Oswald (first name)
Oswald (also Oswalt ) is a male given name .
Origin and meaning of the name
From the old English Osweald ; ōs = God (cf. Ase ); wealdan = rule, exercise violence, weald = power, violence; means: the one who rules through God, God rules.
name day
- February 29 - St Oswald of York (Celebration on February 28 in non-leap years)
- 1st March
- August 5th - St Oswald of Northumbria
Well-known namesake
- Oswald Achenbach (1827–1905), German painter
- Oswald de Andrade (1890–1954), Brazilian writer
- Oswald Avery (1877–1955), Canadian bacteriologist
- Oswald Baer (1906–1941), German painter
- Oswald Bayer (* 1939), Lutheran theologian
- Oswald I. von dem Bergh (1442-1511), Count of the Bergh
- Oswald Bieber (1874–1955), German architect
- Oswald Berkhan (1834–1917), German physician and reformer of the special education system
- Oswald Boelcke (1891–1916), German fighter pilot in the First World War
- Oswald Bumke (1877–1950), German psychiatrist
- Oswald Burger (* 1949), German historian
- Oswald Eggenberger (1923–2003), reformed pastor
- Oswald Egger (* 1963), German-speaking writer
- Oswald Freisler (1895–1939), lawyer during the dictatorship of National Socialism, brother of Roland Freisler
- Oswald Gomis (* 1932), retired Archbishop of Colombo
- Oswald Gracias (* 1944), Archbishop of Bombay
- Oswald Grübel (* 1943), German bank manager
- Oswald Haenel (1842–1911), German architect
- Oswald Haerdtl (1899–1959), Austrian architect, designer and architecture teacher
- Oswald Haselrieder (* 1971), former Italian luge rider
- Oswald Heer (1809–1883), Swiss paleontologist , botanist and entomologist
- Oswald Henke (* 1967), German singer, composer, author and columnist
- Oswald Huber (* 1942), Austrian psychologist and cartoonist
- Oswald Kabasta (1896–1946), Austrian conductor
- Oswald Kanzler (1883–1944), German local politician and party functionary of the SPD
- Oswalt Kolle (1928–2010), German journalist and sex educator
- Oswald Kroh (1887–1955), German educator and psychologist
- Oswald Külpe (1862–1915), German philosopher and psychologist
- Oswald Levett (1884–1942), Austrian writer and translator
- Oswald LeWinter (1931–2013), American writer
- Oswald Loschert (1704–1785), German Premonstratensian Abbot
- Oswald Malura (1906–2003), German painter
- Oswald Menghin (1888–1973), Austrian prehistoric, National Socialist Minister of Education
- Oswald Metzger (* 1954), German politician (CDU)
- Oswald Morris (1915-2014), British cameraman
- Oswald Mosley (1896–1980), British politician
- Oswald Myconius (1488–1552), Swiss theologian
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890–1991), German Jesuit, theologian, economist and social scientist
- Oswalt von Nostitz (1908–1997), German diplomat, writer and translator
- Oswald Oberhuber (1931–2020), Austrian artist
- Oswald Oelz (* 1943), Austrian-Swiss doctor and mountaineer
- Oswald Onghers (1628–1706), Flemish baroque painter
- Oswald Pfau (1915–1969), German football goalkeeper and coach
- Oswald Pohl (1892–1951), German SS-Obergruppenführer
- Oswald Rathfelder (1922–2011), German natural scientist, botanist and conservationist
- Oswald Redlich (1858–1944), Austrian historian and archivist
- Oswald Sallaberger (* 1966), Austrian conductor and violinist
- Oswald Sattler (* 1957), South Tyrolean singer of popular tunes
- Oswald Schäfer (1908–1991), lawyer and SS-Obersturmbannführer
- Oswald Schmiedeberg (1838–1921), German-Baltic pharmacologist
- Oswald Schwemmer (* 1941), German philosopher
- Oswald Sigg (* 1944), Swiss politician and former Vice Chancellor
- Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), German philosopher of history
- Oswald Teichmüller (1913–1943), German mathematician
- Oswald Thomas (1882–1963), astronomer and university professor
- Robert Oswald von Ulrici (1816–1886), German forester
- Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926–2007), German architect
- Oswald Veblen (1880–1960), American mathematician
- Oswald Wiener (* 1935), Austrian writer
- Oswald Wirth (1860–1943), Masonic writer
- Oswald von Wolkenstein (around 1377–1445), South Tyrolean minstrel
- Oswald Zimmermann (1859-1910), German journalist and politician ( DSRP )