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Arthur R. Randolph
Arthur R. Randolph, full name Arthur Raymond Randolph, is an American jurist and senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1990.
Arthur R. Smith
Arthur R. Smith is an American experimental condensed-matter physicist, professor of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University, and a 2000 PECASE recipient for research on gallium nitride surfaces.
Arthur Rackham
Arthur Rackham (1867–1939), English book illustrator of the Golden Age of British illustration, known for Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rip Van Winkle, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Alice in Wonderland.
Arthur Ramén
Arthur Ramén, born in Sweden in 1873, was a Swedish chemist nominated once for the 1917 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by P. Klason; he never won.
Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge
The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, also known as the Ravenel Bridge and Cooper River Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina, opened in 2005.
Arthur Read
Arthur Read is the fictional 8-year-old aardvark star of Marc Brown's Arthur books (from Arthur's Nose, 1976) and the PBS animated series that premiered October 7, 1996 and ended after 25 seasons in 2022, set in Elwood City with sister D.W. and teacher Mr. Ratburn.
Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French Symbolist poet of Charleville and Marseille, wrote Le Bateau ivre, Une Saison en enfer, and Illuminations, pioneered free verse, then abandoned poetry for African trade.
Arthur Robert Hinks
Arthur Robert Hinks (1873–1945) was a British astronomer and geographer who determined the Sun's distance from Eros observations and later served as Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.
Arthur Robertson
Arthur James Robertson (1879-1957), Scottish distance runner and first Scot to win Olympic gold: 3-mile team race gold and steeplechase silver at London 1908, 5,000 m world record 15:01.2, 1908 cross-country champion.
Arthur Rock
Arthur Rock, born 1926 in Rochester, New York, is an American venture capitalist who financed Fairchild Semiconductor, Scientific Data Systems, Intel, and Apple, and served as Intel's first chairman.
Arthur Rosenfeld
Arthur Rosenfeld (1926–2017) was an American physicist who turned from particle physics to energy efficiency after the 1973 oil embargo, becoming known as California's "godfather" of energy efficiency.
Arthur Rothrock
Arthur Rothrock (Arthur Dale Rothrock, 1886-1938), US Army captain and rifle shooter; won gold in the 50 m small-bore rifle team event and silver in the individual standing event at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, plus the 1908 US free rifle title and a 1921 world team title.
Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur Rubinstein (Artur Rubinstein), Polish-American pianist (Łódź 1887, Geneva 1982), 75-year career, famed Chopin interpreter, first champion of Spanish piano music, RCA recording legend.
Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch
Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857–1935) was a German chemist, professor at Zürich, Würzburg, and Leipzig, whose pyridine synthesis underlies the calcium channel blocker drugs nifedipine and amlodipine.
Arthur Rudolph
Arthur Rudolph (Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph) was a German rocket engineer who ran V-2 production with concentration camp labor and later managed NASA's Saturn V program, leaving the US in 1984.
Arthur Russell (musician)
Arthur Russell (1951–1992), also known by aliases Dinosaur L and Loose Joints, was an American cellist, composer, and disco producer from Oskaloosa, Iowa, active in New York's downtown avant-garde scene, best known for the 1986 album World of Echo and extensive posthumous reissues.
Arthur S. Lodge
Arthur S. Lodge, born in Liverpool in 1922, was a British rheologist who developed the rubberlike liquid constitutive equation, invented the Lodge Stressmeter, and won the 1971 Bingham Medal.
Arthur S. Slutsky
Arthur S. Slutsky is a Canadian pulmonary and critical-care physician-scientist at the University of Toronto and St. Michael's Hospital whose research on ventilator-induced lung injury changed worldwide ARDS care.
Arthur Sard
Arthur Sard (1909–1980) was a mathematician who took his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1936 under Marston Morse and proved Sard's theorem in 1942, showing that the critical values of a sufficiently smooth map have measure zero.
Arthur Scargill
Arthur Scargill, born in 1938 near Barnsley, is a British trade unionist who led the National Union of Mineworkers from 1982 to 2002 and through the 1984–85 miners' strike.
Arthur Schatzkin
Arthur Schatzkin (1948–2011) was an American nutritional epidemiologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Nutritional Epidemiology Branch and directed the Polyp Prevention Trial and the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.
Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931) was an Austrian physician and writer, a leading figure of Viennese modernism whose plays and prose explored love, death, and society, and whose erotic play Reigen provoked major theater scandals.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) was a German philosopher, the leading philosopher of pessimism, whose major work, The World as Will and Representation (1818), held that reality is a blind striving will.
Arthur Schuster
Arthur Schuster, full name Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster, was a German-born British physicist who introduced the periodogram and was Langworthy Professor of Physics at Manchester from 1888 to 1907.
Arthur Scott King
Arthur Scott King (1876–1957) was an American physicist and astrophysicist who spent his career at Mount Wilson Observatory, classifying spectral lines by temperature using his electric furnace.
Arthur Selzer
Arthur Selzer was an American cardiologist, Chief of Cardiology at Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco for twenty-five years and a clinical professor at Stanford.
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Arthur Seyss-Inquart (Seyß-Inquart, 1892–1946), Austrian Nazi politician: chancellor during the 1938 Anschluss, deputy governor of occupied Poland, Reich commissioner of the Netherlands; convicted at Nuremberg and hanged in 1946.
Arthur Shawcross
Arthur Shawcross, the Genesee River Killer, was an American serial killer who murdered two children in Watertown, New York in 1972 and, after a controversial 1987 parole, 11 women in Rochester before his 1990 conviction; he died in prison in 2008.
Arthur Shelby Jr.
Arthur Shelby Jr., fictional eldest Shelby brother in BBC's Peaky Blinders (1919–1934 Birmingham), played by Paul Anderson; war-traumatized, cocaine-addicted enforcer killed in a flashback by Tommy in the 2026 film The Immortal Man.
Arthur Simons
Arthur Simons (1877–1942) was a German neurologist in Berlin who described tonic neck reflexes and associated movements in hemiplegic patients; deported in 1942, he was murdered in Tallinn.