Aru or ARU may refer to:

Education

Alpha Rho Upsilon Alpha Rho Upsilon ( in Greek, ARU in Latin/English; pronounced A-roo) was a local Fraternities and sororities, fraternity at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. It was established in 1946 and operated until the college closed all Greek letter org ...

, a defunct fraternity in the United States *

Anglia Ruskin University Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is a public research university in the region of East Anglia, United Kingdom. Its origins date back to the Cambridge School of Art (CSA), founded by William John Beamont, a Fellow of Trinity College at the Unive ...

, a university in England * Ardhi University, a Tanzanian public university

Places

Aru Islands Regency The Aru Islands Regency () is a group of about 95 low-lying islands in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia. It also forms a list of regencies and cities of Indonesia, regency of Maluku (province), Maluku Province, with a land area of . At th ...

, a group of islands and the regency in the Moluccas *

Aru, Democratic Republic of Congo Aru is a town and the seat of Aru Territory in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also ...

, a town in Ituri province * Aru, Harju County, village in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County, Estonia * Aru, Saare County, village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County, Estonia * Aru, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, village in Gachsaran County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran * Aru, Basht, village in Basht County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran * Aru, Damavand, village in Damavand County, Tehran Province, Iran * Aru, Firuzkuh, village in Firuzkuh County, Tehran Province, Iran *

Aru, Jammu and Kashmir Aru, known as Adav in Kashmiri, is a village, tourist spot in the Anantnag District of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It lies 53km from Anantnag city, the district headquarter. It is located around 12 km from Pahalgam, 11 km upstream from ...

, village in India *

Aruba Aruba, officially the Country of Aruba, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the southern Caribbean Sea north of the Venezuelan peninsula of Paraguaná Peninsula, Paraguaná and northwest of Curaçao. In 19 ...

, IOC and UNDP country code ARU

Sports

Fabio Aru Fabio Aru (born 3 July 1990) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2012 and 2021 for the , and squads. He hails from San Gavino Monreale in Sardinia, and is known for his climbing ability, which m ...

, Italian cyclist *

Army Rugby Union The Army Rugby Union (ARU) is the governing body for rugby union in the British Army and a constituent body of the Rugby Football Union (RFU). The ARU was formed on 31 December 1906 and marked the fulfilment of Lieutenant J. E. C. "Birdie" Partr ...

, organizational body for rugby union in the British Army * Australian Rugby Union, former name of

Rugby Australia Rugby Australia Ltd, previously named Australian Rugby Union Limited and Australian Rugby Football Union Limited, is an Australian company operating the premier rugby union competition in Australia and teams. It has its origins in 1949. It is a ...

, governing body for rugby union in Australia

Technology

* Automated response unit, a telecommunications device * Autonomous Recording Unit, an audio recording device

People

Ines Aru Ines Aru (born Ines Parker; 1 July 1939) is an Estonians, Estonian stage, radio, voice, television, and film actress whose career began in the early 1960s. Early life and education Ines Aru was born Ines Parker in Tallinn to Martin Johannes Parke ...

(born 1939), Estonian actress *

Krista Aru Krista Aru (1 August 1958 – 25 February 2025) was an Estonian historian of journalism, museology, museologist, and politician. She was a member of XIII Riigikogu. Life and career In 1981, she graduated from Tartu University in journalism. In 20 ...

(1958–2025), Estonian historian, museologist and politician *

Peep Aru Peep Aru (born 20 April 1953 in Abja-Paluoja) is an Estonian politician. He was a member of X, XI and XII Riigikogu and is the former Minister of Regional Affairs of Estonia. Aru was the Deputy Governor of Viljandi from 1989 to 1993, the Deput ...

(born 1953), Estonian politician *

Aru Tateno Aru Tateno (; born August 29, 1997) is a retired Japanese ice dancer. With his former skating partner, Rikako Fukase, he has competed in the final segment at three ISU Championships. The duo placed 19th at the 2016 World Junior Championships i ...

(born 1997), Japanese ice dancer *

Aru Krishansh Verma Aru K Verma, aka Aru Verma is an Indian actor. Early life Born in Lucknow, Aru K. Verma as a child, moved all over north India with his family, among cities like Lucknow, Ambala, Karnal and Dehradun, where he completed parts of his education, ...

(born 1986), Indian actor

Other uses

American Railway Union The American Railway Union (ARU) was briefly among the largest labor unions of its time and one of the first Industrial unionism, industrial unions in the United States. Launched at a meeting held in Chicago in February 1893, the ARU won an early ...

, an industrial union in the United States *

Aquarium Rescue Unit Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit was a jam band founded by Col. Bruce Hampton. The band gained popularity in the Atlanta club scene in the early 1990s and went on to tour with the first H.O.R.D.E. Tour. During their formative yea ...

, an American jazz-rock band *

Araçatuba Airport Araçatuba–Dario Guarita State Airport is the airport serving Araçatuba, Brazil. It is operated by ASP. History Dario Guarita Airport was renovated in 1991. On July 15, 2021, the concession of the airport was auctioned to the Aeroportos Pa ...

, IATA airport code *

Arundel railway station Arundel railway station serves the market town of Arundel in West Sussex. The station is on the eastern side of the town, about from the High Street, across the River Arun. It is down the line from via . The station is situated on the A27 a ...

, a railway station in England (National Rail code ARU) *

Aru language (disambiguation) Aru may refer to: *One of the Aru languages The Aru languages are a group of a dozen Austronesian languages spoken on the Aru Islands Regency, Aru Islands in Indonesia. None are spoken by more than ten thousand people. Although geographically c ...

* Aru Kingdom, an early Islamic polity in northeast Sumatra between the 13th and 16th centuries {{disambiguation, geo, surname Estonian-language surnames