Meaning of name Arlen

The names of some famous persons by the name Arlen (or its variants) are:

Richard Arlen, born on 1 September, a famous actor. Richard Arlen's background: An American actor. Born Cornelius Richard Van Mattimore in Charlottesville, Virginia, he served as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War I. At war's end, he went to Los Angeles where he found work as an unskilled laborer. By a stroke of pure luck, he was given an opportunity to act, appearing at first in silent films before making the transition to talkies. He took time out from his Hollywood career to teach as an Army Air Force Flight Instructor in World War Two. During his lifetime he served in two world wars then before his death in 1976, he experienced both the Korean and Vietnam Wars as an American citizen. Arlen is best known for his role as a pilot in the 1927 Academy Award-winning Wings with Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, and his future first-wife Jobyna Ralston.

Harold Arlen, born on 15 February, a famous composer. Harold Arlen's background: An American composer of popular music. He was an important composer of 20th century popular music, with over 400 songs written, a number of which have become known the world over. His 1938 song 'Over the Rainbow' was voted the twentieth century's No. 1 song by the Recording Industry Association of America

Micael Arlen, born on 16 November, a famous writer. Micael Arlen's background: An Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England. Although Arlen is most famous for his satirical romances set in English smart society, he also wrote gothic horror and psychological thrillers, for instance 'The Gentleman from America', which was filmed in 1956 as a television episode for Alfred Hitchcock's TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Near the end of his life, Arlen mainly occupied himself with political writing. Arlen's vivid but colloquial style 'with unusual inversions and inflections with a heightened exotic pitch',[1] came to be known as Arlenesque