Famous People with Name Thorsen

Rolf Bent Thorsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Rolf Bent Thorsen: is a Norwegian competition rower, world champion and Olympic medalist.He received a silver medal in quadruple sculls at the the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, together with Alf Hansen, Vetle Vinje, and Lars Bjønness.

Jonas Søndberg Thorsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Jonas Søndberg Thorsen: is a Danish football midfielder, who plays for the Danish 1st Division club Viborg FF.

Jan Einar Thorsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Jan Einar Thorsen: is a former Norwegian Alpine skier, active between 1987 and 1994. He won three World Cup victories, two in Super-G and one in Giant Slalom. In addition he won the World Cup title for Super G in 1994. At the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, Thorsen won a bron

Jens Jørgen Thorsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Jens Jørgen Thorsen: was a Danish artist, director, and jazz musician whose works sometimes created controversy. Thorsen began his artistic career attending periodically the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. However he chose to produce and create art that was meant to be provocative. This included a number of public displays protesting various governmental issues.[citation needed] Thorsen also wrote, directed, and starred in a number of films, the most notable of them being Stille dage i Clichy, based on a Henry Miller novel. In painting, Thorsen painted a number of abstract works, which have become increasingly collectible. He also stirred up controversy with a work depicting Jesus in a manner some considered pornographic. Thorsen planned a film called The Many Faces of Jesus, later The Sex Life of Jesus, and was to have involved both heterosexual and homosexual acts. The film was to have been made in Britain, but it faced intense opposition from Christian morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse, pressure groups, as well as from the Queen, then Prime Minister James Callaghan, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Donald Coggan. The film was never made.

Henning Thorsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Henning Thorsen: is a strongman competitor from Denmark. He won Denmark's Strongest Man six times from 1984, 1987 to 1989, 1991 and 1992. And participated in the World's Strongest Man finals of 1990, 1991 and 1992. His best result was a second place in 1991.