Joakim
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Joakim is a male name primarily used in Scandinavian
cultures. It is derived from a transliteration of the Hebrew
יהוֹיָקִים, the name of Saint Joachim
, the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus
.
The following people are known by the given name
Joakim:
North Germanic languages
The North Germanic languages or Scandinavian languages, the languages of Scandinavians, make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages, along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages...
cultures. It is derived from a transliteration of the Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
יהוֹיָקִים, the name of Saint Joachim
Joachim
Saint Joachim was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican traditions. The story of Joachim and Anne appears first in the apocryphal Gospel of James...
, the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus
Mary (mother of Jesus)
Mary , commonly referred to as "Saint Mary", "Mother Mary", the "Virgin Mary", the "Blessed Virgin Mary", or "Mary, Mother of God", was a Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee...
.
The following people are known by the given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
Joakim:
- Joakim AlexanderssonJoakim AlexanderssonJoakim Alexandersson is a Swedish professional football defender who currently plays for Swedish team Dalstorps IF.-References:...
(born 1976), Swedish football player - Joakim AnderssonJoakim Andersson (diver)Arne Joakim Andersson is a retired diver from Sweden. He won four medals at the European Championships in the early 1990s....
(born 1971), Swedish diver - Joakim AnderssonJoakim AnderssonAnders Joakim Andersson is a Swedish professional ice hockey centre, currently playing for the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League...
(born 1989), Swedish ice hockey player - Joakim AssenmacherJoakim AssenmacherJoakim Assenmacher is a retired West German long jumper.He finished fourteenth at the 1987 European Indoor Championships. He represented the sports club USC Mainz, and won bronze medals at the West German championships in 1985 and 1989.His personal best jump was 8.03 metres, achieved in May 1988...
(born 1963), German long jumper - Joakim Austnes (born 1983), Norwegian football player
- Joakim BergJoakim BergHerbert Joakim "Jocke" Berg is a Swedish singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer of Swedish alternative rock band Kent, which was founded in 1990.-Biography:...
(born 1970), Swedish musician - Joakim BonnierJoakim BonnierJoakim "Jo" Bonnier was a Swedish sportscar racing and Formula One driver who raced for various teams.-Early life:...
(1930–1972), Swedish motor racer - Joakim BäckströmJoakim BäckströmJoakim Bäckström is a Swedish professional golfer.Bäckström was born in Umeå. He turned professional in 1999.Having failed to win a place on the European Tour in 2000, Bäckström spent his early career in Sweden on the Telia Tour, where he won the 2001 Gula Sidorna Grand Open and the 2002 Sunbyholm...
(born 1978), Swedish golfer - Joakim Cronman (1638–1703), Swedish soldier
- Joakim EngbergJoakim EngbergJoakim Engberg is a Swedish professional mixed martial artist, Muay Thai kickboxer, and boxer. Joakim is a K-1 veteran and has fought for M-1 Global and Finnfight. Engberg recently appeared in K-1 Rumble of the Kings Qualification 2009 Malmö...
(born 1979), Swedish mixed martial artist - Joakim ErikssonJoakim ErikssonJoakim Eriksson is a Swedish professional ice hockey player currently with the Södertälje SK team in the Swedish Elitserien league. A creative centre, Eriksson is also a skillful player in face-off situations, winning well over 50 % of the draws in multiple consecutive seasons.- References :...
(born 1979), Swedish ice hockey player - Joakim EsbjörsJoakim EsbjörsEric Joacim Esbjörs is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey player.Esbjörs spent the majority of his career for Västra Frölunda HC. Starting at junior level in 1986, Esbjörs worked his way towards the senior squad, making his pro debut in 1988...
(born 1970), Swedish ice hockey player - Joakim GarffJoakim GarffJoakim Garff is a Danish theologian and Søren Kierkegaard scholar at Søren Kierkegaard Research Center at the University of Copenhagen. He has written several books on Kierkegaard including Soren Kierkegaard: A Biography.- External links :*...
(born 1960), Danish theologian - Joakim GruevJoakim GruevJoakim Gruev was a Bulgarian teacher and translator. He was born on 9 September 1828 in the town of Koprivshtitsa. He was a teacher at the leading Bulgarian high school in Plovdiv. He was the author of a number of textbooks.-References:...
(1828–1912), Bulgarian writer - Joakim HaeggmanJoakim HaeggmanKarl Sven Joakim Haeggman is a Swedish European Tour golfer. He turned professional in 1989 and won his place on the Tour at that year's qualifying school. He has won three events on the European Tour, and several other professional events...
(born 1969), Swedish golfer - Joakim HagabakkenJoakim HagabakkenJoakim Hagabakken is a retired Norwegian football defender.Born in Hamar, he played for Vålerenga IF early in his career. He never broke through in the first team, and spent time on loan at Kjelsås. He joined SK Brann in 2001, and got two Norwegian Premier League games in 2001 as a substitute. In...
(born 1978), Norwegian football player - Joakim HalvarssonJoakim HalvarssonJoakim Halvarsson is a Swedish ski mountaineer.Halvarsson was born in Östersund and has been member of the national team since 2006. He started ski mountaineering in 2000 and competed first in the Swedish Cup Ski Mountaineering in 2005...
(born 1972), Swedish ski mountaineer - Joakim HedqvistJoakim HedqvistJoakim Hedqvist , is a Swedish professional Bandy player, who currently plays for Edsbyns IF in Elitserien, the top division of Swedish bandy, with whom he has won 5 consecutive Swedish championships....
(born 1977), Swedish bandy player - Joakim HilldingJoakim HilldingJoakim Hillding is a professional Swedish ice hockey player. He is currently playing for Färjestads BK in the Elitserien.-External links:...
(born 1988), Swedish ice hockey player - Joakim HolmquistJoakim HolmquistJoakim Holmquist is a former Swedish Olympic freestyle swimmer. He competed in the 4×100 m freestyle team in the 1988 Summer Olympics finishing 5th.-References:...
(born 1969), Swedish swimmer - Joakim IngelssonJoakim IngelssonJoakim Ingelsson is a Swedish orienteering competitor. He won the overall world cup in 1992.-World cup:Ivarsson finished first overall in the 1992 Orienteering World Cup. The cup consisted of eight races in eight different countries, in America and Europe...
, Swedish orienteer - Joakim Jonsson, Swedish drummer
- Joakim Karchovski (c. 1750–1820), Bulgarian writer
- Joakim KarlssonJoakim KarlssonJoakim "Yukay" Karlsson is a Swedish welterweight Muay Thai kickboxer fighting out of VBC Vallentuna Boxing Camp in Vallentuna.-Biography and career:...
(born 1971), Swedish kickboxer - Joakim LindengrenJoakim LindengrenJoakim Lindengren is a Swedish artist and comic creator. Joakim studied fine arts at Västerås Konstskola , and at Konstfack , Stockholm, Sweden...
(born 1962), Swedish cartoonist - Joakim LindströmJoakim LindströmJoakim Lindström is a Swedish professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the Colorado Avalanche of the NHL.-Playing career:...
(born 1983), Swedish ice hockey player - Joakim LystadJoakim LystadJoakim Theodor Haagaas Lystad is a Norwegian civil servant.He was born in Oslo a a grandson of the mathematician Theodor Haagaas. He received his cand.agric. degree from the Norwegian College of Agriculture, and worked as a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research...
(born 1953), Norwegian civil servant - Joakim NätterqvistJoakim NätterqvistDag Joakim Tedson Nätterqvist is a Swedish actor.Nätterqvist was born in Gamla Uppsala. He graduated from the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in Stockholm in 2001....
(born 1974), Swedish actor - Joakim Nilsson (footballer born 1966), Swedish football player
- Joakim Nilsson (footballer born 1985), Swedish football player
- Joakim NilssonJoakim Nilsson (javelin)Joakim Nilsson is a Swedish former All-American javelin thrower who competed for the University of Alabama 1991-1995. At the end of his career, he was awarded the prestigious Bryant Student Athlete Award , named after Paul "Bear" Bryant...
(born 1971), Swedish javelin thrower - Joakim NoahJoakim NoahJoakim Simon Noah is a professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association . Born in New York City to a Swedish mother and French father, he holds American, Swedish and French citizenship...
(born 1985), French-American basketball player - Joakim NyströmJoakim NyströmJoakim "Jocke" Nyström is a former top ten ranked tennis player from Sweden who won thirteen singles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ranking on the ATP Tour on 31 March 1986, when he was ranked World No. 7 and was also ranked as high as World No...
(born 1963), Swedish tennis player - Joakim PerssonJoakim PerssonJoakim Persson, , is a former Swedish footballer, who last played for Landskrona.-Club career:Persson began his career as a youth-team player with Högaborgs before moving to Malmö FF in 1992. He made his professional debut in a Swedish Cup game against Landskrona in 1994.Persson moved to the...
(born 1975), Swedish football player - Joakim PirinenJoakim PirinenJoakim Pirinen is a Swedish illustrator, author, and comic creator. One of the most acclaimed artists to make his debut during the 1980s wave of "artistic" and "adult" comics in Sweden, Pirinen was, and still is, a regular contributor to the Swedish alternative comics magazine Galago.Pirinen's...
(born 1961), Swedish cartoonist - Joakim PuhkJoakim PuhkJoakim Puhk was an Estonian businessman, economist and Rotarian; a member of the International Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1936 to 1942.-Biography:...
(1888–1942), Estonian businessman - Joakim Frederik SchouwJoakim Frederik SchouwJoakim Frederik Schouw was a Danish lawyer, botanist and politician. From 1821, professor in botany at the University of Copenhagen - first extraordinary professor, but after the death of J.W. Hornemann in 1841 ordinary...
(1789–1852), Danish lawyer - Joakim SjöhageJoakim SjöhageJoakim Sjöhage is a Swedish footballer who is currently playing for the Swedish club Varbergs BoIS.-Career:Sjöhage started his career in the Swedish club IF Elfsborg where he won the Swedish Premier League in 2006 and Supercupen in 2007...
(born 1986), Swedish football player - Joakim SoriaJoakim SoriaJoakim Agustín Soria Ramos is a Mexican right-handed baseball relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball...
(born 1984), Mexican baseball player - Joakim Stulić (1730–1817), Croatian lexicographer
- Joakim SundströmJoakim SundströmJoakim Sundström is a Swedish sound editor, sound designer and musician.Born in the Baltic city of Gävle in Sweden and brought up in Buchanan, Liberia on the West African Atlantic coast. He collaborates regularly with British director Michael Winterbottom. Married to British painter Dee Ferris....
(born 1965), Swedish musician - Joakim ThåströmJoakim ThåströmSven Joachim Eriksson Thåström , as an artist known as Thåström, is one of Sweden's best known rock musicians, he is mostly known for the bands Ebba Grön and Imperiet...
(born 1957), Swedish musician - Joakim VujićJoakim VujicJoakim Vujić was a Serbian writer, dramatist, actor, traveler and polygot. He was one of the most accomplished Serbian dramatists and writers of the 18th century, director of Knjaževsko-Srpski Teatar in Kragujevac 1835/36...
(1772–1847), Serbian dramatist