Gorky may refer to:
- People
- Maxim Gorky (1868–1936), Russian author and political activist, founder of socialist realism
- Arshile Gorky (1904?–48), Armenian/American abstract expressionist painter
- Inhabited localities
- Gorky, name of Nizhny Novgorod, Soviet Union from 1932 to 1990
- Other uses
- Gorky Reservoir, on the Volga in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia
- 2768 Gorky, asteroid