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Thorvald is from the Old Norse name Þórvaldr, which means "Thor's ruler".[1] Despite this pagan origin, the name survived the conversion of Scandinavians to Christianity and remains popular up to the present.
Thorvald may refer to:
- Thorvald Aagaard (1877–1937), Danish composer, organist and college teacher
- Thorvald Astrup (1876–1940), Norwegian architect, known for industrial architecture
- Thorvald Asvaldsson, father of the colonizer of Greenland, Erik the Red (Eiríkr Rauði)
- Thorwald Bergquist (1899–1972), Swedish politician
- Thorvald Bindesbøll (1846–1908), Danish architect and designer
- Thorvald Eigenbrod (1892–1977), Danish field hockey player
- Thorvald Ellegaard (1877–1954), Danish track racing cyclist
- Thorvald Eriksson, son of Eric the Red and brother of Leif Ericsson
- Thorvald Hansen, Norwegian Nordic combined skier
- Thorvald Hedgehog (2000-2016), the world's oldest European hedgehog
- Thorvald Jørgensen (June 1867 – 1946), Danish architect
- Thorvald Lammers (1841–1922), Norwegian baritone singer, conductor, composer and biographer
- Thorvald Mejdell (1824–1908), Norwegian forester
- Glør Thorvald Mejdell (1851–1937), Norwegian barrister, judge and political writer
- Thorvald Mellingen (1935–2016), Norwegian engineer
- Thorvald Meyer (1818–1909), Norwegian businessman in real estate development in Oslo, and forestry
- Thorvald Olsen (1889–1938), Norwegian wrestler and sports official
- Thorvald Sørensen (1902–1973), Danish botanist and evolutionary biologist
- Thorvald Solberg (1852–1949), the first Register of Copyrights (1897–1930) in the United States Copyright Office
- Thorvald Stauning (1873–1942), first social democratic Prime Minister of Denmark
- Thorvald Steen (born 1954), Norwegian writer
- Thorvald Stoltenberg (1931–2018), prominent Norwegian politician
- Thorvald Strömberg (1931–2010), Finnish flatwater canoeist
- Thorvald N. Thiele (1838–1910), Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician
- Thorvald Thronsen (1917–2003), Norwegian paramilitary officer
- Thorvald Wilhelmsen (1912–1996), Norwegian long-distance runner
- Thorvald the Red, a fictional Viking on the TV series Fanboy & Chum Chum
- Jürgen Thorwald (1915–2006) a German writer, journalist and historian
- Turoldus, a variant of "Thorvald", was the traditional name of the author of the medieval Chanson de Roland (also Théroulde, Troude, Théroude, Thouroude)
