Ole (name)
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Ole is a Danish and Norwegian masculine given name, derived from the Old Norse
name Óláfr, meaning "ancestor's descendant".
Old Norse
Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
name Óláfr, meaning "ancestor's descendant".
People named Ole
- Ole AndersonOle AndersonAlan Robert Rogowski , better known by his ring name of Ole Anderson, is a retired professional wrestler and a promoter. He held numerous NWA World Tag Team Championships with Gene Anderson, who was portrayed as his brother...
, former wrestler - Ole BarmanOle BarmanOle Gregor Liljedahl Barman was a Norwegian jurist, novelist, short story writer, playwright and theatre director.Among his novels are Fast i fjellet from 1930 and Ein mann gjekk heim from 1933. He published the short story collections Han Kristafor-Knut og andre karar in 1927, Sjørop in 1928,...
, Norwegian novelist - Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician
- Ole Gunnar SolskjærOle Gunnar SolskjærOle Gunnar Solskjær is the manager of Norwegian first division side Molde. He is better known as a former footballer who spent most of his career playing for Manchester United. Often dubbed "the baby-faced assassin," he played 366 times for the Red Devils and scored 126 goals during a very...
, Norwegian footballer - Ole NydahlOle NydahlOle Nydahl is a lama in the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism under guidance of Trinley Thaye Dorje. Since the early 1970s, Nydahl has toured the world giving lectures and meditation courses. With his wife, Hannah Nydahl, he founded Diamond Way Buddhism, a worldwide lay organization of Karma...
, founder and director of Diamond Way - Ole SvendsenOle SvendsenOle Svendsen is a retired male welterweight boxer from Denmark, who represented his native country at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union....
, Danish boxer