Wald (surname)

Wald is a German surname meaning "forest". Notable people with the surname include:

• Abraham Wald (1902–1950), Hungarian mathematician of German descent
• Carol Wald (1935–2000), American artist
• Charles F. Wald (born 1948), American military officer
• David Wald, American voice actor
• David J. Wald (born 1962), American seismologist
• Diane Wald, American poet
• Eduard Wald (1905–1978), German Resistance member, politician, unionist
• Elijah Wald (born 1959), American folk blues guitarist and music historian
• Florence Wald (1917–2008), "mother of the American hospice movement"
• František Wald (1861–1931), German-Czech chemist
• George Wald (1906–1997), American biologist and Nobel Laureate
• Jerry Wald (1916–1962), American film producer and screenwriter
• Karl Wald (1916–2011), German football referee
• Lillian Wald (1867–1940), American nurse and social worker
• Michael S. Wald, American lawyer currently the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Emeritus at Stanford Law School.
• Nicholas Wald (born 1944), British professor, Fellow of the Royal Society
• Orli Wald (1914–1962), German Resistance member, concentration camp survivor, "Angel of Auschwitz"
• Patricia Wald (1928–2019), American judge
• Robert Wald (born 1947), American physicist
• Warren Wald (born 1980), English Pop Idol contestant