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Artemy Volynsky

Artemy Petrovich Volynsky (Артемий Волынский) was a Russian statesman and general who served Peter the Great and Empress Anna Ivanovna, ending as a cabinet minister before being beheaded for treason in 1740.

Arteris

Arteris, Inc. is a Campbell, California-based semiconductor IP company founded in 2004 and listed on Nasdaq as AIP; its network-on-chip interconnect technology has shipped in more than 4 billion chips and chiplets.

Artha Venture Fund

Artha Venture Fund is a Mumbai-based early-stage micro venture capital fund led by managing partner Anirudh A. Damani, which opened its first institutional fund in 2018.

Arthashastra (अर्थशास्त्र)

Arthashastra (अर्थशास्त्र), attributed to Kautilya or Chanakya, is an ancient Sanskrit treatise on statecraft, economics, and military strategy, in 15 books, rediscovered in 1905 at Mysore and debated as a Mauryan-era or composite text.

Arthel Neville

Arthel Neville (born 1962, New Orleans) is an American Fox News anchor, daughter of Art Neville, first African American woman to host her own CNN show (TalkBack Live), formerly of E!'s Extreme Close-Up and Extra.

ARTHEx Biotech

ARTHEx Biotech S.L. is a Valencia-based clinical-stage biotechnology company, a University of Valencia spin-off, developing RNA medicines led by ATX-01 for myotonic dystrophy type 1.

Arthrosi Therapeutics

Arthrosi Therapeutics is a San Diego clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in 2017 to develop gout and chronic kidney disease therapies; its lead drug pozdeutinurad (AR882) led to acquisition by Sobi, completed in 2026.

Arthur

Arthur: masculine given name of Celtic-Latin origin, likely from Roman family name Artorius; earliest bearer Arturus filius Aidan (c. 700); tied to the legendary King Arthur; cognates Artur, Arturo, Artūras.

Arthur Andersen

Arthur Andersen LLP was a Chicago-based accounting firm founded in 1913 that grew into one of the Big Five audit networks before collapsing in 2002 over Enron.

Arthur Anderson (shipowner)

Arthur Anderson (1792–1868) was a Shetland-born shipowner and radical Liberal MP who, with Brodie McGhie Willcox, founded the shipping line that became P&O, the world's largest steamship fleet by his death.

Arthur Balfour

Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930), 1st Earl of Balfour, British Conservative prime minister 1902–05, uncle-nephew successor to Lord Salisbury; Education Act 1902 author; issued the 1917 Balfour Declaration as foreign secretary.

Arthur Blank

Arthur Blank (born 1942) is an American retail entrepreneur who co-founded The Home Depot in 1979 with Bernie Marcus and later bought the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.

Arthur Bremer

Arthur Bremer (born 1950), Milwaukee busboy who shot and paralyzed Alabama governor and presidential candidate George Wallace in Laurel, Maryland, on May 15, 1972, after failing to ambush Nixon; convicted, served 35 years, released 2007; diary inspired Taxi Driver.

Arthur Brooke (tea merchant)

Arthur Brooke (1845–1918) was a British tea merchant who founded Brooke, Bond & Co. in Manchester in 1869, the company behind PG Tips that became the world's largest tea business.

Arthur Bryant

Arthur Bryant, full name Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant, was a British historian, the most widely read in mid-twentieth-century Britain, known for his Samuel Pepys trilogy.

Arthur C. Brooks

Arthur C. Brooks is an American social scientist and author who studies happiness, teaching at both the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School since 2019.

Arthur Cayley Headlam

Arthur Cayley Headlam (1862–1947) was an English theologian and Church of England bishop, Bishop of Gloucester from 1923 to 1945 and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford.

Arthur Charles Jennings

Arthur Charles Jennings was an Anglican clergyman and church historian, M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge, who served as Vicar of Whittlesford and published three works in the 1880s.

Arthur Chatto

Arthur Robert Nathaniel Chatto (born 1999) is a British Royal Marines officer, grandson of Princess Margaret and great-nephew of Queen Elizabeth II; he rowed 2,000 miles around Britain in 2020 and is 31st in line to the throne.

Arthur Cipriani

Arthur Andrew Cipriani (1875–1945) was a Trinidadian labor leader and politician who led the Trinidad Workingmen's Association, founded the Trinidad Labour Party, and represented Port of Spain.

Arthur Cleveland Coxe

Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1818–1896) was an American Episcopal clergyman and poet, the second Bishop of Western New York from 1865 until his death in 1896.

Arthur D. Levinson

Arthur D. Levinson, known as Art Levinson, is an American cell biologist who was Genentech's chief executive from 1995 to 2009 and has chaired Apple's board.

Arthur de Gobineau

Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882), French diplomat and writer; author of Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines (1853-55); his racial theory of history, spread by Schemann and Chamberlain, fed Pan-Germanism and Nazi ideology.

Arthur Debert

Arthur Debert is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the logistics company Loggi in São Paulo in 2013, serving as its chief technology officer and later in product and strategy roles.

Arthur Ellis (Maryland politician)

Arthur Ellis is an American Democratic politician who has represented District 28 in the Maryland State Senate since 2019, after serving as an Air Force officer from 1983 to 2001.

Arthur Evans

Sir Arthur John Evans (1851–1941) was a British archaeologist who excavated the Palace of Minos at Knossos, Crete, from 1900 and named the Minoan civilization.

Arthur Eze

Arthur Eze, born 1948 in Ukpo, Nigeria, is an oil businessman and founder of Atlas Oranto Petroleum, an Abuja-based group holding licenses across roughly a dozen African countries.

Arthur F. Burns

Arthur F. Burns (1904–1987) was an Austrian-born American economist who led the NBER, chaired the Federal Reserve from 1970 to 1978, and later served as Ambassador to West Germany.

Arthur Fisher (real estate broker)

Arthur Graham Fisher (born 1975), called Art, is an American real estate broker, president of Fisher Realty of Brevard, North Carolina, founded 1977, and since November 2025 the US Ambassador to Austria under President Trump.

Arthur Ge

Arthur Ge is a Managing Director at Legend Capital, a China-focused venture capital and private equity firm, where he leads investments in intelligent manufacturing, including CATL.