Arthur
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Arthur is a common male name, meaning "bearlike," believed to possibly be descended from the Roman surname Artorius or the Celtic bear-goddess Artio or more probably from the celtic word artos (bear).
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Famous people named Arthur
- King Arthur, the legendary British ruler and first recorded person to be named Arthur
- Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486-1502)
- Arthur Ashe, first male African American tennis player to win a grand slam
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, victor at Battle of Waterloo
- Chester A. Arthur, twenty-first President of the United States.
- Arthur C. Clarke, British science-fiction writer
- Arthur Miller, American playwright, essayist and author
- Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer, creator of the character Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Rimbaud, French poet and traveller
- Arthur Cravan, British boxer, poet and pre-Dadaist
- Arthur Mafokate, South African kwaito musician
- Arthur Kornberg, biochemist, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1959
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Fictional characters named Arthur
- Arthur Spooner, a fictional character played by Jerry Stiller on the television sitcom The King of Queens.
- Arthur Weasley, a fictional character from the Harry Potter universe.
- 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 Bach, the protagonist of the 1981 film, Arthur and its sequel, played by Dudley Moore and directed by Steve Gordon.
- The Tick's sidekick, Arthur; the white-suited, crime-fighting moth. bobby joe
- Arthur Read, Marc Brown's animated aardvark and Arthur, the TV series featuring him.
- A character in the Thomas the Tank Engine stories.
- A character in The Castle, book from Franz Kafka
- Arthur the chimpanzee, one of Lillian Hoban's characters.
- Arthur the Artificial Intelligence, a fictional character from The Journeyman Project computer games
- Arthur the knight, the hero of the Ghosts n' Ghouls series of video games by Capcom
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Places named Arthur
- Arthur, Illinois
- Arthur, Iowa
- Arthur, Nebraska
- Arthur, North Dakota
- Arthur, Chippewa County, Wisconsin
- Asteroid 2597 Arthur
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Miscellaneous Arthurs
- Arthur, the third book of the Pendragon Cycle
- Arthur, a plant which appeared from time to time in Mad magazine.
- Arthur (1981 film)
- Arthur (concept album)
- Arthur (computer operating system)
- Arthur, a weekly student newspaper at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.
- Arthur (club), New York discotheque opened in 1965 by Sybil Burton
- Arthur Magazine, publication devoted to avant-garde music, experimental music and noise music.
- Arthur was the tongue-in-cheek name given to the Beatles' haircut in A Hard Day's Night.
- Arthur is a song by The Kinks
- Arthur (TV series) featuring talking animals.