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Arnold Peter Møller

Arnold Peter Møller, known as A.P. Møller (1876–1965), was a Danish shipowner who founded in 1904 the shipping company that grew into A.P. Moller – Maersk.

Arnold R. Kriegstein

Arnold R. Kriegstein is an American neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for identifying outer radial glial cells pivotal to human cortex expansion.

Arnold Reissert

Arnold Reissert (1860–1945) was a German chemist and professor at the University of Marburg whose name attaches to the Reissert indole synthesis and the Reissert compounds, acylamino nitriles used in alkaloid synthesis.

Arnold Rice Rich

Arnold Rice Rich (1893–1968) was an American pathologist at Johns Hopkins who wrote the standard text The Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis and classified jaundice into retention and regurgitation types.

Arnold Ridley

Arnold Ridley (1896-1984), English playwright and actor, author of The Ghost Train and Private Godfrey in Dad's Army 1968-1977; wounded in both World Wars, Bristol graduate, OBE 1982.

Arnold Rothstein

Arnold Rothstein (1882–1928), New York gambler and racketeer called 'The Brain,' reputed nation's biggest high-stakes gambler, linked to the 1919 Black Sox fix, murdered unsolved in the Park Central Hotel; inspiration for Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim.

Arnold S. Milstein

Arnold S. Milstein is an American physician and health services researcher who directs Stanford's Clinical Excellence Research Center and is known for the 'American medical home runs' study.

Arnold S. Monto

Arnold S. Monto is an American physician-epidemiologist at the University of Michigan known for the Tecumseh community study, influenza vaccine trials, and the 2025 CENTERSTONE trial of baloxavir.

Arnold S. Relman

Arnold S. Relman was an American nephrologist and editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine from 1977 to 1991, known for acid-base research and conflict-of-interest disclosure rules.

Arnold S. Shapiro

Arnold S. Shapiro, full name Arnold Samuel Shapiro, is a mathematician in algebraic topology who took a 1950 University of Chicago doctorate under André Weil.

Arnold Schering

Arnold Schering (1877–1941) was a German musicologist who held chairs at Leipzig, Halle, and Berlin, edited the Bach-Jahrbuch, and wrote on Bach, Beethoven, and musical symbolism.

Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg (Arnold Schönberg, 1874–1951), Viennese-born composer who pioneered atonality and invented the twelve-tone method, teacher of Berg and Webern, exile in Los Angeles, rival of Stravinsky.

Arnold Scholz

Arnold Scholz (1904–1942) was a German number theorist in Berlin and Kiel known for the Scholz reflection theorem, the Scholz–Reichardt theorem, and a 1933 conjecture on cubic fields still open.

Arnold Schönhage

Arnold Schönhage is a German mathematician and computer scientist whose 1971 algorithm with Volker Strassen for multiplying large integers held the speed record for almost 35 years.

Arnold Schwartz

Arnold Schwartz is an American cardiac pharmacologist and biochemist who identified the receptor site for digitalis on the heart's sodium-potassium pump and helped develop calcium channel blockers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician born 1947 in Thal, Austria; seven-time Mr. Olympia, star of Conan and The Terminator, and California's 38th Governor (2003-2011).

Arnold Schwarzenegger filmography

Arnold Schwarzenegger filmography: screen career of the Austrian-born actor (born 1947), from Hercules in New York (1969) through Conan, The Terminator, Terminator 2, FUBAR, and upcoming projects, with about $4.5 billion worldwide gross.

Arnold Sommerfeld

Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951) was a German theoretical physicist who held the Munich chair from 1906, explained hydrogen's fine structure, introduced the fine-structure constant, and trained Heisenberg and other Nobel laureates.

Arnold Spielberg

Arnold Meyer Spielberg was an American electrical engineer who designed early computers including the GE-225, which ran the first BASIC, and the IBM 1800; he was the father of director Steven Spielberg.

Arnold Sports Festival

Arnold Sports Festival (Arnold Classic, Arnold Fitness Expo), annual multi-sport fitness convention in Columbus, Ohio, founded 1989 by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Lorimer; 100,000+ attendees, Arnold Strongman Classic, international editions, $500,000 Arnold Classic top prize.

Arnold Stang

Arnold Stang (1918-2009), American comic character actor and voice actor with a nasal Brooklyn voice and 5'3" frame; voice of Top Cat, Sparrow in The Man with the Golden Arm, Chunky candy spokesman.

Arnold Strongman Classic

Arnold Strongman Classic: annual invitational strongman contest in Columbus, Ohio, part of the Arnold Sports Festival; first held 2002, six events for the Louis Cyr Trophy; Mitchell Hooper won 2023-2026, Savickas six titles 2003-2008.

Arnold Theiler

Arnold Theiler (1867-1936), Swiss-born veterinarian, father of South African veterinary science; founded Onderstepoort laboratory (1908) and the University of Pretoria veterinary faculty, fought rinderpest, and was father of Nobel laureate Max Theiler.

Arnold v Britton

Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36, UK Supreme Court decision on service charge clauses at Oxwich Leisure Park, upholding a fixed £90 annual charge rising 10% compounded, and a leading authority on contractual interpretation.

Arnold Ventures

Arnold Ventures, formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, is a philanthropic organization founded by John and Laura Arnold that funds research and policy work.

Arnold Vosloo

Arnold Vosloo (born 1962, Pretoria) is a South African actor, Imhotep in The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), also Pik van Cleaf in Hard Target, Zartan in G.I. Joe, and a Dalro Award-winning stage and film performer.

Arnold W. Strauss

Arnold W. Strauss, also known as Arnold Wilbur Strauss, is an American pediatric cardiologist elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2007 who studies the genetic basis of pediatric heart disease.

Arnold Walfisz

Arnold Walfisz (1892–1962) was a Polish analytic number theorist who studied under Edmund Landau in Göttingen, co-founded Acta Arithmetica, and founded a Georgian school of number theory in Tbilisi.

Arnold Wesker

Arnold Wesker (1932–2016) was a British dramatist whose trilogy Chicken Soup with Barley, Roots, and I'm Talking About Jerusalem made him famous in the late 1950s.

Arnold Zweig

Arnold Zweig (1887–1968) was a German-Jewish novelist and anti-war writer whose 1927 novel Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa became a defining war novel of the Weimar Republic.