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Ohlsson
Ohlsson is a surname of Swedish origin. It is a contraction of the surname Olofsson and it literally means "son of Olof". Notable people with the name include: *Birgitta Ohlsson (born 1975), Swedish politician *Carina Ohlsson, Swedish politician * Erik Ohlsson (musician), Swedish guitarist * Erik Ohlsson (sport shooter), Swedish athlete *Garrick Ohlsson, American classical pianist * Hjalmar Ohlsson, Swedish athlete * Ingrid Ohlsson, Swedish orienteering competitor *Jenny Ohlsson, Swedish ambassador * Patrik Ohlsson, Swedish athlete * Peder Ohlsson, Swedish military officer * Per T. Ohlsson (1958-2021), Swedish journalist * Thomas Ohlsson (born 1958), Swedish sprint canoer * Thorild Ohlsson, Swedish athlete Fictional *Greta Ohlsson, a character in ''Murder on the Orient Express'' by Agatha Christie See also * Ohlson *Olsson Olsson is a common Swedish surname. It is a contraction of the surname Olofsson and it literally means "son of Olof" and seldom also "son of Ola". Notable p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrick Ohlsson
Garrick Olof Ohlsson (born April 3, 1948) is an American classical pianist. He is the only American to have won first prize in the International Chopin Piano Competition, at the VIII competition in 1970. He also won first prize at the Busoni Competition in Italy and the Montreal Piano Competition in Canada. He was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1994 and received the 1998 University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ohlsson has also been nominated for three Grammy Awards, winning one in 2008. Early life Ohlsson was born in 1948 in White Plains, New York, the only child of a Swedish father and Sicilian-American mother. He began his piano studies at the age of eight at the Music Conservatory of Westchester and, at the age of 13, began studying at the Juilliard School. His musical development has been influenced in completely different ways by a succession of distinguished teachers, most notably Claudio Arrau, Olga Barabini, Tom Lishman, Sascha Gor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peder Ohlsson
Brigadier General Dennis ''Peder'' Dag Ohlsson (born 10 March 1962) is an officer in the Swedish Amphibious Corps. He currently serves as Director of Communication and Public Affairs and head of the Communications Department in the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters. Early life Ohlsson was born on 10 March 1962 Karlstorp Parish, Vetlanda Municipality, Sweden. Ohlsson did his military service in Vaxholm Coastal Artillery Regiment in Vaxholm and served after the basic training as an instructor in the summer of 1982 at the then Coastal Ranger School (''Kustjägarskolan'') at the regiment, a service that provided a few months of opportunity for instructor experience before the officer training began in Gothenburg. Career Ohlsson graduated from the Swedish Navy Officers' College in Gothenburg (''Marinens officershögskola i Göteborg'', MOHS G) in 1984 and was commissioned as an officer the same year and was assigned as a second lieutenant to Vaxholm Coastal Artillery Regiment, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birgitta Ohlsson
Eva Birgitta Ohlsson Klamberg (born 20 July 1975) is a Swedish politician who was Minister for European Union Affairs in the Swedish government from 2010 to 2014. She is a member of the Liberals, formerly the Liberal People's Party. Birgitta Ohlsson serves as the National Democratic Institute’s director of political parties. In June 2017, Ohlsson challenged incumbent party leader Jan Björklund to become the next leader at the congress i November 2017. On 15 september 2017, following results from the 'test election' in Stockholm County, Ohlsson announced she was to relinquish her leadership bid and to leave the political arena by the next general election in 2018. Early life and education Birgitta Ohlsson was born in Linköping, Östergötland County, Sweden. She received her upper secondary ('' gymnasium'') education at Katedralskolan in Linköping between 1991 and 1994. Between 1994 and 1997 she studied political science, international relations and United Nations st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Ohlsson
Jenny Ohlsson (born 1975) is a Swedish diplomat who has been serving as State Secretary to the Minister for International Development Cooperation Matilda Ernkrans in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Sweden) since November 2021. She was the first Swedish ambassador to Rwanda. Early life and education Ohlsson attended the Pearson College UWC in Victoria, British Columbia between 1992 and 1994 and studied at Uppsala University from 1998 to 2007. Career in diplomacy Ohlsson joined the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 2002. Her assignments included working for the Africa Department, the Swedish embassy in Pretoria and the Swedish office in Kigali (from 2007 to 2009). Another assignment was working as counsellor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cabinet Office. On a diplomatic level the diplomatic contacts of Sweden to Rwanda were upheld through the embassies in Nairobi and Kampala. The first Swedish representative in Rwanda in 1997 resided in a hotel room. The Swedish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder On The Orient Express
''Murder on the Orient Express'' is a work of detective fiction by English writer Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934. In the United States, it was published on 28 February 1934, under the title of ''Murder in the Calais Coach,'' by Dodd, Mead and Company. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and Sixpence (British coin), sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2. The elegant train of the 1930s, the Orient Express, is stopped by heavy snowfall. A murder is discovered, and Poirot's trip home to London from the Middle East is interrupted to solve the case. The opening chapters of the novel take place primarily in Istanbul. The rest of the novel takes place in Yugoslavia, with the train trapped between Vinkovci and Slavonski Brod, Brod. The US title of ''Murder in the Calais Coach'' was used to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel ''Stamboul Train'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Ohlsson (musician)
Erik Ohlsson (born 2 July 1975 in Örebro, Sweden) is the lead and rhythm guitarist of Swedish punk rock band Millencolin. He currently resides in Örebro, Sweden. He designs most all of the band's artwork, including their t-shirts, logos, cover artwork, and their officiahomepage Ohlsson edited and designed Millencolin's 1998 video '' Millencolin and the Hi-8 Adventures''. He also works as a freelance graphic designer at Eckhouse Design. He still skateboards from time to time, but like the other two members of Millencolin who skate (Nikola Sarcevic and Mathias Färm Mathias Färm (born September 9, 1974, in Örebro, Sweden) is a guitar player, best known as a member of the Swedish punk rock band Millencolin. He is also the frontman of a punk band named Franky Lee, a side-project of Millencolin. He started ...), the time available to do so has been taken up by various side projects. He has a dog named Colin. In the early albums of the band, he played most of the lead guit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carina Ohlsson
Carina Ohlsson (born 14 June 1957), is a Swedish social democratic politician who served as member of the Riksdag from 1998 to 2022. She is set to become Member of the European Parliament following Jytte Gutelands resignation. Read 2022-09-28 (in Swedish) She was chairperson of the from 2013 to 2021. References External links Carina Ohlsson at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Ohlsson (sport Shooter)
Per Erik F. "Pågen" Ohlsson (20 November 1884 – 19 September 1980) was a Swedish sport shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as ... who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, in the 1912 Summer Olympics, and in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he finished 28th in the 300 metre free rifle competition and 43rd in the 1000 yard free rifle event. Four years later he finished 21st in the 300 metre military rifle, three positions competition and 28th in the 600 metre free rifle event. In 1920 he won the silver medal as member of the Swedish team in the team small-bore rifle competition and the bronze medal in the team 600 metre military rifle, prone. In the 1920 Summer Olympics he also participated in the following events: * 600 metre military rifle, prone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hjalmar Ohlsson
Hjalmar Ohlsson (October 9, 1891 – February 27, 1975) was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be .... In 1912 he finished seventh in the triple jump competition. References External linksprofile 1891 births 1975 deaths Swedish male triple jumpers Olympic athletes for Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrik Ohlsson
Patrik Ohlsson (October 28, 1889 – April 12, 1965) was a Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ... track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1912 he finished 15th in the triple jump competition. He also participated in the long jump event and finished twentieth. References External linksprofile 1889 births 1965 deaths Swedish male triple jumpers Swedish male long jumpers Olympic athletes for Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics 20th-century Swedish people {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ohlsson
Thomas Ohlsson (born 20 September 1958) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Los Angeles in 1984. Ohlsson's wife, Eva Karlsson, won a silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at those same games. He also won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1982), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1982). References * * External links * 1958 births Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic canoeists for Sweden Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Swedish male canoeists Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid Ohlsson
Ingrid Linnea Ohlsson (born 31 May 1950) is a Swedish orienteering competitor Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, indivi .... She is Relay World Champion from 1976, as a member of the Swedish winning team.World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 (Retrieved on December 30, 2007) References 1950 births Living people[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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