are Giselle (1841) and Le Corsaire (1856). Although Giselle was not particularly popular at the time, after its revival by famous Russian dancer Sergei Diaghilev in 1910, it became one of the most sought-after roles for ballerinas. He also wrote the Christmas carol “O Holy Night,” known in French as “Minuit, Chrétiennes” or “Cantique de Noël.” Played on the violin by Canadian inventor, Reginald Fessenden, on Christmas Eve in 1906, it was the first piece of music ever broadcast on radio.

David Adamcyk graduated from McGill University with a Master's degree in music/composition. He studied under the supervision of Brian Cherney. His works have been performed around Canada, e. g., at the Banff Center for the Arts and the National Arts Center in Ottawa. His piece for solo clarinet, wind symphony and electronics, Balbuzard, was awarded a second prize at the SOCAN Young Composers competition. During 2005-06, Adamcyk was Guest Composer of the McGill Digital Composition Studios.

Ondřej Adámek received a degree in composition from the Academy of Music in Prague in 2004 and from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris in 2007, where he also studied electroacoustics, orchestration, improvisation, analysis, and Indian music. He composes orchestra and ensemble pieces drawing inspiration from different musical cultures, including those of Bali, New Caledonia, and Japan, with a detailed focus on instrumental and vocal sound. He seeks out novel extended techniques for classical instruments and develops innovative systems combining video, electroacoustic sound, and instrumental ensembles. In 2002, he received a grant from the UNESCO-Aschberg programme for artists to complete an artistic residency in Nairobi with the Gàara Dance Company, with whom he created Abila. He was a finalist in bi-annual Metamorphoses Acousmatic Music Competition, Belgium, 2002 and 2004. In 2004, he also participated in the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne’s International Young Composers Forum and his Sinuous Words broadcast on Radio-Canada and Radio-Télévision during the 2004 edition of Radio Canada’s Montréal - Cité de la musique. In 2007, he received a grant from Culturesfrance and completed a residency at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto. He completed numerous residences all over the world. He is also the founder and conductor of the vocal ensemble NESEVEN, which has toured extensively. Adámek has received many awards and prizes, including the Prix de Bourges (IMEB) in 2003, the Hungarian Radio Prize in 2004, the Brandenberg Biennale Prize in 2006, the Grand Prix of the Alexandre Tansman Competition in 2010 for Dusty Rusty Hush, and the Enescu Prize in 2011.

Dr. John George Adami was born on January 12, 1862, in Manchester, Lancashire, England.

He was an English pathologist. In 1892, he was made Strathcona professor of pathology at McGill University, Montreal. Here, by his own original work, the organization of his laboratories, and his ability to attract and inspire students, he quickly made a name for himself and for his department. He was also the head of the pathological department of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. A colonel in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, he served throughout World War I as assistant director of medical services in charge of records at London and in 1919, he received the Commander of the Order of the British Empire award (C.B.E.) for his services. The same year he resigned his position at McGill University to became Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool University. In 1898, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905. In 1912, he became president both of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Association of American Physicians. Two years later he was awarded the Fothergillian gold medal of the Medical Society of London, and in 1917, he delivered the Croonian Lectures before the Royal College of Physicians. He died on August 29, 1926, in either Ruthin Castle, Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales or in Liverpool, Merseyside, England (according to different sources).

Mark Adamo is an American composer-librettist. He first attracted national attention with his uniquely celebrated début opera, Little Women, after the Alcott novel. Introduced by Houston Grand Opera in 1998 and revived there in 2000, Little Women is one of the most frequently performed American operas of the last fifteen years, with more than 135 national and international engagements in cities ranging from New York to London, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Minneapolis, Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco, Adelaide, Perth, Mexico City, Brugges, Banff, Calgary, and Tokyo. While Adamo's principal work continues to be for the opera house, over the past five years, he has ventured not only into chamber music but also into symphonic and choral composition.

He began his education in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where, as a freshman in the Dramatic Writing Program, he received the Paulette Goddard Remarque Scholarship for outstanding undergraduate achievement in playwriting. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Music Degree cum laude in composition in 1990 from the Catholic University of America. He and his spouse, the composer John Corigliano, divide their time between Manhattan and Kent Cliffs, New York. His music is published exclusively by G. Schirmer, Inc.