ARTHUR

'Arthur' is a common male name, meaning "bearlike," believed to possibly be descended from the Roman surname Artorius ("plowman") or the Celtic bear-goddess Artio or more probably from the Celtic word ''artos'' ("bear"). Other Celtic languages have similar first names, such as Old Irish ''Art, Artúur'', Welsh ''Arth'' - which may also be the source for the modern name.
''Art'' is also a diminutive form of the common name Arthur. In many Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages the name is spelled as Artur.

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People with the given name Arthur

Fictional characters

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People with the given name Arthur

★ King Arthur, the legendary British ruler.

★ Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (1187–1203)

★ Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486–1502)

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★ Other British princes Arthur

★ Arthur Ashe (1943–1993), American athlete and author

★ Arthur Balfour (1848–1930), British statesman

★ Arthur Boileau (born 1957), Canadian long-distance runner

★ Arthur C. Clarke (born 1917), British author

★ Arthur Cravan (1887–1918?), British boxer, poet and pre-Dadaist

★ Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), British writer, and creator of the character Sherlock Holmes

★ Art Davis (disambiguation), various

★ Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944), British astrophysicist

★ Arthur Fiedler (1894–1979), long-time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra

★ Arthur Freeman, Russian Jewish writer

★ Arthur Garfunkel (born 1941), American musician and actor

★ Arthur Golden (born 1956), American author

★ Arthur Griffith (1872–1922), founder and first leader of the Irish political movement Sinn Féin

★ Arthur Koestler (1905–1983), Hungarian polymath

★ Arthur Kornberg (born 1918), American biochemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1959

★ Arthur Mafokate, South African kwaito musician and producer

★ Arthur Miller (1915–2005), American playwright, essayist and author

★ Arthur C. Miller (1895–1970), American cinematographer

★ Arthur Rackham (1867–1939), British book illustrator

★ Arthur Rowe (1936-2003), English shot putter

★ Arthur Rubin (born 1956), American mathematician

★ Arthur Scargill (born 1938), former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers and current leader of the Socialist Labour Party

★ Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

★ Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), German philosopher

★ Arthur Shawcross (born 1945), American serial killer

★ Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), English composer best known for his operatic collaborations with librettist W. S. Gilbert

★ Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), Irish-born British soldier and statesman

Fictional characters

★ Arthur the Artificial Intelligence, a fictional character from the ''Journeyman Project'' computer games

★ Arthur Bach, a character played by Dudley Moore in the movie ''Arthur (film)''

★ Arthur Read, the aardvark from the ''Arthur'' children's books by Marc Brown and the PBS television series ''Arthur (TV series)''

★ Arthur the chimpanzee, from Lillian Hoban's children's books

★ Arthur (The Tick), sidekick of superhero The Tick

★ Arthur Dent, a "mild-mannered Earthman" whose planet is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''

★ Arthur Spooner, a character on the television sitcom ''The King of Queens'' played by Jerry Stiller

★ Arthur Weasley, from the ''Harry Potter'' book.

★ Arthur Curry, the name of the DC Comics superhero known as Aquaman

★ Arthur (Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends), a character in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.

★ Arthur Trine from Gundam Seed Destiny

★ Arthur (Soul Calibur), a minor character in ''Soul Calibur'', as a replacement for Mitsurugi in nations where it is forbidden to feature samurai in games.

★ Arthur of Freege, Tiltyu's eldest son, a character in ''

★ Arthur (plant) , a running gag in ''MAD Magazine''
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See also'

★ MacArthur

★ McArthur

★ Macarthur