Oswald may refer to:
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Oswald (given name) Oswald () is a masculine given name, from Anglo-Saxon name, Old English ''Osƿeald'', from ''aesir, os'' "god" and ''ƿeald'' "rule". The Old High German cognate was ''Answald'', the Old Norse form was ''Ásvaldr''.
Oswald of Northumbria (c. 604 ...
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Oswald (surname), including a list of people with the name
Fictional characters
*Oswald the Reeve, who tells a tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's ''
The Canterbury Tales
''The Canterbury Tales'' () is a collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. The book presents the tales, which are mostly written in verse, as part of a fictional storytelling contest held ...
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*Oswald, servant of Goneril in Shakespeare's play ''
King Lear
''The Tragedy of King Lear'', often shortened to ''King Lear'', is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his ...
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Oswald Bastable, in E. Nesbit's novel ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'' and Michael Moorcock's unrelated novel ''The Warlord of the Air''
*Roald Dahl's title character in the novel ''
My Uncle Oswald'', as well as two short stories
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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (also known as Oswald the Rabbit, Oswald Rabbit, and Ozzie) is an animated series, animated cartoon character created in 1927 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks for Universal Pictures. He starred in several animated short film ...
, a cartoon character from the 1920s and 1930s created by Walt Disney
*Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, Batman villain better known as
the Penguin
The Penguin (Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Batman. The character made his first appearance in ''Detective Comics'' #5 ...
*Oswald Baskerville, in the
Pandora Hearts manga
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Oswald (comics), a Marvel Comics mutant
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Clara Oswald, a character in the British science fiction TV series ''Doctor Who''
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Oswald Danes, in the British science fiction TV series ''Torchwood: Miracle Day''
*Oswald "Otto" Rocket, on the American animated children's TV series ''
Rocket Power''
*Oswald, a blue octopus and main character in the Nick Jr. TV series ''
Oswald''
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Oswald (King of Fighters), a video game character
*Oswald, from the video game ''
Odin Sphere
''Odin Sphere'' is an action role-playing game developed by Vanillaware for the PlayStation 2. It was published by Atlus (Japan and North America) in 2007, and by Square Enix (Australia and Europe) in 2008. A remake, titled ''Odin Sphere Leifth ...
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*Oswald Mandus, the protagonist of the 2013 survival horror video game ''
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs''
*Oswald of Carim, is a fictional character from the video game ''
Dark Souls (video game)
is a 2011 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Namco Bandai Games. A spiritual successor to FromSoftware's '' Demon's Souls'', the game is the first in the ''Dark Souls'' series. The game takes place in the kingd ...
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Places
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Oswald, New South Wales, Australia, a suburb of the City of Maitland local government area
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Oswald, Missouri, United States, a ghost town
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Oswald, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
Ships
*, a World War II destroyer escort
*, an Odin-class submarine built in 1928
Other uses
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''Oswald'' (TV series), an American-British children's animated television series, also the title character
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OsWALD'', a 1988 Danish computer game
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Oswald Labs
Oswald Labs (formerly ''Oswald Foundation'') is a Netherlands, Dutch-India, Indian based accessibility technology company that builds products for individuals with Disability, disabilities. It specializes in enterprise web accessibility, offers ...
, an accessibility technology company
*Oswald State Correctional Facility, a fictional prison in the television series ''
Oz''
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Oswald (typeface) Oswald may refer to:
People
*Oswald (given name), including a list of people with the name
* Oswald (surname), including a list of people with the name
Fictional characters
*Oswald the Reeve, who tells a tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's ''The Canterbu ...
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See also
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Baron St Oswald
Baron St Oswald, of Nostell in the West Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1885 for the industrialist and Conservative politician Rowland Winn, a former Member of Parliament for ...
, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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Saint Oswald (disambiguation) Saint Oswald may refer to:
People
*Oswald of Northumbria
Oswald (; c 604 – 5 August 641/642Bede gives the year of Oswald's death as 642. However there is some question of whether what Bede considered 642 is the same as what would now be ...
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Oswaldo Oswaldo ( Spanish for " Oswald") is a Spanish masculine given name.
It may refer to:
* Oswaldo Buzzoni (1924–1988), Brazilian footballer
* Oswaldo Cabrera (born 1999), Venezuelan baseball player
* Oswaldo Castillo, Nicaraguan-American gardener/c ...
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Oswalt Oswalt is a German surname or male given name, which is derived from the Old English
Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the ...
, a given name and surname
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Ostwald (disambiguation)
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