Arkwright is a surname, deriving from an archaic Old English term for a person who manufactures chests, and may also refer to:
- Godfrey Edward Pellew Arkwright(10 April 1864 - 16 August 1944) British musicologist
- Ian Arkwright (born 1959), English professional footballer
- May Arkwright (1860 – 1915), suffrage leader in the early history of the Pacific Northwest of the United States
- Richard Arkwright (1732 – 1792), Englishman credited with inventing the spinning frame
- Richard Arkwright Junior (1755 - 1843), his son, who further developed his father's inventions
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“He is no mystic, either, more than Newton or Arkwright or Davy, and tolerates none. Not one obscure line, or half line, did he ever write. His meaning lies plain as the daylight.... It has the distinctness of picture to his mind, and he tells us only what he sees printed in largest English type upon the face of things.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)