Arden (name)
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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
[edit]People
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
Surname
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[edit]- 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
- 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
[edit]- Dale Arden, a fictional character in Flash Gordon
- the title character of Enoch Arden, a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Jane Arden (comics), a character from the eponymous syndicated newspaper comic strip
- Thomas Arden, the title character of Arden of Faversham, a 16th-century English play, and Arden Must Die, a 1967 opera
See also
[edit]- Lady Arden
- Ardyn Izunia, the main antagonist of the video game, Final Fantasy XV
References
[edit]- ^ "Arden at surnamedb.com". Retrieved 2013-10-10.
- ^ "The Arden Tree | Home".