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Johansen
Johansen is a Scandinavian patronymic surname meaning ''"son of Johan (given name), Johan"''. It is most common in Denmark and Norway. The Sweden, Swedish variant is Johansson, while the most common spelling in the US is Johanson. There are still other spellings. Johansen is an uncommon given name. People with the surname Johansen include: * Allan Johansen (born 1971), Danish professional road bicycle racer * Anders Johansen * August E. Johansen (1905-1995), U.S. Representative from Michigan * Bård Tufte Johansen (born 1969), Norwegian comedian * Bill Johansen, William Odd "Red" Johansen (born 1928), Canadian professional ice hockey player * Bjørn Johansen (footballer) (born 1969), Norwegian footballer * Bjørn Johansen (ice hockey) (born 1944), Norwegian ice hockey player * Bjørn Johansen (musician) (1940–2002), Norwegian jazz musician * Christian Johansen * Dan Anton Johansen (born 1979), Danish professional footballer * Darryl Johansen (born 1959), Australian chess Gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Johansen
David Roger Johansen (sometimes spelled ''David Jo Hansen''; born January 9, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal proto-punk band the New York Dolls. He is also known for his work under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter, and for playing the Ghost of Christmas Past in '' Scrooged''. Early life Johansen was born in the New York City borough of Staten Island to a librarian mother, Helen, and an insurance sales representative father, who had previously sung opera. His mother was Irish American and his father was Norwegian American. Career Johansen began his career in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the Vagabond Missionaries, a local Staten Island band and later in the early 1970s as the singer/songwriter in the proto-punk band the New York Dolls. The New York Dolls were in the Mercer’s scene, appearing on the bill at a New Year’s Eve 1972 gig with Ruby and the Rednecks. They released two albums, the eponymous ''New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Johansen
Elisabeth Johansen (1 August 1907 – 21 June 1993) was a Greenlandic midwife and politician. She was the first certified midwife in the country, as well as the first woman to attain a political office in Greenland. She was the first women appointed Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog. Early life Elisabeth Maria Sara Johansen was born on 1 August 1907 in Uummannaq, Greenland to Johanne Marie Gjertrud Fleichser and Johan Emil Hans Henningsen (da). Her father was a local council member of the Confederated Cabinet between 1862 and 1863 and in 1911 became a noted member of the North Greenland Provincial Council. Her childhood, as was typical for upper-class girls, did not include schooling. In 1923, Johansen took a post with a Danish family who were traveling as a nanny and was encouraged by her employer's wife to train as a midwife. In 1925, Johansen traveled to Denmark and began training despite her father's skepticism that she would be successful. In 1931, Johansen passed her m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egil Johansen (musician)
Egil "Bop" Johansen (11 January 1934 – 4 December 1998) was a Norwegian-Swedish jazz drummer, teacher, composer, and arranger. Life Johansen was born in Oslo. He was considered already in his teens as one of the best drummers and was a professional musician from the age of 16. He received the nickname "Bop" because he was especially good at playing bebop. He was always open to the new styles of jazz that he encountered. His professional career started in Einar Stenberg’s orchestra in the summer of 1950 with ''Svalerødkilens badhotell'' and continued in the autumn with ''Svaes Danseskole'', after which he joined Egil Monn-Iversen’s orchestra and Kjell Johansen’s experimental band for 1951-1953. He played in Rowland Greenberg’s orchestra in 1952. He moved to Sweden in 1954 at the invitation of Simon Brehm. He entered immediately into collaboration with the Swedish jazz elite of Arne Domnérus, Bengt Hallberg, Rune Gustafsson, Georg Riedel, Jan Johansson and others ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Anton Johansen
Dan Anton Johansen (born August 13, 1979) is a former Danish professional footballer currently playing for Hvidovre IF. Johansen started his career with Danish team Brøndby IF in 1999, with whom he won the 2002 and 2005 Danish Superliga championships. He has played 46 matches for various Danish youth national teams, including 13 games for the Denmark national under-21 team. Biography Brøndby Johansen started playing football with Brøndby IF as a boy. He worked his way through the club's youth system, and represented various Danish national youth teams. Johansen played a combined total of 46 national youth team games, and scored one goal, and he won the 1995 Danish ''under-17 Talent of the Year'' award. He debuted for Brøndby IF's senior team on April 1, 1999, at age 19. He played his first seasons in as a central defender and was named Brøndby IF ''Player of the Year'' in 2000. Following the signing of Sweden international defender Andreas Jakobsson and the emergence of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjørn Johansen (musician)
Bjørn John Johansen (23 May 1940 – 6 May 2002) was a Norwegian jazz musician (baritone, tenor & alto saxophones, clarinet and flute), known from a number of recordings and international cooperation. He has been one of the most influential Norwegian saxophonists of all time and has been the inspiration for a generations of musicians, among them Jan Garbarek. Career Johansen was born in Fredrikstad, Norway. Strongly influenced by the music of John Coltrane, he joined orchestras led by Gunnar Brostigen, Kjell Karlsen (1956–59), Lars Sandsgaard, Pete Brown, and Arild Wikstrøm (1961). In addition to playing with Karin Krog, Bernt Rosengren, George Gruntz, Frode Thingnæs, Egil Kapstad, Helge Hurum/Thorleif Østereng/«Radiostorbandet» (1966–90), EBU Big Band (73), Laila Dalseth, Bjørn Alterhaug, and within the «Fatah Morgana Quartet». He was sentral on the Norwegian jazzscenes within bands like his own Kapstad/Johansen Quartet, including Bjørn Alterhaug (bass) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjørn Johansen (footballer)
Bjørn "Bummen" Johansen (born 7 September 1969) is a former Norwegian footballer, who played as a midfielder for Tromsø IL for most of his career. He is currently manager of Fredrikstad FK. Club career Johansen got his debut in 1987, and played for Tromsø until 1992. He moved to Viking in 1993, and stayed there for two seasons. In 1995, Johansen was back at Tromsø, and stayed with the club until 1999, and won the Norwegian Cup with Tromsø in 1996. Johansen played for the Swedish team Helsingborgs IF between 2000 and 2001, and played for the club in the Champions League, before he again returned to Tromsø, when the club played in the First Division in 2002. and helped the club return to the Norwegian Premier League. Johansen played for Tromsø between 1989 and 2005, with the exception of his 4 seasons and with his 326 league-games for Tromsø he is the player with the most matches for the club. Johansen also participated in four of Tromsø campaigns in European Cups. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bård Tufte Johansen
Bård Tufte Johansen (born 19 June 1969 in Skien) is a Norwegian comedian. Together with Harald Eia, he has authored and participated in several successful NRK TV series, such as ''U:Natt'' (1994), starring with Monotelevision, ''Lille Lørdag'' (1995), '' Åpen post'' (1998–2002), '' Uti vår hage'' (2003), '' Team Antonsen'' (2004), ''Tre brødre som ikke er brødre'' (2005), ''Ut i vår hage 2'' (2008) and ''Storbynatt'' (2010). In 2004–2005 Johansen and Eia had a radio-show called ''Tazte priv''. In 2003 Johansen starred in the Norwegian movie ''Lille Frøken Norge''. He has also done stand-up comedy. In the years 1988–1990 he was the vocalist of Norwegian progressive rock band Utopian Fields. Although most people regard his humor as intelligent, he has raised controversy several times. In 2002 Bård Tufte Johansen, representing Åpen post, mocked the media's double standards when the Norwegian Labour Party leader Thorbjørn Jagland Thorbjørn Jagland (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darryl Johansen
Darryl Keith Johansen (born 4 February 1959 in Melbourne) is an Australian chess grandmaster. He has won the Australian Chess Championship a record six times (in 1984, 1988, 1990, 2000, 2002, and 2012), and represented Australia at fourteen Chess Olympiads (1980–96, 2000–04, 2008–10). He was awarded by FIDE the titles of International Master in 1982 and Grandmaster in 1995, the second from Australia, after Ian Rogers. He won the Phillips & Drew Knights Masters tournament in London in 1984. In 1987, he won the inaugural Australian Masters tournament, and has finished first in this event on two other occasions. He won the 2002 Oceania Zonal Championship and represented the Oceania zone at the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004. In 2009, he won the Sydney International Open held in Parramatta, with a score of 7/9, winning the title on tiebreak ahead of George Xie George Xie is an International Master (IM) of chess, chess tutor and a former Australian Open chess ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Johansen
Allan Johansen (born 14 July 1971) is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer. Career He became professional in 1998 for Team Chicky World, before moving to (later known as Team CSC) in 2000. Johansen continued at Team Fakta from 2001 to 2003 then to in 2004, before returning to Team CSC in 2005, where remained until the end of 2007. In 2008 he joined . Johansen retired in 2009 ending his career with the 2009 Danmark Rundt when he was awarded the fighters award for the race. He rode in the 2000 Tour de France, and finished 119th overall. He also finished 125th in the 2005 Vuelta a España. Major results ;1997 : 8th Grand Prix Herning ;1998 : 4th Overall Tour de Normandie : 7th Grand Prix Herning ;1999 : 1st BKI Grand Prix : 1st Rund um Düren : 1st Stage 1 Sachsen Tour : 1st Stage 1 Hessen Rundfahrt ;2001 : 9th GP de Denain ;2002 : 1st Paris–Bourges : 1st Stage 5 Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt : 2nd Schaal Sels : 2nd GP Aarhus : 4th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens : 5th Overall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Johansen
Christian Johansen was a Danish cyclist. He competed in two events at the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van .... References External links * Year of birth missing Year of death missing Danish male cyclists Olympic cyclists of Denmark Cyclists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing {{Denmark-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Even Johansen
Magnet is the pseudonym of Norwegian singer-songwriter Even Johansen (born 7 June 1970). To date, he has released five full-length studio albums as well as several singles and EPs. Johansen draws upon many influences, including folk, pop, and electronica. His albums are composed and produced solely by him, and he usually performs live sets on his own, using preset loops or creating them as he plays. Biography Even Johansen was born, raised, and resides in Bergen, Norway, but he has also lived just outside the southern Scottish town of Lockerbie, where he recorded his '' On Your Side'' album. Initially, Even was a founding member of the Norwegian rock bands Libido and Chocolate Overdose. During his involvement with Libido, Even conceived a series of songs he thought were inappropriate for the band. His first solo album, '' Quiet & Still'', was released in 2000 under the alias Magnet (in the United States, the album was released under his real name). The name "Magnet" originated fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egil Borgen Johansen
Egil Borgen Johansen (14 March 1934 – 5 March 1993) was a Norwegian archer. He was born in Stavern in Larvik. He competed in archery at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu .... References External links * 1934 births 1993 deaths People from Larvik Norwegian male archers Olympic archers of Norway Archers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Vestfold og Telemark {{Norway-archery-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
