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Artiva Biotherapeutics

Artiva Biotherapeutics is a San Diego biotechnology company founded in 2019 as a spinout of South Korea's GC Cell, developing off-the-shelf allogeneic NK cell therapies and traded on Nasdaq since 2024.

Artomatix

Artomatix was a Dublin software startup founded in 2014 as a Trinity College Dublin spinout; its ArtEngine tool automated 3D art production, and Unity Technologies acquired it in 2020.

Artuk ibn Aksab

Artuk ibn Aksab (أرتق بن أكسب) was a Turkmen commander of the Great Seljuk Empire and governor of Jerusalem, regarded as founder of the Artuqid dynasty.

Artumpara

Artumpara, in Lycian Arttumpara and Greek Artembarēs, was a dynast of western Lycia who claimed to rule all of Lycia but probably controlled only its western half.

Artuqid figural coinage

Artuqid figural coinage is the copper money struck with human and animal images by the Artuqid dynasty of eastern Anatolia in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.

Artuqids

The Artuqids (آل آرتق) were a Turkmen dynasty of Oghuz origin that ruled the Diyarbakir region of southeastern Turkey, with branches at Hisn Kayfa and Mardin.

Artuqids of Hisn Kayfa and Amid

The Artuqids of Hisn Kayfa and Amid (أمارة حصن كيفا وأميد) were a Turkmen dynasty, a branch of the Artuqids, that ruled Hisn Kayfa and Amid from 1102 to 1231.

Artuqids of Mardin

The Artuqids of Mardin (آرتقيون ماردين) were a Turkic dynasty founded by Najm al-Din Ilghazi that ruled Mardin in southeastern Anatolia from 1106 to 1409, fighting the Crusader states.

Artur Axmann

Artur Axmann (1913-1996) was the last Reichsjugendführer, leader of the Nazi Hitler Youth from August 1940 succeeding Baldur von Schirach, creator of the 1938 Jugendschutzgesetz, classified a principal offender in 1949, died in Berlin.

Artúr Görgei

Artúr Görgei (Görgei Artúr) was a Hungarian general and chemist who commanded the honvéd army in the 1848–49 war of independence, winning the Spring Campaign of 1849.

Artur Muravyov

Artur Muravyov, born 1965 in Klin, is a Russian politician and Doctor of Law who has served as Presidential Representative in the Federation Council since 2013, after a State Duma term from 1993 to 1996.

Artur Schwörer

Artur Schwörer (died 2009) was a German entrepreneur who founded the formwork and scaffolding manufacturer PERI with his wife Christl in Weißenhorn, Bavaria, in 1969.

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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

Artyom Zdunov

Artyom Zdunov is a Russian politician who has served as Head of the Republic of Mordovia since 2021, re-elected in September 2026 with 77.99% of the vote.

Aru Kingdom

The Aru Kingdom, also written Haru (Kerajaan Aru), was a Malay kingdom on Sumatra's east coast from the 13th to the 16th century, centered near the Deli River and weakened by Acehnese attacks around 1612–1619.

Aruban florin

The Aruban florin (ISO code AWG) is the official currency of Aruba, issued by the Centrale Bank van Aruba and pegged to the US dollar at 1.79 since 1986.

Arughtai

Arughtai (阿鲁台) was an eastern Mongol leader who dominated the khanate for over thirty years and fought the Ming emperor Zhu Di until killed by the Oirat Tuo Huan in 1434.

Arul Pragasam

Arul Pragasam, also known as Arular, was a Sri Lankan Tamil activist linked to EROS and the father of rapper M.I.A., whose debut album Arular is named for him.

Arul Prakasam M.

Arul Prakasam M. (எம். அருள் பிரகாசம்), Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam MLA for Saidapet, Chennai, first elected 2026 with 81,205 votes (50.63%), defeating DMK's Ma. Subramanian by 28,514 votes; Chennai builder, Tejas Builders.

Arulnandi

Arulnandi (அருள்நந்தி), also called Arulnandi Sivachariyar, was a Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta preceptor, second of the four Saiva Santhanachariyas, whose Sivagnana Siddhiyar became the school's doctrinal reference.

Arumuka Navalar

Arumuka Navalar (ஆறுமுக நாவலர்) was a Tamil Shaiva scholar and reformer of Jaffna, Ceylon, born in 1822, who adapted Christian preaching and printing to defend Hindu tradition.