Famous People with Name Arthur

Arthur H. Pitney            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Arthur H. Pitney: was an American inventor best known as the father of the postage meter.Postage meters are used today by millions of businesses to imprint postage on envelopes and parcels. Meter indicia serve as proof of payment, functioning as a postage stamp, a cancellation mark, and a dated postmark all in one.Pitney filed a patent application, in Stamford, Connecticut for the world’s first postage meter on Dec. 9, 1901. He presented, demonstrated and perfected his invention over two decades – but it was not until he partnered with English-born industrialist Walter Bowes that the postage meter was approved by the U.S. Postal Service.

Arthur Middleton Young            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Arthur Middleton Young: was an American inventor, helicopter pioneer, cosmologist, philosopher and author. Young was the designer of Bell Helicopter's first helicopter, the Model 30, and inventor of the stabilizer bar used on many of Bell's early helicopter designs. He founded the "Institute for the Study of Consciousness" in Berkeley in 1972. Young advocated a process theory, which is a form of integral theory. These theories attempt to integrate the realm of human thought and experience with the realm of science so that the concept of universe is not limited to that which can be physically measured. Young's theory embraces evolution and the concept of the great chain of being. He has influenced such thinkers as Stanislav Grof.

Arthur Garfield Dove            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Arthur Garfield Dove: was an American artist. An early American modernist, he was one of America's first abstract painters.Dove used a wide range of media, sometimes in unconventional combinations. Dove did a series of experimental collage works in the 1920s. He also experimented with techniques, combining paints like hand mixed oil or tempera over a wax emulsion. The pigments from the paint then bond to the wax molecules. Dove produced a group of collages and assemblages because it was cheaper than paint and lack of work space.[1] Phillips tells Dove to abandon collage and return to paint.[3] In 1937 Phillips purchased “Goin Fishin” for $2,000.00, the largest sum paid to that date for any of Doves work.[1] Phillips also purchased “Huntington Harbor 1.”[6] Dove produced about twenty-five assemblages between 1924 and 1930.[2

Arthur Beecher Carles            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Arthur Beecher Carles: was an American Modernist painter.He returned to France from June to October 1912 and exhibited at the 1912 Salon d'Automne. After his return to America he exhibited at the Armory Show of 1913. He taught at the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia from 1917 to 1925 and taught privately afterwards. His later years were marked by bouts of alcoholism. In December 1941 he suffered a stroke that left him an invalid until his death in 1952. His daughter Mercedes Carles, also an artist and the founder of the New York Studio School, was married to photographer and designer Herbert Matter.

Arthur Osver            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Arthur Osver: American painter, was born near Chicago, and later trained at Northwestern University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur Osver is a product of an urban environment. He spent a portion of his career living in New York with residences in Greenwich Village and Long Island City. Osver taught, among many places, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School from 1949 to 1951, at the American Academy in Rome in 1957 and 1958, and at Washington University in St.Louis during the 1960s and 1970s. He actively exhibited his paintings at numerous institutions during the 1930s through the 1950s

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.