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Arthur F. Burns

Arthur F. Burns (1904–1987) was an Austrian-born American economist who led the NBER, chaired the Federal Reserve from 1970 to 1978, and later served as Ambassador to West Germany.

Arthur F. Hebard is an American condensed matter experimental physicist who discovered superconductivity in alkali-metal-doped C60, worked at Bell Laboratories from 1972 to 1996, and is a University of Florida professor.

Arthur Felix

Arthur Felix (1887–1956) was a Polish-born bacteriologist and chemist who co-discovered the Weil–Felix typhus diagnostic test and identified the Vi antigen behind Britain's improved 1940s typhoid vaccine.

Arthur Fisher (real estate broker)

Arthur Graham Fisher (born 1975), called Art, is an American real estate broker, president of Fisher Realty of Brevard, North Carolina, founded 1977, and since November 2025 the US Ambassador to Austria under President Trump.

Arthur Francis Buddington

Arthur Francis Buddington (1890–1980) was an American field petrologist and economic geologist who spent sixty years on the Princeton faculty and won the Penrose and Roebling medals.

Arthur Friedenreich

Arthur Friedenreich (1892–1969), "El Tigre," Brazil's first football superstar of the amateur era; scored the 1919 South American title goal, starred on Paulistano's 1925 Europe tour, credited with 595 documented goals.

Arthur G. Anderson

Arthur G. Anderson is an engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975, one of the earliest IBM computer scientists to receive the distinction.

Arthur G. Hansen

Arthur G. Hansen (1925–2010) was an American mechanical engineer who served as president of Georgia Tech and then, from 1971 to 1982, as the eighth president of Purdue University.

Arthur G. Suits

Arthur G. Suits is an American physical chemist at the University of Missouri known for work on roaming reactions and winner of the 2022 Earle K. Plyler Prize.

Arthur Garson Jr.

Arthur Garson Jr. is an American pediatric cardiologist and health policy leader, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2007 and known for the Grand-Aides program.

Arthur Ge

Arthur Ge is a Managing Director at Legend Capital, a China-focused venture capital and private equity firm, where he leads investments in intelligent manufacturing, including CATL.

Arthur Géa

Arthur Géa (born 2005, Carpentras) is a French right-handed tennis player, ATP career-high No. 56 in 2026, winner of the Los Cabos ATP 250 and Nouméa Challenger, US Open round-of-16 lucky loser.

Arthur Geoffrey Walker

Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909–2001), known as Geoffrey, was a British mathematician who independently proved the Robertson–Walker metric is the most general spacetime for an expanding universe.

Arthur Godfrey

Arthur Godfrey (1903–1983), American radio and TV broadcaster; hosted Arthur Godfrey Time, Talent Scouts, and His Friends on CBS; fired Julius La Rosa live in 1953.

Arthur Goldberger

Arthur Stanley Goldberger (1930–2009) was an American econometrician at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the Klein–Goldberger model of the US economy and his 1964 textbook Econometric Theory.

Arthur Gordon Webster

Arthur Gordon Webster (1863–1923) was an American physicist who taught at Clark University, introduced acoustic impedance, and was the principal founder and third president of the American Physical Society.

Arthur Gossard

Arthur Gossard (1935–2022) was an American condensed matter physicist who spent 27 years at Bell Laboratories and then UC Santa Barbara, growing the first semiconductor superlattices and co-discovering the fractional quantum Hall effect.

Arthur Griffith

Arthur Griffith (1871–1922), Dublin-born journalist and nationalist, founded Sinn Féin in 1905, wrote The Resurrection of Hungary, chaired the 1921 Treaty delegation, and was President of Dáil Éireann until his death in August 1922.

Arthur Grossman

Arthur Grossman (born 1950) is an American plant biologist and algal genomicist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, known for leading the Chlamydomonas genome project and studying photosynthesis.

Arthur Guinness

Arthur Guinness (1725–1803), Irish brewer from Celbridge, founder of the St James's Gate brewery, Dublin; signed a 9,000-year lease at £45 a year in 1759, began with ale, switched to porter in 1799, and left the business to his son Arthur II.

Arthur Guinness, Baron Ardilaun

Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun (1840–1915), was an Irish brewing heir, Conservative MP, and philanthropist best remembered for financing the restoration of St Stephen's Green in Dublin.

Arthur Guy Erdman

Arthur Guy Erdman is a University of Minnesota mechanical engineer known for mechanism design, the LINCAGES software, and medical devices, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Arthur H. Compton

Arthur H. Compton, also known as Arthur Holly Compton, was an American physicist who discovered the Compton effect and won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Arthur H. Heuer

Arthur H. Heuer is a materials scientist who joined Case Western Reserve University in 1967, known for transformation toughening in zirconia, biomimetic processing, and conch shell fracture work.

Arthur H. Robinson

Arthur H. Robinson (1915–2004) was an American cartographer who led the OSS Map Division in World War II, taught at Wisconsin, and devised the Robinson projection.

Arthur H. Rosenfeld

Arthur H. Rosenfeld (1926–2017) was an American physicist, the last doctoral student of Enrico Fermi, whose appliance and building standards earned him the title "father of energy efficiency."

Arthur H. Rubenstein

Arthur H. Rubenstein is a South African–trained endocrinologist known for insulin research with Donald Steiner and for deaning Penn's medical school from 2001 to 2011.

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Arthur Hannemann

Arthur Hannemann (born 23 October 1935, Bochow, Brandenburg) is an East German middle- and long-distance runner; 1960 Olympic 1500 m heats, 1964 Olympic 10,000 m 27th, East German 5000 m and 25 km champion.

Arthur Harden

Arthur Harden (1865–1940) was a British biochemist at the Lister Institute in London who shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the fermentation of sugars.