Arda is a male name used in

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, Arda means

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, a stick planted in the ground to mark a spot, latter (successor), the Arda river (an important

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of the

Maritsa Maritsa or Maritza ( bg, Марица ), also known as Meriç ( tr, Meriç ) and Evros ( ell, Έβρος ), is a river that runs through the Balkans in Southeast Europe. With a length of ,Edirne Edirne (, ), formerly known as Adrianople or Hadrianopolis (Greek: Άδριανούπολις), is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, ...

region), a very old

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name in Uyghur writings; a

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given name; a

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given name; and, separately, a given name of Old English origin.

Given name

Arda of Armenia Arda ( hy, Արդա; died after 1116) was the queen of Jerusalem as the 2nd spouse of King Baldwin I of Jerusalem. She was the first Queen consort of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, as Baldwin's brother and predecessor Godfrey of Bouillon was unmarri ...

, a queen of Jerusalem *

Arda Akbulut Arda Akbulut (born 1 January 2001) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays for Bandırmaspor on loan from Trabzonspor as a goalkeeper. Career Club On 19 December 2018, Akbulut made his debut for Trabzonspor against Sivas Belediye Spor ...

(born 2001), Turkish footballer *

Arda Bowser Arda "Ard" Crawford Bowser (January 9, 1899 – September 7, 1996) was a professional football player who spent two years of the National Football League with the Canton Bulldogs and the Cleveland Indians. Bowser won an NFL championship with t ...

(1899–1996), American footballer *

Arda Collins Arda Collins is an Armenian-American poet and winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. Life Collins was born in New York. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow, and the University ...

, American poet of Armenian descent *

Arda Denkel __NOTOC__ Arda Denkel (6 July 1949 – 21 May 2000) was a Turkish philosopher. He studied at the University of Oxford and, under Peter Strawson, wrote his D.Phil. dissertation which he later developed into a more expansive study with his book ' ...

(1949–2000), Turkish philosopher *

Arda Green Arda Alden Green (May 7, 1899 – January 22, 1958) was an American biochemist who co-discovered the neurotransmitter serotonin and discovered the reaction responsible for firefly bioluminescence. She is also known for contributing to Gerty Cori ...

(1899–1958), American biochemist *

Arda Güler Arda Güler (born 25 February 2005) is a Turkish footballer who plays for Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe and the Turkey national team. Club career Early career Güler started his youth career at Ankara-based club Gençlerbirliği, in 2014. ...

(born 2005), Turkish footballer *

Arda Kural Arda Kural (born 12 April 1980) is a Turkish actor. He studied at Yalova Teknik and Endüstri Meslek High School. Following 2 years of drama training, he started acting professionally at the Tiyatroroman Theatre. He also worked at Kral TV as a VJ ...

(born 1980), Turkish actor *

Arda Mandikian Arda Mandikian (1 September 1924 – 8 November 2009) was a Greek-Armenian soprano opera singer. Mandikian launched her career in England. She took on leading roles in London and Edinburgh. In the 1980s she became the assistant director of the Gree ...

(1924–2009), Greek Armenian opera singer *

Arda Ocal Arda Ocal ( tr, Arda Öcal; born May 7, 1981) is a Canadian television personality, broadcaster, announcer, and writer. He previously worked in WWE under the stage name Kyle Edwards, as well as the host of Aftermath TV on Sportsnet 360 and The MSG ...

(born 1981), Turkish-Canadian TV and radio broadcaster *

Arda Turan Arda Turan (born 30 January 1987) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played most notably as a winger. Turan is mostly known for his ball control, dribbling skills and vision. At age 21, prior to the 2009–10 season, he was named ...

(born 1987), Turkish footballer *

Arda Vekiloğlu Arda Vekiloğlu (born 21 January 1979, in Turkey) is a Turkish professional basketball coach and former player. He was recently head coach for Petkim Spor of the TBL. He was a part of the Turkey national basketball team. In August 2018, he signed ...

(born 1979), Turkish basketball player *

Kemal Arda Gürdal Kemal Arda Gürdal (born 2 July 1990) is a Turkish freestyle swimmer. At the 2012 European Aquatics Championships held in Debrecen, Hungary, he set a new national record in 100 m freestyle with 49.64, and equaled the national record in 200 m fr ...

(born 1990), Turkish swimmer

Surname

Ben Arda Ben Arda (13 June 1929 – 20 December 2006) was a Filipino professional golfer. Arda, known as ''Bantam Ben'' and ''the Toy Tiger'' because of his small stature, was one of Asia's leading golfers during the 1960s and 1970s. He was the first Fili ...

(1929–2006), Filipino professional golfer *

H. Efsun Arda Hatice Efsun Arda is a Turkish developmental and systems biologist researching cell lineages that give rise to human pancreas using single cell sequencing. She is a Stadtman principal investigator and head of the developmental genomics group ...

, Turkish developmental and systems biologist *

Yasemin Arda Yasemin Arda (born 1978) is a Turkish-Belgian management scientist and operations researcher specializing in supply chain management. She is a professor in the management school of the University of Liège, vice-dean for education in the school, ...

(born 1978), Turkish-Belgian management scientist and operations researcher

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