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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.^[1] This last Arden family from Warwickshire is one of only three that can trace their ancestry back to before 1066.^[2]

Given name

• Arden L. Bement Jr. (born 1932), American engineer and scientist
• Arden Cho (born 1985), American actress, singer, and model
• Arden Eddie (born 1947), Canadian baseball player, team owner, and manager
• Arden Hayes (born 2008), American child prodigy
• Arden Haynes, Canadian businessman
• Arden Hilliard (1904–1976), member of the Hypocrites' Club at Oxford University
• Arden Jones (born 2001), Californian rapper
• Arden Key (born 1996), American football player
• Arden Maddison (1900–1987), English footballer
• Arden Mounts, former NASCAR Cup Series driver
• Arden Myrin (born 1973), American actress and comedian
• Arden Rose (born 1995), actress, author, and internet personality
• Arden "Freddie" Sessler (1923–2000), brother of Siegi Sessler
• Arden R. Smith (born 1966), 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 assassin from the video game, Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi
• Arden, a armor knight from the Fire Emblem series of games

Name list

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Surname

• Alice Arden (1516–1551), English murderer, burnt at the stake.
• Annabel Arden (born 1959), British actress, theatre and opera director
• Bruce Arden (1927-2021), American computer scientist
• Cecil Arden (1894–1989), American opera singer
• Charles Noble Arden-Clarke (1898–1962), British colonial administrator
• David M. Arden (born 1949), American classical pianist
• Don Arden (1926–2007), English music manager, agent, and businessman
• Donn Arden (1916 or 1917–1994), American choreographer
• Edward Arden (c. 1542 – 1583) head of the Arden family, executed as a Catholic martyr.
• Edwin Hunter Pendleton Arden (1864–1918), American actor, theatre manager, and playwright
• Elizabeth Arden (1878–1966), American businesswoman, the founder of a cosmetics company of the same name
• Eve Arden (1908–1990), American actress
• Jane Arden (disambiguation), several people
• Jann Arden (born 1962), Canadian singer/songwriter
• John Arden (1930–2012), English playwright
• Mark Arden (born 1956), British comedian and actor
• Mary Arden (c. 1537 – 1608), mother of William Shakespeare
• Mary Arden (actress) (1933–2014), US actress
• Mary Arden (judge) (born 1947), British judge
• Michael Arden (born 1982), American stage actor, singer, and composer
• Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley (1744–1804) British barrister and Whig politician
• Roy Arden (born 1957), Canadian photographer
• Thomas Arden (1508–1550) Mayor of Faversham, murdered by his wife Alice and her lover Richard Moseby
• Tom Arden (1961–2015), Australian author
• Toni Arden (1924–2012), American singer
• William Arden, pseudonym of the American author Dennis Lynds (1924–2005)

Fictional characters

• Dale Arden, a fictional character in Flash Gordon
• Jane Arden (comics), a character from the eponymous syndicated newspaper comic strip

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