Iwan (name)

Iwan is a masculine given name and a surname.

It is a Welsh and Cornish name related to Ifan and derived from the Latin Johannes.^[1][2]

It is also found in Germanic and Slavic languages as a variant of Ivan (name), which is a form of the Biblical name John. The Welsh given name related to this is Ioan rather than Iwan.

People (given name)

• Iwan (singer), Lebanese singer
• Iwan B, French musician
• Iwan Baan, Dutch architectural photographer
• Iwan Babij, Ukrainian educator and activist
• Iwan Bloch, Berlin dermatologist, sexologist and Marquis de Sade scientist
• Iwan Edwards, Canadian choral conductor
• Iwan Fals, Indonesian singer and songwriter
• Iwan Gilkin, Belgian poet
• Iwan Griffiths, Welsh drummer
• Iwan Gronow, British bass guitarist
• Iwan Iwanoff, Bulgarian architect
• Gwilliam Iwan Jones, Welsh photographer and anthropologist
• Iwan Knorr, German teacher of music
• Iwan Müller, Estonian-born German clarinetist
• Iwan Pylypow, the first Ukrainian immigrant to Canada
• Iwan Redan, Dutch footballer
• Iwan Rheon, Welsh actor
• Iwan "Iwcs" Roberts, Welsh actor, lyricist and singer
• Iwan Roberts, Welsh footballer
• Iwan Serrurier, Dutch-born electrical engineer, inventor of Moviola
• Iwan Thomas, Welsh athlete
• Iwan Tirta, Indonesian batik fashion designer
• Iwan Tukalo, Scottish rugby union footballer
• Iwan Tyszkiewicz, Socinian Unitarian executed for blasphemy and heresy by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Iwan Wirth, Swiss contemporary art dealer and gallery owner

People (surname)

• Andrzej Iwan, retired Polish football player
• Bartosz Iwan, Polish footballer, son of Andrzej Iwan
• Bret Iwan, American illustrator and voice artist
• Dafydd Iwan, Welsh folk singer and politician
• Emrys ap Iwan, Welsh literary critic and writer on politics and religion
• Llion Iwan, Welsh journalist, documentary producer, and author
• Tomasz Iwan, retired Polish football player
• Wilhelm Iwan, German author, historian, and theologian

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