Astrid
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Astrid, Estrid, Æstriðr, Ástríðr or Aestrith is a given name
of North Germanic
origin.
People
Fictional characters
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...
of North Germanic
North Germanic languages
The North Germanic languages or Scandinavian languages, the languages of Scandinavians, make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages, along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages...
origin.
People
- Queen Astrid Eiriksdottir, daughter of Eirik Bjodaskalle and mother of Olaf I of NorwayOlaf I of NorwayOlaf Tryggvason was King of Norway from 995 to 1000. He was the son of Tryggvi Olafsson, king of Viken , and, according to later sagas, the great-grandson of Harald Fairhair, first King of Norway.Olaf played an important part in the often forcible, on pain of torture or death, conversion of the...
, who ruled Norway from 995-1000 - Astrid OlofsdotterAstrid OlofsdotterAstrid Olofsdotter was the Queen Consort of King Olav II of Norway.-Biography:...
(died 1035), Queen Consort of King Olav II of Norway - Astrid NjalsdotterAstrid NjalsdotterAstrid Njalsdotter of Skjalgaätten was a Swedish queen, consort of king Emund the Old of Sweden and mother-in-law of king Stenkil of Sweden.-Biography:...
(died 1060), Swedish queen, consort of King Edmund the Old - Queen Astrid of Belgium (1905–1935), wife of King Léopold III of Belgium
- Princess Astrid of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este (born 1962), daughter of King Albert II
- Princess Astrid of NorwayPrincess Astrid of NorwayPrincess Astrid of Norway, Mrs. Ferner, is the second daughter of King Olav V of Norway and his wife, Princess Märtha of Sweden...
(born 1932), sister to King Harald - Astrid AllwynAstrid AllwynAstrid Allwyn was an American stage and film actress.She studied dancing and dramatics in New York and later joined a stock company. Allwyn made her Broadway debut in 1929 in Elmer Rice's Street Scene. On the strength of her performance in Once in a Lifetime, she was given film work...
(1905–1978), American actress - Astrid Bergès-FrisbeyAstrid Bergès-FrisbeyÀstrid Bergès-Frisbey is a Spanish actress and model. She is best known for playing Suzanne in The Sea Wall and the mermaid Syrena in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth film in the series.-Life and career:...
Catalan-French actress - Astrid CleveAstrid CleveAstrid M. Cleve von Euler was a Swedish botanist, geologist, chemist and researcher at Uppsala University. She was the first female in Sweden to obtain a doctoral degree of science.-Life:...
(1875-1968), Swedish botanist, geologist, chemist and researcher - Astrid GjertsenAstrid GjertsenAstrid Gjertsen is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. She was Minister of Administration and Consumer Affairs 1981–1986. She was born in Denmark, making her Norway's first government minister with an immigrant background. In 1973 she was elected as a member to the Norwegian...
(born 1928), Norwegian politician - Astrid Carolina Herrera (born 1963), Venezuelan actress and Miss World 1984
- Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen (born 1987), Norwegian cross-country skier
- Astrid LindgrenAstrid LindgrenAstrid Anna Emilia Lindgren , 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish author and screenwriter who is the world's 25th most translated author and has sold roughly 145 million copies worldwide...
(1907-2002), Swedish author of Pippi Longstocking - Astrid LullingAstrid LullingAstrid Lulling is a politician in Luxembourg, and a Member of the European Parliament for the Christian Social People's Party, part of the European People's Party.- Current positions held :...
, Luxembourg politician and Member of the European Parliament - Astrid KirchherrAstrid KirchherrAstrid Kirchherr is a German photographer and artist and is well known for her association with The Beatles and her photographs of The Beatles during their Hamburg days....
(born 1938), German photographer and artist, known for her association with The Beatles - Astrid KumbernussAstrid KumbernussAstrid Kumbernuss is a former German female shot putter and discus thrower.Her career started at the SC Neubrandenburg sports club. Her greatest successes were gold medals at the 1995, 1997 and 1999 World Championships in Athletics, and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta...
(born 1970), champion German shot putter and discus thrower - Astrid LøkenAstrid LøkenAstrid Løken was a Norwegian entomologist and member of the Norwegian resistance movement during World War II...
(1911-2008), Norwegian entomologist and member of the Norwegian resistance movement during World War II - Astrid Plane, former lead singer of AnimotionAnimotionAnimotion is a 1980s U.S. New Wave/synthpop band from Los Angeles, California best known for their songs "Obsession" , "Let Him Go", "I Engineer" and "Room to Move"...
- Astrid StraussAstrid StraussAstrid Strauss or, rarely, Strauß is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany, who won the silver medal in the 800 m freestyle at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea....
(born 1968), former freestyle swimmer for East Germany - Astrid ThorsAstrid ThorsAstrid Thors is a Finland-Swedish politician of the Swedish People's Party. Thors is a Candidate of Law and had several white-collar high-position jobs before being elected into the European Parliament. She served there between 1996 and 2004. She was elected into the Parliament of Finland in 2003...
(born 1957), Finnish politician - Astrid VarnayAstrid VarnayIbolyka Astrid Maria Varnay was an American dramatic soprano of Hungarian heritage and Swedish birth, who did most of her work in the United States and Germany. She was one of the best-known Wagnerian heroic sopranos of her generation...
(1918-2006), Swedish-born operatic soprano - Astrid van der Veen, Dutch singer
- Astrid VillaumeAstrid VillaumeAstrid Villaume was a Danish actress of stage and film best known for her award-winning title role in the 1950 film Susanne.-Early life:...
(1923-1995), Danish actress - Astrid WilliamsonAstrid WilliamsonAstrid Williamson is a Shetland born musician and songwriter.In the 1990s, Williamson obtained her degree in music from the Royal Scottish Academy and co-founded a band known as Goya Dress which consisted of Williamson, Terry de Castro, and Simon Pearson...
, Scottish musician - Astrid YoungAstrid YoungAstrid Young is a Canadian singer/songwriter. She is the daughter of Scott Young and Astrid Mead. After her half-brother and fellow musician Neil Young bought Astrid her first amp in the 1970s, she began to explore her own musical talents...
(born 1962), Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician - Astrid ZachrisonAstrid ZachrisonElin Astrid Sofia Zachrison was a Swedish supercentenarian. She became Sweden's oldest person ever on 6 October 2007, surpassing the age attained by Elsa Moberg. She is the second oldest Nordic person on record, after Christian Mortensen of Denmark.Zachrison was born in Åby in Fliseryd, west of...
(1895-2008), longest-lived Swede - Astrud GilbertoAstrud GilbertoAstrud Gilberto is a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer. She is well known for the Grammy Award-winning song "The Girl from Ipanema".-Biography:...
(born 1940), Brazilian singer - Estrid Svendsdatter (born between 990 and 997), princess and sister of Cnut
- Estrid of the ObotritesEstrid of the ObotritesEstrid of the Obotrites was a Medieval and Viking age Swedish Queen consort and West Slavic Princess, married to Olof Skötkonung, the King of Sweden, ca...
(c. 979–1035), queen consort of Olof Skötkonung, King of Sweden - EstridEstridEstrid was a rich and powerful 11th century Swedish woman whose long family saga has been recorded on five or six runestones in Uppland, Sweden. This Estrid was the maternal grandmother of the chieftain Jarlabanke of the Jarlabanke clan...
, 11th century Swedish lady whose saga is immortalized on six or seven runestones
Fictional characters
- Astrid, a friend of Juliette Darling's in the short-lived drama Dirty Sexy MoneyDirty Sexy MoneyDirty Sexy Money is an American prime time drama series created by Craig Wright, which ran on the ABC from September 26, 2007 to August 8, 2009. The series was produced by ABC Studios, Bad Hat Harry Productions, Berlanti Television and Gross Entertainment...
- Astrid PethAstrid PethAstrid Peth is a fictional character played by Kylie Minogue in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. She is a one-off companion of the Tenth Doctor who appears in the episode "Voyage of the Damned", which was first broadcast in the UK on 25 December 2007...
, the Companion in the 2007 Doctor WhoDoctor WhoDoctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
Christmas special Voyage of the Damned - Astrid Ferrier, the main guest protagonist in the 1967-8 Doctor Who serial The Enemy of the WorldThe Enemy of the WorldThe Enemy of the World is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from 23 December 1967 to 27 January 1968...
- Astrid Larsson, a character in The Emberverse seriesThe Emberverse seriesEmberverse, or Change World, is a series of post-apocalyptic alternate history novels written by S. M. Stirling. The novels depict the events following "The Change", which caused electricity, guns, explosives, internal combustion engines, and steam power to stop working...
- Astrid Magnussen, troubled teenage protagonist of the novel White OleanderWhite OleanderWhite Oleander is a 1999 novel by American author Janet Fitch. It is a coming-of-age story about a child who is separated from her mother and placed in a series of foster homes. The book was a selection by Oprah's Book Club in May 1999 and became a 2002 film.-Plot summary:Astrid Magnussen is a...
- Astrid, a character from the video game Fire Emblem: Path of RadianceFire Emblem: Path of RadianceFire Emblem: Path of Radiance, known in Japan as is a tactical role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube video game console. The game was released on April 20, 2005 in Japan, October 17, 2005 in North America, November 4, 2005 in...
- Astrid, a minor character in the video game The Legend of Zelda: Phantom HourglassThe Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglassis the fourteenth game in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series. It was released after The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Wii and before The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks for the Nintendo DS...
- Astrid Farnsworth, a character on the TV show Fringe
- Astrid Hofferson, a character in the film How to Train Your DragonHow to Train Your Dragon (film)How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 3D computer-animated action fantasy film by DreamWorks Animation loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name. The film stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher...
- Astrid Levenson, the daughter of Jan Levenson, Michael Scott's ex-girlfriend on 'The Office'.