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Arne Borg

Arne Borg (Claes Arne Borg, 1901–1987), Swedish freestyle swimmer nicknamed the Swedish Sturgeon; set 32 world records 1921–29, won 5 Olympic medals including 1500 m gold at Amsterdam 1928, first under 20 minutes for 1500 m.

Arne Brataas

Arne Brataas is a Norwegian theoretical physicist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, known for predicting spin–orbit coupling in curved carbon structures and directing NTNU's Center for Quantum Spintronics.

Arne D. Ekstrom

Arne D. Ekstrom is a cognitive and systems neuroscientist at the University of Arizona who studies the neural basis of human spatial navigation and episodic memory.

Arne Dankers

Arne Dankers (born 1980, Ottawa) is a Canadian long track speed skater, silver medalist in the men's team pursuit at Turin 2006, his only Olympics; former Canadian record holder at 3,000, 5,000, and 10,000 m.

Arne Duncan

Arne Duncan, ninth U.S. Secretary of Education (2009-2015) under Obama and former Chicago Public Schools CEO, drove Race to the Top, Common Core support, and NCLB waivers, then founded the anti-gun-violence group Chicago CRED in 2016.

Arne Fredga

Arne Fredga (1902–1992) was a Swedish organic chemist and professor of organic chemistry at Uppsala University from 1939 to 1969, known for work on organosulfur and organoselenium compounds and stereochemistry.

Arne Garborg

Arne Garborg, born Aadne Garborg, was a Norwegian writer, journalist, and translator, a farmer's son from Jæren who became a leading Nynorsk advocate and author of Bondestudentar and Haugtussa.

Arne Geijer

Arne Geijer (1910–1979) was a Swedish trade unionist and Social Democratic politician who chaired the Swedish Trade Union Confederation from 1956 to 1973 and presided over the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

Arne Holmgren

Arne Holmgren (1940–2020) was a Swedish biochemist and physician who spent over 45 years at Karolinska Institutet, founding thioredoxin and glutaredoxin research and helping establish redox biology.

Oct 22, 2026

Arne Jacobsen

Arne Jacobsen (1902–1971) was a Danish architect and designer whose total-design practice produced the SAS Royal Hotel, St Catherine's College, Oxford, and the Egg and Swan chairs.

Arne May

Arne May is a German neurologist and headache researcher who leads the headache clinic at the UKE hospital in Hamburg and studies cluster headache with brain imaging.

Arne Næss Jr.

Arne Næss Jr. (1937–2004) was a Norwegian shipping magnate and deal-broker who led the first Norwegian Everest expedition in 1985 and was the former husband of singer Diana Ross.

Arne Sejersted

Arne Nannestad Sejersted (1877-1960), Norwegian sailor and dentist from Trondheim; won 1920 Olympic gold in the 10-metre 1919 rating class aboard Mosk II, the event's only entrant.

Arne Slot

Arne Slot, Dutch football manager and former midfielder (FC Zwolle, NAC Breda, Sparta Rotterdam, PEC Zwolle), coached AZ Alkmaar and Feyenoord (Eredivisie 2023, Dutch cup 2024), then Liverpool 2024-2026, winning the 2024-25 Premier League title before dismissal.

Arne Svejgaard

Arne Svejgaard (1937–2016) was a Danish physician and immunologist who, with Flemming Kissmeyer-Nielsen, helped clarify the HLA tissue-type system, mapping its associations with diseases from psoriasis to diabetes.

Sep 20, 2026

Arne Thomas

Arne Thomas, born 1975, is a German materials chemist working on nanoporous materials and covalent organic frameworks, professor at TU Berlin from 2009 to 2026 and then TUM.

Arne Tiselius

Arne Tiselius was a Swedish biochemist at Uppsala University who won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for electrophoresis and adsorption analysis of serum proteins.

Arne Westgren

Arne Westgren (1889–1975) was a Swedish metallographer and chemist who determined the crystal structures of iron and steel phases with X-ray diffraction and later chaired the Nobel chemistry committee.

Sep 19, 2026

Arnekhamani

Arnekhamani, also spelled Arnakhamani, was a king of Kush who reigned about 235 to 218 BC and built the Lion Temple at Musawwarat es-Sufra, dedicated to the lion-headed god Apedemak.

Arnel Hallauer

Arnel R. Hallauer is an American maize quantitative geneticist and corn breeder at Iowa State University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989.

Arnel Pineda

Arnel Pineda (born 1967, Sampaloc, Manila) is a Filipino singer, Journey's lead vocalist since December 2007, discovered by Neal Schon via Noel Gomez's YouTube videos of his band the Zoo; albums Revelation and Eclipse.

Arnesp Roman villa, Valentine, Haute-Garonne

Arnesp Roman villa, Valentine, Haute-Garonne: large 4th-century Gallo-Roman villa near the Garonne, 15 km from Lugdunum Convenarum, with baths, mosaics, Nymfius epitaph, and a cult-funerary complex; classified monument historique 1979.

Arnfinn Bergmann

Arnfinn Bergmann (1928-2011), Norwegian ski jumper from Trondheim, 1952 Oslo Olympic large hill champion at Holmenkollen; only jumper to win Worlds, Olympics, Holmenkollen, and Norwegian titles in one winter.

Arnfinn Heje

Arnfinn Kolbjørn Heje (1877–1958), Norwegian sailor and engineer; won 1912 Olympic gold in the 12-metre class aboard Magda IX and led the Agra margarine company, creating the Melange method.

Arnhem

Arnhem (Gelderland capital, eastern Netherlands, on the Rhine near Germany) is a city of about 172,000, known for the 1944 Battle of Arnhem and John Frost Bridge, postwar reconstruction, Burgers' Zoo, Sonsbeek park, and its government and energy-focused economy.

Arnhem Land

Arnhem Land is an Aboriginal-owned region of about 97,000 km² in Australia's far Northern Territory, home to the Yolngu and Bininj peoples, proclaimed an Aboriginal reserve in 1931.

Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery

Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, known as the Airborne Cemetery, is a Commonwealth war cemetery in Oosterbeek, Netherlands, holding most of the dead of the 1944 Battle of Arnhem.

Arnica

Arnica, a Northern Hemisphere genus of about 31 Asteraceae species, is the source of Arnica montana, used externally for bruises and sprains; internal use is toxic and homeopathic efficacy is unproven.

Arnica montana

Arnica montana (mountain arnica, Echte Arnika) is a European Asteraceae perennial whose yellow flower heads yield helenalin sesquiterpene lactones used topically for bruises and sprains; endangered in Germany, CITES-listed, EU traditional-use herbal monograph.