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Arthur Harris

Arthur Ringland Harris (1890-1968), American Army brigadier general and Olympic polo player; won bronze for the United States in polo at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; West Point 1914, Legion of Merit; distinct from Bomber Harris.

Arthur Hastings

Captain Arthur Hastings is Agatha Christie's fictional companion-chronicler of Hercule Poirot, her Watson figure, first appearing in The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) and returning in Curtain (1975); he appears in eight Poirot novels and was played by Hugh Fraser on ITV.

Arthur Hauspurg

Arthur Hauspurg was an American electrical engineer and utility executive who rose from chief engineer at American Electric Power to chairman of Consolidated Edison of New York.

Arthur Hayes (cryptocurrency entrepreneur)

Arthur Hayes is a former derivatives trader who co-founded the cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX in Hong Kong in 2014, serving as CEO and pioneering the perpetual swap futures contract.

Arthur Heinrich Binz

Arthur Heinrich Binz (1868–1943) was a German medicinal chemist who synthesized Uroselectan in 1929, the first intravenous X-ray contrast agent for the kidneys and urinary tract.

Arthur Henderson

Arthur Henderson (1863–1935) was a British Labour politician and trade unionist, Labour Party secretary from 1911 to 1934 and Foreign Secretary from 1929 to 1931.

Arthur Henry Reginald Buller

Arthur Henry Reginald Buller (1874–1944) was a British-born mycologist at the University of Manitoba who named Buller's drop and the Buller phenomenon and wrote Researches on Fungi.

Arthur Henry Waynick

Arthur Henry Waynick (1905–1982) was an American electrical engineer and radio scientist who founded and directed Penn State's Ionosphere Research Laboratory, headed its electrical engineering department, and was a National Academy of Engineering member.

Arthur Herbert Copeland

Arthur Herbert Copeland (1898–1970) was an American mathematician at the University of Michigan who proved with Paul Erdős that the prime-concatenation Copeland–Erdős constant is normal.

Arthur Hill

Arthur Hill (Arthur Edwin Hill, 1888–1966), English water polo centre-half of Aston SC, Birmingham; won gold with Great Britain at Stockholm 1912, youngest member of that team at 24, and a silversmith by trade.

Arthur Hiller

Arthur Hiller (1923–2016), Canadian director of Love Story, The In-Laws, Silver Streak; CBC and live-TV background, DGA and AMPAS president, 2002 Hersholt Award.

Arthur Hind

Arthur Charles Hind (1904-1991), Indian field hockey goalkeeper born in Delhi; won 1932 Olympic gold with India, playing one match as second goalkeeper against Japan; later emigrated to Australia.

Arthur Holmes

Arthur Holmes (1890–1965) was a British geologist who pioneered radiometric dating, built the first quantitative geological timescale, and proposed mantle convection as the driving force behind continental drift.

Arthur Hunnicutt

Arthur Lee Hunnicutt (1910–1979), Arkansas-born American character actor of bearded, grizzled rural roles; Oscar-nominated for The Big Sky (1952), played Davy Crockett, Butch Cassidy, and John Wayne's sidekick in El Dorado.

Arthur I. Skoultchi

Arthur I. Skoultchi is an American cell biologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, known for work on chromatin structure, gene regulation, and linker histone H1.

Arthur III of Brittany

Arthur III of Brittany, known as Arthur de Richemont, was a Breton prince who served as Constable of France for over three decades before becoming duke in 1457.

Arthur Isaac Kendall

Arthur Isaac Kendall (1877–1959) was an American bacteriologist and dean of Northwestern University Medical School known for bacterial metabolism studies and the unreplicated K medium claim.

Arthur J. Ammann

Arthur J. Ammann (1936–2021) was an American pediatric immunologist at UCSF whose pneumococcal vaccine trials produced the first FDA-approved pneumonia vaccine and who showed in 1982 that AIDS spreads from mother to infant.

Arthur J. Barsky

Arthur J. Barsky is an American psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, known for research on hypochondriasis, somatization, and placebo and nocebo effects.

Arthur J. Coury

Arthur J. Coury is an American biomaterials scientist with a 43-year industrial career at Medtronic and Genzyme, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.

Arthur J. Falcone

Arthur J. Falcone, born 1959, is an American real estate developer and franchising entrepreneur who co-founded Transeastern Properties, sold in 2005 for $1.6 billion, and leads the $6 billion Miami Worldcenter development in downtown Miami.

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. is a global insurance brokerage, risk management, and claims administration firm headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, and the world's third largest insurance broker.

Arthur J. Hartz

Arthur J. Hartz is an epidemiologist and observation medicine researcher known for 1989 and 2000 New England Journal of Medicine papers on hospital mortality and whether observational studies match randomized trials.

Arthur J. Moss

Arthur J. Moss, also known as Arthur Moss, was an American cardiologist at the University of Rochester whose MADIT trials made the implantable defibrillator standard treatment after heart attacks.

Arthur J. Nozik

Arthur J. Nozik is an American physical chemist and photoelectrochemist, Senior Research Fellow Emeritus at NREL, known for work on solar energy conversion, including multiple exciton generation in quantum dots.

Arthur J. Ragauskas

Arthur J. Ragauskas is a chemist known for lignocellulosic biofuels research and quantitative 31P NMR methods for lignin, holding the UT-ORNL Governor's Chair for Biorefining since 2014.

Arthur J. Schwab

Arthur J. Schwab (born 1946) is an American jurist and senior United States district judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.

Arthur J. Zaug

Arthur J. Zaug is an American molecular biologist who joined the Cech laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1978, working on catalytic RNA and telomerase.

Arthur Jaffe

Arthur Jaffe is a mathematical physicist who holds the Landon T. Clay Professorship at Harvard, known for constructive quantum field theory with James Glimm and for co-founding the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Arthur Jeffrey Dempster

Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886–1950) was a Canadian-American physicist at the University of Chicago who built the first mass spectrometer in 1918 and in 1935 identified uranium-235, the isotope later used in the atomic bomb.