Oswald (given name)

Oswald as given name

The name Oswald meaning Osmeans god and Weald means rule. The name Oswald means "divine ruler"

• Oswald Avery (1877–1955), Canadian American physician, medical researcher and molecular biologist
• Oswald Achenbach (1827–1905), German landscape painter
• Oswald Balzer (1858–1933), Polish historian
• Oswald Boelcke (1891–1916), German flying ace of the First World War
• Oswald Chambers (1874–1917), Scottish Protestant Christian minister and teacher
• Oswald Garrison Villard (1872–1949), American journalist
• Oswald Heer (1809–1883), Swiss geologist and naturalist
• Oswald Karch (1917-2009), German Formula One driver
• Oswald Lohse (1845–1915), German astronomer
• Oswald Chettle Mazengarb (1890–1963), New Zealand magistrate
• Oswald Mosley (1896–1980), British politician, founder of the British Union of Fascists
• Oswald Myconius (1488–1552), Swiss theologian and follower of Huldrych Zwingli
• Oswald of Northumbria (604–642), King of Northumbria
• Oswald of Worcester (died 992), Archbishop of York
• Oswald Pohl (1892–1951), Nazi officer and member of the SS
• Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), German historian and philosopher
• Oswald Stoll (1866–1942), an Australian British theater manager
• Oswald Szemerényi (1913–1996), Hungarian linguist
• Oswald Teichmüller (1913–1943), German mathematician
• Oswald Tschirtner (1920–2007), Austrian artist
• Oswald Veblen (1880–1960), American mathematician
• Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/7–1445), a composer
• Oswald West (1873–1960), American politician, 14th Governor of Oregon
• Charles Oswald Miles (1850–1898), English Anglican cergyman, also Canon and Chancellor of Bloemfontein.

In other languages

• Armenian: Օսվալդ (Osvald)
• Croatian: Osvald
• Czech: Osvald
• Danish: Osvald
• Dutch: Oswald
• Georgian: ოსვალდ (Osvald)
• German: Oswald
• Greek: Οσβάλδος (Osváldos)
• Hungarian:Oszvald
• Italian: Osvaldo
• Polish: Oswald
• Portuguese: Osvaldo
• Russian: Освальд (Osvald)
• Serbian: Освалд (Osvald)
• Spanish: Osvaldo
• Swedish: Osvald

See also

• Oswald (surname)
• Oswald (disambiguation)

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