Sir Arthur John Dorman, 1st Baronet, KBE (8 August 1848 – 12 February 1931) was a British industrialist.

[4] Together they built a large industrial concern, Dorman Long, which by 1914 employed 20,000 people and during the World War I was a major supplier of shells.

[4] In 1892 he stood his only time for Parliament, as the Conservative candidate for Cleveland, losing by 4.2% of the vote to Henry Fell Pease in a seat which leaned on all other occasions of that era very strongly to the latter's Liberal party – with strong support to members of the prominent, equally industrialist, Pease family.

Dorman was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1918[5][4] and created a baronet of Nunthorpe in the County of York on 21 July 1923.

Sir Arthur Dorman died on 12 February 1931, aged 82, at Grey Towers, his home in Nunthorpe[4] near Middlesbrough.