One of 100 counties in North Carolina, United States. County seat: Elizabethtown.

Ronald Bladen (July 13, 1918 – February 3, 1988) was a Canadian-born American painter and sculptor.

Bladen CountyTalk Like A Tarheel , from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Admiral Sir Thomas Bladen Capel (25 August 1776 – 4 March 1853) was an officer in the British Royal Navy whose distinguished service in the French Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 earned him rapid promotion and great acclaim both in and out of the Navy.