Oscar
Oskar is a male given name . The English spelling is Oscar , the Spanish and Portuguese Óscar .
Os- is legally developed from Germanic * ansu-z as a term for god or gods. The forms correspond to it: Old Norse Ásgeirr ( Icelandic Ásgeir ), Old English Osgar and Old High German Ansger ( Ansgar ). In the Old High German or Old German name corpus, in addition to the full form Ansgar (i), the derivation Asgar (i), Osgar (i) .
In Sweden and Norway, Oskar, spelled Oscar, is a common name for princes and kings.
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First name
- Oszkár Asbóth (1891–1960), Hungarian engineer and aviation pioneer
- Oskar Bandle (1926–2009), Swiss nordist and onomastic
- Oskar Baum (1883–1941), German writer
- Oskar Beregi ( Oszkár Beregi; 1876–1965), Hungarian actor of the silent film era
- Oscar Besemfelder (1893–1965), German lutenist and singer
- Oscar Lee Bradley (around 1910–?), American drummer
- Oszkár Demján (1891–1914), Hungarian swimmer
- Oskar von Deuster (1835–1904), German landowner and politician
- Oskar Dirlewanger (1895–1945), German SS leader
- Óscar Espinosa Chepe (1940–2013), Cuban economist, diplomat and dissident
- Oskar Maurus Fontana (1889–1969), Austrian writer
- Óscar García Junyent (* 1973), Spanish football player and coach
- Óscar Osvaldo García Montoya (* 1974/75), alleged Mexican criminal
- Oszkár Gerde (1883–1944), Hungarian fencer and referee
- Oskar Maria Graf (1894–1967), German writer
- Oscar Heiler (1906–1995), German actor and comedian
- Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013), American writer
- Oskar Icha (1886–1945), Austrian sculptor
- Oszkár Jászi (1875–1957), Hungarian writer, politician and sociologist
- Oskar Karlweis (1894–1956), Austrian actor
- Oskar Kaufmann (1873–1956), Hungarian architect
- Oskar Ketelhut (* 1963), German actor and radio play speaker
- Oskar Köhler (1909–1996), German historian
- Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980), Austrian painter
- Oskar Kollbrunner (1895–1932), Swiss writer
- Oskar Lafontaine (* 1943), German politician
- Oscar Lloyd (born 1997), British actor
- Oskar Loerke (1884–1941), German poet
- Oskar von Miller (1855–1934), German engineer and museum founder
- Oscar Antonio Montes (1924–2012), Argentine military and politician
- Oscar Müller (1921–2003), German actor, presenter and singer
- Oscar Näumann (1876–1937), German gymnast
- Oskar Negt (* 1934), German sociologist and philosopher
- Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012), Brazilian architect
- Oskar Øksnes (1921–1999), Norwegian politician
- Oskar Panizza (1853–1921), German writer
- Oscar Peterson (1925–2007), Canadian jazz pianist
- Oscar Pettiford (1922–1960), American jazz musician
- Oskar Picht (1871–1945), German inventor
- Oscar Pistorius (* 1986), South African sprinter
- Oskar Reinhart (1885–1965), Swiss art collector
- Óscar Romero (1917–1980), Salvadoran clergyman, Archbishop of El Salvador
- Oskar Rosi (1922–2010), German artist
- Oskar Roth (1933–2019), German basketball and handball player
- Oskar Saier (1932–2008), German clergyman, Archbishop of Freiburg
- Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Júnior (* 1991), Brazilian soccer player
- Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (1918–2012), Italian politician, President 1992 to 1999
- Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), German-Moravian entrepreneur
- Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943), German painter
- Oskar Siebert (1923–2009), German musician and composer
- Oskar Sima (1896–1969), Austrian actor
- Oskar Steinbach (1913–1937), German motorcycle racer
- Oscar Straus (1870–1954), Austrian composer
- Óscar Tabárez (* 1947), Uruguayan football player and coach
- Oscar Traynor (1886–1963), Irish revolutionary and politician
- Óscar Ustari (* 1986), Argentinian football player
- Oskar Walzel (1864–1944), Austrian literary scholar
- Oscar Wendt (* 1985), Swedish football player
- Oskar Werner (1922–1984), Austrian actor
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish writer
- Oscar Wills , real name of TV Slim (1916–1969), American singer
stage name
- Oskar (draftsman) (bourgeois Hans Bierbrauer ) (1922-2006), German draftsman, caricaturist and painter
- Oskar vom horse market (bourgeois Fritz Krüger ) (1902–1969), Hamburg city original
Fictional characters
- The important American film award, the Academy Awards of Merit , each with a gold-colored statue, has a variant of the name, Oscar , or the Oscars, as its slang term.
- Oskar Matzerath , main character in the novel Die Blechtrommel by Günter Grass
- Oscar from the garbage can , character in the American television series Sesame Street
- Oscar Francois de Jarjayes , main character in the manga series Lady Oscar , The Roses of Versailles by Riyoko Ikeda
- Oskar , a cartoon character from Cefischer
- Oskar, the friendly policeman , a figure by Otto Schwalge
Animal names
- Oscar , the Bismarck's cat on board
- Oscar (bionic cat) , first cat with bionic prostheses
- Oscar (therapy cat) , therapy cat, at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island
See also
- Oskar , a Tatort episode of the Hessischer Rundfunk (2002)
- Oscar (disambiguation) (same pronunciation)
- Oszkar
literature
- Ernst Förstemann : Old German Name Book - Volume I: Personal Names. Verlag P. Hanstein, Bonn 2nd edition 1900. ( 1st edition 1856, p. 72ff. )
- Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon. 5th revised edition, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, Uppsala 2007, ISBN 978-91-7229-040-2 , pp. 28, 30.
- Karl Schmid (Ed.): The monastery community of Fulda in the early Middle Ages, part of the source work Societas et Fraternitas. Vol. 3: Comparative complete list of the Fulda personal names. ( Münster medieval writings, Vol. 8.3). Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1978 ISBN 3-7705-1379-7 , p. 105 .
- Moritz Schönfeld : Dictionary of the old Germanic persons and national names. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 1911, pp. 22-23 .