Famous People with Name Arthur

Arthur Villeneuve            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Arthur Villeneuve: was a Québécois painter and member of the Order of Canada.After leaving school at the age of fourteen, Villeneuve was hired in a paper mill. When he was sixteen he took a winter job as a "chore-boy" in a camp, work which did not hold his interest for long. Finally, in the same year, Villeneuve settled on a career when he became a barber's apprentice. By nineteen years of age Villeneuve had already purchased his first barber shop, the Salon Champlain on rue Sainte-Anne in Chicoutimi. Within three years his business was flourishing and he was secure enough financially to buy two rental properties. He soon sold these in order to buy a restaurant, but all the while maintaining control of, and working long hours at, his salon.

Arthur Strong Wightman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Arthur Strong Wightman: an American mathematical physicist. He is one of the founders of quantum field theory, and originated the set of Wightman axioms.Advised by John Wheeler, his 1949 Princeton doctoral dissertation was entitled The Moderation and Absorption of Negative Pions in Hydrogen. His graduate students include Arthur Jaffe, Jerrold Marsden, and Alan Sokal.Wightman was awarded the Poincaré Prize of the International Mathematical Physics Congress in 1997. He is currently a professor emeritus at Princeton

Arthur Chapman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Arthur Chapman: was an early twentieth century American poet and newspaper columnist. He wrote a sub-genre of American poetry known as Cowboy Poetry. His most famous poem was Out Where the West Begins.

Arthur Yvor Winters            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Arthur Yvor Winters: was an American poet and literary critic, whose criticism was often embroiled in controversy.His early poetry, which appeared in small avant-garde magazines alongside work by writers like James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, was written in the modernist idiom,

Arthur Quartley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Arthur Quartley: was an American painter known for his marine seascapes.Quartley was born in Paris and lived there to the age of twelve, when his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland. He studied drawing with his father C.G. Quartley, who was an English engraver. His father

Jean Arthur            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jean Arthur: was an Oscar-nominated American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains, arguably, the epitome of the female screwball comedy actress. "No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur. So much was sh

André Arthur            Origin/Culture/Country: American

André Arthur: is a Canadian radio host and politician. He was elected as an independent Member of Parliament in the riding of Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier in the 2006 Canadian federal election. His father René Arthur and uncle Gérard Arthur were also radio hosts in their d

Beatrice Bea Arthur            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Beatrice Bea Arthur: is an American comedienne, actress and singer. In an ongoing career spanning six decades, Arthur is perhaps best remembered for her trademark role as the title character, Maude Findlay, on the 1970s sitcom Maude, and for playing Dorothy Zbornak, a divorced substitute teacher on The Golden Girls.

Beatrice “Bea” Arthur            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Beatrice “Bea” Arthur: an American comedienne, actress and singer. In an ongoing career spanning six decades, Arthur is perhaps best remembered for her trademark role as the title character, Maude Findlay, on the 1970s sitcom Maude, and also for playing Dorothy Zbornak on the 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls.

Joseph Arthur            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Arthur: is a contemporary singer-songwriter from Akron, Ohio. He was discovered by Peter Gabriel in the mid-'90s, and signed to Gabriel's Real World label.Joseph began writing and playing music in his early teens, after inheriting an electronic keyboard from his aunt[1]: "I couldn't play along with my records, so that's why I started writing my own.