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

See also

• Arcadia (ancient region), a region in Ancient Greece poetically associated with a tradition of rural, bucolic innocence
• Arcadia, a region in modern Greece
• ARCADY, traffic modelling software
• Arkadi, a former Cretian municipality famous for the Arkadi Monastery
• Arkadios II of Cyprus (died 643), Monothelite archbishop of Cyprus
• Arkadiy, Russian masculine given name
• Arcady (disambiguation), various meanings
• Arcadius (disambiguation), various meanings
• Arkadiusz (Polish cognate)