When I realized Aishwarya Rai 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 Nagai - Japanese playwright
- Aiguo Dai - Chinese-American atmospheric scientist
- Ai (poet) - American poet
- Aisea Nawai - Fijian rugby player
- Ai (singer) - Japanese-American singer
- Aisha Chughtai - Pakistani actress
- Aiyappan Pillai - Indian social reformer
- Aizawa Seishisai - Japanese Confucian scholar
- Ainmuire mac Sétnai - Irish high king
- Aisha Yousef al-Mannai - 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
