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Arthur Michael

Arthur Michael (1853–1942) was an American organic chemist at Tufts College and Harvard, known for the Michael reaction, a conjugate addition he reported in 1887.

Arthur Michael Ramsey

Arthur Michael Ramsey was an Anglican theologian and the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury from 1961 to 1974, known for his book The Gospel and the Catholic Church.

Arthur Milgram

Arthur Norton Milgram is an American mathematician whose work spanned topology, partially ordered sets, and differential equations; he is known for the Lax–Milgram theorem and a 1938 general existence theorem.

Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller (1915-2005), American playwright of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible; Pulitzer and Tony winner, HUAC defendant, PEN president 1965-69, archive at the Harry Ransom Center.

Arthur Mitchell (Dexter)

Arthur Mitchell, also known as the Trinity Killer, is the main antagonist of the fourth season of Dexter. He is a serial murderer who lived publicly as a family man.

Arthur Moritz Schoenflies

Arthur Moritz Schoenflies (1853–1928) was a German mathematician who classified the 230 crystallographic space groups and introduced the Schoenflies notation for point groups, still used in spectroscopy.

Arthur Nebe

Arthur Nebe (1894–1945) was a German criminal police officer who headed the Reich Criminal Police Office and commanded Einsatzgruppe B, which reported over 45,000 people killed in 1941.

Arthur Newell Strahler

Arthur Newell Strahler (1918–2002) was an American geologist and physical geographer who led geomorphology's shift from qualitative description to quantitative science, and whose Horton-Strahler stream-order system is still used in GIS software.

Arthur Newton

Arthur Newton (Arthur Lewis Newton, 1883-1950), American long-distance runner for the New York Athletic Club; gold in the 1904 Olympic 4-mile team race and bronze in the 1904 marathon and steeplechase, after fourth and fifth places at Paris 1900. Distinct from the English ultrarunner Arthur F. H. Newton, five-time Comrades Marathon winner.

Arthur O'Connell

Arthur O'Connell (1908-1981), American character actor of Picnic and Anatomy of a Murder; two Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominations, Broadway Howard Bevans, Citizen Kane bit role; not Jack O'Connell.

Arthur O'Leary

Arthur O'Leary (1729–1802) was an Irish Capuchin priest famed for his preaching in Cork, his controversy with John Wesley, and his writings for Catholic toleration.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. (born 1951), publisher of The New York Times 1992-2017 and company chairman 1997-2020; fourth-generation Ochs-Sulzberger family leader who took the Times national, launched nytimes.com, and built its digital subscription model.

Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873–1962), American philosopher at Johns Hopkins, founded the history of ideas, wrote The Great Chain of Being (1936), devised unit-ideas, and co-founded the AAUP.

Arthur Orr

Arthur Orr (born 1964) is an American Republican politician, a member of the Alabama Senate from the 3rd district since 2006 who chairs the Finance and Taxation Education Committee.

Arthur P. Arnold

Arthur P. Arnold is an American neuroendocrinologist and UCLA professor since 1976, known for the Four Core Genotypes mouse model and as founding Editor-in-Chief of Biology of Sex Differences.

Arthur P. Hall

Arthur P. Hall was a rheumatologist and physician-scientist at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, known for his 1958 latex agglutination paper and 1967 Framingham gout study.

Arthur Pak

Arthur Pak is an American plasma physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who works on inertial confinement fusion and received a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award.

Arthur Palmer (biochemist)

Arthur G. Palmer III is an American biochemist and NMR spectroscopist at Columbia University who studies protein motion and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Arthur Parkin

Arthur Parkin (William Arthur Parkin, 1952–2023), New Zealand field hockey player; three Olympics (1972, 1976, 1984), gold at Montreal 1976; later sentenced in 2018 to 20 months for indecent assault.

Arthur Penn

Arthur Penn (1922-2010), American film, television, and theater director born in Philadelphia; directed Bonnie and Clyde (1967), The Miracle Worker, and Little Big Man; three-time Best Director Oscar nominee associated with New Hollywood.

Arthur Penty

Arthur Joseph Penty (1875–1937), English architect and social thinker, the first guild socialist and co-originator of post-industrialism; author of The Restoration of the Gild System (1906) and Post-Industrialism (1922).

Arthur Percival

Arthur Ernest Percival (1887–1966), British Army lieutenant-general and General Officer Commanding Malaya, surrendered Singapore with over 85,000 troops to Yamashita on 15 February 1942; later historians treat him partly as a scapegoat.

Arthur Peter Mutharika

Arthur Peter Mutharika, born in 1940, is a Malawian politician and lawyer serving as President of Malawi since October 2025, after previously governing from 2014 to 2020.

Arthur Philemon Coleman

Arthur Philemon Coleman (1852–1939) was a Canadian geologist and University of Toronto professor who discovered Precambrian glacial deposits at Cobalt, Ontario, and made the first comprehensive geological map of Toronto.

Arthur Phillip

Arthur Phillip (1738-1814), British naval officer and first governor of New South Wales, commanded the First Fleet of 11 ships, founded the Sydney Cove colony in January 1788, governed until December 1792, and later became an admiral.

Arthur Pitney

Arthur Pitney was an American inventor who patented the postage meter in 1902 and, with promoter Walter Bowes, founded the Pitney Bowes Postage Meter Company in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1920.

Arthur Prindle

Arthur Prindle is an American synthetic biologist and Associate Professor at Northwestern University who studies neuron-like electrical communication in bacterial biofilms and received a 2021 ECASE-Army award.

Arthur Purves

Arthur Purves is an American Republican politician and retired computer programmer, the 2026 GOP nominee for the U.S. House in Virginia's 11th District, facing Democrat James Walkinshaw.

Arthur R. Jensen

Arthur R. Jensen was an American professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, whose 1969 heritability claims made him one of psychology's most contested figures.

Arthur R. Jones

Arthur Roberts Jones is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas since 2026, appointed by President Donald Trump.