Mikkelsen
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Mikkelsen is a Danish
-Norwegian
patronymic
surname meaning "son of Mikkel" (equivalent of Michael
). People with the name Mikkelsen include:
Danish language
Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...
-Norwegian
Norwegian language
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
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 meaning "son of Mikkel" (equivalent of Michael
Michael
Michael is a given name that comes from the , derived from the Hebrew question מי כמו אלוהים? meaning "Who is like God?" In English, it is sometimes shortened to Mike, Mikey, or, especially in Ireland, Mick...
). People with the name Mikkelsen include:
People
- Andreas MikkelsenAndreas MikkelsenAndreas Mikkelsen is a Norwegian rally driver. His co-driver is Ola Fløene.-Career:Mikkelsen has a broad background in sports. He has competed in slalom and giant slalom, and was a member of the national juniors' alpine skiing team...
- Norwegian rally driver. - Bård MikkelsenBård MikkelsenBård Martin Mikkelsen is a Norwegian businessperson. He has been the chief executive officer of Widerøe , the Ulstein Group , Oslo Energi Holding and Statkraft .-Biography:...
- Norwegian businessperson - Brian MikkelsenBrian MikkelsenBrian Arthur Mikkelsen is a Danish politician. He is a member of the Conservative People's Party, and has been a member of parliament since 21 September 1994....
- Danish politician - Caroline MikkelsenCaroline MikkelsenCaroline Mikkelsen , was the first woman to set foot on Antarctica. She was born in Denmark. In the winter of 1934-1935, she accompanied her Norwegian husband, Captain Klarius Mikkelsen, on an expedition sponsored by Lars Christensen...
- Norwegian Antarctica Explorer - Dag Martin MikkelsenDag Martin MikkelsenDag Martin Mikkelsen is a Norwegian poker player, known as "dmmikkel". At the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event Mikkelsen at one time was the chip leader. Eventually he came in 42nd place and won the largest sum a Norwegian has ever won in WSOP...
- Norwegian poker player - Ejnar MikkelsenEjnar MikkelsenEjnar Mikkelsen , was a Danish polar explorer and author, born in Jutland. He served in the Georg Carl Amdrup expedition to Christian IX Land, East Greenland , and in the Baldwin-Ziegler expedition to Franz Joseph Land .With Ernest de Koven Leffingwell he organized the Anglo-American polar...
(1880-1971) - Danish polar explorer - Helmer MikkelsenHelmer MikkelsenHelmer Mikkelsen was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.He was born in Børselv, and was the mayor of Porsanger from 1967 to 1975. He was a member of Finnmark county council from 1975 to 1987. During the last term, he served as county mayor...
- Norwegian politician for the Labour Party - Henriette MikkelsenHenriette MikkelsenHenriette Mikkelsen is a Danish team handball player and Olympic champion. She won a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.She won the Champions League with Viborg HK in 2009....
- Danish handball player - Jákup MikkelsenJákup MikkelsenJákup Nolsøe Mikkelsen is a Faroese football goalkeeper currently playing for ÍF Fuglafjørður, after signing a deal in early 2010.-Club career:...
- Faroese football goalkeeper - Jens Kramer MikkelsenJens Kramer MikkelsenJens Kramer Mikkelsen was the Lord Mayor of Copenhagen for the Social Democratic Party from 1989 to 2004. He was a member of the local government of Copenhagen since 1989 until his resignation as lord mayor....
- Lord Mayor of CopenhagenCopenhagenCopenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
for the Social Democratic Party - Jesper MikkelsenJesper MikkelsenJesper Mikkelsen is a Danish footballer, who plays as a left defender for Danish Superliga side Silkeborg IF.Mikkelsen made his breakthrough with Danish Superliga side FC Midtjylland, playing 179 games for the club from 2000 to 2007. He played six months with Superliga rivals Esbjerg fB, before...
- Danish professional football defender - Knut Ragnar MikkelsenKnut Ragnar MikkelsenKnut Ragnar Mikkelsen is a Norwegian police chief.He was born in Lunde, Telemark, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree. He was a police superindendent in the Oslo police from 1981 to 1988, and worked as police inspector from 1990 to 1997. From 1 November to 31 December 1994 was became acting...
- Norwegian police chief - Lars MikkelsenLars MikkelsenLars Dittman Mikkelsen is a Danish actor who graduated from the National Theatre School of Denmark in 1995. He is the brother of actor Mads Mikkelsen and is married to actor colleague Anette Støvelbæk.- Filmography :...
- Danish actor - 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 - Martin MikkelsenMartin MikkelsenMartin Mikkelsen is a Danish professional football midfielder, who currently plays for the Danish 1st Division side FC Fredericia.-External links:** at Danmarks Radio...
- Danish professional football midfielder - Mikkel MikkelsenMikkel MikkelsenMikkel Mikkelsen was a Fiscal and Governor-General ad interim of St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies, from 27 February 1686 to 29 June 1686...
- Governor-General of the Danish West IndiesDanish West IndiesThe Danish West Indies or "Danish Antilles", were a colony of Denmark-Norway and later Denmark in the Caribbean. They were sold to the United States in 1916 in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies and became the United States Virgin Islands in 1917... - Pete MikkelsenPete MikkelsenPeter James Mikkelsen was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1964 through 1972 for the New York Yankees , Pittsburgh Pirates , Chicago Cubs , St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers . Mikkelsen batted and threw right-handed...
(1939-2006) - American baseball player - Peter Mikkelsen (badminton)Peter Mikkelsen (badminton)-Major achievements:-References:*...
- Danish badminton player - Peter Mikkelsen (referee) - retired Danish football (soccer) referee
- Ragnhild MikkelsenRagnhild MikkelsenRagnhild Mikkelsen is a former Norwegian female speed skater. She won a bronze medal at the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women in 1951, behind Eevi Huttunen and Randi Thorvaldsen....
- Norwegian female speed skater - Tobias MikkelsenTobias MikkelsenTobias Pilegaard Mikkelsen is a Danish footballer. He plays as a winger for F.C. Nordsjælland in the Danish Superliga. Mikkelsen has 1 senior cap for Denmark, as well as a total of 11 youth caps under two different age groups.-Career:...
- Danish professional football player - Vern MikkelsenVern MikkelsenArild Verner Agerskov "Vern" Mikkelsen is an American former professional basketball player. He was one of the NBA's first power forwards in the 1950s and was known for his tenacious defense.-Early life:...
- American basketball player
Other
- Mikkelsen BayMikkelsen BayMikkelsen Bay is a bay, 15 miles wide at its mouth and indenting 10 miles, entered between Bertrand Ice Piedmont and Cape Berteaux along the W coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. First seen from a distance in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, but not recognized as a...
- bay along the west coast of Graham LandGraham LandGraham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
, Antarctica - Mikkelsen IslandsMikkelsen IslandsMikkelsen Islands is a small group of islands and rocks lying off the southeast coast of Adelaide Island, southeast of the Leonie Islands. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1908-10, and named by him for Otto Mikkelsen, Norwegian diver who inspected the...
- small group of islands off the southeast coast of Adelaide IslandAdelaide IslandAdelaide Island or Isla Adelaida or Isla Belgrano is a large, mainly ice-covered island, long and wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The island lies within the Argentine, British and Chilean Antarctic claims, at .Adelaide Island was... - HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen (P571)HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen (P571)HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen is a Royal Danish Navy patrol vessel.Launched in November 2007, she is the second vessel of the Knud Rasmussen class. The normal patrol area of the Ejnar Mikkelsen, and her sister ships, will be the waters around Greenland....
- Royal Danish Navy patrol vessel
See also
- MichaelsonMichaelsonMichaelson is an English language patronymic surname meaning "son of Michael". There are varied English and Scandinavian spellings. It is rare as a given name...
- MichelsonMichelsonMichelson may refer to:* Albert Abraham Michelson American physicist* Robert C. Michelson American roboticist* Michelson discovered in 1991* Michelson on the moon* Michelson-Gale-Pearson experiment, science...
- MickelsonMickelsonMickelson is a Norwegian patronymic surname or family name meaning "son of Michael". Mickelson may refer to:-People:* Anna Mickelson, American rower* Asgeir Mickelson, Norwegian musician* George S. Mickelson , American politician* George T...
- MichaelsenMichaelsenMichaelsen is a Danish patronymic surname meaning "son of Michael". There are related English, German, Norwegian, Swedish and other Scandinavian spellings of this name. People with the name Michaelsen include:-People:...
- Michelsen