Ewald is a given name and surname used primarily in Germany and Scandinavia. It derives from the Germanic roots '' ewa'' meaning "law" and '' wald'' meaning "power, brightness". People and concepts with the name include:

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Douglas Ewald Douglas Rex Ewald (July 8, 1937 – October 20, 2021) was an American politician and consultant. Ewald was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and graduated from Minneapolis North High School. He received his bachelor's degree and his master's d ...

(1937-2021), American politician and consultant *

Carl Anton Ewald Carl Anton Ewald (30 October 1845 – 20 September 1915) was a German gastroenterologist who was a native of Berlin. He was the brother of physiologist Ernst Julius Richard Ewald (1855–1921). In 1870, he earned his medical doctorate in Berlin, ...

(1845–1915), pioneering German gastroenterologist *

Johann Ewald Johann von Ewald (20 March 1744 – 25 June 1813) was a German military officer from Hesse-Kassel. After first serving in the Seven Years' War, he was the commander of the Jäger corps of the Hessian Leib Infantry Regiment attached to British ...

(1744–1813), Danish general and veteran of the American Revolutionary War * Johannes Ewald (1743–1781), Danish dramatist and poet * Heinrich Ewald (1803–1875), German orientalist and theologian *

Paul Peter Ewald Paul Peter Ewald, FRS (January 23, 1888 in Berlin, Germany – August 22, 1985 in Ithaca, New York) was a German crystallographer and physicist, a pioneer of X-ray diffraction methods. Education Ewald received his early education in the class ...

(1888–1985), German physicist, pioneer of X-ray diffraction and crystallography *

Paul W. Ewald Paul W. Ewald (born 1953) is an evolutionary biologist, specializing in the evolutionary ecology of parasitism, evolutionary medicine, agonistic behavior, and pollination biology. He is the author of '' Evolution of Infectious Disease'' (1994) an ...

(born 1953), evolutionary biologist specializing in the evolution of infectious disease * Reinhold Ewald (born 1956), German astronaut * Victor Ewald (1860–1935), Russian composer

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*Either of the

Two Ewalds The Two Ewalds (or ''Two Hewalds'') were Saint Ewald the Black and Saint Ewald the Fair, martyrs in Old Saxony about 692. Both bore the same name, but were distinguished by the difference in the colour of their hair and complexions. They began th ...

, saints in Old Saxony about 692 * Ewald Max Hoyer (1863–1957), founding mayor of Bossier City, Louisiana *

Ewald Krolis Ewald Harold Krolis (16 May 1947 – 22 September 2006) was a Surinamese kaseko-singer and percussionist. Biography Krolis started singing at a young age; he formed The Rhythm Makers with Bertje Tjin A Kwie, André Stekkel and producer-to-be Stan ...

(1947-2006), Surinamese

kaseko Kaseko is a musical genre from Suriname. It is a fusion of numerous popular and folk styles derived from Africa, Europe and the Americas. The genre is rhythmically complex, with percussion instruments including skratji (a very large bass dru ...

singer *

Ewald Stadler Ewald Johann Stadler (born May 21, 1961), is an Austrian right-wing conservative politician. He was a member of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) until 2007, and a member of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) from 2007 until 2013. H ...

(born 1961), Austrian politician * Ewald von Kleist (1881-1954), German field marshal during World War II *

Ewald von Lochow Ewald Constantin Ferdinand Friedrich von Lochow (1 April 1855 in Petkus – 11 April 1942 in Berlin-Charlottenburg) was a Prussian officer and later General of Infantry during World War I. He was a recipient of Pour le Mérite with Oakleaves ...

(1885-1942), Prussian officer and later General of Infantry during World War I, recipient of Pour le Mérite with Oakleaves *

Ewald von Demandowsky Ewald von Demandowsky (21 October 1906 – 7 October 1946) was a German film producer who held the office of a Nazi German '' Reichsfilmdramaturg'' and was head of production at the Tobis Film company in the Third Reich. Career Demandowsky w ...

(1906-1946), German film producer who held the office of a Nazi German Reichsfilmdramaturg and was head of production at the Tobis Film company in the Third Reich

Concepts

Ewald's sphere The Ewald sphere is a geometric construction used in electron, neutron, and X-ray crystallography which demonstrates the relationship between: :* the wavevector of the incident and diffracted x-ray beams, :* the diffraction angle for a given re ...

(named after Paul Peter Ewald), a geometric construct used in crystallography * Ewald summation (named after Paul Peter Ewald), a method for computing the interaction energies of periodic systems

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