List of people by name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z
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- Arafat, Yasser, (born 1929), Palestinian leader
- Arago, Dominique, (1786-1853), scientist
- Aragon, Louis, (1897-1982), poet
- Aragones, Sergio, US cartoonist of Groo fame
- Aragón, Emilio, "Miliki" clown
- Arakawa Toyozo, Japanese potter
- Aranzadi, Rafael Moreno, (1892-1922), athlete
- Aratus, (circa 315 BC/310 BC-240 BC ??), botanist
- Arau, Alfonso, film director
- Arau, Fernando, actor, show host
- Araujo, Gwen (1985-2002), murdered transsexual
- Arber, Werner, (born 1929), 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Arbor, Brush, musician
- Arborea, Eleonora di
- Arborea, Ugone di
- Arbour, Louise, (born 1947), Supreme Court Justice (The Hague & Canada)
- Arbus, Diane, photographer
- Arca, Andrea Manca del
- Arca, Giovanni Proto
- Archambault, Gilles, novelist and commentator
- Archer, Anne, actress
- Archer, Jeffrey Howard, English novelist
- Archimattheus, scholastic philosopher
- Arigo, Jose, alleged "psychic surgeon" in Beazilia
- Archimedes, (circa 287-212 BC), mathematician
- Arc, Joan of, (1412-1431), medieval swordswoman and French saint
- Arcadius, (ruled 395-408 AD), Roman Emperor
- Archilocus of Paros (7th century BC), Greek poet
- Arcimboldo, Giussepe, (1527-1593), painter
- Ardant, Fanny, (born 1949), French actor
- Ardashir I of Persia
- Ardashir II of Persia
- Ardashir III of Persia
- Arden, Eve, actor
- Ardengus, scholastic philosopher
- Ardens, Raoul, scholastic philosopher
- Ardiles, Osvaldo, athlete
- Arduino, Giovanni, (1714-1795), scientist, first classification of geological time
- Arellano, Jesus, soccer player
- Arellano-Felix, Ramon, (1964-2002), gang member
- Arendt, Hannah, (1906-1975), political theorist
- Arendt, Walter, SPD
- Arfvedson, Johann, (1792-1841), chemist
- Arghezi, Tudor, Romanian poet
- Arguello, Alexis, (born 1952), world champion boxer
- Aribau, Bonaventura Carles, (1798-1862), poet
- Arida, Antoun, Maronite Patriarch
- Ariosto, Ludovico, (1474-1533), Italian poet
- Aristarchus, (circa 310 BC-circa 230 BC), astronomer
- Ariste, Paul, Estonian linguist
- Aristippus, Henry, scholastic philosopher
- Aristophanes, (ca. 446 BC-385 BC), Greek philosopher
- Aristotle, (384 BC-322 BC), Greek philosopher
- Arledge, Roone, (1931-2002), broadcaster
- Arlen, Harold, "Blues in the Night"
- Arliss, George, actor
- Arlosoroff, Hayim, Zionist
- Armatrading, Joan, singer-songwriter
- Armendáriz, Pedro, actor
- Armfelt, Gustaf Mauritz, (1757-1814)
- Arminius, (17 BC-19 AD), war chief of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci
- Armitage, Peter, statistician
- Armitage, Simon, (born 1963), poet
- Armstrong, Bess, actress
- Armstrong, Billie Joe, (born 1972), of Green Day
- Armstrong, Charles, President of Seattle Mariners
- Armstrong, Dido, (born 1971), British singer
- Armstrong, Edwin, (1890-1954), engineer
- Armstrong, Henry, (1912-1988), world champion boxer
- Armstrong, Jeannette, Canadian writer
- Armstrong, Lance, (born 1971), cyclist
- Armstrong, Lee, actor
- Armstrong, Lil Hardin, (1898-1971), pianist & bandleader
- Armstrong, Louis "Satchmo, (1901-1971), jazz great
- Armstrong, Neil, (born 1930), US astronaut, first on the Moon
- Armstrong, Vanessa Bell, musician
- Armstrong, William George, hydraulic crane, Armstrong breech-loading gun
- Armstrong, William H, Sounder
- Arnaldus of Villanova, scholastic philosopher
- Arnason, David, Canadian writer
- Arnaud, William, scholastic philosopher
- Arnaz, Desi, (1917-1986), Cuban-born television personality
- Arnaz, Desi, Jr, US-born actor, half-Cuban
- Arnaz, Lucy, US-born actress, half-Cuban
- Arndt, Ernst Moritz, poet
- Arne, Michael, (1740-1786), songwriter
- Arne, Thomas, (1710-1778), songwriter
- Arnett, Peter, (born 1934), British journalist
- Arnett, Ross H., Jr (1919-1999), US entomologist
- Arnim, Achim von, German poet
- Arnim, Bettina von, German poet
- Arnold, Benedict, (1741-1801), US traitor
- Arnold, Eddy, musician
- Arnold, Eve, (born 1913), photographer
- Arnold, Henry H, (1886-1950), USAAF general
- Arnold, Malcolm, (born 1921), composer
- Arnold, Matthew, (1822-1888), English poet
- Arnold, Tom, comedian
- Arnold, Vladimir, (born 1937), mathematician
- Aronofsky, Darren, (born 1969), film director
- Arp, Jean, (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
- Arquer, Giovanni
- Arquer, Pietro
- Arquer, Sigismondo
- Arquette, David, (born 1971), US actor
- Arquette, Rosanna, (born 1959), US actor
- Arquette, Patricia, US actor
- Arrabal, Fernando, dramatist, author
- Arrak, Jüri, Estonian painter
- Arraras, Maria Celeste, news reporter
- Arrau, Claudio, (1903-1991), classical piano player
- Arrhenius, Svante August, (1859-1927), chemist and physicist
- Arriaga, Juan Crisostomo de, (1806-1826), composer
- Arrian, ancient historian
- Arrieta, Emilio, Italian opera composer
- Arrieta y Corera, Pasqual Juan Emilio, (1823-1924), composer
- Arrow, Kenneth, (born 1921), economist
- Arroyo, Carlos (born 1979), basketball player
- Arsacius of Tarsus, patriarch of Constantinople
- Arsenius Autoreianus, patriarch of Constantinople
- Arsenius of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria
- Arsenius, patriarch of Constantinople
- Arses of Persia, (fl. 338-336 BC)
- Artabasdus, Byzantine Emperor
- King Arthur, possibly-mythical king of Dark Ages Britain
- Artaud, Antonin, (1896-1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist
- Artaxerxes I, (465-425 BC), Persian king
- Artaxerxes II, (approx. 436-358 BC), Persian king
- Artaxerxes III, (359-338 BC)
- Artemius of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria
- Artemova, Ioulia Vladimirovna, Russian astrophysicist
- Arthansius, (1564-1566), Metropolitan of Moscow
- Arthur, Beatrice, actress
- Arthur, Chester A, (1830-1886)
- Arthur, Jean, actor
- Artin, Emil, mathematician
- Artsebarsky, Anatoly, astronaut
- Artyuhin, Yuri, astronaut
- Arum, Bob, boxing promoter
- Arundel, Thomas, (1353-1413), Archbishop of Canterbury