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Artur Taymazov

Artur Taymazov (Артур Таймазов), Uzbek Ossetian super-heavyweight freestyle wrestler born 1979 in Nogir; silver Sydney 2000, golds 2004, 2008, 2012, the last two stripped for turinabol and stanozolol; now a Russian State Duma deputy.

Artur Văitoianu

Artur Văitoianu (1864–1956) was a Romanian army corps general and Liberal politician who fought at Mărăști and Oituz and served as Prime Minister of Romania in 1919.

Artur Wojdat

Artur Wojdat, Polish swimmer (born 1968, Olsztyn), first Polish man to win an Olympic swimming medal (bronze, 400 m freestyle, Seoul 1988) and 400 m freestyle world record holder in 1988.

Arturas Kasputis

Artūras Kasputis, Lithuanian track and road cyclist born 1967 in Klaipėda; 1988 Seoul Olympic gold medalist in the 4 km team pursuit for the USSR, professional road racer 1992-2002, now a Decathlon CMA CGM Team sports director.

Arturo A. Keller

Arturo A. Keller is an American environmental scientist and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara who studies how pollutants and nanoparticles move through water and soil.

Arturo Alessandri

Arturo Alessandri Palma, the "Lion of Tarapacá," was a Chilean liberal politician who served as President of Chile from 1920 to 1925 and again from 1932 to 1938.

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874–1938), Afro-Puerto Rican historian and bibliophile also known as Arthur Schomburg, whose collection of African diaspora materials, sold to NYPL in 1926 for $10,000, founded the Schomburg Center in Harlem.

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla is a Mexican-born neurobiologist at UCSF who identified adult brain astrocytes as neural stem cells and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Arturo Beltrán Leyva

Marcos Arturo Beltrán Leyva (El Barbas, El Jefe de Jefes) was a Mexican drug trafficker who co-led the Beltrán Leyva Organization, split from the Sinaloa Cartel in 2008, and was killed by Mexican Navy forces in Cuernavaca on 16 December 2009.

Arturo Camacho Ramírez

Arturo Camacho Ramírez (1910–1982) was a Colombian poet, journalist, and diplomat, a member of the Piedra y Cielo group who led its Americanist, Neruda-influenced tendency.

Arturo Casadevall

Arturo Casadevall is a Cuban-born American physician-scientist who chairs Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Johns Hopkins, known for fungal pathogenesis research and COVID-19 convalescent plasma.

Arturo Coello

Arturo Coello Manso (born 2002, Valladolid) is a Spanish left-handed right-side padel player, "El Rey Arturo", world No. 1 with Agustín Tapia since 2023, with 43 Premier Padel titles and a 296–30 career record.

Arturo de Marcoartu

Arturo de Marcoartu (1827–1904) was a Spanish civil engineer, businessman, and parliamentarian who became one of the nineteenth century's earliest organized advocates of international arbitration, later serving as deputy for Burgos and senator for Tarragona.

Arturo Frondizi

Arturo Frondizi was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as president of Argentina from 1958 to 1962, pursuing a developmentalist program of heavy industrialization and foreign investment.

Arturo García Sancho

Arturo García Sancho is a Spanish actor, Manuel de Luján in TVE's daily series La Promesa (800+ episodes by 2026), previously young Bernat in Netflix's Los herederos de la tierra, trained at Estudio Corazza.

Arturo Gatti

Arturo Gatti (1972-2009), "Thunder", Italian-born Canadian boxer, two-division world champion (IBF junior lightweight, WBC super lightweight), 40-9 with 31 KOs, famed for the Micky Ward trilogy, four Ring Fight of the Year awards, IBHOF 2013, and his contested 2009 death in Brazil.

Arturo Guzmán Decena

Arturo Guzmán Decena (Z-1, 1976–2002) was a Mexican Army GAFE lieutenant who deserted in 1997 to Osiel Cárdenas' Gulf Cartel, recruited about 30 special-forces deserters, and founded Los Zetas; he died in a 2002 Matamoros shootout.

Arturo Kenny

Arturo Kenny (Arturo Juan Kenny y Gahan, born 1888), Argentine polo player of Irish descent with the Hurlingham Club; won five Argentine Opens and 1924 Olympic gold, Argentina's first, in Paris.

Arturo Luz

Arturo Luz (1926–2021) was a Filipino modernist painter, sculptor, and designer named National Artist for Visual Arts in 1997, known for a linear, geometric style.

Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport

Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport, IATA code SCL, is Chile's principal international airport, serving Santiago from Pudahuel since 1967 with capacity for 38 million passengers a year.

Arturo Prat

Arturo Prat (Agustín Arturo Prat Chacón) was a Chilean naval officer and lawyer killed in 1879 commanding the Esmeralda at the Naval Battle of Iquique.

Arturo Rodriguez

Arturo Rodriguez, full name Arturo Jaime Rodríguez Jurado and nicknamed El Mono, was an Argentine boxer and rugby union player who won heavyweight gold at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics.

Arturo Rosenblueth

Arturo Rosenblueth (1900–1970) was a Mexican physiologist who worked with Walter Cannon at Harvard, co-authored the 1943 cybernetics paper with Norbert Wiener, and founded Cinvestav.

Arturo Tolentino

Arturo M. Tolentino (1910–2004), Filipino lawyer and statesman: Senator, Senate President, Foreign Minister, Marcos's 1986 running mate, and claimant to the acting presidency at the Manila Hotel.

Arturo Toscanini

Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957), Italian conductor born in Parma, debuted at 19 in Rio conducting Aida from memory, led La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, and the NBC Symphony, and was a prominent anti-fascist.

Arturo Umberto Illia

Arturo Umberto Illia was an Argentine physician and Radical politician who served as president from 1963 until his overthrow by a military coup in 1966.

Arturo Uslar Pietri

Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906–2001) was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, and politician considered the leading figure of twentieth-century Venezuelan literature, known for the novel Las lanzas coloradas and the phrase "Sembrar el petróleo."

Arturo Vidal

Arturo Vidal (Arturo Erasmo Vidal Pardo, born 1987), Chilean midfielder nicknamed The Warrior; Juventus, Bayern, Barcelona, Inter; Copa America 2015 and 2016 winner; back at Colo-Colo as captain.

Arturo Zychlinsky

Arturo Zychlinsky (born 1962) is a biologist who discovered neutrophil extracellular traps, or NETs, and directs cellular microbiology at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin.

Artus Court

Artus Court (Artushof, Dwór Artusa) is a medieval merchant-brotherhood hall at Długi Targ in Gdańsk, Poland. Built from 1477 to 1481, it is the only Baltic Arthurian court to survive.