Arkady
# Arkady

Arkady (Russian: Арка́дий, romanized: Arkadiy) is a Slavic masculine given name, ultimately derived from the Greek name Αρκάδιος, meaning “from Arcadia”. The Latin equivalent is Arcadius. Notable people with the name include:

People:

* Arkady Andreasyan (1947–2020), Armenian former football player and manager
* Arkadios Dimitrakopoulos (1824-1908), Greek merchant
* Arcady Aris (1901–1942), Chuvash writer
* Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925), Russian playwright and satirist
* Arkady Babchenko (born 1977), Russian journalist
* Arcady Boytler (1895–1965), Russian Mexican filmmaker
* Arkady Mikhailovich Chernetsky (born 1950), mayor of Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia as of 2007
* Arkady Chernyshev (1914–1992), Soviet ice hockey and soccer player
* Arkady Fiedler (1894–1985), Polish writer, journalist and adventurer
* Arkady Filippenko (1912–1983), Soviet Ukrainian composer
* Arkady Gaidar (1904–1941), Soviet writer whose stories were very popular among Soviet children
* Arkady Kots (1872–1943), Russian proletarian poet of Jewish descent
* Arkady Luxemburg, Moldovan composer
* Arkady Malov (1928–1995), Chuvash poet and translator
* Arkady Migdal (1911–1991), Soviet physicist, member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
* Arkady Mordvinov (1896–1964), Soviet architect and construction manager
* Arkady Nebolsin (1865-1917), Russian admiral
* Arkady Plastov (1893–1972), Russian social realist painter
* Arkady Pogodin (1901–1975), Soviet singer
* Arkady Raikin (1911–1987), Soviet stand up comedian of Jewish descent
* Arcady Ruderman (1950–1992), Belarusian documentary filmmaker
* Arkady Rylov (1870–1939), Russian and Soviet Symbolist painter
* Arkady Shevchenko (1930–1998), Ukrainian Soviet diplomat who defected to the West
* Arkady Sobolev (1903–1964), Russian Soviet diplomat and ambassador to the United Nations
* Arkady Strugatsky (1925–1991), Soviet Russian science fiction author
* Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan (1939–2021), military leader of the Armenian forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh War
* Arkady Ukupnik (born 1953), Russian composer, pop singer, actor and producer.
* Arcadi Volodos (born 1972), Russian pianist
* Arkady Volsky (1932–2006), Russian politician
* Arkady Vorobyov (1924–2012), Russian Soviet middle-heavyweight weightlifter
* Arkady Vyatchanin (born 1984), Russian swimmer who competes in the backstroke events
* Arcady Zhukov, Russian scientist

Fictional characters:

* Arkady Bogdanov, engineer and political figure in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy
* Arkady Darell, teenage heroine in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
* Arkady Dolgoruky, teenage hero in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Raw Youth
* Arkady Ivanovich, in the TV series The Americans
* Arkady Kirilenko, antagonist in the video game Battlefield: Bad Company 2
* Arkady Kirsanov, in Ivan Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons
* Arkady Kolcheck, a recurring character in the American TV series NCIS: Los Angeles
* Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov, a Russian general who's secretly a henchman of the Janus crime syndicate in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye
* Arkady Renko, fictional detective, central character of seven novels by the American writer Martin Cruz Smith
* Omega Red (Arkady Rossovich), in comic books published by Marvel Comics
* Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, antagonist in Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment
* Arkady, feral dragon, side character in Naomi Novik's book series Temeraire
