Arthur


Gender:
Origin: Gaelic
6715 famous people named Arthur found on Wikipedia.
528914 male, 3193 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 230-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 14-th in year 1901
Used in: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Mythology, Norwegian, Swedish

Meanings

Arthur is a common masculine given name. Its etymology is disputed, but its popularity derives from its being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur.
Art and Artie are diminutive forms of the name. A common spelling variant used in many Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages is Artur.

Masc. proper name, from Medieval Latin Arthurus/Arturus, usually said to be from Welsh arth "bear," cognate with Greek arktos, Latin ursus (see arctic).

Derived from the Celtic elements artos (bear) with viros (man) or rigos (king); means: strong as a bear.

Famous People: 6715 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Bea Arthur 1922 Actress, singer, comedian
2 Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 Scottish physician and author
3 Arthur Miller 1915 Playwright from the United States
4 Chester A. Arthur 1829 American politician, 21st president of the United States (in office from 1881 to 1885)
5 Arthur Ashe 1943 American tennis player
6 Arthur Blank 1942 American businessman
7 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 British soldier and statesman
8 Arthur C. Clarke 1917 British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
9 James Arthur 1988 English singer and musician
10 Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 German philosopher
11 Arthur Darvill 1982 Actor from England
12 Arthur Rimbaud 1854 French Decadent and Symbolist poet
13 Jean Arthur 1900 Actress
14 Arthur Shawcross 1945 American criminal
15 Arthur Agee 1972 Basketball player
16 Arthur Lowe 1915 English actor
17 Arthur Guinness 1725 Irish brewer and the founder of the Guinness brewery business and family
18 Arthur Abraham 1980 German professional boxer from Armenia
19 Arthur D. Levinson 1950 American computer businessman and CEO of Calico
20 Arthur Bremer 1950 Failed assassin
21 Arthur Davidson 1881 American motorcycle businessman
22 Arthur Koestler 1905 Hungarian-British author and journalist
23 Arthur Rubinstein 1887 Polish-American classical pianist
24 Arthur Hiller 1923 Canadian television and film director
25 Arthur Balfour 1848 British Conservative politician and statesman
26 Arthur Godfrey 1903 American radio personality and television actor
27 Arthur Seyss-Inquart 1892 Austrian chancellor and politician
28 Arthur Scargill 1938 British trade unionist
29 Arthur Nory 1993 Brazilian artistic gymnast
30 Arthur Phillip 1738 British naval officer; Governor of New South Wales
31 Arthur Russell 1951 American musician
32 Arthur Eddington 1882 British astrophysicist
33 Arthur B. McDonald 1943 Canadian physicist
34 Carol Arthur 1935 American actress
35 Mickey Arthur 1968 South African cricketer
36 Arthur English 1919 British actor
37 Arthur Brough 1905 British actor
38 Arthur Sullivan 1842 English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
39 Arthur Rackham 1867 English illustrator
40 Arthur Hunnicutt 1910 Actor
41 Arthur McArthur IV 1938 American musician
42 Arthur Treacher 1894 Actor
43 Arthur Lee 1945 American musician
44 Arthur Penn 1922 American producer and director
45 Arthur Nebe 1894 German general
46 Arthur de Gobineau 1816 French diplomat and writer
47 Arthur Masuaku 1993 French footballer
48 Arthur Askey 1900 English comedian and actor
49 Arthur Currie 1875 Canadian general
50 Arthur Percival 1887 A British army officer in the First and Second World Wars
51 Arthur White 1933 Actor from England
52 Arthur Laffer 1940 American economist
53 Arthur Rock 1926 American businessman
54 Arthur Evans 1851 Discoverer of Knossos
55 Arthur Elgort 1940 American photographer
56 Arthur Griffith 1872 Irish politician and writer
57 Arthur Dent Fictional character
58 Arthur Machen 1863 Welsh author and mystic
59 Arthur Altschul 1920 American banking mogul and a Goldman Sachs Group partner
60 Arthur Bostrom 1955 British actor
61 Arthur Goldberg 1908 Lawyer, politician and civil servant
62 Arthur Ransome 1884 English author and journalist
63 Arthur O'Connell 1908 American actor; acting on stage, film and television; Oscar nominee
64 Arthur Barker 1899 American murderer
65 Arthur C. Brooks 1964 American musician
66 Arthur Thompson 1931 Glasgow-born British gangster
67 Arthur Read Fictional character in the PBS children's television show Arthur
68 Arthur Marx 1921 American author and tennis player
69 Arthur Liebehenschel 1901 SS officer
70 Arthur Morris 1922 Australian cricketer
71 Arthur Chu 1984 American television personality
72 Arthur Hailey 1920 British writer
73 Arthur Compton 1892 American Physicist
74 Arthur Malet 1927 English stage, film and television actor in the USA
75 Zackary Arthur 2007 American actor and television actor
76 Arthur Schnitzler 1862 Austrian writer
77 Arthur Hill 1922 Canadian actor
78 Arthur Mullard 1910 British actor
79 Arthur Duncan 1933 American dancer
80 Arthur Bell Nicholls 1819 Husband of Charlotte Bronte
81 Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Douro 1978 British noble
82 Arthur Kane 1949 American musician
83 Arthur Danto 1924 American art critic and philosopher
84 Arthur I, Duke of Brittany 1187 Breton noble, posthumous son of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany
85 Arthur Meighen 1874 9th Prime Minister of Canada
86 Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder 1890 Royal Air Force World War II air marshal
87 Arthur Honegger 1892 Swiss composer
88 Arthur T. Benjamin 1961 American mathematician
89 Arthur Rostron 1869 British sailor
90 Arthur Freed 1894 American film producer
91 Arthur Poe
92 Darrell Arthur 1988 American basketball player
93 Arthur Redcloud
94 Arthur Shields 1896 Irish actor
95 Arthur Gary Bishop 1951 American serial killer
96 Arthur Laurents 1917 Playwright, theatre director, screenwriter
97 Arthur Scherbius 1878 German cryptographer
98 Arthur St. Clair 1737 American soldier and politician
99 Arthur Greiser 1897 German general
100 Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. 1951 American newspaper publisher
101 Arthur Fowler
102 Arthur Rudolph 1906 Rocket engineer
103 Arthur William Radford 1896 United States naval aviator
104 Arthur Cayley 1821 English mathematician
105 Arthur M. Schlesinger 1917 American historian, social critic, and public intellectual
106 Joseph Arthur 1971 American singer-songwriter
107 Arthur Fiedler 1894 American conductor
108 Arthur Zimmermann 1864 German diplomat
109 Arthur Mafokate 2000 South African musician
110 Arthur Kornberg 1918 American biochemist
111 Arthur Baker 1955 American musician
112 Arthur Mathews 1959 Irish writer and actor
113 Arthur Alexander 1940 US soul singer
114 Arthur Frank Burns 1904 American economist and diplomat
115 Arthur Jensen 1923 Professor of educational psychology
116 Arthur Kennedy 1914 American stage and film actor
117 Arthur Branch Character in the TV series Law & Order
118 Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1844 British poet
119 Arthur Henderson 1863 British politician
120 Arthur Ochs Sulzberger 1926 American businessman
121 Arthur MacArthur, Jr. 1845 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
122 Arthur Uther Pendragon 1954 British activist
123 Arthur Golden 1956 American novelist
124 Arthur Fry 1931 American inventor
125 Arthur Crudup 1905 American Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
126 Arthur Ryan 1935 Irish businessman
127 Arthur Murray 1895 American dance instructor
128 Arthur Moats 1988 American football player
129 Donald Arthur 1937 American actor, voice actor, screenwriter and opera singer
130 Arthur Cecil Pigou 1877 British economist
131 Arthur Cotton 1803 General and engineer
132 Arthur Lake 1905 Actor
133 Arthur Samuel 1901 American computer scientist
134 Arthur Anderson 1922 American actor
135 Arthur Brown 1990 American football player, linebacker
136 Arthur Maia 1992 Brazilian footballer
137 Arthur J. Jackson 1924 Officer
138 Arthur Seale 1946 American kidnapper
139 Arthur Beetson 1945 Australian rugby league player and coach
140 Arthur Q. Bryan 1899 Voice actor and radio personality
141 Kay Arthur 1933 International Bible teacher/four-time ECPA Christian Book Award winning author
142 Arthur Pink 1886 British biblical scholar
143 Arthur Smith 1921 American country musician, songwriter and producer
144 Arthur Jones 1926 American inventor
145 Ivan Ditta 1892 Brazilian footballer and manager
146 Arthur Bowen 1998 British actor
147 Arthur Streeton 1867 Australian artist
148 Arthur Wharton 1865 Ghanaian footballer
149 Arthur Spooner
150 Arthur Franz 1920 American actor
151 Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington 1807 Duke of Wellington
152 Arthur Holmes 1890 English geologist
153 Arthur Calwell 1896 Australian politician
154 Arthur A. Wilson Indian cinematographer
155 Arthur Lydiard 1917 New Zealand runner and athletics coach
156 Arthur Slugworth
157 Arthur Hays Sulzberger 1891 Publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961
158 Arthur J. Nascarella 1944 United States Marine
159 Arthur Erickson 1924 Canadian architect and urban planner
160 Arthur Holmwood Character from Bram Stoker's Dracula
161 Arthur Boka 1983 Ivorian footballer
162 Arthur Boyd 1920 Australian painter
163 Alex Arthur 1978 British boxer
164 Arthur Hutchinson 1942 British murderer
165 Arthur Mazet 1989 French actor
166 Arthur Janov 1924 American psychologist
167 Arthur Sinodinos 1957 Australian politician
168 Arthur Conley 1946 American soul singer
169 Arthur Mitchell 1934 Dancer, Choreographer Co-Founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem
170 Arthur Quiller-Couch 1863 British writer and literary critic
171 Arthur Leonard Schawlow 1921 American physicist
172 Arthur Waley 1889 British academic
173 Arthur MacArthur III 1876 United States Navy officer
174 Arthur Schmidt 1895 German general
175 Arthur Lucas American murderer
176 Arthur Fadden 1894 13th Prime Minister of Australia
177 Arthur Guyton 1919 American physiologist
178 Arthur Porter 1956 Canadian physician
179 Arthur Tugade 1946
180 Arthur Butz 1933 American electrical engineer
181 Arthur Nielsen 1897 American market analyst
182 Arthur Adams 1963 American comic book artist and writer
183 Arthur L. Williams, Jr. 1942 American billionaire
184 Arthur Hugh Clough 1819 English poet
185 Arthur Godfrey Peuchen 1859 Canadian businessman
186 Arthur Ravenel, Jr. 1927 Politician and United States Marine
187 Arthur Zanetti 1990 Brazilian artistic gymnast
188 Arthur Numan 1969 Dutch footballer
189 Arthur Lucan 1885 English actor
190 Arthur Dove 1880 American painter
191 Arthur Moeller van den Bruck 1876 German historian
192 Arthur D. Simons 1918 United States Army officer
193 Arthur Kent 1953 Canadian politician
194 Arthur Lismer 1885 Canadian artist
195 Arthur Solinap 1980 Filipino actor
196 Arthur Negus 1903 British television presenter
197 Arthur Sifton 1858 Premier of Alberta
198 Arthur Irawan 1993 Indonesian association football player
199 Arthur Middleton 1742 American politician
200 Arthur Chung 1918 First President of Guyana, Senior Magistrate, Sworn Land Surveyor