Notable inmates

Augustine Skinner (c.

Augustyn Łukosz (17 August 1884 – 27 October 1940) was a Polish national activist and socialist politician.

Augustyn Suski (8 November 1907 – 26 May 1942) was a Polish Goral poet, pedagogue in the interwar period, and underground activist during World War II.

Aurel Aldea (18 March 1887 – 17 October 1949) was a Romanian general, Interior Minister, and anti-communist resistance leader.

Aurora Picornell Femenias (1 October 1912 – 5 January 1937) was a Spanish seamstress, unionist and feminist activist, member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE).

Aurora Rosa Salvador Rodrigues (born 20 January 1952) is a Portuguese retired magistrate of the Public Prosecution Service.

Avgust Pirjevec (28 September 1887 – 9 December 1943) was a Slovene literary scholar, lexicographer, and librarian.

Aviva Bar-On (Hebrew: אביבה בר-און; formerly Bedřiška Winklerová; born September 2, 1932) is a Czech-Israeli Holocaust survivor.

Avraham Deutsch (Hebrew: אברהם דויטש; 1889 – 25 May 1953) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael between 1951 and 1953.

Awal Gul (July 1, 1962 – February 2, 2011) was a citizen of Afghanistan who died in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba after nine years of imprisonment without charge.

Axel Constantin August Eggebrecht (10 January 1899 – 14 July 1991) was a German journalist, writer, and screenwriter.

Airat Nasimovich Vahitov, also spelled Ayrat Wakhitov or Vahidov (Tatar: Айрат Вахитов, romanized: Ayrat Waxitov), is an ethnic Tatar citizen of Russia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba.

Aysel Tuğluk (pronounced [ajsel ˈtuːɫuk]; born 17 July 1965 in Elâzığ, Turkey) is a Kurdish politician from Turkey and was a founding member of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Turkey.

Abdul Aziz Naji (born May 4, 1975 in Batna) is an Algerian citizen who was held without charges in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba from August 2002 until he was repatriated against his will in July 2010.

Azucena Villaflor (7 April 1924 – 10 December 1977) was an Argentine activist and one of the founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a human rights organisation which looks for the victims of enforced disappearances during Argentina's Dirty War.

Azzimuddin (born 1972) is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Bagram Theater Internment Facility, in Afghanistan. After approximately three months of detention, he was released on May 15, 2010, on the same day as 10 other Afghans.

Babak Zanjani (Persian: بابک زنجانی, born 12 March 1974) is an Iranian billionaire and business magnate.