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Arthur B. Pardee

Arthur B. Pardee (1921–2019) was an American molecular biologist and cancer researcher at Dana-Farber and Harvard, known for the PaJaMo experiment, the restriction point, and differential display.

Arthur B. Sanders

Arthur B. Sanders is an American emergency physician and resuscitation researcher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2012.

Arthur Baker

Arthur Baker, born 1955 in Boston, is an American record producer and DJ whose 1982 production of Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock" is widely described as the birth of electro.

Arthur Balfour

Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930), 1st Earl of Balfour, British Conservative prime minister 1902–05, uncle-nephew successor to Lord Salisbury; Education Act 1902 author; issued the 1917 Balfour Declaration as foreign secretary.

Arthur Bank

Arthur Bank is a physician-scientist in hematology and genetics at Columbia University in New York, known for research on the thalassemia syndromes and globin genes.

Arthur Berry

Arthur Berry (1888-1953), English amateur footballer from Liverpool; won Olympic football gold with Great Britain at London 1908 and Stockholm 1912, one of two Britons, with Vivian Woodward, on both winning teams; later a barrister.

Arthur Birch (Australian organic chemist)

Arthur John Birch (1915–1995) was an Australian organic chemist who devised the Birch reduction, key to the first oral contraceptive synthesis, and founded organic chemistry at ANU.

Arthur Blank

Arthur Blank (born 1942) is an American retail entrepreneur who co-founded The Home Depot in 1979 with Bernie Marcus and later bought the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.

Arthur Brauss

Arthur Brauss (1936–2025) was a German actor and voice actor; 1954 pole vault youth champion, starred in Wenders's The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick and played Richard Block in Großstadtrevier.

Arthur Bremer

Arthur Bremer (born 1950), Milwaukee busboy who shot and paralyzed Alabama governor and presidential candidate George Wallace in Laurel, Maryland, on May 15, 1972, after failing to ambush Nixon; convicted, served 35 years, released 2007; diary inspired Taxi Driver.

Arthur Brooke (tea merchant)

Arthur Brooke (1845–1918) was a British tea merchant who founded Brooke, Bond & Co. in Manchester in 1869, the company behind PG Tips that became the world's largest tea business.

Arthur Brough

Arthur Brough (Frederick Arthur Baker, 1905–1978), British actor and Folkestone repertory theatre founder; played Mr Ernest Grainger in five series of Are You Being Served? (1972–1977).

Arthur Brown (musician)

Arthur Brown (Arthur Wilton Brown) is the English rock singer behind 1968's UK No. 1 "Fire" and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, nicknamed the God of Hellfire, a pioneer of theatrical shock rock.

Arthur Bryant

Arthur Bryant, full name Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant, was a British historian, the most widely read in mid-twentieth-century Britain, known for his Samuel Pepys trilogy.

Arthur Byron Coble

Arthur Byron Coble (1878–1966) was an American algebraic geometer, professor at the University of Illinois from 1918 to 1947 and president of the American Mathematical Society in 1933–34.

Arthur C. Brooks

Arthur C. Brooks is an American social scientist and author who studies happiness, teaching at both the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School since 2019.

Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008), British science fiction author and futurist, co-writer of 2001: A Space Odyssey, proposed geostationary communication satellites in a 1945 Wireless World article and lived in Sri Lanka from 1956.

Arthur C. Cope

Arthur C. Cope (1909–1966) was an American organic chemist who headed MIT's chemistry department from 1945 to 1965 and was known for the Cope rearrangement and Cope elimination.

Arthur Cayley

Arthur Cayley (1821–1895) was a British mathematician who created matrix algebra, gave the first modern definition of a group, and founded invariant theory; he was Sadleirian Professor at Cambridge from 1863.

Arthur Cayley Headlam

Arthur Cayley Headlam (1862–1947) was an English theologian and Church of England bishop, Bishop of Gloucester from 1923 to 1945 and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford.

Arthur Charles Jennings

Arthur Charles Jennings was an Anglican clergyman and church historian, M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge, who served as Vicar of Whittlesford and published three works in the 1880s.

Arthur Chatto

Arthur Robert Nathaniel Chatto (born 1999) is a British Royal Marines officer, grandson of Princess Margaret and great-nephew of Queen Elizabeth II; he rowed 2,000 miles around Britain in 2020 and is 31st in line to the throne.

Arthur Chen

Arthur Chen, also known as Chen Feiyu, is a Chinese actor born in 2000, the son of director Chen Kaige, known for Ever Night and Lighter & Princess.

Arthur Christmas

Arthur Christmas (2011) is a 97-minute 3D CGI animated comedy, Aardman Animations' second CGI feature, co-produced with Sony Pictures Animation and directed by Sarah Smith, about Santa's high-tech North Pole operation and a missed present.

Arthur Christopoulos

Arthur Christopoulos is an Australian molecular pharmacologist, Professor of Analytical Pharmacology and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University, known for allosteric GPCR drug research.

Arthur Cipriani

Arthur Andrew Cipriani (1875–1945) was a Trinidadian labor leader and politician who led the Trinidad Workingmen's Association, founded the Trinidad Labour Party, and represented Port of Spain.

Arthur Cleveland Coxe

Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1818–1896) was an American Episcopal clergyman and poet, the second Bishop of Western New York from 1865 until his death in 1896.

Arthur Code

Arthur Dodd Code (1923–2009) was an American astronomer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who pioneered observational astronomy from space, taking the first stellar measurements from orbit in 1968.

Arthur Cohn

Arthur Cohn (1894–1940) was a German mathematician and student of Issai Schur, remembered for an irreducibility criterion for polynomials formed from the digits of a prime.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, was a Scottish writer and physician who created Sherlock Holmes and also wrote historical novels and spiritualist works.