Notable inmates

Aryeh Sheftel (Hebrew: אריה שפטל; 1905 – 28 September 1980) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset and mayor of Rishon LeZion.

Asadullah Jan is a citizen of Pakistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 47. Joint Task Force -- Guantanamo analysts estimated he was born in 1981.

Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqi (1968–2015), also known as Asim Thabit Al Khalaqi, was a citizen of Yemen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba.

Aslı Erdoğan (born 8 March 1967) is a prize-winning Turkish writer, author, human rights activist, and columnist for Özgür Gündem and formerly for Radikal, ex political prisoner, particle physicist.

Atena Daemi Khoshknudhani (Persian: آتنا دائمی; born 1988) is an Iranian civil rights activist, children's rights activist, human rights activist and political prisoner in Iran.

August Cesarec (4 December 1893 – 17 July 1941) was a Croatian writer and communist activist from the interwar period. Cesarec was born in Zagreb, then part of Austria-Hungary.

August Froehlich (26 January 1891 – 22 June 1942) was an Upper Silesian Roman Catholic priest.

August Landmesser (German: [ˈaʊ̯ɡʊst ˈlantˌmɛsɐ]; 24 May 1910 – 17 October 1944) was a German man who is suggested to be the man appearing in a 1936 photograph conspicuously refusing to perform the Nazi salute.

August Liebmann Mayer (27 October 1885 in Griesheim – 12 March 1944 in Auschwitz) was a German curator, art historian and art collector specializing in Spanish Golden Age painting.