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Gulbrandsen
Gulbrandsen is a Norwegian language surname, meaning "son of Gulbrand". Notable people with the surname include: * Aase Gulbrandsen (1927–2020), Norwegian artist * Andreas Gulbrandsen (1906–1989), Norwegian chess player * Bjørn Gulbrandsen (1927–1988), Norwegian ice hockey player * Bjørn Oscar Gulbrandsen (1925–2011), Norwegian ice hockey player and yacht racer * Christine Gulbrandsen (born 1985), singer and Norwegian entrant in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest * Fredrik Gulbrandsen (born 1992), Norwegian footballer * Håkon Gulbrandsen (born 1969), Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Socialist Left Party *Hans Martin Gulbrandsen (1914–1979), Norwegian sprint canoeist * Ingrid Gulbrandsen (1899–1975), Norwegian figure skater *Jan Gulbrandsen (1938–2007), Norwegian hurdler and sports official *Kate Gulbrandsen (born 1965), Norwegian singer * Niclas Gulbrandsen (1930–2013), Norwegian printmaker * Parley Gulbrandsen (born 1889), Norwegian missionary to China with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solveig Gulbrandsen
Solveig Ingersdatter Gulbrandsen (born 12 January 1981) is a Norwegian footballer currently playing for Kolbotn of the Toppserien. At club level she has previously represented Kolbotn, FC Gold Pride, Vålerenga Fotball Damer and Stabæk. With the Norwegian national team Gulbrandsen accrued 183 caps, scored 55 goals and won the 2000 Summer Olympics. Club career Hailing from the Oppegård area to the South-East of Oslo, Gulbrandsen started her career for Kolbotn. Her team became the Norwegian Cup holders after winning the Cup Final in November 2007. In December 2008 Gulbrandsen announced her transfer to Stabæk Fotball Kvinner, formed from the bankrupt Asker FK and other players. On 10 December 2009 FC Gold Pride in Santa Clara, California, playing in the WPS league, announced that Gulbrandsen had signed a contract to play and to take part in coaching and education, starting in March 2010. However, on 7 July 2010, FC Gold Pride announced that Gulbrandsen would be returning to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredrik Gulbrandsen
Fredrik Aasmundrud Gulbrandsen (born 10 September 1992) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Molde FK. Club career Lillestrøm Gulbrandsen began his career with his hometown club Lillestrøm. He made his debut in the Norwegian top division against IK Start in May 2009, as the youngest Lillestrøm player ever. In March 2010, he was loaned out to Lyn for the duration of the spring season. While with Lyn he made 11 appearances and scored 2 goals. He returned to Lillestrøm for the 2011 season, and on 3 July 2011 scored his first goal for the club in a 2–1 victory over Viking FK. Molde On 15 July 2013, Gulbrandsen signed a contract with Molde. He had a breakthrough season in 2014 appearing in 29 matches and scored 14 goals in all competitions, helping Molde to their first league and cup double in club history. On 23 November 2014, Gulbrandsen opened the scoring for Molde in a 2–0 victory over Odd in the 2014 Norwegian Football Cup Final. After an in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aase Gulbrandsen
Aase Gulbrandsen (Oslo, 26 May 1927 – 11 April 2020) was a Norwegian painter and graphic artist. She employed a variety of techniques, including charcoal, graphite pencils, oil paint, pastels, and lithography. Her breakthrough came during a solo exhibition at Oslo Kunstforening in 1974, showing charcoal art that was quite unlike anything seen before. In the course of her career, she held more than twenty solo exhibitions, in addition to participating in a number of group exhibitions in Norway and abroad. Her graphite work had a formative influence on the art of drawing in Norway. She was also a distinct colorist, not least because of the signature red of her oil paintings and pastels. Gulbrandsen was awarded several grants and in 1977 she became one of the first to receive career-long support from the Norwegian Government Grant for Artists. From 1991 to 1996, she had her studio in one of Oslo City Hall’s towers, before moving on to the artists’ community at Frysja Art Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Gulbrandsen
Andreas Gulbrandsen (29 July 1906 – 3 December 1989) was a Norwegian chess player, Norwegian Chess Championship winner (1931). Biography Andreas Gulbrandsen joined the chess club of his native city of Moss at the age of 15. He quickly moved to the number of club competition leaders. In the 1930s Andreas Gulbrandsen was one of the leading Norwegian chess players. He won the Norwegian Chess Championship in 1931. Also he was known in Norway as a blindfold chess player. In the early 1930s Andreas Gulbrandsen gave a simultaneous exhibition in blindfold chess play on 12 boards (+7, =2, -3). Many times he was the champion of the chess club of the city of Moss (the last time - in 1977). Andreas Gulbrandsen completed participate in chess tournaments in 1978. Andreas Gulbrandsen played for Norway in the Chess Olympiads: * In 1931, at reserve board in the 4th Chess Olympiad in Prague (+2, =1, -10), * In 1937, at third board in the 7th Chess Olympiad in Stockholm (+3, =2, -10). Andre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragnhild Gulbrandsen
Ragnhild Øren Gulbrandsen (born 22 February 1977) is a Norwegian journalist and former football striker from the city of Trondheim who retired from football at the end of 2007. Most of her playing career was spent with Trondheims-Ørn (Trondheim Eagles) women's football club, with whom she won the Norwegian elite league, the Toppserien, three times and the Cup four times, and was the club's top scorer in 1997, 2000 and 2001. As of April 2012, Gulbrandsen's 141 Toppserien goals made her third in the all-time goalscorer statistics. In 2000 Gulbrandsen played in the Norway team which won gold at the Sydney Olympics, scoring Norway's second goal in the 3–2 final win against the USA. She played as a professional in the US with Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) club Boston Breakers in 2002 and 2003. At the end of 2005 Gulbrandsen moved to Oslo to work as a journalist, and considered retiring from football. But she joined Asker women's football club, and in the 2006 se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parley Gulbrandsen
Parley Birger Eugen Gulbrandsen (Chinese: , pinyin: , born October 30, 1889, in Christiania, died 1959 in Norway) was a Norwegian missionary to China affiliated with the Norwegian Evangelical Mission (NEM) which belonged to the Pentecostal movement. He was the brother of Henry Gulbrandsen, who was also a missionary to China. After coming in contact with a Pentecostal meeting at the Filadelfia Assembly in Christiania, Gulbrandsen studied their teachings at the mission's home in Stabekk in 1909. Afterwards he studied at the Bible Training Institute in Glasgow, Scotland. In September 1910, he went to China, and worked in the North Chihli Mission in North Zhili (romanized as Chihli at the time) until 1914. He was active in the Longmen district (). In 1916, he joined the Norwegian Free Evangelical Mission Association (, NFEH), launched by the Pentecostal movement in Norway the previous year. When this mission was dissolved in 1934, the former Norwegian missionaries of the NF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thor-Eirik Gulbrandsen
Thor-Eirik Gulbrandsen (15 July 1940 – 25 July 2014) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. Gulbrandsen was born in Fjære. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus in 1977, and was re-elected on three occasions. He had previously served in the position of deputy representative during the terms 1969–1973 and 1973–1977. During his second term as a deputy, he filled in for Sonja Aase Ludvigsen meanwhile she was appointed to the Cabinet, and then replaced her permanently when she died in July 1974. Gulbrandsen was a deputy member of the executive committee of Skedsmo Skedsmo was a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality was the town of Lillestrøm. About one third of the municipal population lived in Lillestrøm. ... municipality council during the term 1967–1971, and a member of the council from 1999–2003. In 1999, he was expel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Gulbrandsen
Jan Gulbrandsen (29 May 1938 – 4 September 2007) was a Norwegian hurdler, politician and sports official. His main event was the 400 metres hurdles. He became Norwegian champion in the event from 1957 through 1964, and won a silver medal in 1965. He held the Norwegian record between 1958 and 1960, with 51.5 as the best time, achieved in 1964. His best electronic time was 52.40 seconds. He competed in 400 metres hurdles at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, but was knocked out in the semi-final. At both the 1958 and 1962 European Championships he was knocked out in the heats. In the 110 metres hurdles he became Norwegian champion in 1960, 1961 and 1962 before the rivals Weum/ Fimland started their more-than-decade-long dominance. Gulbrandsen also won national silver medals in 110 metres hurdles in 1957, 1958, 1959, 1963 and 1964. His personal best time was 14.5 seconds, achieved in 1962. In the sprint/running distances he had 22.5 in the 200 metres (1959), 49.1 in the 400 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niclas Gulbrandsen
Niclas Gulbrandsen (15 March 1930 – 19 July 2013) was a Norwegian printmaker. He was born in Oslo, and was married to Inger Gulbrandsen. He took his education as a painter at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1951 to 1954 and the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts from 1954 to 1957, but after his début exhibition he gave up painting altogether and became an autodidact printmaker. He was exhibited at Høstutstillingen six times, as well as in Sweden, Finland, Italy, Switzerland and Germany, and had solo exhibitions at Kunstnerforbundet four times. His works were bought by Riksgalleriet, the National Gallery of Norway, Arts Council Norway The Arts Council Norway ( no, Norsk kulturråd, often shortened to ''Kulturrådet'') is the official arts council for Norway. Based in Oslo, it is a Norwegian state institution created in 1965 as a result of a parliamentary decision in 1964. Art ... and Statens Museum for Kunst as well as regional ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulbrandsen Lake
Gulbrandsen Lake is a lake long lying north of Neumayer Glacier in South Georgia. It is now an empty basin; the moraine and or ice dam formed by the Neumeyer Glacier no longer contains this lake. It was charted and named "White City" by the British expedition under Ernest Shackleton, 1921–22, but this name is considered unsuitable and has never been used locally. Gulbrandsen Lake was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1957 for Gunnar Gulbrandsen, a pattern-maker at the Compañía Argentina de Pesca station at Grytviken, 1927–30, carpenter at Stromness, 1945–46, and variously carpenter, dock foreman, dockmaster, and junior officer at the South Georgia Whaling Company station, Leith Harbour Leith Harbour (), also known as Port Leith, was a whaling station on the northeast coast of South Georgia, established and operated by Christian Salvesen Ltd, Edinburgh. The station was in operation from 1909 until 1965. It was the largest ..., for several year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjørn Oscar Gulbrandsen
Bjørn Oscar Gulbrandsen (17 September 1925 – 14 April 2011) was a Norwegian ice hockey player and yacht racer. He was born in Bærum. He grew up at Stabekk and later lived at Hosle. He represented the club Stabæk IF in ice hockey, football and bandy. After Stabæk's ice hockey team was discontinued in 1955, he played some years for Gamlebyen IF. He won the national titles in bandy in 1952, 1953 and 1955 and in ice hockey in 1947. He was capped three times in bandy and 28 times in ice hockey. For the Norwegian national ice hockey team he also participated at the 1952 Winter Olympics, where the Norwegian team placed ninth and last. He also took up yacht racing, where he represented the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club. He competed in sailing at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Gulbrandsen
Kate Gulbrandsen (born 6 August 1965 in Slemmestad) is a Norwegian singer. In 1986 she represented Norway at the Yamaha Song Festival in Tokyo with the song "Carnival". She won the Norwegian national final Melodi Grand Prix 1987 in a very close regional vote, giving her the opportunity to compete for Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 with the song " Mitt liv" (My Life), written by Rolf Løvland and Hanne Krogh. She went on to place ninth overall. Gulbrandsen tried to represent Norway again in 1989, singing "Nærhet" (Closeness) at the Melodi Grand Prix, although was unplaced. The song was rerecorded by Gulbrandsen in 1991, with a slightly different arrangement. Her version of Jørn Hansen's "Med gullet for øyet" was the official song of the 1998 Winter Paralympics in Nagano, Japan. In 2004, after more than ten years away from the Norwegian popular music scene, Kate made a musical comeback in country style with two new tracks reaching Norsktoppen, Norway's main pop c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |