Arvid, Arved, Arnvid or Arvydas is a male given name, most common in Scandinavia but also in Iran and Lithuania. In Scandinavia it is derived from Old Norse Arnviðr[1] and means "forest of eagles" or 'eagle wood'. Arvid is a royal male name that is composed of words with the meanings "king" and "legend". In Old Persian, Arvid is derived from 𐎠𐎼𐎡𐎹 + veid means "Aryan knowledge".[2]

People named Arvid include:

  • Arvid Andersson (disambiguation), various Olympic Games competitors
  • Arvid Carlsson (1923–2018), Swedish scientist and Nobel laureate
  • Arvid Hanssen (1932–1998), Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, poet, novelist and children's writer
  • Arvid Harnack (1901–1942), German jurist, economist, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany
  • Arvid Horn (1664–1742), Swedish soldier, diplomat and politician
  • Arvid Järnefelt (1861–1932), Finnish writer
  • Arvid Johanson (1929–2013), Norwegian newspaper editor and politician
  • Arvid Knutsen (1944–2009), Norwegian footballer and coach
  • Arvid Lindman (1862–1936), Swedish rear admiral, industrialist and politician
  • Arvid Lundberg (born 1994), Swedish ice hockey defenceman
  • Arvid Nyholm (1866–1927), Swedish-American painter
  • Arvid Pardo (1914–1999), Maltese diplomat, scholar and university professor
  • Arvid Posse (1820–1901), Prime Minister of Sweden from 1880 to 1883
  • Arvid Stålarm the Younger (c. 1540 or 1549–1620), Swedish noble and soldier
  • Arvid Storsveen (1915–1943), Norwegian organizer of XU, the main intelligence gathering organisation in occupied Norway during World War II
  • Arvid Taube (1853–1916), Swedish aristocrat, diplomat and politician.
  • Arvid Trolle (c. 1440–1505), Swedish magnate and politician
  • Arvid Wittenberg (1606–1657), Swedish count, field marshal and privy
  • Arvīds Pelše (1899–1983), Soviet Latvian politician and government functionary
  • Arvydas Sabonis (born 1964), President of Lithuanian basketball federation. Former famous basketball player, NBA hall of fame
  • PewDiePie (born 1989 as Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg), Swedish YouTuber

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Arvid

References

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