Thorkild may refer to:
John Daniel Lyng (help·info) was a Norwegian politician from the Conservative Party. He was the 24th prime minister of Norway from 28 August to 25 September 1963 in a coalition government consisting of the Conservative, Centre, Christian Democratic, and Liberal parties. It was the first government in 28 years that was not headed by the Labour Party.
Einar is a Scandinavian given name deriving from the Old Norse name Einarr, which according to Guðbrandur Vigfússon is directly connected with the concept of the einherjar, warriors who died in battle and ascended to Valhalla in Norse mythology. Vigfússon comments that 'the name Einarr is properly = einheri" and points to a relation to the term with the Old Norse common nouns einarðr and einörð.
Knut Frydenlund was a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Labour Party who served as foreign minister from 1973–1981 and again from 1986–1987.
Rovsing's sign, named after the Danish surgeon Niels Thorkild Rovsing (1862–1927), is a sign of appendicitis. If palpation of the left lower quadrant of a person's abdomen increases the pain felt in the right lower quadrant, the patient is said to have a positive Rovsing's sign and may have appendicitis. The phenomenon was first described by Swedish surgeon Emil Samuel Perman (1856-1945) writing in the journal Hygiea in 1904.
Jørgen is a Danish, Norwegian, and Faroese masculine given name cognate to George
Carl Egil Wang was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.
Thorkild Simonsen was a Danish politician and member of the Social Democrats. He was mayor of Århus municipality from 1982 to 1997 and Interior Minister of Denmark from 1997 to 2000 in the Cabinets of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen III and IV.
Svenn Thorkild Stray was a Norwegian politician and a member of the Conservative Party of Norway. He served as a member of parliament from 1958 to 1985, as president of the Nordic Council in 1968, and as foreign minister of Norway from 1970 to 1971, and 1981 to 1986.
Jacobsen is a Danish-Norwegian patronymic surname meaning "son of Jacob". The prefix derives from the biblical given name Yaakov. The cognate Jakobsen is less common. The English language patronymic surname Jacobson is a parallel form, of which the earliest records are found in Huntingdon in 1244. Scandinavian immigrants to English-speaking countries often changed the spelling to Jacobson in order to accommodate English orthographic rules. Notable people with the surname include:
Simonsen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Henningsen is a patronymic surname, created from the given name Henning. Notable people with the surname include:
Thorkild Hansen was a Danish novelist most noted for his historical fiction. He is commonly associated with his trilogy about the Danish slave trade including Slavernes øer (1970) for which he received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1971.
Events in the year 1922 in Norway.
Niels Thorkild Rovsing was a Danish surgeon remembered for describing Rovsing's sign.
Christian Stray was a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Liberal Party.
Thorkildsen may refer to:
Clara Ottesen was a Norwegian government official, economist, aid worker and politician.
Svenn Crone is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Norwegian First Division club Brann.
Anker is a given name of Danish, Faroese and Norwegian origin, sometimes used as a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Gram is the surname of: