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Arvid Carlsson

Arvid Carlsson (1923–2018) was a Swedish pharmacologist at the University of Gothenburg who established dopamine as a neurotransmitter, winning the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Arvid Holmberg

Arvid Holmberg (Nils Arvid Birger Holmberg, 1886-1958), Swedish gymnast from Malmö, Malmö GFK; won team gymnastics gold at London 1908 with brothers Carl and Oswald; later headed AB Magnus Holmberg and co-founded Simklubben Ran.

Arvid Järnefelt

Arvid Järnefelt (1861–1932) was a Finnish jurist turned novelist and Tolstoyan social reformer who abandoned his legal career in 1891 and wrote the acclaimed debut novel Isänmaa (1893).

Arvid Knoppel

Arvid Knöppel (Johan Arvid Konstantin Knöppel, 1867–1925), Swedish sport shooter, brewery owner, and author; won 1908 London Olympic gold in running deer single shot team, Sweden beating Britain 86–85.

Arvid Lindblad

Arvid Lindblad (born 2007), British F1 driver of Swedish and Indian heritage, Racing Bulls rookie from 2026; youngest-ever race winner in FIA Formula 3 and Formula 2, Red Bull Junior graduate.

Arvid Lunnemark

Arvid Lunnemark (born 1999) is a Swedish software engineer and former International Mathematical Olympiad gold medallist who co-founded Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, and later founded Integrous Research.

Arvid Mörne

Arvid Mörne (1876–1946) was a Finland-Swedish poet, novelist, and literary historian who published twenty poetry collections and led a Finnish folk high school from 1899 to 1909.

Arvid Pettersson

Arvid Pettersson, full name Johan Arvid Josef Pettersson (1893–1956), was a Swedish road cyclist and non-scoring member of Sweden's gold-medal 1912 Olympic team road race.

Arvid Wallman

Arvid Wallman (Arvid Håkan Herbert Carlsson Wallman, 1901–1982), Swedish diver nicknamed Fågeln, won surprise gold in men's plain high diving at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics at age 19, placed eighth in 1924, and worked as a civil engineer.

Arvin Slagter

Arvin Slagter (born 1985, Amsterdam) is a retired Dutch basketball player, Olympic 3x3 gold medalist at Paris 2024 with de Jong, Driessen, and van der Horst, six-time Dutch champion with 132 national-team caps, retired March 2025.

Arvinas

Arvinas is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in New Haven, Connecticut, founded in 2013 from Yale research by Craig Crews, which with Pfizer developed the first FDA-approved PROTAC, VEPPANU, in 2026.

Arvind

Arvind, born Arvind Mithal (1947–2024), was an MIT computer scientist known for dataflow computing, the parallel languages Id and pH, and Bluespec hardware synthesis tools; he joined MIT in 1978.

Arvind (company)

Arvind Limited, formerly Arvind Mills, is an Indian textile and diversified manufacturing company headquartered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Founded in 1931 by the Lalbhai family, it is known for denim.

Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan

Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (अरविन्द देसाई की अजीब दास्तान, The Strange Fate of Arvind Desai) is Saeed Akhtar Mirza's 1978 Hindi parallel-cinema debut: a 118-minute Yukt Co-op/NFDC drama about a rich businessman's alienated son, starring Dilip Dhawan, Om Puri, and Shreeram Lagoo, a Filmfare Critics Award winner shown at Berlin.

Arvind Kejriwal (अरविंद केजरीवाल)

Arvind Kejriwal is an Indian politician, former civil servant, and anti-corruption activist who founded the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and served as Chief Minister of Delhi.

Arvind Krishna

Arvind Krishna is the chief executive officer of IBM since April 2020, where he led the $34 billion Red Hat acquisition and the Kyndryl spinoff.

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is an Indian poet, translator, and anthologist born in Lahore in 1947, a central figure in Indian poetry in English since the 1960s.

Arvind Krishnamurthy

Arvind Krishnamurthy is an American financial economist, John S. Osterweis Professor of Finance at Stanford's business school since 2015, known for research on debt markets, financial crises, and quantitative easing.

Arvind Kumar Sharma

Arvind Kumar Sharma is an Indian politician and dental surgeon who serves as a Haryana cabinet minister, elected from Gohana in 2024 after representing Rohtak in the Lok Sabha.

Arvind Lal

Arvind Lal, also known as Brigadier Arvind Lal, is an Indian pathologist and Executive Chairman of Dr Lal PathLabs, which he joined in 1977 and built into India's leading diagnostic chain.

Arvind Sawant

Born in 1951, Arvind Ganpat Sawant is a politician of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb. Thackeray) who has represented Mumbai South in the Lok Sabha since 2014.

Arvind Singh Mewar (अरविंद सिंह मेवाड़)

Arvind Singh Mewar (अरविंद सिंह मेवाड़) was an Indian hotelier, heir of the royal House of Mewar of Udaipur, who chaired the HRH Group of Hotels until his death in 2025.

Arvind Subramanian

Arvind Subramanian, Indian economist and India's Chief Economic Adviser 2014-2018, PIIE senior fellow; known for the GST design, the Economic Survey, and his 2019 claim that India's GDP growth was overstated by about 2.5 percentage points per year.

Arvind Swamy (அரவிந்த் சுவாமி)

Arvind Swamy (அரவிந்த் சுவாமி), Tamil actor and businessman, born 1970 in Chennai; debuted in Thalapathi (1991), starred in Roja and Bombay, founded Talent Maximus India (about Rs 3,300 crore), and returned in Thani Oruvan (2015).

Arvind Trivedi (અરવિંદ ત્રિવેદી)

Arvind Trivedi (અરવિંદ ત્રિવેદી), known as Lankesh, was a Gujarati and Hindi actor, around 300 films, who played Ravan in Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan (1987), and served as a BJP Member of Parliament for Sabarkantha from 1991 to 1996 and CBFC acting chairman in 2002–2003. Not the Arvind Limited annual report disclosures.

Arvind Vaidya (અરવિંદ ગોપાલ વૈદ્ય)

Arvind Vaidya (Arvind Gopal Vaidya, અરવિંદ ગોપાલ વૈદ્ય), Indian actor-director born 1941 in Masur, Maharashtra; Padma Shri 2026; over 300 Gujarati, Marathi, and Hindi plays via Natya Sampada; Bapuji in Anupamaa.

Arvis Vilkaste

Arvis Vilkaste (born 1989, Balvi) is a Latvian bobsleigh brakeman, Sochi 2014 four-man Olympic champion (upgraded after doping disqualification), 2016 world champion, and 2015 European champion.

Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer, creator of the tintinnabuli style after his modernist Soviet-era period, an exile in Berlin from 1980, and one of the world's most performed living composers.

Arvo Valton

Arvo Valton, pen name of Arvo Vallikivi (1935–2024), was an Estonian writer considered a founder of Estonian modern prose, known for grotesque stories satirizing the Soviet regime.

Arvydas Janonis

Arvydas Janonis (Арвидас Александрович Янонис), born 1960 in Kėdainiai, is a Lithuanian centre-back who won football gold for the Soviet Union at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and played 349 matches for Žalgiris Vilnius.