Carlsen (name)
Encyclopedia
Carlsen is a Danish
-Norwegian
patronymic
surname
meaning "son of Carl". The form Karlsen
is cognate. The parallel Swedish
forms are Carlsson and Karlsson
.
People with the name Carlsen or its variant forms 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
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"...
meaning "son of Carl". The form Karlsen
Karlsen (surname)
Karlsen is a Danish-Norwegian patronymic surname meaning "son of Karl" , an Old German given name. The form Carlsen is cognate. The parallel Swedish forms are Karlsson and Carlsson...
is cognate. The parallel Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
forms are Carlsson and Karlsson
Karlsson
Karlsson is a Scandinavian patronymic surname meaning "son of Karl" or "Karl's son". It is one of the most and has a number of alternative spellings. Apart from Karlsson, Carlsson is the most common spelling variation...
.
People with the name Carlsen or its variant forms include:
People
- Agnete CarlsenAgnete CarlsenAgnete Carlsen is a former Norwegian footballer, world champion and olympic medalist.She debuted for the Norwegian national team in 1988, and played 97 matches for the national team. She played at the first Women's World Cup in China 1991, and won a silver medal with the Norwegian team, after...
(born 15 January 1971 in Moss) Norwegian footballer, world champion and Olympic medalist - Dale CarlsenDale CarlsenDale R. Carlsen founded The Sleep Train Mattress Center in 1985, and has guided the company to become the largest retailer of mattresses on the West Coast, and one of the top three in the United States. In 2002, Dale purchased 54 of Mattress Discounters' stores in California during that company's...
, American businessman - Dines CarlsenDines CarlsenDines Carlsen was an American painter.Dines Carlsen was the son of the well-known artist Emil Carlsen. He was a student at, and later a member of, the National Academy of Design. He also exhibited frequently at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts...
(1901–1966), American painter - Emil CarlsenEmil CarlsenSoren Emil Carlsen was an American Impressionist painter who emigrated to the United States from Denmark...
(1853–1932), American painter - Eric CarlsénEric CarlsénEric Carlsén is a Swedish curler from Sundsvall, Sweden. Playing for Härnösand Curling Club, he was the Swedish national Champion for 2005 and represented Sweden as skip at the 2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. His team finished 9th...
(born 1982), Swedish curler - Gary CarlsenGary CarlsenGary David Carlsen is a retired male discus thrower from the United States. He represented his native country at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where he ended up in sixth place in the overall-rankings...
(born 1945), American discus thrower - Henrik CarlsenHenrik CarlsenHenrik Carlsen is a Danish composer, record producer and keyboardist.He was a founding member of Street Beat in 1982 and led it until it was disbanded in 1993....
(born 1959), Danish composer - Henrik Kurt CarlsenHenrik Kurt CarlsenKurt Carlsen was a Danish-born sea-captain who became world-famous in January 1952 when he stayed on his sinking freighter, the Flying Enterprise, for 13 days. It eventually sank less than from safe harbour at Falmouth, Cornwall in England, minutes after the Captain was forced to abandon ship...
(1914 ? - 1989), Danish sea captain - Kenneth CarlsenKenneth CarlsenKenneth Carlsen is a former Danish professional tennis player, who was active between 1992 and 2007. Carlsen played left-handed with a one-handed backhand. His greatest asset was his powerful serve, and his game was therefore best suited to fast surfaces...
(born 1973), Danish tennis player - Magnus CarlsenMagnus CarlsenSven Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy who is currently the number-one ranked player in the world. In January 2010 he became the seventh player ranked number one in the world on the official FIDE rating list...
(born 1990), Norwegian chess Grandmaster, FIDE rank #1 as of 2011 - Nils CarlsénNils CarlsénNils Carlsén is a Swedish curler.Carlsén who began curling in 1996, had been a very successful junior curler for Sweden. He has curled in six World Junior Curling Championships - finishing in the top-2 in the last five. In 2001, Carlsén played lead for the Swedish team skipped by Eric Carlsén, and...
(born 1985), Swedish curler - Per CarlsénPer CarlsénPer Carlsén is a Swedish curler.Carlsén started playing curling in 1975. He plays in fourth position as a skip and is right-handed.-References:...
(born 1960), Swedish curler - Reidar CarlsenReidar CarlsenReidar Carlsen was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. Reidar Carlsen was born in Bodin in Nordland county, Norway. He studied at the National School of Forestry in the community of Steinkjer ....
(1908–1987), Norwegian politician
See also
- Carlsen (disambiguation)
- Carlson (disambiguation)
- Carlson (name)Carlson (name)Carlson is a patronymic surname meaning "son of Carl". It is used as a given name rarely. There are variations to the spelling. People with the name Carlson or its variant spellings include:-Surname:...
- KarlsenKarlsen (surname)Karlsen is a Danish-Norwegian patronymic surname meaning "son of Karl" , an Old German given name. The form Carlsen is cognate. The parallel Swedish forms are Karlsson and Carlsson...