Oswald

Oswald can refer to:

Persons

Oswald as given name

• Oswald Avery, a physician, medical researcher and early molecular biologist
• Oswald Achenbach, a German landscape painter
• Oswald Balzer, a Polish historian
• Oswald Boelcke, German flying ace of the First World War
• Oswald Chambers, a nineteenth century Scottish Protestant Christian writer and speaker
• Oswald Garrison Villard, an American journalist
• Oswald Heer, Swiss geologist and naturalist
• Oswald Karch, a Formula One driver from Germany
• Oswald Lohse, a German astronomer
• Oswald Mazengarb, a New Zealand magistrate
• Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet, founder of the British Union of Fascists
• Oswald Myconius, follower of Huldrych Zwingli
• Oswald of Northumbria, King of Northumbria in the 7th century
• Saint Oswald, Archbishop of York, from the 10th century
• Oswald Pohl, Nazi officer and member of the SS
• Oswald Spengler, a German historian and philosopher
• Oswald Stoll, an Australian theater manager
• Oswald Szemerényi, a linguist
• Oswald Teichmüller, a German mathematician
• Oswald Tschirtner, Austrian artist
• Oswald Veblen, an American mathematician
• Oswald von Wolkenstein, a composer
• Oswald West, the 14th Governor of Oregon

Oswald as surname

• Andrew Oswald, a Professor of economics at the University of Warwick
• John Oswald, a Canadian composer
• John Oswald, an 18th century political figure from Scotland
• Lee Harvey Oswald, implicated in the assassination of John F. Kennedy
• Stephen S. Oswald, a NASA astronaut
• Theresa Oswald, Canadian politician

Fictional characters

• Oswald, servant of Goneril in Shakespeare's King Lear
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, an animated cartoon character from the 1920s and 1930s, created by Walt Disney.
• Oswald Loomis, Superman villain known as the Prankster
• Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, Batman villain known as the Penguin
• Oswald (King of Fighters), video game character
• Oswald Lee Harvey, a fictional character on The Drew Carey Show
• Oswald is a cartoon and the main character is Oswald, a blue octopus who has a dog name Weenie.
• Oswald, a character from the video game Odin Sphere.

Other

• Oswald a television show on Nick Jr and JimJam
• Baron St Oswald, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
• Cut-out (espionage) (slang), A pawn of intelligence agencies, specifically a disavowed person (see Non-official cover) tasked to perform an illegal action for which they will later be held wholly responsible; see also Mark (victim); see also Scapegoat; see also Patsy.

See also

In case of alternate spelling, see also:

Ostwald

• Ostwald the physico-chemist:
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald, the physico-chemist (Nobel Prize of Chemistry, 1909)
  • The Ostwald's rule related to the polymorphism: the least stable phase is first formed
  • The Ostwald Process, a synthesis method for making nitric acid from ammonia

Ozwald

• Ozwald