Arkady (Russian: Арка́дий) is a name, and may refer to:
People:
Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev (1903–1964), Russian Soviet diplomat and ambassador to the United Nations
Arkady Andreasyan (born 1947), Armenian former football player and manager
Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925), Russian playwright and satirist
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 Mikhailovich Chernetsky (born 1950), mayor of Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia as of 2007
Arkady Mordvinov (1896–1964), Soviet architect and construction manager
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
Arkady Rylov (1870–1939), Russian and Soviet Symbolist painter
Arkady Shevchenko (1930–1998), Ukrainian Soviet diplomat who defected to the West
Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan (born 1939), military leader of the Armenian forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh War
Arcadi Volodos (born 1972), Russian pianist
Arkady Volsky (1932-2006), Russian politician
Arkady Vorobyov (born 1924), Russian Soviet middle-heavyweight weightlifter
Arkady Vyatchanin (born 1984), Russian swimmer who competes in the backstroke events
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1925–1991, born 1933), Soviet Russian science fiction authors
In fiction:
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 Fyoder Dostoyevsky's The Raw Youth
Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov, head of Russian Space Division, alcoholic henchman to Alec Trevelyan (006)/Janus in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye.
Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, antagonist in Fyoder Dostoyevsky's "Crime And Punishment"
Arkady Kolcheck, a recurring character in the U.S. television series NCIS: Los Angeles
Arkady Renko, fictional detective who is the central character of seven novels by the American writer Martin Cruz Smith
Omega Red (Arkady Rossovich), a character in comic books published by Marvel Comics
Arkady Kirsanov, a character in Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons
Peter Arkady Wiggin, character in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game Series.
Arkady Kirilenko, the antagonist in Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Arkady Ivanovich, a character in the FX series, The Americans
