Wahl (surname) explained
Wahl is a Norwegian and Danish surname that originates from the German wal meaning 'field'. The name may also have roots in the German word Wahl (meaning "election" or "choice"[1]) or from Yiddish, in which wahl means "from Italy".[2] Notable people with the surname include:
- Anne Wahl (born 1953), Norwegian sprint canoer
- Arthur C. Wahl, American chemist
- Asbjørn Wahl (born 1951), Norwegian researcher and author
- Ballie Wahl (1920–1978), South African rugby player
- Bernt Wahl, American author, entrepreneur and mathematician
- Betty Wahl (1924–1988), American novelist and short story writer
- Bobby Wahl (born 1992), American baseball player
- Charlotte Wahl (1817–1899), Latvian philanthropist
- Charlotte Johnson Wahl (1942–2021), British artist and mother of Boris Johnson
- Corrine Wahl (born 1954), American model and actress
- Edgar de Wahl (1867–1948), Baltic German linguist and scholar
- Eduard Wahl (1903–1985), German CDU politician
- Erik Wahl, American artist and entrepreneur
- François Wahl (1925–2014), French editor and structuralist
- Frank-Michael Wahl (born 1956), German handball player
- George Douglas Wahl (1895–1981), American military officer
- Grant Wahl (1974–2022), American sports journalist
- Harry Wahl (1869–1940), Finnish businessman, violin collector, and sailor
- Harry Wahl (1902–1975), Canadian political figure
- Hauke Wahl (born 1994), German footballer
- Henry Wahl, (1915–1984) Norwegian speed skater
- Jacques Wahl (born 1971), South African cricketer
- James M. Wahl (1846–1939), Norwegian American settler and South Dakota legislator
- Jan Boyer Wahl (1933–2019), American children's book author
- Jean Wahl (1888–1974), French philosopher
- Jens Wahl (born 1966), German footballer
- Johann Salomon Wahl (1689–1765), German artist
- John Eshleman Wahl (1933–2010), American civil rights attorney
- Jonathan Wahl, American mathematician
- Karl Wahl (1892–1981), German Nazi Gauleiter of Swabia
- Ken Wahl (born 1954), American film and television actor
- Kermit Wahl (1922–1987), American baseball player
- Kurt Wahl (1912–1990), German fencer
- Lutz Wahl (1869–1928), American military general
- Margit Wahl (1900 or 1903–1949), Hungarian operatic soprano singer
- Mats Wahl (born 1945), Swedish writer
- Meir Wahl, Polish rabbi
- Mitch Wahl (born 1990), American hockey player
- Moritz Callmann Wahl (1829–1887), German writer
- Nathalie Wahl (born 1976), Belgian mathematician
- Nicholas Wahl (1928–1996), American historian
- Otto Wahl (1904–1935), German cross-country skier
- Paul Wahl (1906–1982), German weightlifter
- Philippe Wahl (born 1956), French business executive
- Phoebe Wahl, American illustrator, sculptor and children's book author
- Rakel Wahl (1921–2005), Norwegian cross-country skier
- Richard Wahl (1906–1982), German fencer
- Richard L. Wahl, nuclear medicine physician
- Robert Wahl (1927–2023), American football player
- Rosalie E. Wahl (1924–2013), American jurist
- Saul Wahl (1541–1617), legendary king of Poland
- Tyler Wahl (born 2001), American basketball player
- Veleslav Wahl (1922–1950), Czech ornithologist and resistance activist
- Will Wahl, contestant on
- William Henry Wahl (1848–1909), American scientific editor and journalist
- Wolfgang Wahl (1925–2006), German actor
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: WAHL, SAUL. Singer. Isidore. Julius Gottlieb . Jewish Encyclopedia. 3 October 2010.
- Polonsky, Antony, The Jews in Poland and Russia, vol. 1, Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. 2010, p. 12.
