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Arnav Sahu

Arnav Sahu is a venture capitalist and Partner at Peak XV Partners, the firm formed from Sequoia Capital's India business, hired in 2025 from Y Combinator.

ARNE

ARNE is a British minimalist clothing brand founded in 2018 by brothers Ryan and Reece Broadhurst, based near Warrington, England, and known for affordable luxury menswear sold direct-to-consumer online.

Arne Duncan

Arne Duncan, ninth U.S. Secretary of Education (2009-2015) under Obama and former Chicago Public Schools CEO, drove Race to the Top, Common Core support, and NCLB waivers, then founded the anti-gun-violence group Chicago CRED in 2016.

Arne Geijer

Arne Geijer (1910–1979) was a Swedish trade unionist and Social Democratic politician who chaired the Swedish Trade Union Confederation from 1956 to 1973 and presided over the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

Arne Næss Jr.

Arne Næss Jr. (1937–2004) was a Norwegian shipping magnate and deal-broker who led the first Norwegian Everest expedition in 1985 and was the former husband of singer Diana Ross.

Arnekhamani

Arnekhamani, also spelled Arnakhamani, was a king of Kush who reigned about 235 to 218 BC and built the Lion Temple at Musawwarat es-Sufra, dedicated to the lion-headed god Apedemak.

Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery

Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, known as the Airborne Cemetery, is a Commonwealth war cemetery in Oosterbeek, Netherlands, holding most of the dead of the 1944 Battle of Arnhem.

Arnimal

Arnimal (ارنمل) was an 18th-century Kashmiri poetess from Palhalan near Srinagar, deserted by her husband, whose orally transmitted vatsun love lyrics are still sung by Kashmiri minstrels.

Arno Borst

Arno Borst (1925–2007) was a German medievalist who taught at Erlangen and Konstanz, wrote the best-selling Lebensformen im Mittelalter, reconstructed the Carolingian calendar, and won the 1996 Balzan Prize.

Arnold Brecht

Arnold Brecht (1884–1977) was a German jurist and Weimar civil servant who became a political scientist in exile at the New School in New York.

Arnold Donald

Arnold Donald is an American business executive who was CEO of Merisant and, from 2013 to 2022, of Carnival Corporation, the first Black CEO of a major cruise company.

Arnold Gesell

Arnold Gesell was an American psychologist and pediatrician who founded the Yale Clinic of Child Development, making infant behavior a measurable science through decades of observation.

Arnold Harberger

Arnold Harberger is an American economist known for applied welfare economics, public finance, and cost-benefit analysis, and for the Harberger triangle, the standard diagram of deadweight loss from taxes.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889–1975) was a British historian and philosopher of history whose twelve-volume A Study of History explained civilizations' rise and fall through challenge and response.

Arnold Leese

Arnold Spencer Leese (1878-1956), also called the 'Anti-Jewish Camel-Doctor', was a British veterinary surgeon and camel expert who founded and led the small, intensely antisemitic Imperial Fascist League, fought Mosley's BUF, was interned under Regulation 18B, and ran the postwar Gothic Ripples.

Arnold Mathew

Arnold Harris Mathew (1852–1919) was a former Roman Catholic priest consecrated in 1908 as Old Catholic Regionary Bishop for Great Britain, founding a line of independent Catholic churches.

Arnold O. Beckman

Arnold O. Beckman (1900–2004) was an American chemist who founded Beckman Instruments in Pasadena in 1935, introducing the first commercial pH meter and the Beckman DU spectrophotometer.

Arnold of Soissons

Arnold of Soissons (Arnulf of Soissons) was a Flemish monk and bishop of Soissons who founded Oudenburg Abbey and is the patron saint of brewers.

Arnold Peter Møller

Arnold Peter Møller, known as A.P. Møller (1876–1965), was a Danish shipowner who founded in 1904 the shipping company that grew into A.P. Moller – Maersk.

Arnold Rothstein

Arnold Rothstein (1882–1928), New York gambler and racketeer called 'The Brain,' reputed nation's biggest high-stakes gambler, linked to the 1919 Black Sox fix, murdered unsolved in the Park Central Hotel; inspiration for Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim.

Arnold v Britton

Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36, UK Supreme Court decision on service charge clauses at Oxwich Leisure Park, upholding a fixed £90 annual charge rising 10% compounded, and a leading authority on contractual interpretation.

Arnold Ventures

Arnold Ventures, formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, is a philanthropic organization founded by John and Laura Arnold that funds research and policy work.

Arnon Rosenthal

Arnon Rosenthal is a biotechnology entrepreneur and scientist who co-founded Alector in 2013 and serves as its CEO and President, after co-founding Rinat Neuroscience and Annexon Biosciences.

Arnoraja

Arnoraja (अर्णोराज) was a Chahamana (Chauhan) king who reigned from about 1133 to 1155, fought the Turks, the Paramaras of Malwa, and the Chaulukyas of Gujarat, and was killed by his son Jagadeva.

Arnulf of Metz

Arnulf of Metz, also known as Saint Arnulf of Metz, was a Frankish courtier who became bishop of Metz around 614, retired to the Vosges, and died about 640.

Arnuwanda I

Arnuwanda I, also written Arnuwandas I, was a Hittite Great King of the late 15th century BC, married to Queen Ašmu-nikal and known for his edicts and frontier treaties.

Arnuwanda II

Arnuwanda II, also written Arnuwandas II, was a Hittite king of the New Kingdom, eldest son and successor of Šuppiluliuma I, who reigned c. 1322–1321 BC.

Arnuwanda III

Arnuwanda III was a king of the Hittite Empire who ruled briefly around 1209–1207 BC, near the empire's end, and was succeeded by his brother Šuppiluliuma II.

Aro Biotherapeutics

Aro Biotherapeutics Co is a Philadelphia-based biotechnology company, founded in 2017 by former Johnson & Johnson scientists, developing tissue-targeted genetic medicines on its Centyrin protein-scaffold platform.

Aro Confederacy

The Aro Confederacy was an Igbo trading and oracle network based at Arochukwu in southeastern Nigeria, dominant in the Bight of Biafra hinterland until the British Aro Expedition of 1901–02.