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Arthur Wentworth Gore

Arthur Wentworth Gore (1868–1928) was a British tennis player, three-time Wimbledon singles champion (1901, 1908, 1909), 1908 Olympic indoor singles and doubles gold medalist, oldest Wimbledon champion, and record 35-appearance competitor.

Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton

Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton (1849–1937) was a Nova Scotia-born Episcopal clergyman, educator, and poet, best known for his 1910 history of Kings County, Nova Scotia.

Oct 22, 2026

Arthur Wesley Dow

Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922) was an American landscape painter, printmaker, and art educator based in Ipswich, Massachusetts, whose composition method from Japanese prints influenced Georgia O'Keeffe and American art schools.

Arthur West Haddan

Arthur West Haddan (1816–1873) was an English Anglican priest and ecclesiastical historian of the Oxford Movement, best known for defending Anglican orders in Apostolical Succession in the Church of England (1869).

Sep 21, 2026

Arthur Wightman

Arthur Wightman (1922–2013) was an American mathematical physicist who spent his career at Princeton University and is regarded as a founding father of modern mathematical physics.

Arthur William Rogers

Arthur William Rogers (1872–1946) was a British geologist who mapped South Africa's Cape and Karroo Systems and directed the Geological Survey from 1916 to 1932.

Arthur William Rucker

Sir Arthur William Rücker (1848–1915) was a British physicist known for the magnetic survey of the British Isles with Thorpe and for leading the University of London.

Sep 21, 2026

Arthur Williams Wright

Arthur Williams Wright (1836–1915) was an American experimental physicist at Yale University, the first American to obtain X-ray results in 1896, who also first observed gases in stony meteorites.

Oct 20, 2026

Arthur Wint

Arthur Stanley Wint (1920-1992), Jamaican 400m/800m runner, RAF pilot, doctor, and diplomat; won Jamaica's first Olympic gold, 400m in 46.2 at London 1948, plus 1952 4x400m relay world-record gold.

Sep 19, 2026

Arthur Wu

Arthur Wu (吴传福, Wu Chuan-fu) is a Taiwanese engineer who founded Proxene Tools in Taichung in 1984, building it into Asia's largest maker of industrial adjustable wrenches.

Arthur-Richard Dillon

Arthur-Richard Dillon (1721–1806) was a French Catholic prelate of Irish descent, the last archbishop of Narbonne and Primate of France, who refused the Civil Constitution oath.

Arthur, Prince of Wales

Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486–1502), eldest son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, heir to the Tudor throne, married Catherine of Aragon in 1501, died at Ludlow Castle aged 15, making Henry VIII heir.

Arthur's O'On

Arthur's O'On (Arthur's Oven) was a domed Roman stone monument, probably a victory monument near the Antonine Wall, on the River Carron at Stenhousemuir, Falkirk, Scotland. Demolished in 1743 by Sir Michael Bruce; a 1767 replica survives at Penicuik House.

Arthur's Pass National Park

Arthur's Pass National Park (est. 1929, NZ's third national park, first in the South Island) protects 118,472 ha of the central Southern Alps between Canterbury and the West Coast, crossed by SH73 and the TranzAlpine, home to kea and great spotted kiwi.

Arthur's Seat

Arthur's Seat is the 250 m summit of an extinct Carboniferous volcano in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, with hill-forts, Hutton's Section at Salisbury Crags, SSSI protection, and recurring gorse wildfires.

Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)

"Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" is a 1981 pop song by Christopher Cross, written with Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, and Peter Allen for the film Arthur. It hit Billboard #1 and won the 1982 Oscar for Best Original Song.

Arthur's Whisky

Arthur's Whisky is a 2024 British comedy-fantasy film directed by Stephen Cookson, written by Alexis Zegerman, starring Diane Keaton, Patricia Hodge, and Lulu as friends who drink a youth-restoring elixir.

Oct 22, 2026

Arthurian romance

Arthurian romance is a medieval literary genre centered on King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, created by Chrétien de Troyes in the late 12th century.

Arthus reaction

Arthus reaction: local type III hypersensitivity with immune-complex deposition in small-vessel walls; IgG, FcγRIII, complement C5a, neutrophils; vaccine boosters, serum sickness comparison.

Arti Singh (आरती सिंह)

Arti Singh (आरती सिंह), born Arti Sharma in 1985, is an Indian television actress, niece of Govinda and sister of Krushna Abhishek, known for Maayka, Parichay, Waaris, and as a Bigg Boss 13 finalist who married Dipak Chauhan in 2024.

Arti Singh Rao

Arti Singh Rao, BJP politician, MLA from Ateli (AC 68, Mahendragarh) since October 2024 and Haryana's Health, Medical Education and AYUSH minister; daughter of Rao Inderjit Singh, granddaughter of Rao Birender Singh, former skeet shooter.

Artiaca

Artiaca: Roman road station in Gaul on the Antonine Itinerary between Troyes and Châlons, identified with Arcis-sur-Aube, France; Celtic name from arto- 'bear', later Arciaca.

Artibeus

Artibeus is a genus of Neotropical fruit-eating bats (Phyllostomidae) erected by Leach in 1821, type species A. jamaicensis; roughly 13 species from Mexico to Argentina, split into large Artibeus and small Dermanura groups, key seed dispersers and pollinators.

Articaine

Articaine (Carticaine) is a thiophene-containing amide dental local anesthetic, synthesized in Germany in 1969 and marketed as 4% solution with epinephrine; meta-analyses show faster onset and better infiltration success than lidocaine with comparable safety.

Artichoke

Globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus), also called French or green artichoke, is a Mediterranean thistle grown for its edible immature flower buds; domesticated in Roman times, it needs 250-500 chill hours and centers on Monterey County, California production.