Birger is a Scandinavian name from Old Norse, bjarga, meaning "to help, to save, to protect". It is widely used in Norway as Birger but also as Børge. The Swedish variant of Birger would soon evolve into Börje, however, the prior form would remain common, and was not confused with its successor. The Icelandic form is Birgir. Birger is primarily a masculine given name, but can also be found as a surname.
Pehr Victor Edman was a Swedish biochemist. He developed a method for sequencing proteins; the Edman degradation.
Holmberg is a Swedish surname formed from the words holm(e) meaning islet and berg meaning mountain. It is a relatively common name, at least in Sweden, which has to do with the fact that many Swedish place names contain the suffixes -holm, -holmen or -berg, -berga, -berget. Notable people with the surname include:
Alf is a given name, nickname and surname.
Pehr is a predominantly Swedish language masculine give name and may refer to:
Granqvist and Grankvist are surnames of Swedish origin which may refer to:
Lundberg is a surname of Swedish origin. Lundberg means "wooded hill" or "mountain grove". Notable people with the surname include:
Broberg is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hansson is a Swedish patronymic surname meaning "son of Hans": itself of the same origin as John via the Latin form Johannes. Notable people with the surname include:
Edström or Edstrom is a surname of Swedish origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Christin is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Björk, Björck, Biörck, or Bjork is a Swedish surname meaning birch. It is also an Icelandic name given to girls, meaning birch, specifically the most common native tree of Iceland, Betula pubescens tortuosa.
Sundquist is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Boo is a given name, nickname and surname. It may refer to:
Janse is a Dutch patronymic surname. People with this name include:
Nordgren, Nordgreen, Nordgrén is a Swedish surname, a 'soldier name' from Uppland. It may refer to:
Gyllenhammar is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Eatman is a surname. The surnames Eatman and Eatmon probably originated as variants of the English surname Edman. The surname Edman was derived from a Middle English given name, itself probably from an Old English given name consisting of ead "prosperity" and mann "person", though that Old English given name is unattested. Other variants of the surname Edman include Edmans and Edmands. The 2010 United States Census found 1,183 people with the surname Eatman, making it the 21,940th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 921 (25,242nd-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In the 2010 census, about 55% of the bearers of the surname identified as White, and 40% as Black.
Sandin is a surname of Swedish origin. Sandín also refers to the surname found in Spain and Latin America, particularly. The distribution of Spanish births, are most common in Zamora with (33,73%) of people with the surname and it being their first Surname, Madrid (14,45%), Cáceres (9,99%) and Salamanca (8,23%).
Calle is a Scandinavian, mostly Swedish, masculine given name, nickname and surname that is a diminutive form of Carl and Karl and an alternate form of Kalle. Calle is also a surname. Notable people referred to by this name include the following:
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