Jespersen is a

Danish Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ...

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Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

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* Anna Jespersen (1895–1989), American geologist *

Chris Jespersen Chris André Jespersen (born 18 October 1983) is a Norwegian cross-country skier who has competed since 2002. His best World Cup finishes were second in a 30 km event in Davos in 2013, and second in the 2013–14 Tour de Ski. Jespersen's lo ...

(born 1983), Norwegian cross-country skier * Eric Jespersen (born 1961), Canadian sailor *

Finn Varde Jespersen Finn Varde Jespersen (4 April 1914 – 6 June 1944) was among Norway's leading orienteering, orienteers in the late 1930s. During World War II, he was a pilot with the rank of lieutenant. He perished during the Operation Overlord, invasion o ...

(1914–44), Norwegian orienteer * Helle Jespersen (born 1968), Danish competitive sailor *

Karen Jespersen Karen Moustgaard Jespersen (born 17 January 1947 in Copenhagen) is a Danish journalist and former politician representing the party Venstre. Early life Born in Copenhagen, she's the daughter of labourer Knud Jespersen and delicatessen owner Anna J ...

(born 1947), Danish politician * Knud Jespersen (1926–77), Danish politician *

Mogens Jespersen Mogens Jespersen (born 9 April 1949) is a Danish former football (soccer) player, who played 165 games and scored 55 goals for Aalborg Boldspilklub. He was the top goalscorer of the 1976 Danish football champions The Danish football champions ...

(born 1949), Danish soccer player *

Otto Jespersen Jens Otto Harry Jespersen (; 16 July 1860 – 30 April 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English language. Steven Mithen described him as "one of the greatest language scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth ce ...

(1860–1943), Danish linguist *

Otto Jespersen (comedian) Hans Otto Jespersen (born 21 July 1954) is a Norwegian comedian, actor and television personality. He starred in the title role of the 2010 film ''Trollhunter''. Biography At the age of 19 Jespersen became a Marxist-Leninist, and was briefly a ...

(born 1954), Norwegian comedian and satirist *

Per Mathias Jespersen Per Mathias Jespersen (29 March 1888 – 13 July 1964) was a Norwegian gymnast who competed in the 1906 Intercalated Games and in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was born in Skien. He was married to Anna Johnsen, and they were the parents of Finn V ...

(1888–1964), Norwegian gymnast *

Ralph Jespersen Ralph Andrew Jespersen (May 9, 1925 – October 17, 2016) was a dairyman and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1967 to 1971, sitting with the governing Social Credit ca ...

(born 1925), Canadian dairyman and politician

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Murders of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen and Maren Ueland Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the c ...

, a 2018 crime that occurred in Morocco * Jespersen's Cycle, process of

grammaticalization In historical linguistics, grammaticalization (also known as grammatization or grammaticization) is a process of language change by which words representing objects and actions (i.e. nouns and verbs) become grammatical markers (such as affixes or p ...

named in recognition of Otto Jespersen’s pioneering work

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