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date: "2025-11-15T00:00:00Z"
categories:
  - linkedin
  - llms
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When I realized **Ai**shwarya R**ai** begins and ends with AI, I _had_ to find out if there were more like her.

It took a coding agent (Claude Code in this case) 10 minutes to find the 10 celebrities who share that distinction, at least across the 24,086 names on Wikipedia:

- **Ai** Nag**ai** - Japanese playwright
- **Ai**guo D**ai** - Chinese-American atmospheric scientist
- **Ai** (poet) - American poet
- **Ai**sea Naw**ai** - Fijian rugby player
- **Ai** (singer) - Japanese-American singer
- **Ai**sha Chught**ai** - Pakistani actress
- **Ai**yappan Pill**ai** - Indian social reformer
- **Ai**zawa Seishis**ai** - Japanese Confucian scholar
- **Ai**nmuire mac Sétn**ai** - Irish high king
- **Ai**sha Yousef al-Mann**ai** - Qatari artist

Glory be to these AI bookends!

PS: It's pretty cool that two celebrities are known just as "Ai"!

- Prompt: https://github.com/sanand0/research/pull/11
- Code: https://github.com/sanand0/research/tree/main/wikipedia-ai-names

![](https://files.s-anand.net/images/2025-11-15-people-beginning-and-ending-with-ai-linkedin.jpg)

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sanand0_when-i-realized-%F0%9D%97%94%F0%9D%97%B6shwarya-r%F0%9D%97%AE%F0%9D%97%B6-begins-activity-7396577669649379328-3M2l)