Reinhold is a German, Scandinavian surname and male given name. This Germanic name is composed of two elements: the first is from ragin, meaning "counsel", "power" and wald meaning "ruler". The second element having been reinterpreted as hold meaning "dear", "beloved" in the 16th century.
This name was brought to the British Isles by Viking conquerors, in the form of the Old Norse Rögnvaldr. In the 11th century, the Normans further established this name as Reinald and Reynaud. There are other spelling variations of this surname, but all have the same etymological Germanic origin.
Notable people with the surname include:
Erasmus Reinhold, 16th-century German astronomer; the lunar crater Reinhold is named after him
Hugo Reinhold (1854–1935), Austrian composer and pianist
Judge Reinhold (born 1957), American actor
Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757–1823), 18th/19th-century Austrian philosopher
Meyer Reinhold (1909–2002), American classical scholar
Johann Heinrich Carl Reinhold (1788–1825), German painter and engraver
People with the given name include:
Reinhold Glière (1875–1956), Russian and Soviet composer
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803–1882), Estonian writer
Reinhold Messner (born 1944), Italian mountaineer
Reinhold Mitterlehner (born 1955), Austrian politician
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971), American theologian, public intellectual, and commentator
Reinhold Remmert (1930–2016), German mathematician
Reinhold Saulmann (1895–1936), Estonian Olympic sprinter
Reinhold Thiessenhusen (1864–1930), American politician
Reinhold Tiling (1893–1933), German engineer, pilot and rocket pioneer
Reinhold Würth (born 1935), German businessman
Reinhold Weege (1949–2012), American television writer, producer and director
