Pedersen
Pedersen, is a Danish and Norwegian patronymic surname, literally meaning "son of Peder". It is the fourth most common surname in Denmark, shared by about 3.4% of the population. and the sixth most common in Norway. It is of similar origin as the surname Petersen.
Listing of people with the surname Pedersen
- Aaron Pedersen, Australian actor of Arrente/Arabana descent
- Abdul Wahid Pedersen, Danish Imam
- Alexander Pedersen, Norwegian sprinter
- Alex Pedersen , Danish cyclist
- Alf Pedersen, Norwegian boxer
- Allen Pedersen, Canadian retired professional ice hockey player
- Anne Rygh Pedersen, Norwegian politician for the Labour Party
- Bente Pedersen, Norwegian novelist
- Bent-Ove Pedersen, Norwegian tennis player
- Bernard E. Pedersen, American politician
- Bjarne Bent Rønne Pedersen, Danish musician, banjo player and singer
- Bjarne Pedersen, Danish speedway rider
- Blaine Pedersen, Canadian politician in Manitoba
- Bryan Pedersen, Wyoming politician
- Carl Alfred Pedersen, Norwegian gymnast and triple jumper
- Carl Pedersen , Danish gymnast
- Carl Pedersen , Danish rower
- Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish painter
- Carsten Pedersen, Danish cricketer
- Cato Zahl Pedersen, Norwegian skier
- Charles J. Pedersen, American organic chemist
- Chris Pedersen, American actor and film star
- Chris Pedersen, Australian drummer
- Christian Pedersen, Danish gymnast who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Christiern Pedersen, Danish canon, humanist scholar, writer, printer and publisher
- Christina Pedersen , Danish team handball goalkeeper
- Christina Pedersen , Norwegian football referee
- Christopher Flinder Petersen, Norwegian dancer, model and former member of the boyband L8R
- Christopher S. Pedersen, Norwegian baritone
- Dag Erik Pedersen, Norwegian road racing cyclist
- Dan A. Pederson, USN, first officer-in-charge of the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program known as Topgun
- David Pedersen, Norwegian singer
- Dwite Pedersen, American state senator from Nebraska
- Dynes Pedersen, Danish gymnast
- Eigil Pedersen, Danish chess player
- Ellen Birgitte Pedersen, Norwegian politician
- Erik Bue Pedersen, Danish handball player
- Erik Pedersen, Norwegian footballer
- Finn Pedersen, Danish rower
- George Pedersen, Canadian academic administrator
- Gerhard Pedersen, Danish boxer
- Gro Pedersen Claussen Norwegian graphic designer
- Gunner Møller Pedersen, Danish composer
- Haakon Pedersen, Norwegian speed skater
- Hallgeir Pedersen, Norwegian jazz guitarist
- Hans Eiler Pedersen, Danish gymnast
- Hans Pedersen, Danish gymnast
- Helga Pedersen , Danish Chief Justice and politician
- Helga Pedersen , Norwegian deputy leader for the Labour Party
- Helmer Pedersen, New Zealand Olympic Gold medallist in yachting
- Henrik Bolberg Pedersen, Danish trumpeter and flugelhorn player with the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra
- Henrik Pedersen, Danish professional football player
- Herb Pedersen, American musician, guitarist, banjo player, and singer-songwriter
- Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen, Norwegian cross-country skier
- Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist
- Holger Pedersen, Danish astronomer at the European Southern Observatory
- Inger Pedersen, Norwegian politician
- Jørgen V. Pedersen, Danish road bicycle racer
- Jacob Pedersen, Norwegian track and field athlete
- James Pedersen, American politician
- Jamie Pedersen, American lawyer and politician
- Jan O. Pedersen, Danish Speedway rider
- Jan Ove Pedersen, Norwegian football coach and former player
- Johanne Samueline Pedersen, Norwegian politician
- Johannes Pedersen, Danish gymnast
- Johannes Pederson, Danish theologian and linguist
- John Pedersen, multiple people
- Jonas Pedersen, Norwegian politician
- Jostein Pedersen, Norwegian commentator and "music intelligencia"
- Karl Pedersen, Danish chess player
- Katrine Pedersen, Danish football midfielder
- Kayla Pedersen, American basketball player
- Kenneth Møller Pedersen, Danish professional football midfielder
- Kjetil Ruthford Pedersen, Norwegian footballer
- Knud Pederson, Danish resistance leader and leader of the Churchill Boys
- L. C. Pedersen, American politician
- Laura Pedersen, American author
- Lena Pedersen, Canadian politician and social worker from Nunavut
- Lene Pedersen, Norwegian ski mountaineer
- Lene Marlin Pedersen, Norwegian musician more commonly referred to as Lene Marlin
- Mads Pedersen, Danish professional racing cyclist
- Marc Pedersen, Danish professional football player
- Marcus Pedersen, Norwegian football player
- Martin Pedersen , Danish professional road bicycle racer
- Martin Pedersen , Danish professional football player
- Martin Pedersen , Danish professional tennis player
- Merete Pedersen, Danish football midfielder
- Mette Pedersen, Danish badminton player
- Mia Bak Pedersen, Danish football defender
- Michael Pedersen,, Danish cricketer
- Mikael Pedersen, Danish inventor associated with the English town of Dursley
- Monica Pedersen, American designer on the show "Designed to Sell"
- Monika Pedersen, Danish singer of the band Sinphonia
- Morten Gamst Pedersen, Norwegian football player who currently plays for Blackburn Rovers
- Morten Pedersen, Norwegian soccer player, who played as defender
- Nancy Pedersen, American genetic epidemiologist
- Nicki Pedersen, Danish motorcycle speedway rider
- Nicklas Pedersen, Danish professional football striker
- Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist
- Poul Lars Høgh Pedersen, Danish football goalkeeper
- Odd Kvaal Pedersen, Norwegian journalist, author and translator
- Olaf Pedersen , Danish gymnast
- Olaf Pedersen, Danish historian of science
- Oluf Pedersen , Danish gymnast
- Ove Pedersen, Danish football manager and a former player
- Paul Pedersen , Canadian composer
- Paul Pedersen , Norwegian gymnast
- Peder Larsen Pedersen, Danish gymnast
- Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist
- Peder Pedersen
- Per Pedersen , Danish retired road bicycle racer
- Per Pedersen , Danish former football player
- Peter Dorf Pedersen, Danish gymnast
- Peter Pedersen,, Swedish Left Party politician
- Poul Pedersen, Danish retired football player
- Ralf Pedersen, Danish professional football defenderm
- Randy Pedersen, American professional bowler and color analyst for ESPN
- Ray Pedersen, American artist and graphic designer
- Red Pedersen, former territorial level politician
- Rolf Birger Pedersen, Norwegian footballer and football coach
- Ronni Pedersen, Danish motorcycle speedway rider
- Rune Pedersen, Norwegian referee in the 1990s
- Rune Pedersen , Danish professional footballer
- Søren Pedersen, Danish professional football defender
- Signe J. Pedersen, Danish football midfielder
- Sigurd Pedersen, Norwegian politician
- Simon Azoulay Pedersen, Danish professional football player
- Snorre Pedersen, Norwegian skeleton racer who competed from 1997 to 2005
- Solveig Pedersen, Norwegian cross country skier
- Steinar Pedersen, Norwegian football defender
- Steinar Pedersen , Norwegian politician
- Steve Pedersen, American guitarist from Omaha, Nebraska
- Susan Pedersen, American historian currently working at Columbia University
- Susan Pedersen , American swimmer
- Sverre Lunde Pedersen, Norwegian speed skater
- Terese Pedersen, Norwegian handball goalkeeper
- Terje Moland Pedersen, Norwegian politician
- Terje Pedersen, Norwegian javelin thrower
- Thomas Pedersen, several people
- Thor Pedersen, Danish politician
- Thor Pedersen , Norwegian competition rower
- Torben Mark Pedersen, Danish economist and politician, founder of the political party Liberalisterne
- Tore Pedersen, Norwegian international football defender
- Torny Pedersen, Norwegian politician
- Torsten Schack Pedersen, Danish politician
- Trond Pedersen, Norwegian former football player and coach
- Trond Jøran Pedersen, Norwegian ski jumper
- Trygve Pedersen, Norwegian sailor
- Vilhelm Pedersen, Danish artist who illustrated the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen
- Walter E. Pedersen, American politician
- Willy Pedersen, Norwegian sociologist
Pedersen as a middle or hyphenated name
- Birger Møller-Pedersen, Norwegian computer scientist and Professor at the University of Oslo
- Gustav Natvig-Pedersen, Norwegian politician
- Hans Pedersen Herrefosser, Norwegian politician
- Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish actuary and mathematician
- Johannes Pedersen Deichmann, Norwegian politician
- Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen, Norwegian politician
- Knut Pedersen Hamsun, Norwegian author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1920
- Maya Pedersen-Bieri, Swiss skeleton racer
- Michael Pedersen Friis, Danish Prime Minister
- Morten Pedersen Porsild, Danish botanist who lived and worked in Greenland
- Nils Pedersen Igland, Norwegian farmer and politician
- Peder Johan Pedersen Holmesland, Norwegian politician
- Rasmus Pedersen Thu, Norwegian photographer
- Simon Pedersen Holmesland, Norwegian politician
- Ulla Pedersen Tørnæs, Danish politician and former Minister for Development Cooperation of Denmark
Other references
- Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates is an international architectural design firm located in New York, London and Shanghai
- .276 Pedersen, experimental 7 mm cartridge developed for the U.S. Army and used in the Pedersen rifle
- 3312 Pedersen, Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1984
- Pedersen bicycle, bicycle designed by Mikael Pedersen
- Pedersen Device, attachment developed during World War I for the M1903 Springfield rifle that allowed it to fire a short 0.30 caliber intermediate cartridge in semi-automatic mode
- Pedersen index, measure of electoral volatility in party systems
- Pedersen rifle, United States semi-automatic rifle designed by John Pedersen
- Pedersen's law, named after Danish linguist Holger Pedersen, is a Balto-Slavic accent law which states that the stress was retracted from stressed medial syllables in Balto-Slavic mobile paradigms
- Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management, United States lawsuit