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Mikkelsen
Mikkelsen is a Danish-Norwegian patronymic surname meaning "son of Mikkel" (equivalent of Michael). People with the name Mikkelsen include: People *Andreas Mikkelsen - Norwegian rally driver * Bård Mikkelsen - Norwegian businessperson *Brian Mikkelsen - Danish politician *Caroline Mikkelsen - Norwegian Antarctica Explorer * Dag Martin Mikkelsen - Norwegian poker player *Ejnar Mikkelsen (1880–1971) - Danish polar explorer * Hans Mikkelsen – Translator of the Bible * Helmer Mikkelsen - Norwegian politician for the Labour Party *Henriette Mikkelsen - Danish handball player *Jákup Mikkelsen - Faroese football goalkeeper *Jens Kramer Mikkelsen - Lord Mayor of Copenhagen for the Social Democratic Party * Jeppe Mikkelsen - Danish MP * Jesper Mikkelsen - Danish professional football defender * Karin Mikkelsen, Danish cricketer *Knut Ragnar Mikkelsen - Norwegian police chief * Kurtis Dam-Mikkelsen, Swiss-American drag queen known as Miss Fame *Lars Mikkelsen - Danish actor *Mads ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mads Mikkelsen
Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen, (; born 22 November 1965) is a Danish actor. Originally a gymnast and dancer, he rose to fame in Denmark as an actor for his roles such as Tonny in the first two films of the ''Pusher'' film trilogy (1996, 2004), Detective Sergeant Allan Fischer in the television series ''Rejseholdet'' (2000–2004), Niels in ''Open Hearts'' (2002), Svend in ''The Green Butchers'' (2003), Ivan in ''Adam's Apples'' (2005) and Jacob Petersen in '' After the Wedding'' (2006). Mikkelsen achieved worldwide recognition for playing the main antagonist Le Chiffre in the twenty-first ''James Bond'' film, '' Casino Royale'' (2006). His other roles include Igor Stravinsky in ''Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky'' (2008), Johann Friedrich Struensee in ''A Royal Affair'' (2012), his Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award-winning performance as Lucas in the Danish film '' The Hunt'' (2012), Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the television series ''Hannibal'' (2013–2015), Kaecilius in Marvel's '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Mikkelsen
Andreas Mikkelsen (born 22 June 1989) is a Norwegian rally driver. He is currently competing in the World Rally Championship-2 for Toksport World Rally Team. He previously drove for the factory teams of Volkswagen, Citroën and Hyundai in the World Rally Championship, finishing third in the drivers' standings in 2014, 2015 and 2016. His current co-driver is Torstein Eriksen. He is a two-time Intercontinental Rally Challenge champion, having finished first in 2011 and 2012. In 2021, Mikkelsen became the drivers' champion in both the WRC-2 and the European Rally Championship. Career Mikkelsen has a broad background in sports. He has competed in slalom and giant slalom, and was a member of the national juniors' alpine skiing team. In 2003 and 2004, he competed in motocross, also representing the national juniors' team. 2006–2010: Ford After turning 17 and getting a British driver's license, Mikkelsen started competing in rallies in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Driving a Ford F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Mikkelsen
Lars Dittmann Mikkelsen (born 6 May 1964) is a Danish actor. He has played Copenhagen mayoral election candidate Troels Hartmann in the drama series ''The Killing (Danish TV series), The Killing'', List of Sherlock characters#Charles Augustus Magnussen, Charles Augustus Magnussen in the third series of ''Sherlock (TV series), Sherlock'', the Russian president Viktor Petrov in the American ''House of Cards (American TV series), House of Cards'' on Netflix, and Grand Admiral Thrawn in ''Star Wars Rebels''. In 2011, he won the Reumert prize, Reumert Prize of Honour. Early life Mikkelsen was born in Gladsaxe Municipality, Gladsaxe near Copenhagen. He and his younger brother, actor Mads Mikkelsen, were raised in the Nørrebro district.Transcript of Part 1 of Documentary in German, transcript in English. After secondary school, he enlisted for military service in the Royal Danish Army. He then studied biology at the University of Copenhagen but gave up the course to earn his living as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ejnar Mikkelsen
Ejnar Mikkelsen (December 23, 1880 – May 1, 1971) was a Danish polar explorer and author. He is most known for his expeditions to Greenland. Biography Mikkelsen was born in Vester Brønderslev, Jutland. He served in the Georg Carl Amdrup expedition to Christian IX Land, East Greenland (1900), and in the Baldwin-Ziegler North Pole Expedition to Franz Joseph Land (1900–02). With Ernest de Koven Leffingwell he organized the Anglo-American polar expedition which wintered off Flaxman Island, Alaska, in 1906–07. They lost their ship, but in a sledge journey over the ice they located the continental shelf of the Arctic Ocean, 65 miles (105 km) offshore, where in 2 miles (3 km) the sea increased from 50 meters (164 ft) to more than 690 meters (2264 ft) in depth.Mills, William James (2003"Mikkelsen, Ejnar (1880–1971)"''Exploring polar frontiers: a historical encyclopedia, Volume 1'' pp 426 ff, ABC-CLIO , Organizing an expedition to map out the northeast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Mikkelsen
Caroline Mikkelsen (20 November 1906 – 15 September 1998, later married Mandel) was a Danish-Norwegian explorer who on 20 February 1935 was the first woman to set foot on Antarctica, although whether this was on the mainland or an island is a matter of dispute. Antarctic exploration Caroline Mikkelsen was born on 20 November 1906 in Denmark, later she married her first husband Norwegian Captain Klarius Mikkelsen and moved to Norway. In the winter of 1934–1935, Mikkelsen accompanied her Norwegian husband Klarius on an Antarctic expedition sponsored by Lars Christensen, on the resupply vessel ''M/S Thorshavn'' with instructions to look for Antarctic lands that could be annexed for Norway. Mount Caroline Mikkelsen is named for her. On 20 February 1935, the expedition made landfall somewhere on the Antarctic continental shelf. Mikkelsen left the ship and participated in raising the Norwegian flag and in building a memorial cairn. Mikkelsen never made any recorded claim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobias Mikkelsen
Tobias Pilegaard Mikkelsen (; born 18 September 1986) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a winger, he last played for Helsingborgs IF in the Allsvenskan. He has eight senior caps for Denmark, as well as a total of 11 youth caps with the U20 and U21 teams. Club career Brøndby After helping Lyngby BK gain promotion to the Danish Superliga, Mikkelsen switched to league rivals Brøndby IF in the summer of 2007. On 21 July 2007, he made an impressive home debut for Brøndby in their match against FC Nordsjælland scoring a goal and also notching an assist a 2–2 draw. He was signed to fill in the right winger spot in a 4–3–3 system, but coach Tom Køhlert and later Kent Nielsen decided to use a 4–4–2 formation which resulted in sparse time on the pitch for the young winger. Nordsjælland On 18 August 2009, Mikkelsen signed for FC Nordsjælland. In Nordsjælland Mikkelsen won the Danish Cup twice, in 2010 and 2011. In the 2011–12 season, he won th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jákup Mikkelsen
Jákup Nolsøe Mikkelsen (born 14 August 1970) is a Faroese former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He made 522 league appearances in representing six clubs in a career spanning 25 years, also representing his country at international level. A regular member of the Faroe Islands national team between 1995 and 2013, Mikkelsen won 73 caps, and in playing against Iceland on 16 August 2012 aged 42 years and one day, became the oldest goalkeeper ever to play an international match, the record that has since been surpassed by Colombian Faryd Mondragon. Mikkelsen is a schoolteacher and goalkeeping coach for the Faroe Islands national team. He also sat in the city council of this native town of Klaksvík for one election period. In his youth, he worked as a postman in Klaksvík. Club career Born in Klaksvík, Mikkelsen started at KÍ Klaksvík, where he sometimes was used as an outfield player, before moving abroad to play for several years in Denmark and Norway. In the 1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Kramer Mikkelsen
Jens Kramer Mikkelsen (born 16 December 1951) was the Lord Mayor of Copenhagen for the Social Democratic Party from 1989 to 2004 and he is the longest-serving mayor in the City of Copenhagen. In 2004, Kramer became the CEO of the ''Ørestad Development Corporation'' (Ørestadsselskabet I/S) and the company merged with ''Copenhagen Harbor'' in 2007 where Kramer was appointed CEO of CPH City & Port where he served until 2018. Currently, Kramer is Director of Urban Development at ''Nordic Real Estate Partners'' (NREP) and he holds a number of board positions in various companies and NGOs. Early life and education Jens Kramer Mikkelsen was born in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen in 1951. He graduated as a primary school teacher from Seminariet på Emdrupborg in 1976. He then worked as a Danish and Math teacher at Grundtvigsskolen in Copenhagen until he became Lord Mayor of Copenhagen in 1989. Political career Kramer Mikkelsen was a member of the local government of Copenhagen s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bård Mikkelsen
Bård Martin Mikkelsen (born 31 May 1948) is a Norwegian businessperson. He has been the chief executive officer of Widerøe (1988–1997), the Ulstein Group (1997–1999), Oslo Energi Holding (1999–2001) and Statkraft (2001–2010). Biography He was born in Oslo, but grew up in Sarpsborg, in the neighborhood Hafslund. His father spent his career in the company Hafslund. Bård Mikkelsen took his education at the Befalsskolen for Kavaleriet and Norwegian Military Academy, and worked in the Norwegian Army, among others in Hærens Fallskjermjegerskole. As a continuation of this he has been an active skydiver, and in 1986 he became an instructor in tandem skydiving. His last dive was in 1994 over Antarctica. He left the military in 1977, and became a sales engineer in Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker. The next year he became "personal director" in Norzink in Odda. He was later promoted to assisting director. In 1984 he became director of DnC's department in Gjøvik. In line with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Mikkelsen
Martin Bentzen Veng Mikkelsen (born 29 April 1986) is a Danish football coach and former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently manager of Aarhus Fremad's reserve team. Playing career Mikkelsen made his professional debut as part of AGF on 25 July 2004 in a 2–2 away draw against FC Nordsjælland, coming on as an 81st-minute substitute for Jeffrey Aubynn. He would later play for FC Fredericia and Hobro IK. Coaching career On 11 August 2019, Mikkelsen returned to FC Fredericia. Two weeks later, he was also hired as a youth consultant at Danish 2nd Division club VSK Aarhus. He left Fredericia in June 2020, and signed with Aarhus Fremad in the Danish 2nd Division, where he would become a player-assistant to head coach Morten Dahm Kjærgaard. He retired as a player in July 2021 to focus full-time on his role as assistant coach of Aarhus Fremad. On 14 June 2022 Mikkelsen confirmed, that he accepted an offer to become the manager of Aarhus Fremad's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Mikkelsen
Peter James Mikkelsen (October 25, 1939 – November 29, 2006) was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1964 through 1972 for the New York Yankees (1964–65), Pittsburgh Pirates (1966–67), Chicago Cubs (1967–68), St. Louis Cardinals (1968) and Los Angeles Dodgers (1969–72). Mikkelsen batted and threw right-handed was listed as tall and . He was born in Staten Island, New York. A sinker-ball specialist, Mikkelsen filled various relief roles coming out from the bullpen, as a closer or a middle reliever, and as a set-up man as well. He reached the majors in 1964 with the New York Yankees, spending two years with them before moving to the Pirates, Cubs, Cardinals and Dodgers. He finished 7–4 with a 3.56 ERA and 12 saves in his rookie season, but in the 1964 World Series against St. Louis he allowed a Tim McCarver game-winning three-run home run in the 10th inning of Game Five. His most productive season came in 1966 with Pittsburgh, when h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Mikkelsen
Brian Arthur Mikkelsen (born 31 January 1966) is CEO of The Danish Chamber of Commerce. He is former Minister and former member of the Conservative People's Party, and was in The Danish Parliament (Folketinget) from 21 September 1994 to 21 June 2018. Mikkelsen was born in Copenhagen as the son of systems consultant Arne Mikkelsen and receptionist Winnie Mikkelsen. Political career Mikkelsen was the Danish Culture Minister from November 2001 to September 2008, Justice Minister from September 2008 to February 2010 and Minister of Economic and Business Affairs from February 2010 to October 2011. He was appointed Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs on 28 November 2016. Other activities Mikkelsen has since 2001 been a member of the executive committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency, and he was its vice-president from 2004 to 2006. In his capacity as minister, he also holds the following positions: * European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Ex-Offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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