Thomas Abraham, born in Seaton, Cumberland in England. He seems to have worked as an accountant and also as a schoolmaster. In 1803 in Penrith, Cumberland, he married Orpah Clarke, who bore him many children, many of whom died in infancy. Thomas outlived his eldest son Robert, who had emigrated to North America where he had a successful journalistic career. Thomas died in Carlisle, having lived in Cumberland all his life.

Zequinha de Abreu was a Brazilian composer.

A. C. Armstrong & Son was a New York book publisher active in the late 1800s.

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.