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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).

Contents 1 Famous people named Arthur 2 Fictional characters named Arthur 3 Places named Arthur 4 Miscellaneous Arthurs

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 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

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.
• 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

Places named Arthur

• Arthur, Illinois
• Arthur, Iowa
• Arthur, Nebraska
• Arthur, North Dakota
• Arthur, Chippewa County, Wisconsin
• Asteroid 2597 Arthur

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 Magazine, publication devoted to avant-garde music, experimental music and noise music.
• Arthur (Newspaper)
• Arthur was the tongue-in-cheek name given to the Beatles' haircut in A Hard Day's Night.

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