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Andrew and American
* 1951 – Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Wax ) ( d. 2011 )
A similar French influence is seen in classroom ASL in francophone West Africa, where ASL was introduced along with formal education for the deaf by the deaf American missionary Andrew Foster.
* Gordon-Reed, Annette Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865 – 1869, ISBN 0-8050-6948-8.
" Johnson, Andrew ," in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War.
* 1848 – Andrew Onderdonk, American construction contractor ( d. 1905 )
Andrew Carnegie (, but commonly or ; November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919 ) was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy.
"' The Utmost Amount of Effective Accommodation ': Andrew Carnegie and the Reform of the American Library.
* 2007 – Andrew Hill, American bandleader, composer, and pianist ( b. 1931 )
Other Revolutionary War heroes who became figures of American folklore include: Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Franklin, Nathan Hale, John Hancock, Andrew Jackson, and John Paul Jones and Francis Marion.
* 1964 – American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
* 1962 – Andrew " Andy " Hampsten, American cyclist
But, as America grew, industry became a larger and larger part of American life ; and, during the term of America's first populist president, Andrew Jackson, economic questions came to the forefront.
* 1963 – Andrew Luster, American rapist
* 1961 – Andrew Fastow, American businessman
In his book The American Cinema, Andrew Sarris wrote, " is probably the first reasonably talented and sensibly adaptable directorial talent to emerge from a university curriculum in film-making ... may be heard from more decisively in the future.
* 1936 – Andrew Prine, American actor
* 1942 – Andrew Robinson, American actor
* 1928 – Andrew Greeley, American priest and novelist
* 1969 – Andrew Bryniarski, American film actor
* The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family, book by Andrew Himes
Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968 included Hawks in the " pantheon " of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
* John Andrew Young ( 1916 – 2002 ), American politician from Texas
Monroe sent in General Andrew Jackson who pushed the Seminole Indians south, executed two British merchants who were supplying weapons, deposed one governor and named another, and left an American garrison in occupation.

Andrew and financier
* 1855 – Andrew Mellon, American financier ( d. 1937 )
Stone took the project to Hungarian financier Andrew Vajna who had co-financing deal with Disney.
It was created for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress accepting the gift of financier, public servant, and art collector Andrew W. Mellon in 1937.
The first billion-dollar corporation was United States Steel, formed by financier J. P. Morgan in 1901, who purchased and consolidated steel firms built by Andrew Carnegie and others.
Marian and friends raised funds among a wide variety of people for the colony, which was supported by former U. S. President Grover Cleveland, industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, the financier J. P. Morgan, and other prominent people, as well as many others across the country.
In 1906, as N & W president, Johnson had the dubious distinction of being brought to the Standard Oil building at 26 Broadway in New York City by Andrew Carnegie to meet with one of Carnegie's old friends, millionaire financier Henry Huttleston Rogers.

Andrew and adventurer
* Andrew Blodgett Mayfair (" Monk "), an adventurer associate of Doc Savage
* Andrew ( AJ ) Hendricks ( born 1974 ), raconteur and adventurer.
* Riemer, Andrew ( 2007 ) " A witty adventurer in fiction: Elizabeth Jolley, 1923-2007 " in The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 February 2007

Andrew and great
Andrew Jackson issued a proclamation against the doctrine of nullification, stating: " I consider … the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
While kings might patronise great Saints, such as Saint Peter in the case of Nechtan, and perhaps Saint Andrew in the case of the second Óengus mac Fergusa, many lesser Saints, some now obscure, were important.
Peace was agreed to at the end of 1814, but not before Andrew Jackson, unaware of this, won a great victory over the British at the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815 ( news took several weeks to cross the Atlantic before the advent of steam ships ).
According to one of the legends, Andrew reached the future location of Kiev and foretold the foundation of a great Christian city .< ref >
The oldest son, Frank Andrew, accompanied Fleming in his great Western expedition of 1872.
The series of six paintings-The progress of human knowledge and culture-has been described by critic Andrew Graham-Dixon as " Britain's late, great answer to the Sistine Chapel ".
Writing on Vigo's career in The New York Times, Andrew Johnston ( critic ) stated: " The ranks of the great film directors are short on Keatses and Shelleys, young artists cut off in their prime, leaving behind a handful of great works that suggest what might have been.
However, in objecting strongly to the form and pattern of Union Flag adopted by James ' heralds, whereby the cross of Saint George surmounted that of Saint Andrew, ( regarded in Scotland as a slight upon the Scottish nation ), a great number of shipmasters and ship-owners in Scotland took up the matter with John Erskine, 18th Earl of Mar, and encouraged him to send a letter of complaint, dated 7 August 1606, to James VI, via the Privy Council of Scotland, stating:
Andrew I of Hungary was known as " Andrew the Catholic " for his extreme aversion to pagans, and great loyalty to Rome, which probably could have induced Margaret to follow a pious life.
When Joanna fell ill in the summer of 1344, Andrew caused great controversy when he released the Pipini brothers.
Powerful industrialists, such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould, known collectively by their enemies as " robber barons ", held great wealth and power.
Cattell said Francis Andrew March, a philologist, was a great influence during his time at Lafayette.
Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil described Milligan: " He possessed an enquiring, original intelligence, a wide knowledge of foreign and domestic affairs and he was great fun to work with, his infectious laugh filling our editorial meetings, where he played a major role in defining the paper's policy positions ".
In the Sala deilo Scrutinio Tintoretto painted the Capture of Zara from the Hungarians in 1346 amid a Hurricane of Missiles ; in the hail of the senate, Venice, Queen of the Sea ; in the hall of the college, the Espousal of St Catherine to Jesus ; in the Sala dell Anticollegio, four extraordinary masterpieces-Bacchus, with Ariadne crowned by Venus, the Three Graces and Mercury, Minerva discarding Mars, and the Forge of Vulcan which were painted for fifty ducats each, besides materials, towards 1578 ; in the Antichiesetta, St George and St Nicholas, with St Margaret ( the female figure is sometimes termed the princess whom St George rescued from the dragon ), and St Jerome and St Andrew ; in the hall of the great council, nine large compositions, chiefly battle-pieces.
* Marozzi, Justin, " Tamerlane ", in: The Art of War: great commanders of the ancient and medieval world, Andrew Roberts ( editor ), London: Quercus Military History, 2008.
Modern biographers, particularly Andrew Murray Scott's Bonnie Dundee ( 1989, 2000 ) considers that his skill as a diplomat was as great as the inspiration he provided as a leader.
One example of rising from this job to great heights in America was young Andrew Carnegie, who at age 13 worked as a bobbin boy in 1848.
* Andrew Carnegie, the great steel tycoon
Earlier bishops included Peperius, who attended the Council of Nicaea ( 325 ); Saint Eusebius of Samosata, a great opponent of the Arians, killed by an Arian woman ( c. 380 ), honoured on 22 June ; Andrew, a vigorous opponent of Cyril of Alexandria and of the Council of Ephesus.
Thus, as the great self-made industrialist Andrew Carnegie observed, " The most comfortable, but also the most unproductive way for a capitalist to increase his fortune, is to put all monies in sites and await that point in time when a society, hungering for land, has to pay his price.
Field made his maiden speech on 27 June 2001, when he announced his great political hero was the former Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law.
The Methodist Church throughout the circuit is involved in many community and ecumenical organisations throughout the town such as the Tuesday group that meets for the first half of the year in Drumalis retreat centre and in Larne Methodist Church the second half of the year, the previous Superintendent the Rev Andrew Kingston was always in awe of the great relationship this group built up between the churches in Larne.
He has worked under such great conductors as Fabio Luisi, Fabio Mechetti, Giancarlo Guerrero, Lucas Foss, Eri Klas and Pinchas Steinberg, Gerard Schwarz, Lucas Vis, Jorge Mester, Theo Alcantara, Robert Bernhardt, JoAnn Falletta, Maximiano Valdes, Andrew Sewell, Bruce Ferden, Giséle Ben-dor, Christopher Wilkins, Enrique García Ascensio, Andrea Quinn, Kirk Trevor, Juan José García Caffi, Peter Jaffe, Arthur Fagen, David Alan Miller and Marvin Hamlisch.

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