Poul
Encyclopedia
Poul is a masculine given name and is the Danish
equivalent to the English
Paul. Notable people with the name 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...
equivalent to the 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...
Paul. Notable people with the name include:
- Poul Adado
- Poul AggerPoul AggerPoul Agger is a Danish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver and two bronze ....
- Poul AndersenPoul AndersenPoul Dalby Andersen was a printer who served in the Danish resistance movement during World War II and later published one of the remaining two Danish-language newspapers in the United States-Background:...
- Poul AndersonPoul AndersonPoul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories...
- Poul Anker BechPoul Anker BechPoul Anker Bech was a Danish painter.He started painting in the 1960s and studied at The Jutland Academy of Art in Aarhus, 1966-67. He quit his job in 1988 to become a full-time painter....
- Poul BangPoul BangPoul Bang was a Danish film producer and director. He produced 24 films between 1950 and 1967...
- Poul BjerrePoul BjerrePoul Bjerre was a Swedish psychiatrist who was a native of Goteborg. In 1907 he succeeded hypnotist Otto Georg Wetterstrand at the latter's medical practice in Stockholm....
- Poul Bjørndahl AstrupPoul Bjørndahl AstrupPoul Bjørndahl Astrup was a Danish clinical chemist famous for inventing a CO2 electrode and co-inventing the concept of base excess.-External links:*...
- Poul BundgaardPoul BundgaardPoul Arne Bundgaard was a Danish actor and singer. He is probably best known for his role as the henpecked Kjeld in the Olsen Banden films.-Biography:...
- Poul Christian HolstPoul Christian HolstPoul Christian Holst was a Norwegian government official who held several positions in the period 1814-1848. He was the functioning head of the 1st Ministry in 1814, state secretary 1814-1822, member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm in various periods between 1823-1844, Minister of...
- Poul Christian SchindlerPoul Christian SchindlerPoul Christian Schindler was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....
- Poul Christian StemannPoul Christian StemannPoul Christian Stemann was a Danish state official and leading minister 1827-1848.Stemann belonged to an old civil service family of German origin that has created many Danish local officials. As a young man he was relatively liberal, later becoming a deep conservative...
- Poul Erik AndreasenPoul Erik AndreasenPoul Erik Andreasen is a Danish ex-football player and manager, who managed the Danish Superliga side Aalborg BK during their 1994-95 Superliga victory. In 1996-1999 he coashed Norwegian Viking FK from Stavanger. He is currently a youth coach at AaB...
- Poul Erik Høyer Larsen
- Poul Erik PetersenPoul Erik PetersenPoul Erik "Popper" Petersen was a Danish amateur football player, who played for Køge Boldklub in Denmark. He was the top goalscorer of the 1952 Danish football championship. He played 15 games and scored six goals for the Denmark national football team. He represented Denmark at the 1952 Summer...
- Poul Erik TøjnerPoul Erik TøjnerPoul Erik Tøjner is a Danish museum director and art critic. Since 2000 he has been director of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark.-Biography:...
- Poul GlargaardPoul GlargaardPoul Glargaard, was a Danish actor. He joined the Aarhus Theater in 1966 and the Aalborg Theater later, entering film in 1968...
- Poul HansenPoul HansenPoul Henrik Peder Hansen was a Danish wrestler who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics, and in the 1924 Summer Olympics.He was born in Ubberud, Odense Municipality and died in Aarhus....
- Poul HartlingPoul HartlingPoul Hartling was a Danish diplomat and politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1973 to 1975....
- Poul HartmannPoul HartmannPoul Richard Hartmann was a Danish rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was the coxswain of the Danish boat, which won the gold medal in the coxed fours, inriggers.-External links:*...
- Poul HeegaardPoul HeegaardPoul Heegaard was a Danish mathematician active in the field of topology. His 1898 thesis introduced a concept now called the Heegaard splitting of a 3-manifold. Heegaard's ideas allowed him to make a careful critique of work of Henri Poincaré...
- Poul HelgesenPoul HelgesenPoul Helgesen was a Danish Carmelite, a humanist and historian.-Life:...
- Poul HenningsenPoul HenningsenPoul Henningsen , Danish author, architect and critic, was one of the leading figures of the cultural life of Denmark between the World Wars. In Denmark, he is often referred to as PH.-Early life and education:...
- Poul HultbergPoul HultbergPoul Erik Eggert Hultberg is a Danish architect, who worked primarily in Gothenburg, Sweden.Hultberg studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and graduated in 1943...
- Poul HübertzPoul HübertzPoul Hübertz is a Danish footballer who is currently unattached, after being released by FC Roskilde in July 2010. He plays as a striker. He has previously played for a number of Danish clubs, including Farum BK, Herfølge BK, AaB, and FC Midtjylland in the Danish Superliga, and has also...
- Poul Jensen (astronomer)Poul Jensen (astronomer)Poul Jensen is a Danish astronomer.While working at Brorfelde Observatory he discovered numerous asteroids. Between 1967–69 he assisted in positional observations with the observatory's 7" transit circle. He is also a co-discoverer of theComet Jensen-Shoemaker . As of 2004 he isstill...
- Poul Jensen (footballer born 1934)
- Poul Richard Høj Jensen
- Poul JørgensenPoul JørgensenPoul Preben Jørgensen was a Danish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Danish team, which won the bronze medal in the gymnastics men's team, free system event.-External links:*...
- Poul KjerPoul KjerPaul Kjer, Danish ophthalmologist, studied a condition in nineteen families that was characterized by infantile optic atrophy along with a dominant inheritance mode. In 1959, the condition was named Kjer's optic neuropathy in his honor.-Partial bibliography:...
- Poul Kjær PoulsenPoul Kjær PoulsenPoul Kjær Poulsen is a former Danish handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics.He was born in Bredstrup, Syddanmark....
- Poul Kjærholm
- Poul KopsPoul KopsPoul Børge Kops is a Danish boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was born in Pedersborg, Sorø municipality and is the older brother of Ebbe Kops.In 1936 he finished fourth in the lightweight class...
- Poul LarsenPoul LarsenPoul Larsen was a Danish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1930s. He won a bronze in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1938 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Vaxholm....
- Poul Martin MøllerPoul Martin MøllerPoul Martin Møller was a Danish academic, writer, and poet. During his lifetime, he gained renown in Denmark for his poetry. After his death, his posthumously published fiction and philosophical writings were well received. He also devoted several decades of study to classical languages and...
- Poul MejerPoul MejerPoul Mejer is a former football player and Danish international.-Profile:Poul Mejer played his entire career for Vejle Boldklub, where he got 307 caps for the clubs first team....
- Poul MüllerPoul MüllerPoul Müller was a Danish film actor. He appeared in 44 films between 1936 and 1977.He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and died in Denmark.-Filmography:*Millionærdrengen - 1936...
- Poul NielsenPoul NielsenNiels Poul "Tist" Nielsen was a Danish amateur football player, who is the joint all-time leading goalscorer for the Danish national team with 52 goals in only 38 matches, averaging 1.37 goals per match, and won a silver medal with the Danish national team at the 1912 Summer Olympics...
- Poul NielsonPoul NielsonPoul Nielson is a Danish politician, member of the Social Democrats. He was Energy Minister in the Cabinet of Anker Jørgensen IV and V from 26 October 1979 to 10 September 1982, and Minister for Development Cooperation in the Cabinet of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen II, III, and IV from 27 September 1994...
- Poul Nyrup RasmussenPoul Nyrup RasmussenPoul Nyrup Rasmussen , informally Poul Nyrup, born 15 June 1943), was Prime Minister of Denmark from 25 January 1993 to 27 November 2001 and is currently President of the Party of European Socialists . He was the leader of the governing Social Democrats from 1992 to 2002...
- Poul PedersenPoul PedersenPoul Pedersen is a Danish retired football player, who won a silver medal with the Denmark national football team at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He played his entire career as a forward for Aarhus club AIA, and was the first player to reach 50 caps for the Danish national team, scoring 17 national...
- Poul Petersen (footballer)Poul Petersen (footballer)Poul Petersen was a Danish football player and manager.During his career he played for AB, and earned 34 caps for the Denmark national football team from 1946 to 1952. He won a bronze medal in football at the 1948 Summer Olympics, and also participated four years later in 1952...
- Poul PopielPoul PopielPoul Peter Popiel is a retired NHL defenceman, and head coach. He played in the OHA, AHL, WHA, NHL, CPHL, and IHL. He played a brief 12 games in the IHL with the Muskegon Mohawks, then halfway through the year, he retired and became the head coach...
- Poul Poulsen Nolsøe or Nólsoyar Páll
- Poul ReichhardtPoul ReichhardtPoul David Reichhardt was a Danish actor, well known for his roles in Danish 1940s/50s comedies. Later on, he also played more serious and varied roles; he has also starred in Huset på Christianshavn, Matador and as various minor characters in the Olsen Gang films.For almost thirty years...
- Poul ReumertPoul ReumertPoul Reumert was a Danish stage and film actor.-Filmography:* Afgrunden * Frøken Kirkemus * Søren Søndervold * Afsporet * Det brændende spørgsmål...
- Poul RudersPoul RudersPoul Ruders is a Danish composer.Ruders trained as an organist, and studied orchestration with Karl Aage Rasmussen. Ruders's first compositions date from the mid-1960s...
- Poul SchierbeckPoul SchierbeckPoul Schierbeck was a Danish composer and organist. He was a pupil of Carl Nielsen and Thomas Laub. From 1931 he taught composition and instrumentation at the Royal Danish Academy of Music....
- Poul SchlüterPoul SchlüterPoul Holmskov Schlüter is a Danish politician, who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982 to 1993.Born in Tønder, south Jutland, he graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 1957 with a degree in law, and joined the bar in 1960. Schlüter was a member of the Danish Parliament for the...
- Poul SvendsenPoul SvendsenPoul Verner Svendsen is a Danish rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.He was born in Copenhagen.In 1952 he was a crew member of the Danish boat which won the bronze medal in the coxed pairs event.-External links:*...
- Poul SørensenPoul SørensenPoul Sørensen is a former Danish handball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.He played his club handball with Rødovre HK. In 1984 he finished fourth with the Denmark national handball team in the Olympic tournament. He played all six matches as goalkeeper.-References:...
- Poul Sørensen (handballer)
- Poul ThomsenPoul ThomsenPoul Thomsen was a Danish film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1944 and 1985.He was born in Præstø, Denmark and died in Denmark.-Selected filmography:* Otte akkorder - 1944...
- Poul ThymannPoul ThymannPoul Thymann was a Danish rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was the strokeman of the Danish boat, which won the bronze medal in the coxed fours.-External links:*...
- Poul WeberPoul WeberPoul Weber is a Danish politician, representing the Liberal party Venstre. He served as the last County Mayor of Funen County. Effective January 1, 2007, Funen forms part of Region Syddanmark....