Famous People with Name Arnold

Arnold Mindell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Arnold Mindell: American physicist, psychotherapist, writer and the founder of Process Oriented Psychology. He lives in Portland, Oregon. His children, Lara Mindell and Robin Mindell, live in Switzerland and both work as psychotherapists. Arnold Mindell has written 19 books that have been published in 20 languages.

Arnold C. Harberger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Arnold C. Harberger: an American economist. Harberger's Triangle, widely used in welfare economics, is named after him.Harberger's PhD thesis, written under Lloyd Metzler, was on international macroeconomic theory, but his academic reputation is primarily based on his work in public finance, the economics of taxation.In 1954, Harberger published an article claiming that the welfare cost of monopoly in the American economy was unlikely to exceed 0.1% of American GDP. Harberger devised a rough estimate of the deadweight loss from monopoly, namely the producer and consumer's surplus that fails to materialize under monopoly. In the standard diagram used to teach the theory of monopoly, this loss corresponds to the area of a triangle. Such triangles are now named in his honor,

Arnold Zellner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Arnold Zellner: an American economist and statistician specializing in the fields of Bayesian probability and econometrics. He is known for his pioneering work in the field of Bayesian analysis and econometric modeling. In Bayesian analysis, he not only provided many applications of it but also a new information theoretic derivation of Bayes' theorem and generalizations of it that are 100% efficient information processing rules. As regards econometric modelling, he, in association with Franz Palm, developed the structural econometric, time series analysis approach for constructing new models and for checking the adequacy of old models that has been widely applied. In addiiton, he has been involved in many important applied econometric and statistical studies.

Arnold Orville Beckman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Arnold Orville Beckman: was an American chemist who founded Beckman Instruments based on his invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity, in 1934. He also funded the first silicon transistor company, thus giving rise to Silicon Valley.World War I was still raging when Beckman turned 18, and so in August 1918, he enlisted in the United States Marines. After his basic training, he was sent to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, to await transit to the war in Europe. Fortunately for him, the war ended in November, 1918, and he did not have to fight in France. By another stroke of luck, he missed being sent to Russia to fight the Bolsheviks by one space in line. Instead, he spent that Thanksgiving at the local YMCA, where his table was served by 17-year-old Mabel Meinzer, who became his wife.

Arnold Friedman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Arnold Friedman: was an American Modernist painter.He was born in Corona, Queens, worked for the Federal Art Project and studied at the Art Students League of New York under the tutelage of Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller. In 1909, he took a six-month leave of absence from his job to study art in Paris. During this time, he was introduced to the styles of Impressionism and Cubism. He exhibited with many of the most avant-garde venues and dealers of the period, including the Society of Independent Artists.

Monica Denise Arnold            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Monica Denise Arnold: is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. She debuted in 1995 under the guidance of Rowdy Records head Dallas Austin and became the youngest recording act to ever have two consecutive chart-topping hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Following a major success with "The Boy Is Mine," a duet with singer Brandy, in 1998, a series of hit records established her position as one of the most successful of the new breed of urban R&B female vocalists to emerge in the mid-to late 1990s.

Pat Arnold            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Pat Arnold: professionally known as P.P. Arnold, is an American born soul singer who enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and beyond.

Charlotte Arnold            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charlotte Arnold: a Canadian actress. As a young child her passion was dance, especially ballet, but eventually she came to love acting as well. She starred as Sadie Hawthorne on the Family Channel & Disney Channel show Naturally, Sadie and as Zelda Larson on the animated series, Committed, and is mostly known for her portrayal of these characters. She joined the cast of Degrassi: The Next Generation in the seventh season as Holly J. Sinclair.At the age of seven she received her first acting role as Kate O’Neil in the made for TV movie Giant Mine. Then after a few minor roles, she received critical acclaim for her role in the movie Custody of the Heart for which she received the 2001 Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie (Comedy or Drama) for a Young Actress Age Ten or Under.

Thomas Duane "Tom" Arnold            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas Duane "Tom" Arnold: an American actor and comedian.Arnold was a stand-up comic who became a writer for the popular television sitcom Roseanne (which debuted in 1988). He married the show’s star, Roseanne Barr, in 1990, after she divorced her first husband. He appeared occasionally on the show as the character “Arnie Thomas” (a spoof of his name). The couple’s marriage attracted media and especially tabloid attention due to their sometimes outrageous behavior. In 1992, Arnold starred in his own sitcom, The Jackie Thomas Show. Airing after Roseanne on ABC, the show lasted 18 episodes.

Richard Robert II "Ricky" Arnold            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard Robert II "Ricky" Arnold: is a NASA astronaut. Arnold is currently assigned to STS-119, launched March 15, 2009 to deliver the final set of solar arrays to the International Space Station.[1]