is a common male name, meaning " Bear like," believed to possibly be descended from the Roman surname Artorius (" Plow man") or the Celt ic bear-goddess Artio or more probably from the Celtic word ''artos'' ("bear"). Other Celtic languages have similar first names, such as Old Irish ''Art, Artúur'', Welsh ''Arth'' - which may also be the source for the modern name.
''Art'' is also a diminutive form of the common name Arthur. In many Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages the name is spelled as Artur.
- King Arthur , the legendary British ruler.
- Arthur I, Duke Of Brittany (1187–1203)
- Arthur, Prince Of Wales (1486–1502)
- --- Other British princes Arthur
- Arthur Ashe (1943–1993), American athlete and author
- Arthur Balfour (1848–1930), British statesman
- Arthur Boileau (born 1957), Canadian long-distance runner
- Arthur C. Clarke (born 1917), British author
- Arthur Cravan (1887–1918?), British boxer, poet and pre-Dadaist
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), British writer, and creator of the character Sherlock Holmes
- Art Davis (disambiguation) , various
- Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944), British astrophysicist
- Arthur Fiedler (1894–1979), long-time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra
- Arthur Freeman , Russian Jewish writer
- Arthur Garfunkel (born 1941), American musician and actor
- Arthur Golden (born 1956), American author
- Arthur Griffith (1872–1922), founder and first leader of the Irish political movement Sinn Féin
- Arthur Koestler (1905–1983), Hungarian polymath
- Arthur Kornberg (born 1918), American biochemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1959
- Arthur Mafokate , South African kwaito musician and producer
- Arthur Miller (1915–2005), American playwright, essayist and author
- Arthur C. Miller (1895–1970), American cinematographer
- Arthur Rackham (1867–1939), British book illustrator
- Arthur Rowe (1936-2003), English shot putter
- Arthur Rubin (born 1956), American mathematician
- Arthur Scargill (born 1938), former leader of the National Union Of Mineworkers and current leader of the Socialist Labour Party
- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), German philosopher
- Arthur Shawcross (born 1945), American serial killer
- Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), English composer best known for his operatic collaborations with librettist W. S. Gilbert
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Of Wellington (1769–1852), Irish-born British soldier and statesman
- Arthur The Artificial Intelligence , a fictional character from the ''Journeyman Project'' computer games
- Arthur Bach, a character played by Dudley Moore in the movie '' Arthur (film) ''
- Arthur Read , the aardvark from the ''Arthur'' children's books by Marc Brown and the PBS television series '' Arthur (TV Series) ''
- Arthur The Chimpanzee , from Lillian Hoban's children's books
- Arthur (The Tick) , sidekick of superhero The Tick
- 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 Spooner , a character on the television sitcom ''The King of Queens'' played by Jerry Stiller
- Arthur Weasley , from the ''Harry Potter'' book.
- Arthur Curry, the name of the DC Comics superhero known as Aquaman
- Arthur (Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends) , a character in Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends .
- Arthur Trine from Gundam Seed Destiny
- 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 of Freege, Tiltyu's eldest son, a character in ''''
- Arthur (plant) , a running gag in ''MAD Magazine''
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