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Arthur (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ124371
Source-derived summary

Arthur is a common masculine given name, including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name.

Arthur may also refer to:

People

Arthur (surname), for people and fictional characters with the surname.

People known by the mononym include:

King Arthur, legendary British monarch

Arthur Melo, Brazilian footballer known simply as Arthur

Arthur (footballer, born 2003) (Arthur Augusto de Matos Soares), Brazilian footballer

Arthur (footballer, born 2005) (Arthur Wenderroscky Sanches), Brazilian footballer

Arthur I of Brittany (1187–1203)

Arthur II of Brittany (1261–1312)

Arthur III of Brittany (1393–1458)

Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486–1502)

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850–1942), seventh child of Queen Victoria

Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883–1938), a grandson of Queen Victoria

Arthur (TV presenter) (born 1966), French presenter, producer, and comedian

Arts and entertainment

Music

Arthur (band), a side project of MxPx

Arthur (magazine), publication devoted to avant-garde music

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire), a 1969 album by The Kinks

"Arthur" (The Kinks song)

"Arthur" (Badfinger song)

Arthur the King, a 2001 album by Maddy Prior

"Arthur", a track of Rick Wakeman's album The Myths and Legends of King Arthur

Characters

Arthur (plant), a running gag in MAD Magazine

Arthur le fantôme justicier, a character in the comics of Jean Cézard

Sir Arthur (Ghosts 'n Goblins), the main character of Ghosts 'n Goblins video game series

Arthur (Soulcalibur), a minor character in the Soulcalibur video game

Arthur (The Tick), the sidekick of superhero The Tick

Arthur the Artificial Intelligence, a character from the Journeyman Project computer games

Arthur the chimpanzee, from Lillian Hoban's children's books

Film and television

Arthur (TV series), an animated children's television series based on the Arthur Read character

Arthur (1981 film), an Oscar-winning 1981 film starring Dudley Moore

Arthur 2: On the Rocks, a 1988 sequel

Arthur (2011 film), a 2011 remake starring Russell Brand

King Arthur (2004 film), a 2004 film

Arthur!

Editorial summary

“Arthur (disambiguation)” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Arthur, disambiguation and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2005, 1187, 1203—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Arthur, disambiguation and Wikimedia.
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“Arthur (disambiguation)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Arthur, disambiguation and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q124371. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003, 2005, 1187 and 1203.

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This entry incorporates text from Arthur (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.