Wald (surname)
Wald is a German surname meaning "forest". Notable people with the surname include:
- Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician of German descent
- Carol Wald, American artist
- Charles F. Wald, American military officer
- Diane Wald, American poet
- Eduard Wald, German Resistance member, politician, unionist
- Elijah Wald, American folk blues guitarist and music historian
- Florence Wald, "mother of the American hospice movement"
- František Wald, Czech physical chemist
- George Wald, American biologist and Nobel Laureate
- Jerry Wald, American film producer and screenwriter
- Karl Wald, German football referee
- Lillian Wald, 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, British professor, Fellow of the Royal Society
- Orli Wald, German Resistance member, concentration camp survivor, "Angel of Auschwitz"
- Patricia Wald, American judge
- Robert Wald, American physicist
- Warren Wald, English Pop Idol contestant
