Mads (given name)
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Mads is a male given name, a Scandinavian form of Matthew
and may refer to:
In sports:
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Matthew (name)
Matthew is a given name that ultimately comes from the Hebrew name Matityahu. It was first named to Saint Matthew, who was one of the twelve disciples and credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Matthew...
and may refer to:
In sports:
- Mads AlbækMads AlbækMads Winther Albæk is a Danish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Danish club FC Midtjylland and the Danish national under-21 team.- Club career :...
, Danish professional football player who currently plays for FC MidtjyllandFC MidtjyllandFC Midtjylland is a professional Danish football team from Herning and Ikast. The team is a result of a merger between Ikast FS and Herning Fremad... - Mads GlæsnerMads GlæsnerMads Glæsner is a Danish swimmer. He participated for the first time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the disciplines 400 metre freestyle and the 1500 metre freestyle. His swimming club is Vallensbæk-VAT but he trains at the National Training Center in Copenhagen.-References:...
, Danish professional swimmer - Mads JørgensenMads JørgensenLars "Mads" Jørgensen is a Danish former professional football player, who played as an attacking midfielder and won two Danish Superliga championships and two Danish Cup trophies with Brøndby IF. He started his career with AGF Aarhus, before moving to Brøndby, and abroad to play for A.C. Ancona...
, Danish retired professional football player - Mads JunkerMads JunkerMads Junker is a Danish football striker playing for Roda JC, a team playing in the Dutch Eredivisie. He has played six matches for the Danish national team...
, Danish professional football player who currently plays for Roda JC - Mads KaggestadMads KaggestadMads Petter Kaggestad is a former Norwegian professional road racing cyclist. He competed for the French Crédit Agricole team between 2003 and 2007. During 2002 he was a member of the amateur Team Krone....
, Norwegian professional road racing cyclist - Mads LaudrupMads LaudrupMads Thunø Laudrup is a Danish professional footballer, who plays as a winger or central midfielder for HB Køge. He has scored two goals and played 28 games for various Danish youth national teams.-Biography:...
, Danish professional football player who currently plays for HB KøgeHB KøgeHB Køge is a professional Danish football club based primal in the town of Herfølge, and secondly in the town of Køge, both in the Køge Municipality, part of 'Region of Zealand', in the eastern part of Zealand, south of Copenhagen... - Mads ØstbergMads ØstbergMads Østberg is a Norwegian rally driver. His co-driver is Jonas Andersson.Østberg competed in his first rally in 2004. His first World Rally Championship event was the 2006 Swedish Rally, in which he finished 31st in his Subaru Impreza WRC...
, Norwegian rally car driver - Mads RasmussenMads RasmussenMads Reinholdt Rasmussen is a Danish rower and double World Champion in the Lightweight Double Sculls, with his partner Rasmus Quist. Rasmussen and Quist placed fourth in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-External links:*...
, Danish professional rower - Mads TimmMads TimmMads Timm is a Danish footballer, who is player-coach, playing as a forward, for Danish Serie 1 club Kerteminde Boldklub.-Playing career:...
, Danish retired professional football player
In music:
- Mads Arp, Danish composer, producer and electronic music pioneer
- Mads LangerMads LangerMads Langer is a Danish singer and singer-songwriter, who became internationally known for his cover of "You're Not Alone" by the British band Olive. While that song is cheerful, his own songs are frequently typified as emotional guitar ballads, because many of them are in a minor scale and have a...
, Danish composer, singer-songwriter and pop musician - Mads Tunebjerg, Danish bass player in the Danish rock band KashmirKashmir (band)Kashmir is a Danish alternative rock band consisting of Kasper Eistrup ; Mads Tunebjerg ; Asger Techau and Henrik Lindstrand .-History:...
- Mads VindingMads VindingMads Vinding is a Danish jazz double-bassist.He is a Danish jazz musicians, and one of the 'aces of basses' with more than 600 recordings to his credit. Professional at age 16, Vinding became the house-bassplayer at Café Montmartre, the legendary jazz club in Copenhagen...
, Danish jazz double-bassist
In other fields:
- Mads AndersenMads AndersenMads Andersen is a poker and backgammon player from Copenhagen, Denmark. Before making his mark in the poker world, Andersen won the 2002 World Backgammon Championships. Andersen won the European Poker Tour second season Scandinavian Open where he outlasted the field to take home DKr 2,548,040....
, Danish poker and backgammon player - Jørgen Mads ClausenJørgen Mads ClausenJørgen Mads Clausen is the chairman of the board of Danfoss, the large Danish heating, refrigeration and air conditioning company started by his father, Mads Clausen. He is also the chairman of DI, the association of the Danish Industry, and has a sizeable investment in the WaveStar wave energy...
, Danish billionaire chief of DanfossDanfossThe Danfoss Group is a global producer of components and solutions for refrigeration & air conditioning, heating & water, and motion controls. Danfoss has net sales of €2,600 million and employs approximately 22,000 people worldwide with headquarters in Nordborg, Denmark.Danfoss was founded in... - Mads GilbertMads GilbertMads Fredrik Gilbert is a Norwegian doctor, solidarity worker and a member of the socialist party Red. He received his PhD at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa...
, Norwegian doctor, solidarity worker and political activist - Mads MikkelsenMads Mikkelsen' is a Danish actor.-Life and career:Mikkelsen was born in the Østerbro area of Copenhagen, the son of Bente Christiansen and Henning Mikkelsen, a cab driver. He is the brother of actor Lars Mikkelsen. After attending Århus Theatre School, he made his film debut in the movie Pusher...
, Danish actor, known for playing Le ChiffreLe ChiffreLe Chiffre is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Casino Royale. On screen Le Chiffre has been portrayed by Peter Lorre in the 1954 television adaptation of the novel for CBS's Climax! television series, by Orson Welles in the 1967 spoof of the novel and...
in Casino RoyaleCasino Royale (2006 film)Casino Royale is the twenty-first film in the James Bond film series and the first to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond... - Mads Nipper, Danish CEO of LegoLegoLego is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts...
- Mads EriksenMads EriksenMads Eriksen is a Norwegian cartoonist, best known for the comic strips M and Gnom.-Biography:Eriksen was born in Malvik. His career in comics began in 2000, when his first comic strip, Gnom, was accepted into Smult, a magazine dedicated to promoting promising Norwegian cartoonists...
, Norwegian cartoonist