Ewan
Ewan is an
McEwan’s beer and MacEwan University
.
Owain is the predominant
Ouen can be considered the French or Breton spelling of the name. Another meaning of these could mean Yew Tree or ‘well born’ in Celtic languages
.
Ewan is also a
Bacchus.[3] Ewan is sometimes incorrectly seen as a cognate to John and its variations. Ewen or Ewan is also a Scottish surname, as in Clan MacEwen
.
People with the given name
In the arts and media
- Ewan Christian (1814–1895), British architect
- Ewan MacColl (1915–1989), British folk singer-songwriter
- Ewan McGregor (born 1971), Scottish actor
- Ewan Mitchell (born 1997), English actor
- Ewan Stewart (born 1957), Scottish actor
In sports
- Ewan MacDonald (born 1975), Scottish curler
- Ewan McGrady, Australian rugby league footballer
- Ewan Thompson (born 1977), Australian (Australian rules) footballer
In other fields
- Ewan Birney (born 1972), British bioinformatician
- Ewan Anderson (born 1938), expert on geopolitics, economic and social geography
Characters
- Ewan, a character from the TV series Merlin Season 1 Episode 2
- Ewan O'Hara, Juliet O'Hara's brother on the TV series Psych
- Ewan, a guard in the book The Wizard's Child
- Ewan Doherty, Head of English in Teachers, a UK Channel 4 show
- Ewan the Dream Sheep, a popular baby sleeping toy
- Ewan Cameron, a minor character in Dragonfly in Amber, second book in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
- Ewan Zschoch
See also
- Eógan
- Eógan (given name)
- Iwan (name)
- Euan
- Evan
- MacEwen
References
- ^ From Pictland to Alba: 789-1070, Alex Woolf, Edinburgh University Press, 2007
- ^ From Pictland to Alba: 789-1070, Alex Woolf, Edinburgh University Press, 2007
- ^ "Latin Word Lookup". www.archives.nd.edu.