Arden (name)
Arden is a unisex given name and an English surname of locational origin. It is derived from three places thus called in the United Kingdom: in Yorkshire North Riding, Cheshire, or the Forest of Arden in Warwickshire. This last Arden family from Warwickshire is one of only three that can trace their ancestry back to before 1066.Given name
- Arden L. Bement Jr., American engineer and scientist
- Arden Cho, American actress, singer, and model
- Arden Eddie, Iron Man player, team owner and manager
- Arden Hayes, American child prodigy
- Arden Haynes, Canadian businessman
- Arden Hilliard, member of the Hypocrites' Club at Oxford University
- Arden Key, American football player
- Arden Maddison, English footballer
- Arden Mounts, former NASCAR Cup Series driver
- Arden Myrin, American actress and comedian
- Arden Rose, actress, author, and internet personality
- Arden "Freddie" Sessler, brother of Siegi Sessler
- Arden R. Smith, member of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship
Fictional characters
- Ardyn Izunia, the main antagonist of the video game, Final Fantasy XV
- Arden Lyn, a human female assissin from the video game, Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi
- Arden, a paladin from the Fire Emblem series of games
Surname
- Alice Arden, English murderer, burnt at the stake.
- Annabel Arden, British actress, theatre and opera director
- Bruce Arden, American computer scientist
- Cecil Arden, American opera singer
- Charles Noble Arden-Clarke, British colonial administrator
- David M. Arden, American classical pianist
- Don Arden, English music manager, agent, and businessman
- Donn Arden, American choreographer
- Edward Arden head of the Arden family, executed as a Catholic martyr.
- Edwin Hunter Pendleton Arden, American actor, theatre manager, and playwright
- Elizabeth Arden, American businesswoman, the founder of a cosmetics company of the same name
- Eve Arden, American actress
- Jane Arden, several people
- Jann Arden, Canadian singer/songwriter
- John Arden, English playwright
- Mark Arden, British comedian and actor
- Mary Arden, mother of William Shakespeare
- Mary Arden , US actress
- Mary Arden , British judge
- Michael Arden, American stage actor, singer, and composer
- Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley British barrister and Whig politician
- Roy Arden, Canadian photographer
- Tom Arden, Australian author
- Toni Arden, American singer
- William Arden, pseudonym of the American author Dennis Lynds
Fictional characters
- Dale Arden, a fictional character in Flash Gordon
- Jane Arden, a character from the eponymous syndicated newspaper comic strip
