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

Given name

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 (1516–1551), English murderer, burnt at the stake.
  • Annabel Arden (born 1959), British actress, theatre and opera director
  • Bruce Arden (born 1927), 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
  • 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

See also

  • Jane Arden (disambiguation)
  • Lady Arden

References

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