Arvid

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 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, famous for being the most subscribed channel since 2013