Arden (name)

Arden is 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]

Notable people with the name include:

• Alice Arden
• Bruce Arden, American computer scientist
• Cecil Arden (1894–1989), American opera singer (mezzo-soprano/contralto)
• Charles Noble Arden-Clarke, British colonial administrator
• Dale Arden, fictional character
• Don Arden, English music manager, agent, and businessman
• Donn Arden, Las Vegas choreographer
• Edward Arden, head of the Arden family executed in 1583
• Edwin Hunter Pendleton Arden, American actor, theatre manager, and playwright
• Elizabeth Arden, businesswoman in the cosmetics industry
• Eve Arden, US actress
• Jane Arden (disambiguation), several people
• Jane Arden (comics), syndicated newspaper comic strip
• Jann Arden, Canadian singer/songwriter
• John Arden, English playwright
• Mark Arden, British comedian and actor
• Mary Arden, mother of William Shakespeare
• Mary Arden (actress), US actress
• Mary Arden (judge), British judge
• Michael Arden, American stage actor, singer, and composer
• Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley
• Roy Arden, Canadian photographer
• Tom Arden, Australian author
• Toni Arden, US singer
• William Arden, one of the pseudonyms of the American author Dennis Lynds (1924–2005)

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