Waal
Waal means:
- Waal (castle) , name for the moats and ramparts of castles
- Waal (river) , the southern arm in the river delta of the Rhine in the Netherlands
- Waal (irrigation) , a method of irrigation
- Waal (Swabia) , market in the Ostallgäu district, Bavaria
- Waal (Rohrbach) , district of the Rohrbach municipality, Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm district, Bavaria
- De Waal (Texel) , a village on the Dutch island of Texel
- Waal (ferry) , a double-ended ferry
- Waal warm period , a warm period on earth that lasted from around 1.3 million years to 0.9 million years
Waal is the family name of the following people:
- Anton de Waal (1837–1917), German Catholic theologian, church historian, Christian archaeologist and science organizer
- Cornelis de Waal (1881–1946), German-Dutch landscape, marine, still life, interior and portrait painter
- Edmund de Waal (* 1964), English ceramist, professor and author
- Frans de Waal (* 1948), Dutch zoologist and behavioral scientist
- Giovanni Waal (* 1989), Surinamese football player
- Johannes de Waal (1604–1649), Leiden anatomist (also Johannes de Wale, Jan de Wale, Johan de Wal or Johannes Walaeus)
- Kit de Waal (* 1960), British writer
- Leen van der Waal (* 1928), Dutch engineer and politician (Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij), MEP
- Rian de Waal (1958–2011), Dutch pianist and university professor
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