Ewald is a given name and surname used primarily in Germany and Scandinavia. It derives from the Germanic roots ''

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'' meaning "law" and '' wald'' meaning "power, brightness". People and concepts with the name include:

Surnames

* Douglas Ewald (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 f ...

(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 classi ...

(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

Given names

*Either of the Two Ewalds, saints in Old Saxony about 692 * Ewald Krolis (1947-2006), Surinamese kaseko singer * Ewald Stadler (born 1961), Austrian politician * Ewald von Kleist (1881-1954), German field marshal during World War II * Ewald von Lochow (1885-1942), Prussian officer and later General of Infantry during World War I, recipient of Pour le Mérite with Oakleaves * Ewald von Demandowsky (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 (named after Paul Peter Ewald), a geometric construct used in crystallography *

Ewald summation Ewald summation, named after Paul Peter Ewald, is a method for computing long-range interactions (e.g. electrostatic interactions) in periodic systems. It was first developed as the method for calculating electrostatic energies of ionic crystals, an ...

(named after Paul Peter Ewald), a method for computing the interaction energies of periodic systems

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