Hansen (surname)
Encyclopedia
Hansen ˈhænsn̩ is a Danish
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

-Norwegian  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"...

, literally meaning son of Hans
Hans (name)
Hans is a masculine given name. In German, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Icelandic and Swedish, originally it is short for Johannes but is also recognized in Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands as a name in its own right for official purposes....

. It is the third most common 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"...

 in Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

, shared by about 4.3% of the population. Hansen is the single most common 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"...

 in Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

, not counting spelling variations such as Hanssen, which are also quite common. In the Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...

 Hansen is the second most common 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"...

, while in the North German federal states
States of Germany
Germany is made up of sixteen which are partly sovereign constituent states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Land literally translates as "country", and constitutionally speaking, they are constituent countries...

 of Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...

 and Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 Hansen is the third and fifth most common 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"...

, respectively.
In Sweden the parallel form is Hansson
Hanson (surname)
-A:* Alf Hanson , British football player* Ann Meekitjuk Hanson , Canadian politician, commissioner of Nunavut* Ann-Louise Hanson , Swedish singer-B:* Beverly Hanson , American golfer...

. The frequent occurrences of Hansen as a 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"...

 outside Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 and Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...

 is due to immigration
Immigration
Immigration is the act of foreigners passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence...

, though immigrants to 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...

-speaking countries often changed the spelling to Hanson
Hanson (surname)
-A:* Alf Hanson , British football player* Ann Meekitjuk Hanson , Canadian politician, commissioner of Nunavut* Ann-Louise Hanson , Swedish singer-B:* Beverly Hanson , American golfer...

 in order to accommodate English orthographic rules
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...

.

Hansen or Hanssen may refer to:

Arts and entertainment
  • Al Hansen
    Al Hansen
    Alfred Earl "Al" Hansen was an American artist considered as one of the most important Fluxus figures. He was a Norwegian American....

     (1927–1995), American artist
  • Andrew Hansen
    Andrew Hansen
    Andrew John Hansen is an Australian comedian and musician, best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser...

     (1974–), Australian comedian
  • Asta Hansen
    Asta Hansen
    Asta Hansen was a Danish stage and film actress.- Filmography :*Sjette trækning - 1936*Der var engang en vicevært - 1937*Bolettes brudefærd - 1938*En mand af betydning - 1941...

     (1914–1962), Danish stage and film actress.
  • Beck Hansen, also known as Beck
    Beck
    Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck...

     (1970–), American musician, songwriter
  • Betsy Hansen (dates unknown), woman who charged actor Errol Flynn
    Errol Flynn
    Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born actor. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films, being a legend and his flamboyant lifestyle.-Early life:...

     with statutory rape in 1942
  • Bjørn Bull-Hansen
    B. Andreas Bull-Hansen
    Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen is a Norwegian writer, hypnotherapist and champion powerlifter.Born in Oslo, Bull-Hansen decided to become a writer when an automobile accident on December 22, 1995 left him injured and unable to continue education towards an economics Master's degree...

     (1972–), Norwegian fantasy writer and former championship weightlifter
  • Carl Hansen
    Carl William Hansen
    Carl William Hansen was a Danish author, Luciferian, Wandering Bishop and Occultist.Hansen was born in Copenhagen and first initiated into Martinism in 1898 by Alphonse Wallen...

     (1872–1936), Danish author
  • Chris Hansen
    Chris Hansen
    Christopher Edward "Chris" Hansen is an American television infotainment personality. He is known for his work on Dateline NBC, in particular the former segment known as To Catch a Predator, which revolved around catching potential Internet sex predators using a sting operation.-Career:Hansen...

    , American journalist
  • Christian Frederik Hansen
    Christian Frederik Hansen
    Christian Frederik Hansen , known as C.F. Hansen, was the leading Danish architect between the late 18th century and the mid 19th century, and on account of his position at the Royal Danish Academy of Art the most powerful person in artistic circles for many years...

     (1756–1845), Danish architect
  • Constantin Hansen
    Constantin Hansen
    Carl Christian Constantin Hansen was one of the painters associated with the Golden Age of Danish Painting. He was deeply interested in literature and mythology, and inspired by art historian Niels Lauritz Høyen, he tried to recreate a national historical painting based on Norse mythology...

     (1804–1880), Danish artist
  • Courtney Hansen
    Courtney Hansen
    Courtney Hansen is a television host/personality, syndicated columnist, author, and actress.-Biography:Courtney is the daughter of Jerry Hansen, once owner of the Brainerd International Raceway and winner of 27 SCCA national racing championships. She grew up in Orono, Minnesota and spent lots of...

     (contemporary), American model and television personality
  • C. & V. Hansen
    C. & V. Hansen
    C. & V. Hansen is the name used by the Danish couple Carla and Vilhelm Hansen to sign their Rasmus Klump comics .-Biography:...

     (1906–2001 & 1900–1992), Danish comics authors
  • David Hansen
    David Hansen (actor)
    David Hansen is an actor, director, and a member of the Cleveland Play House Playwrights Unit. He is the founder of Dobama's Night Kitchen and co-founder of Guerrilla Theater Company and Bad Epitaph Theater Company and a recipient of a 2010 Creative Workforce Fellowship from the Community...

     (contemporary), actor, director, and playwright
  • Derek Hansen
    Derek Hansen
    Derek Hansen is a novelist and short story writer.He was born in England, raised in New Zealand and now lives in Sydney, Australia. He was formerly in advertising, but walked away at the peak of his career, to follow his dream to write novels. Derek Hansen's works have been published in the USA,...

     (contemporary), Australian writer
  • Erik Hansen
    Erik Fosnes Hansen
    Erik Fosnes Hansen is a Norwegian writer.He was born in New York, and made his debut at age twenty with the novel Falketårnet. His most famous work is his second novel, Psalm at Journey's End, which in separate but steadily more interwoven stories follows the individual musicians that end their...

     (1965–), Norwegian author
  • Gunnar Hansen
    Gunnar Hansen
    Gunnar Milton Hansen is an Icelandic-born actor and author best known for playing Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre .- Early life:Hansen was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, and moved to the United States when he was five...

     (1947–), Icelandic-American actor
  • Ib Hansen
    H. C. Artmann
    Hans Carl Artmann , also known as Ib Hansen, was an Austria-born poet and writer, most popular for his early poems written in Viennese , which however never after were to be the focus of his oeuvre.-Life and work:Artmann was born in Vienna as the son of shoe...

    , pseudonym of Austrian poet H. C. Artmann
    H. C. Artmann
    Hans Carl Artmann , also known as Ib Hansen, was an Austria-born poet and writer, most popular for his early poems written in Viennese , which however never after were to be the focus of his oeuvre.-Life and work:Artmann was born in Vienna as the son of shoe...

     (1921–2000)
  • Joachim Hansen
    Joachim Hansen (actor)
    Joachim Hansen was a German actor. He was best known for film roles in the 1960s and 1970s where he was often cast in roles portraying Nazi officers and World War II German officials....

     (1930–), German actor
  • Joseph Hansen
    Joseph Hansen (writer)
    Joseph Hansen was an American crime writer and poet, best known for a series of novels starring his most iconic creation, private eye Dave Brandstetter.-Life and works:...

     (1923–2004), author
  • Joseph Hansen
    Joseph Hansen (dancer)
    Joseph Hansen was a Belgian dancer and choreographer.-Life:Ballet director at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels from 1865 à 1871, he was its ballet master from 1871 to 1875, putting on the first production of Coppélia on 29 November 1871. He held the same role at the Opéra de Paris during the...

     (1842–1907), Belgian dancer
  • Kai Hansen
    Kai Hansen
    Kai Michael Hansen is a power metal guitarist and vocalist.Hansen is the founder, lead guitarist, and vocalist of power metal band Gamma Ray, and the co-founder and former member of German metal band Helloween. He is a prominent figure in power metal, and has sold millions of albums worldwide...

     (1963–), German power metal musician
  • Kevin Hansen
    Kevin Hansen
    Kevin Christopher Hansen is an American volleyball player. He made his Olympic debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics with the U.S. national team.-Personal life:Hansen was born and raised in Newport Beach, California...

     (1960–), American Filmmaker and environmentalist
  • Liane Hansen
    Liane Hansen
    Liane Hansen is an American journalist and radio personality who was senior host of the National Public Radio newsmagazine Weekend Edition Sunday until her retirement in May 2011...

     (contemporary), American radio journalist and radio show host
  • Lisa M. Hansen
    Lisa M. Hansen
    Lisa M. Hansen is an American film producer, production manager, actor, director, writer, and craft service person. She has worked in various genres, including thriller, action, drama, and science fiction...

     an American producer, actress, assistant director, and writer
  • Mary Hansen
    Mary Hansen
    Mary Hansen was a guitarist and singer with Stereolab.Born in Maryborough north of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, Hansen moved to London in the late 1980s and became a backing singer with the Essex-based indie band, The Wolfhounds.She met Stereolab founder Tim Gane when the Wolfhounds played...

     (1966–2002), Australian guitarist and singer
  • Max Hansen (tenor)
    Max Hansen (tenor)
    Max Hansen was a Danish singer known as 'The Little Caruso', also a cabaret artist, actor and comedian.- Biography :...

     (1897–1961), Danish singer
  • Peter Hansen (actor)
    Peter Hansen (actor)
    Peter Hansen is an American actor, best known for his role as a lawyer, Lee Baldwin, on the soap opera General Hospital. He played the role from 1965 to 1986 and again from 1992 to 2004...

     (1921–), American actor
  • Ron Hansen
    Ron Hansen (novelist)
    Ron Hansen is an American novelist, essayist, and professor.-Biography:Hansen was born in Omaha, Nebraska, attended a Jesuit high school, Creighton Preparatory School and earned a Bachelor's degree in English from Creighton University in Omaha in 1970. Following military service, he earned an M.F.A...

     (1947–), American novelist, essayist, and professor


Politics
  • Ann Hansen
    Ann Hansen
    Ann Hansen is a Canadian anarchist and former member of Direct Action, a guerrilla organization famous for the 1982 bombing of a Litton Industries plant, which made components for American cruise missiles. She was sentenced to life in prison, but was released after eight years. Hansen wrote of her...

     (contemporary), Canadian anarchist and bomber
  • Bernie Hansen
    Bernie Hansen
    Bernie Hansen was a longtime Chicago alderman, serving on the Chicago City Council from 1983 to 2002, when he retired as alderman of the 44th Ward citing health reasons. He is a Democrat....

     (contemporary), American politician in Chicago politics
  • Clifford Hansen
    Clifford Hansen
    Clifford Peter Hansen was a Republican politician from the American state of Wyoming. He served as both the 26th Governor and U.S. senator...

     (1912–2009), American politician from Wyoming
  • Colin Hansen
    Colin Hansen
    Colin Hansen was Minister of Finance and Deputy Premier for the Canadian province of British Columbia from June 10, 2009 to March 13,2011. He had also served as Minister Responsible for Small Business since October 25, 2010. On November 30, 2010, he was additionally appointed as the Minister of...

     (contemporary), Canadian politician from British Columbia
  • Connor Hansen
    Connor Hansen
    Connor Theodore Hansen was a justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He was born in Freeman, South Dakota and he was educated at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Hansen served in the FBI as a special agent during World War II. He served on...

    , American jurist from Wisconsin
  • Dave Hansen
    Dave Hansen
    Dave Hansen is a Democratic Party member of the Wisconsin Senate, representing the 30th District since 2001.-Early life and education:...

     (1947–), American politician from Wisconsin
  • Eva Hansen
    Eva Kjer Hansen
    Eva Kjer Hansen is a Danish politician. She was the Danish Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries as member of the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen II, III and the Cabinet of Lars Løkke Rasmussen from 12 September 2007 until 23 February 2010, and she was Social Minister and Minister for...

     (1964–), Danish politician
  • Flemming Hansen (1939–), Danish politician
  • George V. Hansen
    George V. Hansen
    George Vernon Hansen is a Republican politician from the state of Idaho. He served in the House of Representatives from 1965 to 1969 and again from 1975 to 1985.- Biography :...

     (1930–), American politician from Idaho
  • Glenna Hansen
    Glenna Hansen
    Glenna F. Hansen is an Inuvialuit Canadian politician. She served as Commissioner of the Northwest Territories from March 31, 2000 to April 29, 2005.-Early life:...

     (1956–), Canadian Inuvialuit politician
  • Hans Hansen
    H. C. Hansen
    Hans Christian Svane Hansen , often known as H. C. Hansen or simply H. C., was a social democrat and Prime Minister of Denmark from 29 January 1955 to 19 February 1960 as the head of the Cabinet of H. C. Hansen I and II. Before becoming Prime Minister, H. C...

     (1906–1960), Danish Prime Minister (1955–1960)
  • James V. Hansen
    James V. Hansen
    James Vear "Jim" Hansen was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Utah.Hansen was born in Salt Lake City, graduating from the city's East High School. From 1951 until 1955 he served in the United States Navy. He attended the University of Utah, receiving a business...

     (1932–), American politician from Utah
  • Joseph Hansen
    Joseph Hansen (socialist)
    Joseph Leroy Hansen , was an American Trotskyist and leading figure in the Socialist Workers Party.Born in Richfield, Utah, Joseph Hansen was the oldest of 15 children in a poor working class family, and he was the only one of them who could attend college. His father, Conrad J. Z...

     (1910–1979), American Trotskyist and leader of the American Socialist Workers Party
  • Merle Hansen
    Merle Hansen
    Merle Hansen was the founding president of the North American Farm Alliance and a spokesman for the plight of family farmers.-Background:...

     (1919–), American farmer, Founder of the North American Farm Alliance
  • Peter Hansen
    Peter Hansen (UN)
    Peter Hansen , a Danish national, was Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East from 1996-2005.-Academic career:...

     (1941–), Danish UN official
  • Robert W. Hansen
    Robert W. Hansen
    Robert Wayne Hansen was an American jurist from Wisconsin.Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Hansen graduated from Marquette University Law School. He worked for the City of Milwaukee Police and Fire Commission. In 1954, he was appointed judge of the Milwaukee County Court...

    , American jurist from Wisconsin
  • Ron Hansen
    Ron Hansen (politician)
    Ron Hansen is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Politics:...

     (1943–), Canadian politician from Ontario
  • Urban Hansen
    Urban Hansen
    Urban Hansen was a Danish politician for the Social Democratic Party. From 1962 to 1976 he was the Lord Mayor of Copenhagen. He is the inspiration to the housing project Urbanplanen on Amager near Copenhagen....

     (1908–1986) was a Danish
    Denmark
    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

     politician
  • ?. Hansen, German acting Governor of German Cameroon (Cameroon), intermittently from 1909 to 1912


Science
  • Emil Christian Hansen
    Emil Christian Hansen
    Emil Christian Hansen was a Danish mycologist and fermentation physiologist.Born in Ribe, he financed his education by writing novels and he was awarded a gold medal in 1876 for an essay on fungi....

     (1842–1910), Danish fermentation physiologist
  • Gerhard Armauer Hansen
    Gerhard Armauer Hansen
    Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae in 1873 as the causative agent of leprosy....

     (1841–1912), Norwegian physician, discover of the cause of leprosy
  • Hans Jacob Hansen
    Hans Jacob Hansen
    -References:*.-Literature:...

     (1855–1936), Danish zoologist
  • James E. Hansen (1941–), American climatologist
  • Julie Vinter Hansen
    Julie Vinter Hansen
    Julie Marie Vinter Hansen was a Danish astronomer.Vinter Hansen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. While studying at the University of Copenhagen, she was appointed a computer at the University's observatory in 1915. In the pre-electronic era, computers were humans that worked doing hand...

     (1890–1960), Danish astronomer
  • Per Brinch Hansen
    Per Brinch Hansen
    Per Brinch Hansen was a Danish-American computer scientist known for concurrent programming theory.-Biography:He was born in Frederiksberg, in Copenhagen, Denmark....

     (1938–2007), Danish computer scientist
  • Peter Andreas Hansen
    Peter Andreas Hansen
    Peter Andreas Hansen was a Danish astronomer, was born at Tønder, Schleswig.-Biography:The son of a goldsmith, Hansen learned the trade of a watchmaker at Flensburg, and exercised it at Berlin and Tønder, 1818–1820...

     (1795–1874), Danish astronomer
  • Thomas Blom Hansen
    Thomas Blom Hansen
    Thomas Blom Hansen is a Danish anthropologist and leading contemporary commentator on religious and political violence in India. He has worked on religious identities, local political organization and informal networks in Bombay and pursued an interest in the anthropology of politics, the...

     (born 22 January 1958), Danish anthropologist
  • W.W. Hansen (1909–1949), American physicist


Sport
  • Abraham Løkin (1959–), Faroese footballer (né Hansen)
  • Adam Hansen
    Adam Hansen
    Adam Hansen is an Australian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour .-Palmares:2004...

     (1981–), Australian road cyclist
  • Alan Hansen
    Alan Hansen
    Alan David Hansen is a Scottish former football player and BBC television football pundit. He played as a central defender for Partick Thistle, Liverpool and Scotland...

     (1955–), Scottish footballer
  • Ashia Hansen
    Ashia Hansen
    Ashia Hansen, MBE was a British triple jumper who competed internationally from 1994-2008.-Early life:...

     (1971–), British athlete, Olympic contestant
  • Bob Hansen
    Bob Hansen
    Robert Louis Hansen II is an American former professional basketball player...

     (1961–), American basketballer
  • Brendan Hansen
    Brendan Hansen
    Brendan Joseph Hansen is an American breaststroke swimmer and four-time Olympic medalist...

     (1981–), American swimmer
  • Craig Hansen
    Craig Hansen
    Craig Robert Hansen is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. A closer out of St. John's University, Hansen was drafted in and quickly made his major league debut, but has since spent most of his career at the Triple-A level...

     (1983–), American professional baseball player
  • Curt Hansen
    Curt Hansen
    Curt Hansen is a Danish chess Grandmaster and a former World Junior Champion.A strong junior player, he had major successes in international youth competitions, commencing with the then Groningen based European Junior Chess Championship, where he finished first in 1982 and second in 1983...

     (1964–), Danish chess grand master
  • Dale Hansen
    Dale Hansen
    Dale Hansen is an American sportscaster, currently the weeknight sports anchor during the 6 pm and 10 pm newscasts on ABC's Dallas affiliate WFAA-TV. He also hosts Dale Hansen's Sports Special on Sundays at 10:20 pm, consistently one of the highest-rated local programs in...

     (?–), American sportscaster
  • Dave Hansen (baseball player)
    Dave Hansen (baseball player)
    David Andrew Hansen in Long Beach, California, is a former Major League Baseball player, specializing as a pinch hitter. He is currently the hitting coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers.-Los Angeles Dodgers:...

    , American baseball player
  • Einar Hansen
    Einar Hansen
    Einar Hansen is a Faroese footballer who plays as a defender for NSÍ Runavík. He is also a member of Faroe Islands national football team.-External links:...

    , Faroese soccer player
  • Erika Hansen
    Erika Hansen
    Erika Marie Hansen is a retired female butterfly, freestyle and medley swimmer from the United States. She represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988...

     (1970–), American swimmer
  • Jan Hansen
    Jan Knobelauch Hansen
    Jan Knobelauch Hansen is a male athlete from Denmark. He competes in triathlon.Hansen competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took forty-fourth place with a total time of 1:55:42.06.-References:*...

     (1971–), Danish athlete, Olympic contestant
  • Jannik Hansen
    Jannik Hansen
    Jannik Hansen is a Danish professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League . Hansen began playing professionally at the age of 16 with both the Rødovre Mighty Bulls of the Danish league and the Malmö Redhawks of the Swedish J20...

     (born 1986), Danish Ice Hockey Player
  • Joachim Hansen
    Joachim Hansen (MMA)
    Joachim "Hellboy" Hansen is a Norwegian mixed martial artist. He began his career fighting for FinnFight before moving on to fight for Shooto where he became the first Scandinavian person to hold an MMA world title after winning the Shooto World Welterweight Championship in 2003 from Takanori Gomi...

     (1979–), Norwegian Mixed martial artist
  • Joan Hansen
    Joan Hansen
    Joan Elizabeth Hansen is a retired long-distance runner from the United States, who represented her native country in the women's 3,000 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, finishing in eighth place.-References:...

     (1958–), American long-distance runner
  • John Hansen (contemporary), (born 1950) Scottish footballer
  • Johnny Hansen (1943–), Danish footballer
  • John Hansen, (1924–1990), Danish footballer
  • Kevin Hansen
    Kevin Hansen
    Kevin Christopher Hansen is an American volleyball player. He made his Olympic debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics with the U.S. national team.-Personal life:Hansen was born and raised in Newport Beach, California...

     (1982–), American indoor volleyball player
  • Martin Hansen
    Martin Lundgaard Hansen
    Martin Lundgaard Hansen is a male badminton player from Denmark.-2004 Summer Olympics:Hansen competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Jens Eriksen. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Howard Bach and Kevin Qi Han of the United States in the second...

     (1972–), Danish badminton player, Olympic contestant
  • Nikolaj Hansen
    Nikolaj Hansen
    Nikolaj Steen Hansen is a Danish football defender, who currently plays for FC Roskilde in the Danish 1st Division.- Career :...

     (1987–), Danish footballer
  • Per Hansen
    Per Joar Hansen
    Per Joar Hansen is a Norwegian football coach, who grew up in the small community of Trofors in Nordland. He played for and coached Rosenborg BK, and he has coached GIF Sundsvall and Aalesunds FK...

     (1965–), Norwegian football coach
  • Phil Hansen
    Phil Hansen (American football)
    Phillip Allen Hansen is a former American football defensive end in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills, drafted in the second round, making the 1991 all-rookie team, and playing on three Super Bowl teams...

     (born 1968), American former football player
  • Rasmus Grønborg Hansen
    Rasmus Grønborg Hansen
    Rasmus Grønborg Hansen is a Danish professional football defensive midfielder, who currently plays for Randers FC.-External links:*** at Danmarks Radio...

    , Danish football (soccer) player
  • Rick Hansen
    Rick Hansen
    Richard M. Hansen, CC, OBC is a Canadian Paralympian and an activist for people with spinal cord injuries. Following a car crash at the age of 15, Hansen sustained a spinal cord injury that paralyzed him from the waist down. Hansen is most famous for his Man In Motion World Tour...

     (1957–), Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian
  • Ron Hansen
    Ron Hansen (baseball)
    Ronald Lavern Hansen is a former shortstop in Major League Baseball who played for the Baltimore Orioles , Chicago White Sox , Washington Senators , New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals...

     (1938–), American professional baseball player
  • Søren Hansen
    Søren Hansen
    Søren Hansen is a Danish professional golfer.Hansen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He won the 1997 Danish Amateur Stroke Play Championship and turned professional later that year....

     (1974–), Danish professional golfer
  • Stan Hansen
    Stan Hansen
    John Stanley Hansen, Jr. is an American former professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Stan Hansen. As a wrestler, Hansen was well known for his stiff wrestling style, which he attributes to poor eyesight, as he is nearly blind without glasses...

     (1949–), American professional wrestler
  • Trine Hansen
    Trine Hansen
    Trine Hansen is a retired female rower from Denmark. Hansen mainly competed in the single scull boat type, and she won the World Rowing Championship in 1994 and a Bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in single sculls.Trine Hansen grew up in Sorø and was affiliated with Sorø Roklub until 1997...

     (1973–), Danish rower


Other
  • Elaine Hansen
    Elaine Tuttle Hansen
    Elaine Tuttle Hansen was the president of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine from 2002 through June 2011. She became the Executive Director of The Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University in July 2011....

     (contemporary), president of Bates College
    Bates College
    Bates College is a highly selective, private liberal arts college located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. and was most recently ranked 21st in the nation in the 2011 US News Best Liberal Arts Colleges rankings. The college was founded in 1855 by abolitionists...

  • Georg Emil Hansen
    Georg Emil Hansen
    Georg Emil Hansen was one of Denmark's pioneering photographers in the second half of the 19th century. He had his own studio in Copenhagen and later became a successful court photographer.-Early life:...

     (1833–1891), Danish photographer
  • Georg Hansen
    Georg Hansen
    Colonel Georg Alexander Hansen was a German army officer and a member of the German resistance against Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.-Early life:...

      (1904–1944), German army officer
  • Gus Hansen
    Gus Hansen
    Gustav "Gus" Hansen is a professional Danish poker player who lives in Monaco. In his poker career, Hansen has won three World Poker Tour open titles, the 2007 Aussie Millions main event and was the season one winner of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament...

     (1974–), Danish professional poker player
  • Helmer Hanssen
    Helmer Hanssen
    Helmer Julius Hanssen was a Norwegian polar explorer, and one of the first five to reach the South Pole on the expedition of Roald Amundsen.- His life :Helmer Hanssen was born in Bjørnskinn, on the island of Andøya in the northern part of Norway...

     (1870–1956), Norwegian polar explorer
  • Lars Peter Hansen
    Lars Peter Hansen
    Lars Peter Hansen is an economist at the University of Chicago.- Biography :After graduating from Utah State University and the University of Minnesota Lars Peter Hansen (b. October 26, 1952 in Champaign, Illinois) is an economist at the University of Chicago.- Biography :After graduating from...

     (1952–), American economist and econometrician
  • Matthew Hansen
    Matthew Hansen
    Matthew Hansen is an author and artist, and Editor in Chief for Marvel Comics/Dabel Brothers Productions. A former competitive cyclist, Hansen lives in Toronto, Canada...

     (1976–), Blogger, Writer
  • Max Hansen
    Max Hansen (SS officer)
    Max Hansen was a Standartenführer , in the Waffen-SS who was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves. The Knights Cross was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II. The Oakleaves was a second award.Hansen was born on...

     (1908–1990), SS officer
  • Monica Hansen
    Monica Hansen
    Monica Hansen is a Norwegian model and a former 1997 Miss Norway. She appeared in the American version of Playboy in June 2009.Hansen gained attention when she appeared in a 1997 issue of Perfect 10 magazine. She came in second behind Ashley Degenford in Perfect 10 magazine's first annual model...

    , Norwegian model
  • Percy Hansen (1890–1951), Danish recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Robert Hanssen
    Robert Hanssen
    Robert Philip Hanssen is a former American FBI agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for 22 years from 1979 to 2001...

     (1944–), American FBI agent convicted of spying for Russia
  • Sig Hansen
    Sig Hansen
    Sigurd Jonny "Sig" Hansen is an American Captain of the fishing vessel Northwestern. Since 2006, Hansen has been featured in all seasons of the documentary television series Deadliest Catch, for which he also serves as technical advisor for the production.-Early life:Sigurd Jonny Hansen was born...

     (1966–), American Captain of the Seattle-based crab fishing boat Northwestern, featured in the documentary Deadliest Catch
    Deadliest Catch
    Deadliest Catch is a documentary/reality television series produced by Original Productions for the Discovery Channel. It portrays the real life events aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and C. opilio crab fishing seasons.The Aleutian Islands port of Dutch Harbor,...

  • Theodore Marcus Hansen
    Theodore Marcus Hansen
    Theodore Marcus Hansen was a Danish-American Lutheran pastor, educator, and church leader. Ordained as a pastor in the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1915, Theodore Marcus served eleven Lutheran congregations...

     (1886–1973), Danish-American pastor, theologian, and churchman
  • Baron Theophil von Hansen
    Theophil Freiherr von Hansen
    Baron Theophil Edvard von Hansen was a Danish architect who later became an Austrian citizen...

     (1813–1891), Danish-Austrian architect

See also

  • Hansen (disambiguation)
  • Henson
    Henson
    Henson is a surname, and may refer to:* Alan Henson, Welsh rugby player* Ant Henson, British singer-songwriter* Basil Henson , British actor* Bill Henson , Australian photographer...

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