Petersen
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Petersen is a common Scandinavian 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 Peter". There are other spellings. Petersen may refer to:
  • Ted Petersen
    Ted Petersen
    Ted Petersen, also known as "Denunez" is a former professional American football player who played offensive lineman for nine seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Cleveland Browns, and the Indianapolis Colts. Petersen is the athletic director at Kankakee Community College in Kankakee, Illinois....

    , American football player
  • Adolf Dahm-Petersen
    Adolf Dahm-Petersen
    Adolf Dahm-Petersen was a Norwegian voice specialist and teacher of artistic singing.Adolf Dahm-Petersen, son of Johan Frode Petersen and Helena Thalia P. born Dahm , was born in Kristiania. After attending the gymnasium and the Royal Military Academy in Norway, he visited the Universities in...

    , Norwegian voice specialist
  • Alicia O'Shea Petersen
    Alicia O'Shea Petersen
    Alicia O'Shea Petersen was a Tasmanian suffragist and social reformer.Alicia O'Shea Petersen was born in Tasmania. She became interested in women's and labor rights as a result of her own work in sweatshops...

    , Australian activist
  • Alfonso Petersen
    Alfonso Petersen
    Alfonso Petersen Farah is an educated medical doctor and politician, who served as Mayor of Guadalajara from 2007 to 2009....

    , Mayor of Guadalajara
    Guadalajara
    Guadalajara may refer to:In Mexico:*Guadalajara, Jalisco, the capital of the state of Jalisco and second largest city in Mexico**Guadalajara Metropolitan Area*University of Guadalajara, a public university in Guadalajara, Jalisco...

  • Anders Petersen (disambiguation)
  • Anker Eli Petersen
    Anker Eli Petersen
    Anker Eli Petersen is a Faroese writer and artist.He is most known for his many Faroe Islands postage stamp designs under the name Anker Eli. Many of his stamps depict scenes from Norse mythology, Christianity, or interpretations of other Faroese authors or poets...

    , Faroese writer and artist
  • Ann Petersen
    Ann Petersen
    Ann Petersen was a Belgian actress.She was one of the best known actresses in Belgium. She was especially noted for her roles in Pauline & Paulette, the children's serial Samson & Gert, Thuis and Captain Zeppos.-External links:...

    , Belgian actress
  • Carl Petersen (disambiguation)
    Carl Petersen (disambiguation)
    Carl Petersen may refer to:* Carl Petersen * Carl August Petersen Wright , Norwegian politician* Carl Wilhelm Petersen , German politician and First Mayor of Hamburg...

  • Chap (John Chapman) Petersen
    Chap Petersen
    John Chapman "Chap" Petersen is an American politician. A Democrat, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates 2002–06 and was elected to the Virginia State Senate in November 2007. He the state's 34th district, made up of the city of Fairfax and part of Fairfax County.-Early...

    , American, Virignia politician
  • Chris Petersen
    Chris Petersen (actor)
    Chris Petersen is an American actor. Beginning his career as a child actor at the age of 12, he is best known for his roles in the feature films When Every Day Was the Fourth of July, The Swarm and The Little Dragons...

     (born 1963), American child actor
    Child actor
    The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor...

  • Chris Petersen
    Chris Petersen
    Chris Petersen is an American football coach and former player in the United States. He is currently the head football coach at Boise State University, a position he has held since the 2006 season. Peterson has guided the Broncos to two BCS bowl wins, in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl and the 2010 Fiesta...

     (born 1964), American football coach
  • Christopher Flinder Petersen
    Christopher Flinder Petersen
    Christopher Flinder Pedersen , is a Norwegian dancer, model and former member of the boyband L8R. At 13 he finished 7th in the world championships in freestyle dancing and two years later he became a member of the band L8R...

    , Norwegian dancer and model
  • Danny J. Petersen
    Danny J. Petersen
    Danny John Petersen was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War.-Biography:...

    , American Medal of Honor
    Medal of Honor
    The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...

     recipient
  • Ewa Hedkvist Petersen
    Ewa Hedkvist Petersen
    Ewa Hedkvist Petersen is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Sweden, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.She is also a...

    , Swedish politician
  • Flo Bjelke-Petersen
    Flo Bjelke-Petersen
    Florence "Flo" Isabel, Lady Bjelke-Petersen is an Australian retired politician and writer. She was a member of the Australian Senate from 1981 to 1993, and is the widow of the longest-serving Premier of Queensland, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen.-Biography:Born as Florence Isabel Gilmour in Brisbane,...

    , Australian politician and writer
  • Forrest S. Petersen
    Forrest S. Petersen
    Vice Admiral Forrest S. Petersen was a United States Navy aviator and test pilot.-Birth and education:Born in Holdrege, Nebraska, he was the son of Elmer and Stella Petersen. and was raised in Gibbon, Nebraska...

    , United States Navy Admiral and aviator
  • Frank E. Petersen
    Frank E. Petersen
    Frank E. Petersen Jr. is a retired United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General. He was the first African-American Marine Corps aviator and the first African-American Marine Corps general....

    , retired United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General
  • George Petersen
    George Petersen (Australian politician)
    Wilfred George Petersen was an Australian politician, affiliated with the Australian Labor Party and elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly....

    , Australian politician
  • Grant Petersen
    Grant Petersen
    Grant Petersen is a bicycle designer and the founder of Rivendell Bicycle Works. He was U.S. marketing director for Bridgestone Cycle , Inc...

     an American bicycle company owner
  • Gustaf Munch-Petersen
    Gustaf Munch-Petersen
    Gustaf Munch-Petersen was a Danish writer and painter. He wrote surreal prose-poems, considered groundbreaking in his time, which have inspired later writers....

    , Danish writer and painter
  • Hans Christian Petersen
    Hans Christian Petersen
    Hans Christian Petersen was a Norwegian politician and served as the de facto Prime minister of Norway during the personal union of Sweden-Norway from 1858 to 1861.- Early life :...

    , Norwegian politician
  • Hans F. Petersen
    Hans F. Petersen
    Hans F. Petersen was the first Latter-day Saint missionary to serve in Norway.In 1845 he married Helena Matilda Denker and in 1850 he was baptized a member of the LDS Church by Geogre P. Dykes one of the first LDS missionaries to serve in Denmark. In September 1851 he traveled to Norway where he...

    , Danish Latter-day Saint missionary in Norway
  • Hjalmar Petersen
    Hjalmar Petersen
    Hjalmar Petersen was an American politician who served as the 23rd Governor of Minnesota.-Background:Hjalmar Petersen was born in Eskildstrup, Denmark...

    , American politician
  • Jack Petersen (disambiguation)
  • Jan Petersen
    Jan Petersen
    Jan Petersen is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus in 1981, and was re-elected on six occasions. He had previously served as a deputy representative during the term 1973–1977. From 2001 to 2005, when the second cabinet...

    , Norwegian diplomat and politician
  • Joel Petersen, bass guitarist
  • Joh Bjelke-Petersen
    Joh Bjelke-Petersen
    Sir Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen, KCMG , was an Australian politician. He was the longest-serving and longest-lived Premier of Queensland, holding office from 1968 to 1987, a period that saw considerable economic development in the state...

    , Australian politician
  • Johan Carl Christian Petersen
    Johan Carl Christian Petersen
    Johan Carl Christian Petersen was a Danish seaman and interpreter who participated in several expeditions in Northern Canada and Greenland in search of the missing British explorer John Franklin....

    , Danish seaman, interpreter, and Arctic explorer
  • John Hahn-Petersen
    John Hahn-Petersen
    John Hahn-Petersen was a Danish theatre, TV and movie actor.He made his debut in 1955 and starred in a number of productions including:* Matador* Landsbyen* Taxa...

    , Danish actor
  • Josef Petersen
    Josef Petersen
    Josef Petersen was Danish author, known for many novels with historical, often Antique or Medieval motifs written from 1910 to 1949....

    , Danish novelist
  • Julius Petersen
    Julius Petersen
    Julius Peter Christian Petersen was a Danish mathematician.-Biography:Petersen's interests in mathematics were manifold .His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs was a fundamental...

    , Danish mathematician
  • Lou Petersen
    Lou Petersen
    Louis Charles Petersen was a dual-code rugby footballer who represented New Zealand in rugby union and rugby league.-Early years:Petersen served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War I and it was here that he developed his football skills, playing for the "Trench team".-Rugby union...

    , New Zealand dual-code rugby international
  • Marita Petersen
    Marita Petersen
    Marita Petersen was the first and to date only female Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands. She was elected to the Løgting in 1988....

    , Faroese politician
  • Mark E. Petersen
    Mark E. Petersen
    Mark Edward Petersen was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1944 until his death. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he filled the vacancy caused by the excommunication of Richard R. Lyman...

    , member of Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church)
  • Matthew Petersen
    Matthew Petersen
    Matthew Andrew Petersen is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays for the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats in the Super League competition...

    , Australian rugby player
  • Matthew S. Petersen
    Matthew S. Petersen
    Matthew Spencer Petersen is a member of the United States Federal Election Commission .He was nominated to the FEC by President George W. Bush on June 12, 2008, and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on June 24, 2008...

    , Federal Election Commission member
  • Morten Petersen
    Morten Petersen
    Morten Roald Petersen is a Danish retired football defender who spent most of his career with Lyngby Boldklub. He has played several games for the Danish Under-21 and Under-19 national teams....

    , Danish football player
  • Niels Helveg Petersen
    Niels Helveg Petersen
    Niels Lolk Helveg Petersen is a Danish politician, member of parliament for the Danish Social Liberal Party 1966-1974, 1977-1993 and again from 1994. Graduated in Law....

    , Danish politician
  • Ole Peter Petersen
    Ole Peter Petersen
    Ole Peter Petersen is credited as the founder of Methodism in Norway and co-founder of Norwegian and Danish Methodism in the United States....

    , founder of Methodism in Norway
  • Patrick Petersen
    Patrick Petersen
    Patrick Petersen is an American actor best known for his role as Michael Fairgate in the television drama Knots Landing. His character was the son of "Karen Fairgate MacKenzie"...

    , American actor
  • Paul Petersen
    Paul Petersen
    William Paul Petersen is an American movie actor, singer, novelist, and activist. Primarily known for his character-type roles in the 1960s and 1970s, as an adult Petersen established the organization A Minor Consideration to support child stars and other child laborers through legislation,...

    , American movie actor, singer, novelist, and activist
  • Robert E. Petersen
    Robert E. Petersen
    Robert Einar "Pete" Petersen was an American publisher and founder of the Petersen Automotive Museum in 1994.Petersen was born in East Los Angeles, California and served in the Army Air Corps in World War II...

    , publisher, auto museum founder
  • Robert Storm Petersen
    Robert Storm Petersen
    Robert Storm Petersen was a Danish cartoonist, writer, animator, illustrator, painter and humorist. He is known almost exclusively by his pen name Storm P.- Biography :...

    , Danish cartoonist, writer, animator, illustrator, painter and humorist
  • Rodney L. Petersen
    Rodney L. Petersen
    Rodney Lawrence Petersen is an American scholar in the area of history, ethics, and religious conflict.He moved to the Boston area from Switzerland in 1990 and currently works as the Executive Director of the Boston Theological Institute. In addition to this work with the BTI, he teaches in both...

    , American scholar of history, ethics, and religious conflict
  • Roger Petersen
    Roger Petersen
    Roger Petersen is a Canadian television news reporter. He served as anchor on CityNews and Breakfast Television on Citytv Toronto) from 1999 until 2004, when he moved to Vancouver's CKVU and became that station's lead male anchor with co-anchor Julie Nolin...

    , Canadian television news reporter
  • Roger Petersen, artist and illustrator, Swamp Thing, "Submariner", "Predator"
  • Sandy Petersen
    Sandy Petersen
    Carl Sanford Joslyn Petersen is a game designer.Petersen was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended University of California, Berkeley, majoring in zoology....

    , American game designer
  • Sara Petersen
    Sara Petersen
    Sara Runesten Petersen is a female badminton player from New Zealand.-Career:Petersen competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in mixed double's with partner Daniel Shirley...

    , New Zealand badminton player
  • Søren Jessen-Petersen
    Søren Jessen-Petersen
    Søren Jessen-Petersen is an international civil servant from Denmark. He was named Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Kosovo and head of UNMIK on 16 June 2004 and held the position until the end of June 2006...

    , Danish United Nations official
  • Thyge Petersen
    Thyge Petersen
    Thyge Alexander Petersen was a Danish light heavyweight professional boxer who competed in the 1920s.-Biography:...

    , Danish boxer
  • Tommy Petersen
    Tommy Petersen
    Tommy Petersen is an actor who is best known for his role as the young Zack Mayo in the 1982 hit romantic drama An Officer and a Gentleman. He starred in the 1983 hit NBC miniseries V as Josh Brooks.-Filmography:*The Cherokee Trail...

    , American actor
  • Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen
    Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen
    Jörn-Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen is a keyboard player and songwriter, known for his work with the German rock group Nena.Born in Berlin he first played in a band called "Vanguard"in 1977 - 1979 with bassist Sven Bode, Guitarist Fritz... and drummer Didier, composing an amazing Rock Opera. Concerts...

    , German musician
  • William Petersen
    William Petersen
    William Louis Petersen is an American actor and producer, best known for playing Dr. Gilbert "Gil" Grissom on the hit CBS series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He portrayed President John F...

    , American actor
  • Wolfgang Petersen
    Wolfgang Petersen
    Wolfgang Petersen is a German film director and screenwriter. His films include The NeverEnding Story, Enemy Mine, Outbreak, In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, Troy, and Poseidon...

    , German film director

Other uses

  • Petersen (film)
    Petersen (film)
    Petersen is a 1974 Australian drama film directed by Tim Burstall. Tony Petersen , a retired australian rules football star, enrolls at university to study for an arts degree...

    , a 1974 Australian drama film
  • Petersen Automotive Museum
    Petersen Automotive Museum
    The Petersen Automotive Museum is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. One of the world's largest automotive museums, the Petersen Automotive Museum is a non profit organization specializing in the education and history of the...

  • Petersen Graph
    Petersen graph
    In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Petersen graph is an undirected graph with 10 vertices and 15 edges. It is a small graph that serves as a useful example and counterexample for many problems in graph theory. The Petersen graph is named for Julius Petersen, who in 1898 constructed it...

    , famous for its special properties in graph theory
  • Petersen Publishing
  • Petersen
    Petersen
    Petersen is a common Scandinavian patronymic surname, meaning "son of Peter". There are other spellings. Petersen may refer to:* Ted Petersen, American football player* Adolf Dahm-Petersen, Norwegian voice specialist...

     A Design and Marketing agency based in Cheltenham, run by Paul Haidon and Steve Tustin.

See also

  • Bjelke-Petersen
    Bjelke-Petersen
    Bjelke-Petersen is the name of an Australian family of both Danish and Swedish descent. The common ancestors of the Australian family is Georg Peter Bjelke-Petersen, a Danish farmer and master-builder, and his wife Caroline Vilhelmine . They came to Australia with their children in 1891. Born plain...

  • Peterson (disambiguation)
  • Pedersen
    Pedersen
    Pedersen , is a Danish patronymic surname, literally meaning "son of Peder". It is the fourth most common surname in Denmark, shared by about 3,4% of the population...

  • Pederson (disambiguation)
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