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Arthur is a common masculine given name. Arthur may refer to:
People
Surname
First name of Arthur or Art
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- King Arthur, legendary British monarch
- Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (1187–1203)
- Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (1305–1312)
- Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (1457–1458)
- Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486–1502)
- Arthur (TV presenter), French presenter, producer, and comedian
- Arthur Ashe (1943–1993), American tennis player
- Arthur Balfour (1848–1930), British politician
- Art Baltazar (born 1968), Comic writer and illustrator for DC Super Pets
- Arthur Bluethenthal (1891–1918), American football player
- Arthur Bradfield (1892–1978), English cricketer
- Art Carney, American actor
- Arthur Cayley (1822–1895), British mathematician
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008), British writer
- Arthur Darvill, British actor and musician
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), British writer
- Arthur Eddington (1882–1944), British astrophysicist
- Arthur Evans (1851–1941), British archaeologist
- Arthur Frommer (born 1929), American travel writer and publisher
- Art Garfunkel (born 1941), American entertainer
- Arthur Goldberg (1908–1990), American politician and judge
- Arthur Guinness (1725–1803), Irish brewer
- Arthur Hailey (1920–2004), British novelist
- Art Heyman (born 1941), American NBA basketball player
- Arthur Holden (born 1959), Canadian voice actor
- Arthur James Johnes (1809-1871), English judge
- Arthur Koestler (1905–1983), British writer
- Arthur Laffer (born 1940), American economist
- Arthur Lee (musician) (1945–2006), American musician
- Art Linkletter (1912–2010), Canadian-born American radio and television personality
- Arthur Lydiard (1917–2004), New Zealand runner and athletics coach
- Arthur MacArthur, Jr., (1845–1912), American soldier
- Arthur Miller (1915–2005), American playwright
- Arthur Morrell (Louisiana politician) (born 1943), American politician
- Arthur Uther Pendragon (born 1954), British neo-druid leader
- Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French poet
- Arthur Scargill (born 1938), British miners' union leader
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), American historian
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), German philosopher
- Art Shamsky (born 1941), American major league baseball player
- Arthur Shawcross (1945-2008), American serial killer
- Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), English composer
- Arthur Vandenberg (1884–1951), American politician
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
Tropical cyclones
- Tropical Storm Arthur (disambiguation): Arthur is the name of several tropical cyclones in the North Nebraska and Fiji cyclone naming schools.
Music
- Arthur (band)
- Arthur (magazine), publication devoted to avant-garde music
- Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire), 1969 album by The Kinks
- "Arthur" (The Kinks song), from said album
- "Arthur" (Badfinger song), bonus track on reissues of their album Magic Christian Music
- Arthur the King, 2001 album by Maddy Prior
- Philemon Arthur, pseudonym for one of the members of the Swedish duo Philemon Arthur and the Dung, whose real names are unknown
Fiction
Characters
- Arthur, fictional tank engine in Thomas and Friends
- Arthur Branch, fictional character in the television series Law & Order
- Arthur Dent, fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
- Arthur Kirkland, the national personification of England (and the United Kingdom) from the webmanga series Hetalia: Axis Powers
- Arthur le fantôme justicier, fictional character in the comics of Jean Cézard
- Arthur Mitchell, known as the Trinity Killer, a fictional character in the television series Dexter
- Arthur Read, anthropomorphic aardvark; fictional character in the children's novels of Marc Brown and the television series based on them (see below)
- Arthur Weasley, fictional character in the Harry Potter books
- Sir Arthur, fictional character in the video game Ghosts 'n Goblins
- Arthur Spooner, fictional character on The King of Queens portrayed by Jerry Stiller
- Arthur the Artificial Intelligence, a character from the Journeyman Project computer games
- Arthur Bach, a character played by Dudley Moore in the movie Arthur
- Arthur Beare, a character played by Garry McDonald in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV series Mother and Son
- Arthur Brown, the more instinctive brother in Patrick White's novel The Solid Mandala
- Arthur the chimpanzee, from Lillian Hoban's children's books
- Arthur Clennam, a major character in the novel Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
- Arthur Curry, the DC Comics superhero known as Aquaman
- Arthur Daley, lead character played by George Cole in the British comedy-drama Minder (TV series)
- 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 Dimmesdale, a main character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Victorian novel, The Scarlet Letter
- Arthur Fancy, NYPD Lieutenant on NYPD Blue.
- Fonzie, Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, a character on the television sitcom Happy Days.
- Arthur Holland, LAPD Deputy Chief on Dark Blue.
- Arthur Petrelli, a character in the NBC drama series Heroes
- Arthur Penhaligon, main character in The Keys to the Kingdom series
- Arthur (plant), a running gag in MAD Magazine
- Arthur J. Raffles, the main character in the stories of E.W.Hornung
- Arthur Read, the aardvark from the Arthur children's books by Marc Brown and the PBS television series Arthur
- Arthur Rudge, a character on the television sitcom On the Buses played by Michael Robbins.
- 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 Spooner, a character on the television sitcom The King of Queens played by Jerry Stiller
- Arthur (The Tick), sidekick of superhero The Tick
- Arthur Trine from Gundam Seed Destiny
- Sergeant Arthur Wilson, character played by John Le Mesurier in the British sitcom Dad's Army
- Arthur (The Point Man) from the movie Inception.
- Arthur (Ghosts 'n Goblins), the main character of Ghosts 'n Goblins video game series
Films and television
- Arthur (1981 film), Oscar Winning 1981 film starring Dudley Moore
- Arthur 2: On the Rocks, 1988 sequel
- Arthur (2011 film), 2011 remake starring Russell Brand
- King Arthur (film), 2004 film
- King Arthur and the Knights of Justice (TV series)
- Arthur and the Great Adventure:
- Arthur and the Invisibles, 2006 animated film
- Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard, 2009 animated film
- Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds, 2010 animated film
- Arthur Christmas, 2011 animated film
- Arthur (TV series), animated children's television series about an anthropomorphic aardvark named Arthur
Games
- Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur, 1989 computer game made by Infocom
Novels
- Arthur, 1989 novel by Stephen R. Lawhead, the third in the Pendragon Cycle
Places
Australia
Canada
- Arthur (electoral district), Manitoba, former provincial electoral division
- Rural Municipality of Arthur, Manitoba
- Arthur, Ontario
- Port Arthur, Ontario
China
- Port Arthur on the Yellow Sea (now Lüshunkou)
France
- Port-Arthur, lieu-dit situé à l'entrée Est de Besançon, dans le Doubs (25)
New Zealand
United States
- Arthur, California
- Arthur, Illinois
- Arthur, Iowa
- Arthur, Nebraska
- Arthur, Nevada
- Arthur, North Dakota
- Arthur, Wisconsin, a town
- Arthur, Grant County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Arthur County, Nebraska
- Port Arthur, Texas
- Port Arthur, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
Other uses
- Arthur (racehorse), runner up in the 1840 Grand National
- Arthur (newspaper), student newspaper at Trent University, Canada
- ARTHUR (military), ARTillery HUnting Radar
- Arthur (operating system)
- 2597 Arthur, an asteroid
- Arthur, the first open parabolic satellite dish, at the Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station
- Arthur Retail, company, acquired by JDA Software in 1998
See also
- Arturo (disambiguation)
- Arthur's, 19th-century British gentlemen's club
- Arthur's Magazine, 19th-century American literary magazine
- Arthurs (disambiguation) (disambiguation page)
- Author
- Clan Arthur, Scottish clan