People have asked where we got the names for our children from. The answer is, just around the place, but here’s a list of various people and entities with the same names.
Arthur
- King Arthur, legendary British monarch
- Arthur Ashe (1943–1993), American tennis player
- Arthur Balfour (1848–1930), British politician
- Art Baltazar (born 1968), Comic writer and illustrator for DC Super Pets
- Arthur Bluethenthal (1891–1918), American football player
- Arthur Bradfield (1892–1978), English cricketer
- Art Carney (1918–2003), American actor
- Arthur Cayley (1821–1895), British mathematician
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008), British writer
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), British writer
- Arthur Eddington (1882–1944), British astrophysicist
- Arthur Evans (1851–1941), British archaeologist
- Arthur Frommer (born 1929), American travel writer and publisher
- Art Garfunkel (born 1941), American entertainer
- Arthur Godfrey (1903-1983), American radio and television entertainer
- Arthur Guinness (1725–1803), Irish brewer
- Arthur Hailey (1920–2004), British novelist
- Arthur Koestler (1905–1983), British writer
- Arthur Lee (musician) (1945–2006), American musician
- Arthur “Harpo” Marx (1888–1964), American comic actor
- Arthur Miller (1915–2005), American playwright
- Arthur Uther Pendragon (born 1954), British neo-druid leader
- Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French poet
- Arthur Scargill (born 1938), British miners’ union leader
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), German philosopher
- Arthur Shawcross (1945–2008), American serial killer
- Arthur Vandenberg (1884–1951), American politician
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
- Arthur Dent, fictional character in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
- Sir Arthur, fictional character in the video game Ghosts ‘n Goblins
- Arthur Spooner, fictional character on The King of Queens portrayed by Jerry Stiller
- Arthur Bach, a character played by Dudley Moore in the movie Arthur
- Arthur Carlson, a fictional character on the American TV series WKRP in Cincinnati
- Arthur the chimpanzee, from Lillian Hoban’s children’s books
- Arthur Curry, the DC Comics superhero known as Aquaman
- Arthur Daley, lead character played by George Cole in the British comedy-drama Minder
- Fonzie, Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, a character on the television sitcom Happy Days
- Arthur (plant), a running gag in MAD Magazine
- A. J. Raffles, the main character in the stories of E.W. Hornung
- Arthur (The Tick), sidekick of superhero The Tick
- Sergeant Arthur Wilson, character played by John Le Mesurier in the British sitcom Dad’s Army
- Arthur (The Point Man), from the movie Inception
- ARTHUR (radar), ARTillery HUnting Radar
- Arthur (operating system)
- 2597 Arthur, an asteroid
- Arthur, the first open parabolic satellite dish, at the Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station
- Arthur (dog), an Ecuadorian street dog
Elliott
- George Eliot, English novelist – pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans
- T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, American/British author
- C. Thomas Elliott, a leading scientist in the fields of narrow gap semiconductor and infrared detector research
- Denholm Elliott (1922-1992), British Actor
- Robert G. Elliott, State electrician, i.e. Executioner
- Martin Elliott (1946–2010), British photographer
- Missy Elliott, American hip hop vocalist
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada
- Roger James Elliott (1928–), British physicist
- Sam Elliott, American actor
- Poly Styrene, (1957 – 2011) Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, British Musician
- (Mama) Cass Elliot (1941–1974), American singer – pseudonym of Ellen Naomi Cohen
- Elliot Caplin (1913-2000), American comic strip writer
- Elliot Davis, British composer, musician, and music documentary maker
- Elliot Easton, lead guitarist for The Cars
- Elliott Erwitt, advertising and documentary photographer
- Elliott Gould, American actor
- Elliott Hundley (born 1975), American artist
- Elliot Levine, (born 1963), American jazz keyboardist
- Eliot Ness (1903–1957), American prohibition agent
- Elliott Smith (1969–2003), American singer-songwriter
- Eliot Spitzer, American politician
- Elliott Taylor, a male main character in the film E T: the Extra-Terrestrial[13]
- Elliott, a character in the film Flight of the Phoenix
- Elliot Reid, a female character in Scrubs
- Eliot Rosewater, a character in the Kurt Vonnegut novel, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.
- Elliot Pecan, a pecan variety named after the American lumberman Henry Elliot.
Petty
- Bruce Petty (born 1929), Australian political satirist and cartoonist
- George Petty (1894–1975), American pin-up artist
- Lori Petty (born 1963), American movie actress
- Norman Petty (1927–1984), American musician, songwriter, and record producer
- Tom Petty (born 1950), American musician
- W. Morgan Petty, a fictional writer
- Richard Petty (born 1937), son of Lee and the winningest driver in NASCAR Cup Series history
- Matthew Petty, Alderman on City Council in Fayetteville, Arkansas