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'''Oswald''' may refer to:
:''For the Northumbrian king and saint, see ].''


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'''Saint Oswald''' (d. ]) was a ] in ] ] who was ] of ].


==People==
Oswald was of Danish stock, and he studied in the home of his uncle, ], ]. He later became a ] monk in ]. He returned to England in ], and ] made him bishop of ] in ]. With Dunstan and ] Oswald worked to revive religious learning in the northern midlands and to correct abuses in practice. They brought in scholars from the continent to instruct local abbots. Oswald founded monasteries at Westbury, Worcester, ], and the ]. He became archbishop of York in ]. However, he remained in Worcester to continue to oversee monastic reforms. The monasteries Oswald formed were threatened by Elfhere, the earl of Mercia, who disrupted several of the houses, though not Ramsey. Upon his death, he was first buried at Lindsey in what became Viking Northumbria. But in an exploratory five-week attack on Lindsey in Northumbria in 909 by the Mercian king, Oswald's remains were captured and taken away for reburial at ]. They were later buried in the church of St. Mary at ].
*], including a list of people with the name
*], including a list of people with the name


==Fictional characters==
His feast day is ].
*Oswald the Reeve, who tells a tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's '']''
]
*Oswald, servant of Goneril in Shakespeare's play '']''
*], 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 '']'', as well as two short stories
*], a cartoon character from the 1920s and 1930s created by Walt Disney
*Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, Batman villain better known as ]
*Oswald Baskerville, in the ] manga
*], a Marvel Comics mutant
*], a character in the British science fiction TV series ''Doctor Who''
*], in the British science fiction TV series ''Torchwood: Miracle Day''
*Oswald "Otto" Rocket, on the American animated children's TV series '']''
*Oswald, a blue octopus and main character in the Nick Jr. TV series '']''
*], a video game character
*Oswald, from the video game '']''
*Oswald Mandus, the protagonist of the 2013 survival horror video game '']''
*Oswald of Carim, is a fictional character from the video game '']''


==Places==
]
*], Australia, a suburb of the City of Maitland local government area
*], United States, a ghost town
*], United States, an unincorporated community

==Ships==
*{{USS|Oswald|DE-767}}, a World War II destroyer escort
*{{HMS|Oswald|N58|6}}, an Odin-class submarine built in 1928

==Other uses==
*], an American-British children's animated television series, also the title character
*'']'', a 1988 Danish computer game
*], an accessibility technology company
*Oswald State Correctional Facility, a fictional prison in the television series '']''
* ], developed by Vernon Adams; see {{slink|Franklin Gothic|Oswald}}

==See also==
*], a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
*]
*{{in title}}
*], a given name
*], a given name and surname
*]

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