Arvid, Arved or Arnvid is a male given name, most common in Scandinavia but also in Persia. In Scandinavia it is derived from Old Norse Arnviðr and means "forest of eagles". In the Old Persian language the name Arvid means "Aryan knowledge". It consists of two parts, "ar" which is the short form for Aryan and "vid" which means knowledge.
People named Arvid include:
Arvid Andersson (disambiguation), various Olympic Games competitors
Arvid Carlsson (born 1923), 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 (born 1929), 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
