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Ewan

American  
[yoo-uhn] / ˈyu ən /

noun

  1. a male given name, Welsh form of John.


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Thirteen years later, her play “My Master Builder,” inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s “The Master Builder,” was directed by Michael Grandage in London, starring Ewan McGregor and Elizabeth Debicki.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, the film explores what happens to a family who wake up one day to find that their quaint suburban block has moved somewhere else entirely.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026

"We named it after my secondary school physics teacher," says Ewan Bodenham, PhD student at the Natural History Museum London and UCL, lead author of the new paper.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

Ewan Bodenham, 29, named the prehistoric reptile after his former physics teacher David Rhys Jones in Cardigan, Ceredigion.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

Ewan didn't look surprised as I came downstairs.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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