Waag (disambiguation)

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Waag stands for:

  • Waag , river in Slovakia
  • Waag (Hückeswagen) , locality in Hückeswagen, Oberbergische Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Waag (Minster) , tributary of the Minster in the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland
  • Waag (Schöllkrippen) , until 1811 an independent place in what is now the district of Aschaffenburg, Bavaria
  • Waag SZ , part of the municipality of Unteriberg , Canton Schwyz, Switzerland
  • Foliot , German Waag , a regulator, part of the oldest gear clock mechanism


Waag is the family name of the following people:

  • Albert Waag (1863–1929), Privy Councilor, philologist and educator
  • Alexander Waag (1895–1955), German Abwehr military
  • Bjørn Waag (* 1961), Norwegian opera singer, vocal teacher and publicist
  • Einar Fróvin Waag (1894–1989), Faroese master brewer, entrepreneur and politician of the Social Democrats (Javnaðarflokkurin)
  • Hanna Waag (1904–1995), German actress
  • Ludwig Waag (1812–1879), Prussian infantry general, governor of Rastatt fortress
  • Maximilian Waag (1804–1873), Baden civil servant


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