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Euan, Ewen
Ewen
Ewen, Euan or most commonly Ewan is a male given name, most commonly heard throughout Scotland and Canada. It is a derivative of Eoghan and is of Irish and Gaelic origin. It is also, less commonly, a surname. Iuan, Ioan, Iwan and Iwen is the Welsh derivative. Also associated loosely with the...

or most commonly Ewan is a male
Male
Male refers to the biological sex of an organism, or part of an organism, which produces small mobile gametes, called spermatozoa. Each spermatozoon can fuse with a larger female gamete or ovum, in the process of fertilization...

 given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

, most commonly heard throughout Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It is a derivative of Eoghan (meaning "born of the yew
Taxus baccata
Taxus baccata is a conifer native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia. It is the tree originally known as yew, though with other related trees becoming known, it may be now known as the English yew, or European yew.-Description:It is a small-...

 (tree)") and is of Irish
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

 and Gaelic origin. It is also, less commonly, a surname. Iuan, Ioan, Iwan and Iwen is the Welsh derivative. Also associated loosely with the scottish god of the glen. Owen is the predominant Welsh
Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

 spelling of the name, but also Iwan and Iuan are also found, as in Cornish
Cornish language
Cornish is a Brythonic Celtic language and a recognised minority language of the United Kingdom. Along with Welsh and Breton, it is directly descended from the ancient British language spoken throughout much of Britain before the English language came to dominate...

). Ouen
Ouen
Audoin, Audoen or Ouen, and Dado to his contemporaries, , was a Frankish bishop, courtier, chronicler, and Catholic saint....

 can be considered the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 or Breton
Breton language
Breton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany , France. Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages. Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish, it is classified as...

 spelling of the name.

In the arts & media

  • Euan Heng
    Euan Heng
    Euan Heng is a Scottish born artist, painter and printmaker, now living and working in Melbourne, Australia.- Life and work :Euan Heng was born in 1945, in Oban, Argyllishire, Scotland....

    , Scottish painter
  • Euan Kerr, editor
    Editor in chief
    An editor-in-chief is a publication's primary editor, having final responsibility for the operations and policies. Additionally, the editor-in-chief is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members as well as keeping up with the time it takes them to complete their task...

     of The Beano
    The Beano
    The Beano is a British children's comic, published by D.C. Thomson & Co and is arguably their most successful.The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly. During the Second World War,The Beano and The Dandy were published on alternating weeks because of paper and ink...

  • Euan Lloyd
    Euan Lloyd
    Euan Lloyd is a British film producer.He began his career directing short travelogue documentaries, starting with April in Portugal in 1954...

    , British film producer
    Film producer
    A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

  • Ewan McGregor
    Ewan McGregor
    Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish actor. He has had success in mainstream, indie, and art house films. McGregor is perhaps best known for his roles as heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama Trainspotting , young Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy , and poet Christian in the...

    , Scottish actor
  • Euan MacLeod
    Euan MacLeod
    Euan MacLeod , New Zealand artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1999. He was born in Christchurch in New Zealand and moved to Sydney in 1981. He has a Diploma of Fine Arts from Canterbury University in Christchurch...

    , New Zealand painter
  • Euan Mason
    Euan Mason
    Euan Mason is Associate Professor at the School of Forestry at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. His main research areas include silviculture, growth and yield modelling, hybrid modelling and decision-support . He is skilled in the field of dendrology, the identification of...

    , associate professor at the University of Canterbury
    University of Canterbury
    The University of Canterbury , New Zealand's second-oldest university, operates its main campus in the suburb of Ilam in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand...

  • Euan Morton
    Euan Morton
    Euan Douglas George Morton is an actor and singer. He is known for his role as Boy George in the musical Taboo, receiving nominations for the Laurence Olivier Award and Tony Award for his performance....

    , singer and actor
  • Euan Uglow
    Euan Uglow
    -Biography:Euan Uglow was born 10 March 1932 in London and as a child lived in Tulse Hill in south London. His father was an accountant, and Uglow went to the local grammar school in Tulse Hill, called Strand School. Afterwards he studied at Camberwell School of Art from 1948 to 1950...

    , English painter
  • Ewan Dobson
    Ewan Dobson
    Ewan Dobson is a Canadian fingerstyle guitarist and Candyrat Records recording artist.-Style:He is noted for the intensity and viruosity of his fingerstyle playing, his influence from video game music as well as his use of extended technique....

    , Canadian guitarist

In sports

  • Euan Burton
    Euan Burton
    Euan Michael Burton is a Scottish judoka.Born in Ascot, Berkshire and living in Edinburgh, Burton represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Half-Middleweight Judo event. Burton was educated at Pencaitland Primary School and Edinburgh University...

    , British judoka
  • Euan Byers
    Euan Byers
    Euan Byers is a Scottish curler.Byers started playing curling in 1983. He plays in first position and is right-handed...

    , Scottish curler
  • Euan Dale
    Euan Dale
    Euan Dale is a Loughborough-based Scottish swimmer who swam at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and also featured in the 4×200 m freestyle relay which he won a silver medal...

    , Scottish swimmer
  • Euan Henderson
    Euan Henderson
    Euan Henderson is a retired Scottish professional snooker player. In his twelve year professional career he reached only one ranking final, in the 1996 Grand Prix albeit without beating any of the game's established leading players, although his 6-3 semi-final win over Welsh veteran Mark Bennett...

    , Scottish snooker
    Snooker
    Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a green baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regular table is . It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each, and six balls of different :...

     player
  • Ewan McGrady
    Ewan McGrady
    Ewan McGrady is an Australian retired rugby league footballer. He played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and the Western Suburbs Magpies...

    , Australian rugby league footballer
  • Euan McLean
    Euan McLean
    Euan McLean is a Scottish footballer who is currently without a club.-Career:Having been a youth signing with hometown club Kilmarnock, McLean began his professional career when he moved south to join Sunderland in July 2002...

    , Scottish footballer
  • Euan Murray
    Euan Murray
    Euan Murray is a Scottish rugby union footballer, formerly playing for Northampton Saints in the Aviva Premiership competition before joining Newcastle Falcons. He has also played for the Scotland national team. He was a part of their 2007 Six Nations squad, and scored a try in their final game...

    , Scottish rugby union
    Rugby union
    Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

     footballer
  • Iwan Thomas
    Iwan Thomas
    Iwan Gwyn Thomas MBE is a sprinter who represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games in the 400 m, and Wales at the Commonwealth Games. Thomas is the current UK record holder at 400 m with a time of 44.36 seconds and is a former European and Commonwealth games champion...

    , Welsh 400m runner

In politics

  • Euan Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes
    Euan Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes
    Euan Michael Ross Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes is a British peer and politician and current deputy speaker of the House of Lords....

    , peer and politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

  • Euan Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
    Euan Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
    Donald Euan Palmer Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal , is a British Conservative politician.Howard is the eldest son of Donald Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, and his wife the Hon. Diana Evelyn, daughter of Gerald Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst...

    , British politician
  • Euan McLeod
    Euan McLeod
    Euan McLeod JP, is a member of the Scottish Labour Party and a Councillor for the Glasgow City Council for Ward 19, Shettleston . He was appointed Councillor on May 11, 2003.- Committee membership :...

    , member of the Scottish Labour Party
    Scottish Labour Party
    The Scottish Labour Party is the section of the British Labour Party which operates in Scotland....

  • Euan Robson
    Euan Robson
    Euan Robson is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician, and was Member of the Scottish Parliament for Roxburgh and Berwickshire from 1999 to 2007...

    , Scottish Liberal Democrats
    Liberal Democrats
    The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...

     politician
  • Euan Sutherland
    Euan Sutherland
    Euan Sutherland is an openly gay activist who, with Chris Morris, successfully challenged the British Government in the European Court of Human Rights and secured an equal age of consent for gay men....

    , activist
  • Euan Wallace
    Euan Wallace
    Captain David Euan Wallace, MC, MP, PC was a British Conservative politician who briefly served as Minister of Transport during World War II...

    , British Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)
    The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

     politician
  • Ewan Anderson
    Ewan Anderson
    Ewan William Anderson is a British academic expert on geopolitics, economic and social geography. He is also a former English first class cricketer who played all his games for Oxford University Cricket Club....

    , expert on geopolitics
    Geopolitics
    Geopolitics, from Greek Γη and Πολιτική in broad terms, is a theory that describes the relation between politics and territory whether on local or international scale....

    , economic
    Economic geography
    Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the world. The subject matter investigated is strongly influenced by the researcher's methodological approach. Neoclassical location theorists, following in the tradition of Alfred...

     and social geography
    Social geography
    Social geography is the branch of human geography that is most closely related to social theory in general and sociology in particular, dealing with the relation of social phenomena and its spatial components. Though the term itself has a tradition of more than 100 years, there is no consensus on...


Fictional characters

  • Euan Ambercrombie, minor character from the Harry Potter
    Harry Potter
    Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...

    series by J.K. Rowling
  • Ewan, a character from the TV series Merlin
    Merlin
    Merlin is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in the Arthurian legend. The standard depiction of the character first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written c. 1136, and is based on an amalgamation of previous historical and legendary figures...

    Season 1 Episode 2
  • Ewan O'Hara, Juliet O'Hara's brother on the TV series Psych
    Psych
    Psych is an American detective comedy-drama television series created by Steve Franks and broadcast on USA Network. It stars James Roday as Shawn Spencer, a young crime consultant for the Santa Barbara Police Department whose "heightened observational skills" and impressive detective instincts...

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