Baldwin
Balduin is a male name .
Origin and meaning
Old High German balt- "bold" and -win "friend"
variants
- Balduino (Italian)
- Baldvin (Icelandic)
- Balko
- Baldwin
- Baudouin (French)
- Bauwen (Dutch)
- Boudewijn (Dutch)
- Baldin (Romansh)
Name bearer
Ruler
see list of rulers named Baldwin
First name
- Balduin Baas (1922-2006), German actor
- Balduin Forster (1920–1999), German forensic doctor
- Balduin Möllhausen (1825–1905), German writer
- Balduin Sulzer (1932–2019), Austrian religious priest and composer
- Balduin (also Baldwin Kötzl; † 1324), abbot in the St. Emmeram monastery
- Balduinus Iuvenis ( p. Around 1275), author of Reynardus vulpes
- Baldwin of Antioch (before 1149 - 1176), Prince of Antioch
- Baldwin of Avesnes (French Baudouin d'Avesnes; 1219–1295), French nobleman and chronicler
- Baldwin of Brandenburg († 1216), Bishop of Brandenburg
- Baldwin of Exeter (around 1125 - 1190), Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of Canterbury
- Baldwin von Steinfurt , Bishop of Paderborn
Boudewijn:
- Boudewijn Büch (1948–2002), Dutch writer and publicist
- Boudewijn de Groot (* 1944), Dutch songwriter
- Boudewijn Ridder (* 1955), Dutch badminton player
- Boudewijn Sirks (* 1947), Dutch legal scholar
- Boudewijn Zenden (* 1976), Dutch football player and coach
Boldewin:
- Boldewin (before 1590 - after 1617), Flemish carpet and formwork maker
family name
- Balthasar Balduin (1605–1652), German Lutheran theologian
- François Baudouin ( Baldwinus ; 1520–1573), French lawyer and historian
- Christian Adolf Balduin (1632–1682), Saxon alchemist
- Friedrich Balduin ( Friedrich Balduinus , 1575–1627), German Lutheran theologian
- Vincent Balduin (* 1916), German football player
Fictional people
- Balduin Pfiff , master detective from Wolfgang Ecke, see Wolfgang Ecke #Werke
- Baldwin Bienlein , professor and friend of Tintin, see Tintin #Professor Bienlein
- Baldwin , the friend of dwarf Bumsti in the comic book series Wonderworld
- Well-known films with the first name are Baldwin, the safe cracker , Baldwin, the night ghost and Baldwin, the Sunday driver with Louis de Funès and others, whereby the rubbish of the first name made here comes from the artistic freedom of the German adaptation; the name does not appear in the French original.
- Balduin Bählamm, the prevented poet (1883) is a story by Wilhelm Busch .
See also
Wiktionary: Balduin - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Balduin Bridge , stone arch bridge in Koblenz
- (1491) Baldwin , asteroid
- Balduin zur Linde , Masonic Lodge