Christiansen
Encyclopedia
Christiansen is a Danish
and Norwegian
patronymic
surname
, literally meaning son of Christian. The spelling variant Kristiansen has identical prononciation. Christiansen is the sixteenth most common name in Denmark
, but is shared by less than 1% of the population.
The numbers of bearers of the surnames Christiansen and Kristiansen in Denmark
and Norway
(2007):
Immigrants to English
-speaking countries sometimes have changed the spelling to Christianson
or Kristianson.
Christiansen, as a person, may refer to:
Christiansen may also refer to:
References
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
and Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
patronymic
Patronymic
A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...
surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
, literally meaning son of Christian. The spelling variant Kristiansen has identical prononciation. Christiansen is the sixteenth most common name in Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
, but is shared by less than 1% of the population.
The numbers of bearers of the surnames Christiansen and Kristiansen in Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
and Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
(2007):
| Christiansen | Kristiansen | source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | 39112 | 14248 | Statistics Denmark |
| Norway | 3922 | 24533 | Statistics Norway |
Immigrants to English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
-speaking countries sometimes have changed the spelling to Christianson
Christianson
Christianson is a patronymic surname and an anglicized form of the Danish/Norwegian Christiansen.Christianson, as a person, may refer to:*Adolph M...
or Kristianson.
Christiansen, as a person, may refer to:
- Anders Baasmo ChristiansenAnders Baasmo ChristiansenAnders Baasmo Christiansen, born 29 January 1976 is a Norwegian actor from Hamar, Norway.He earned his breakthrough in 2003 when he received the Amanda-price for his performance in the Norwegian picture Buddy....
(born 1976-), Norwegian actor - Arthur ChristiansenArthur ChristiansenArthur Christiansen was a journalist, and editor of Lord Beaverbrook's newspaper the Daily Express from 1933 to 1957....
(1904–1963), English journalist - B.S. ChristiansenB.S. ChristiansenBjarne Slot Christiansen is a former professional soldier from the Danish special force army unit Jægerkorpset, who is currently working with coaching and team building. His many television appearances and a popular book called Et liv på kanten have made him a celebrity in his home country.B.S...
(born 1952), Danish team builder - Carl Emil ChristiansenCarl Emil ChristiansenCarl Emil Christiansen is a Danish former amateur football player, who played 313 games and scored 112 goals for Esbjerg fB in Denmark. He was the top goalscorer of the 1962 Danish football championship, and played two games and scored one goal for the Denmark national football team.-External...
(born 1937), Danish footballer - Christian ChristiansenChristian ChristiansenChristian Christiansen was a Danish physicist.Christiansen first taught at the local polytechnical school. In 1886 he was appointed to a chair for physics at the University of Copenhagen....
(1843–1917), Danish physicist - Claus ChristiansenClaus ChristiansenClaus Christiansen is a Danish former football player in a defender role, who played 295 Danish league matches for Lyngby Boldklub. He played five matches for the Denmark national football team, most notably the semi-final and final game of the Euro 1992 tournament which Denmark won.-External...
(born 1967), Danish footballer - F. Melius ChristiansenF. Melius ChristiansenF. Melius Christiansen was a Norwegian-born violinist and choral conductor in the Lutheran choral tradition.-Background:...
(1871–1955), Norwegian violinist and choral conductor - Friedrich ChristiansenFriedrich ChristiansenFriedrich Christiansen was a World War I German seaplane ace who claimed shooting down twenty planes and an airship; thirteen of those victories were confirmed...
, German World War I ace and Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht in the Netherlands 1940-1945 - Godtfred Kirk ChristiansenGodtfred Kirk ChristiansenGodtfred Kirk Christiansen was the son of Ole Kirk Christiansen, the founder of the Lego Group. In 1949 Godtfred Kirk Christiansen bought the patent to the Lego brick and the family started producing plastic bricks as a supplement to the wooden toys...
(1920–1995), Danish businessman - Jack ChristiansenJack Christiansen-External links:*Pro Football Hall of Fame: *...
(1928–1986), American football player and coach - Jason ChristiansenJason ChristiansenJason Samuel Christiansen is a former Major League Baseball left-handed relief pitcher. He is an alumnus of Cameron University....
(born 1969), American baseball player - Jesper ChristiansenJesper ChristiansenJesper Ringsborg Christiansen is a Danish professional footballer, who plays as a goalkeeper for IF Elfsborg in the Allsvenskan championship. He has previously played for Danish Superliga clubs Odense BK, Vejle BK, Viborg FF, and F.C. Copenhagen, winning four Superliga championships and two Danish...
(born 1978), Danish footballer - Johannes ChristiansenJohannes ChristiansenJohannes Christiansen was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.He was born in Askim, but moved to Skiptvet. He was deputy mayor from 1884 to 1887 and mayor from 1888 to 1889. He then quit local politics to become a police chief...
(1850–1913), a Norwegian politician - Kaj ChristiansenKaj ChristiansenKaj Frederik Christiansen was a Danish football forward and manager. He played professionally for French clubs Stade Français, Le Havre AC and Olympique Lyonnais, and scored six goals in five matches for the Denmark national football team...
(born 1921), Danish footballer and coach - Keith ChristiansenKeith ChristiansenKeith "Huffer" Christiansen is a former professional ice hockey player who appeared in 138 World Hockey Association regular season games with the Minnesota Fighting Saints between 1972 and 1974...
(born 1944), American Olympian and ice hokey player - Kerry Ann ChristiansenKerry Ann ChristiansenKerry Ann Christiansen is a British actress who began her career in the popular British children’s TV series Byker Grove.After her character's tragic departure from the show, she went on to play Kim Cotton in the short lived ITV series Close & True which also starred Robson Green and Jamie Bell,...
, British actress - Kim ChristiansenKim ChristiansenKim Christiansen is a Norwegian snowboarder. He grew up in Drammen.He started his professional career in 1991 at age 16 when he became sponsored by Quicksliver and he retired from professional snowboarding in 2006...
(born 1976), Norwegian Olympian and snowborder - Larry Christiansen (born 1956), American chess grandmaster
- Lauritz ChristiansenLauritz ChristiansenLauritz Christiansen was a Norwegian sailor who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was a crew member of the Norwegian boat Atlanta, which won the gold medal in the 12 metre class ....
(1867–1930), Norwegian Olympian and sailor - Lisa ChristiansenLisa ChristiansenLisa Christiansen is a Canadian radio personality. She hosts the program Appetite for Distraction on CBC Radio 3, and also is one of the hosts of Between the Covers on CBC Radio One.-External links:* *...
, Canadian radio personality - Ole Kirk ChristiansenOle Kirk ChristiansenOle Kirk Christiansen was the 10th son of an impoverished farmer family in Jutland in western Denmark. Born in Filskov, Denmark, he trained as a carpenter and started making wooden toys in 1932 to make a living after having lost his job during the depression. In 1942 a fire broke out at the...
(1891–1958), Danish carpenter and toymaker - Peter Christiansen (footballer) (born 1975), Danish footballer
- Ragnar ChristiansenRagnar ChristiansenRagnar Karl Viktor Christiansen was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Buskerud in 1958, and was re-elected on four occasions. He had previously served in the position of deputy representative during the terms 1950–1953 and...
(born 1922), Norwegian politician - Rob ChristiansenRob ChristiansenRob Christiansen is an American musician and recording engineer, who played in the 1990s indie pop band Eggs and plays in the band Sisterhood of Convoluted Thinkers and The Shot Heard 'Round the World. In 2006, he produced the Shot Heard 'Round the World's Ten Songs for Town & Country record. ,...
, American musician - Rune ChristiansenRune ChristiansenRune Christiansen is a Norwegian poet and novelist.Rune Christiansen started as a poet in 1986. Since then, he has written nine collections of poems, and five novels...
(born 1963), Norwegian poet and novelist - Sabine ChristiansenSabine ChristiansenSabine Christiansen is a German journalist and television presenter.- Career :After finishing school in Preetz, Christiansen worked at Lufthansa from 1976 to 1982, then apprenticed in journalism at the Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg until 1985. She ultimately became a regular presenter for the...
(born 1957), German journalist - Thor Nis ChristiansenThor Nis ChristiansenThor Nis Christiansen was a serial killer from Solvang, California. He committed his first three murders in late 1976 and early 1977, killing young women of similar appearance from Isla Vista, California...
(1957–1981), American criminal - Tom Christiansen, software developer and author
- Thomas ChristiansenThomas ChristiansenThomas Christiansen Tarín is a retired Spanish footballer of Danish descent.A left-footed striker, he played for a number of clubs in Danish, Spanish, and German football, being crowned the top goalscorer of the 2002–03 Bundesliga....
(born 1973), Spanish footballer - Wilbur Norman ChristiansenWilbur Norman ChristiansenWilbur Norman Christiansen was a pioneer Australian radio astronomer.Christiansen built the first grating array for scanning the sun at Potts Hill Reservoir. A later array at Badgerys Creek, New South Wales, the Chris Cross Telescope, was named for Christiansen...
(1913–2007), Australian radio astronomer - Sonja Boehmer-ChristiansenSonja Boehmer-ChristiansenSonja Boehmer-Christiansen, Ph.D. is an Emeritus Reader in Geography at the University of Hull in Kingston-upon-Hull England where she taught environmental policy and politics. She was born in Dresden, East Germany then moved to Adelaide, South Australia where she obtained a research degree in...
, English academic
Christiansen may also refer to:
- Christiansen effectChristiansen effectThe Christiansen effect is named after the Danish physicist Christian Christiansen the effect of this filter is based on the various dispersions of two different media....
, a filtering effect - Christiansen filter, narrow bandpass or monochromatic optical filter
- Christiansen AcademyChristiansen AcademyChristiansen Academy was a celebrated private boarding school in Rubio, Táchira, Venezuela. The school opened in 1952 as a preparatory school for missionary kids and international students. The school taught its rigorous coursework in both English and Spanish...
, private boarding school in Rubio, Táchira, Venezuela
See also
- ChristensenChristensen (surname)Christensen , is a Danish patronymic surname, literally meaning son of Christen, a sideform of Christian. The spelling variant Kristensen has identical pronunciation. Christensen is the sixth most common name in Denmark, shared by about 2% of the population...
- ChristiansonChristiansonChristianson is a patronymic surname and an anglicized form of the Danish/Norwegian Christiansen.Christianson, as a person, may refer to:*Adolph M...
- KristiansenKristiansenKristiansen is a Danish and Norwegian patronymic surname. For etymology - see Christiansen-People:*Egil Kristiansen, Norwegian cross country skier*Einar Kristiansen, Norwegian nordic skiing athlete...
References