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Nordenskiöld or Nordenskjöld (, ) can refer to a number of
Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...
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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 ...
people, who belong to the same noble family: ''Nordenskiöld'' branch: * Otto Henrik Nordenskiöld, (1747-1832) Swedish Admiral * August Nordenskiöld, (1754–1792) alchemist, brother of Otto Henrik *
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (18 November 183212 August 1901) was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the Fenno-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a friher ...
, (1832–1901) scientist and explorer, son of Nils Gustaf *
Bengt Nordenskiöld General Bengt Gustafsson (G:son) Nordenskiöld (6September 1891 – 28January 1983) was a Swedish Air Force officer who served as Chief of the Air Force from 1942 to 1954. In 1910 Nordenskiöld started his military career as a voluntee ...
, (1891–1983) Swedish Air Force general *
Claës-Henrik Nordenskiöld Major General Claës-Henrik Bengtsson (B:son) Nordenskiöld (28 July 1917 – 11 November 2003) was a Swedish Air Force officer and sailor. He was Chief of the Air Staff from 1966 to 1970 and acting Chief of the Air Force in 1968. Early life N ...
, (1917–2003) Swedish Air Force major general, son of Bengt *
Erland Nordenskiöld Baron Nils Erland Herbert Nordenskiöld (19 July 1877 – 5 July 1932) was a Swedish archeologist and anthropologist. Nordenskiöld's research focused on the ethnography and prehistory of South America. Biography He was born in Stockholm, t ...
, (1877–1932) archeologist and anthropologist, younger son of Adolf Erik * Günter von Nordenskjöld (1910–1997), German politician (CDU) * Gustaf Nordenskiöld, (1868–1895) scholar, elder son of Adolf Erik * Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld, (1792–1866) mineralogist and traveller ''Nordenskjöld'' branch: * Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld, (1869–1928) explorer and geographer, nephew of Adolf Norden''skiöld''


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The National Biography of Finland ''Suomen kansallisbiografia'' ( en, The National Biography of Finland) is a collection of more than 6,000 biographies A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like e ...
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Swedish-speaking Finns The Swedish-speaking population of Finland (whose members are called by many names; fi, suomenruotsalainen) can be used as an attribute., group=Note—see below; sv, finlandssvenskar; fi, suomenruotsalaiset) is a linguistic minority in Finl ...
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