What was Roald Dahl’s middle name?

Roald Dahl had no middle name.

He was born Roald Dahl on 13 September 1916 in Cardiff, Wales. Biographical accounts generally identify him without a middle name, unlike some relatives and public figures whose names are often expanded in casual references. The absence of a middle name is a small but verifiable detail of his biography.

Dahl was named Roald after Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer. His parents were Norwegian, and his family maintained strong connections with Norway. Those connections influenced his childhood and later autobiographical writing, especially Boy and Going Solo.

The answer is sometimes confused with names of characters in Dahl’s books or with invented middle names found in unofficial biographies. His best-known public name is simply Roald Dahl. He later became one of the most widely read British children’s authors of the twentieth century.