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Arthur John Maclean

Arthur John Maclean (1858–1943) was a Scottish Episcopal bishop of Moray, Ross, and Caithness who led the Archbishop of Canterbury's mission to East Syrian Christians.

Arthur Jonath

Arthur Jonath (Arthur Julius Jonath, 1909–1963), German sprinter; 1932 Olympic bronze in the 100 m (10.50) and silver in the 4x100 m relay, fourth in the 200 m; German sprint champion 1931–32 and multiple world record holder.

Arthur Jones (American football)

Arthur Jones (Arthur Willis Jones III, 1986-2025), NFL defensive tackle from Syracuse; Ravens fifth-round pick, Super Bowl XLVII champion, later Colts and Washington; brother of Jon and Chandler Jones.

Arthur Jones (inventor)

Arthur Allen Jones (1926–2007) was an American inventor and entrepreneur who created the Nautilus exercise machines, introduced in 1970, and High Intensity Training, building the world's largest exercise equipment maker.

Arthur K. Asbury

Arthur K. Asbury (1928–2022) was an American neuromuscular neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania who chaired the committee that set the diagnostic criteria for Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Arthur Kane

Arthur "Killer" Kane (1949-2004), American bassist and founding member of glam-proto-punk band the New York Dolls; later a Latter-day Saint family history librarian, reunited in 2004, died of leukemia days after the Meltdown shows.

Arthur Kantrowitz

Arthur Kantrowitz (1913–2008) was an American physicist who founded the Avco Everett Research Laboratory, where his work produced laser propulsion and the intra-aortic balloon pump for heart failure.

Arthur Karlin

Arthur Karlin (1936–2024), born in Philadelphia, was an American molecular neurobiologist and Higgins Professor at Columbia University who studied the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and devised SCAM.

Arthur Kaser

Arthur Kaser, born 1973, is a gastroenterologist and immunologist holding the University Chair of Gastroenterology at Cambridge since 2011, known for work on inflammatory bowel disease mechanisms.

Arthur Kaufman

Arthur Kaufman is an American family physician and medical educator at the University of New Mexico, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015.

Arthur Keith (scientist)

Sir Arthur Keith (1866–1955) was a Scottish anatomist and physical anthropologist, conservator of the Hunterian Museum from 1908 to 1933, best known for co-describing the sino-atrial node and for studies of fossil humans.

Arthur Kelman

Arthur Kelman (1918–2009) was an American plant pathologist, a National Academy of Sciences member known for research on bacterial wilt of tobacco, tomato, and potato.

Arthur Kennedy

Arthur Kennedy (John Arthur Kennedy, 1914–1990), American stage and film character actor; five-time Oscar nominee, Tony winner as Biff in Death of a Salesman, creator of Proctor in The Crucible, star of Lawrence of Arabia.

Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge

The Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge is the only rail freight gateway into Staten Island from the national network, handling modern double-stack trains after its 2007 reopening.

Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird

Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird (1847-1923), Scottish banker and footballer; record nine FA Cup finals, five wins with Wanderers and Old Etonians; President of the FA 1890-1923; Scotland international; director of Barclays Bank.

Arthur Knight

Arthur Egerton Knight (1887–1956), English amateur left-back for Portsmouth and Corinthians; 1912 Olympic football gold with Great Britain, 1920 Olympian, 30 England amateur caps, one full England cap, Hampshire cricketer.

Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler (1905–1983), Hungarian-British novelist and science writer, author of Darkness at Noon and The Act of Creation; communism, Spanish Civil War imprisonment, parapsychology bequest at Edinburgh.

Arthur Konnerth

Arthur Konnerth (born 1953) is a German cellular neuroscientist who pioneered in vivo two-photon calcium imaging and won the 2001 Leibniz Prize and the 2015 Brain Prize.

Arthur Kornberg

Arthur Kornberg (1918–2007) was an American biochemist who discovered DNA polymerase, first synthesized DNA in a test tube, and shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Arthur L. Beaudet

Arthur L. Beaudet is an American human geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine who established uniparental disomy as a disease mechanism and identified UBE3A as the Angelman syndrome gene.

Arthur L. Bowley

Arthur L. Bowley, full name Arthur Lyon Bowley, was an English economist and statistician who pioneered sampling theory, co-built Britain's real wage index, and named Bowley's law.

Arthur L. Caplan

Arthur L. Caplan is an American bioethicist, Professor Emeritus and former head of medical ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, who helped write national organ-donation policy.

Arthur L. Haas

Arthur L. Haas is an American biochemist who co-identified APF-1 as ubiquitin in 1980, demonstrated the ubiquitin-adenylate intermediate bound to E1, and developed covalent affinity chromatography for ubiquitin-pathway enzymes.

Arthur L. Herbst

Arthur L. Herbst (1931–2023) was an American gynecologic oncologist who chaired obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago and linked prenatal DES exposure to cancer.

Arthur L. Horwich

Arthur L. Horwich is a Yale physician-scientist who discovered that protein folding inside cells requires chaperonins, work honored with the 2011 Lasker Award and 2020 Breakthrough Prize.

Arthur L. Kellermann

Arthur L. Kellermann is an American emergency medicine physician whose New England Journal of Medicine studies measured the homicide and suicide risk of a gun kept in the home.

Arthur L. Parker

Arthur L. Parker was an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded the Parker Appliance Company in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1917 to sell his pneumatic truck brakes, the business that grew into Parker-Hannifin Corporation.

Arthur L. Reingold

Arthur L. Reingold is an American infectious disease epidemiologist, Distinguished Professor and epidemiology division head at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2003.

Arthur L. Schawlow

Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921–1999) was an American physicist at Stanford University who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for laser spectroscopy and set out the laser's working principles with Charles Townes in 1958.

Arthur L. Watkins

Arthur L. Watkins, born 1909, was an American physician who led physical medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, known for progressive-resistance exercise and New England Journal reviews.