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Arthur Godfrey

Arthur Godfrey (1903–1983), American radio and TV broadcaster; hosted Arthur Godfrey Time, Talent Scouts, and His Friends on CBS; fired Julius La Rosa live in 1953.

Arthur Goldberger

Arthur Stanley Goldberger (1930–2009) was an American econometrician at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the Klein–Goldberger model of the US economy and his 1964 textbook Econometric Theory.

Arthur Griffith

Arthur Griffith (1871–1922), Dublin-born journalist and nationalist, founded Sinn Féin in 1905, wrote The Resurrection of Hungary, chaired the 1921 Treaty delegation, and was President of Dáil Éireann until his death in August 1922.

Arthur Guinness, Baron Ardilaun

Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun (1840–1915), was an Irish brewing heir, Conservative MP, and philanthropist best remembered for financing the restoration of St Stephen's Green in Dublin.

Arthur Hayes (cryptocurrency entrepreneur)

Arthur Hayes is a former derivatives trader who co-founded the cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX in Hong Kong in 2014, serving as CEO and pioneering the perpetual swap futures contract.

Arthur Henderson

Arthur Henderson (1863–1935) was a British Labour politician and trade unionist, Labour Party secretary from 1911 to 1934 and Foreign Secretary from 1929 to 1931.

Arthur III of Brittany

Arthur III of Brittany, known as Arthur de Richemont, was a Breton prince who served as Constable of France for over three decades before becoming duke in 1457.

Arthur J. Falcone

Arthur J. Falcone, born 1959, is an American real estate developer and franchising entrepreneur who co-founded Transeastern Properties, sold in 2005 for $1.6 billion, and leads the $6 billion Miami Worldcenter development in downtown Miami.

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. is a global insurance brokerage, risk management, and claims administration firm headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, and the world's third largest insurance broker.

Arthur J. Schwab

Arthur J. Schwab (born 1946) is an American jurist and senior United States district judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.

Arthur John Maclean

Arthur John Maclean (1858–1943) was a Scottish Episcopal bishop of Moray, Ross, and Caithness who led the Archbishop of Canterbury's mission to East Syrian Christians.

Arthur L. Bowley

Arthur L. Bowley, full name Arthur Lyon Bowley, was an English economist and statistician who pioneered sampling theory, co-built Britain's real wage index, and named Bowley's law.

Arthur L. Parker

Arthur L. Parker was an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded the Parker Appliance Company in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1917 to sell his pneumatic truck brakes, the business that grew into Parker-Hannifin Corporation.

Arthur Laffer

Arthur Laffer (born 1940) is the American supply-side economist behind the Laffer Curve, sketched on a napkin at a 1974 Washington dinner with Rumsfeld and Cheney; he was OMB's first chief economist, advised Reagan and Trump, and won the 2019 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Arthur Leigh Allen

Arthur Leigh Allen was a Vallejo schoolteacher and convicted child molester, the only suspect police publicly named in the Zodiac Killer case. Fingerprints, handwriting, and a 2002 partial DNA test all failed to match him; he died in 1992 denying guilt.

Arthur Levitt

Arthur Levitt is an American financial executive who served as the 25th Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1993 to 2001, its longest-serving chairman.

Arthur Lewbel

Arthur Lewbel is an econometrician, the Roche Professor of Economics at Boston College, known for a 2012 method that constructs instruments from heteroskedasticity when no external instruments exist.

Arthur MacArthur IV

Arthur MacArthur IV (born February 21, 1938, Manila) is the only child of General Douglas MacArthur and Jean MacArthur, raised at the Manila Hotel, and a private figure who made a rare 2025 Battle of Manila anniversary statement.

Arthur MacArthur Jr.

Arthur MacArthur Jr. (1845-1912), Union Civil War officer and Medal of Honor recipient at Missionary Ridge, later Major General and U.S. military governor of the Philippines 1900-1901, father of Douglas MacArthur.

Arthur MacArthur Sr.

Arthur MacArthur Sr. (1815-1896), Glasgow-born judge and Democrat, was lieutenant governor and four-day governor of Wisconsin in 1856, a Wisconsin circuit judge, and a D.C. federal judge; father of Lt. Gen. Arthur MacArthur Jr.

Arthur Meighen

Arthur Meighen (1874-1960), ninth prime minister of Canada, Conservative leader 1920-26 and briefly 1941; served July 1920-December 1921 and June-September 1926, famed as the House of Commons' finest debater.

Arthur Melton

Arthur Weever Melton (1906–1978) was an American experimental psychologist who led the University of Missouri psychology department from 1932 and edited the Journal of Experimental Psychology for twelve years.

Arthur Michael Ramsey

Arthur Michael Ramsey was an Anglican theologian and the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury from 1961 to 1974, known for his book The Gospel and the Catholic Church.

Arthur Nebe

Arthur Nebe (1894–1945) was a German criminal police officer who headed the Reich Criminal Police Office and commanded Einsatzgruppe B, which reported over 45,000 people killed in 1941.

Arthur O'Leary

Arthur O'Leary (1729–1802) was an Irish Capuchin priest famed for his preaching in Cork, his controversy with John Wesley, and his writings for Catholic toleration.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. (born 1951), publisher of The New York Times 1992-2017 and company chairman 1997-2020; fourth-generation Ochs-Sulzberger family leader who took the Times national, launched nytimes.com, and built its digital subscription model.

Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873–1962), American philosopher at Johns Hopkins, founded the history of ideas, wrote The Great Chain of Being (1936), devised unit-ideas, and co-founded the AAUP.

Arthur Orr

Arthur Orr (born 1964) is an American Republican politician, a member of the Alabama Senate from the 3rd district since 2006 who chairs the Finance and Taxation Education Committee.

Arthur Penty

Arthur Joseph Penty (1875–1937), English architect and social thinker, the first guild socialist and co-originator of post-industrialism; author of The Restoration of the Gild System (1906) and Post-Industrialism (1922).

Arthur Percival

Arthur Ernest Percival (1887–1966), British Army lieutenant-general and General Officer Commanding Malaya, surrendered Singapore with over 85,000 troops to Yamashita on 15 February 1942; later historians treat him partly as a scapegoat.