Famous People with Name Holger

Holger Norman-Hansen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Holger Norman-Hansen: was a Danish chess master.He was Danish Champion in 1939 after a play-off. He also finished 1st= in 1936 but lost the play-off.

Holger Pedersen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Holger Pedersen: a Danish linguist who made significant contributions to language science and wrote about 30 authoritative works concerning several languages.As a young man, he traveled to Korfu with the great Indo-Europeanist Karl Brugmann to gather material on Albanian.Pedersen received his doctorate in 1897 from the University of Copenhagen and stayed on there as a professor.Among students of the Celtic languages he is best known for his Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen, 'Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages', which is still regarded as the principal reference work in Celtic historical linguistics.

Holger Bech Nielsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Holger Bech Nielsen: a Danish theoretical physicist, professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, at the University of Copenhagen, where he started studying physics in 1961.Holger Bech Nielsen has made original contributions to theoretical particle physics specifically in the field of string theory. Independently of Nambu and Susskind, he was the first to propose that the Veneziano model was actually a theory of strings and this is why he is considered among the fathers of string theory. He was awarded the highly esteemed Humboldt Prize in 2001 for his scientific research. Several nuclear physics concepts are named after him, e.g. Nielsen-Olesen Vortex and the Nielsen-Ninomiya no-go theorem for representing chiral fermions on the lattice. He is known in Denmark for his enthusiastic public lectures on physics, his latest being at University of Southern Denmark in Odense (March 10, 2005),

Hólger Eduardo Matamoros Chunga            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Hólger Eduardo Matamoros Chunga: is an Ecuadorian footballer currently playing for Deportivo Cuenca.Matamoros has been playing for Cuenca since 2006. He was part of the squad who participated in the Copa Libertadores 2006. He is known as a key player for Cuenca in recent days. In 2008, h

Holger ("Holguer") Quiñonez            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Holger ("Holguer") Quiñonez: is a retired soccer defender from Ecuador who earned a total number of fifty caps for the Ecuador national team from 1984 to 1999. Once named the best Conmebol player in on his position, he played for various teams outside Ecuador, including Club de Regat

Glenn Holgersson            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Glenn Holgersson: a Swedish footballer playing for Örebro SK. He has primarily played left-back or centre-back. Holgersson has one of the toughest shots in the Allsvenskan football league, used to good effect at home against GIF Sundsvall in 2005 (6-2).

Hannah Holgersson            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Hannah Holgersson: an opera singer.In 2003 Holgersson made her opera début as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and in May 2004, she graduated from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, receiving diplomas in voice performance and pedagogy. Her main professor during her years at the RCM was Christina Öqvist-Matton.As a soloist, she has performed with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Opera Orchestra of Stockholm, the Drottningholm Baroque Orchestra and Kroumata (percussion-ensemble), with the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, and with conductors such as Alan Gilbert, Siegfried Köhler and Laurence Reenes. She has also collaborated with the composers Ingvar Lidholm, Steve Dobrogosz and Kjell Perder.