Famous People with Name Nils

Nils Ferlin            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Nils Ferlin: was a Swedish poet.Nils Ferlin was born in Karlstad, Värmland, where his father worked at the Nya Wermlands-Tidningen newspaper. 1908 the family moved to Filipstad and the father started his own paper. Unfortunately the father died one year later and the family was forced to move from their adequate residence to more simple living conditions at the industry district to still manage to stay in school which he graduated from at the age of sixteen.

Nils Lid Hjort            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Nils Lid Hjort: is a Norwegian statistician, and has been a professor of mathematical statistics at the University of Oslo since 1991. Hjort's research themes are unusually varied, with particularly noteworthy contributions in the fields of Bayesian probability (Beta pro

Nils Ušakovs            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Nils Ušakovs: is a Latvian journalist and left-wing politician of Russian descent. Since November 2005, he is the leader of the social democratic party alliance, Harmony Centre, which enjoys the support of Latvia's large Russian population. He was a Member of the 9th Saeima since 2006. Following the June 2009 local elections in Latvia, the majority coalition of Harmony Centre and LPP/LC factions in the Riga City Council nominated Ušakovs for the position of the Chairman of the City Council, effectively the Mayor of Riga, the capital of Latvia.

Nils Robert Backlund            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Nils Robert Backlund: was a Swedish water polo player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1920 he was part of the Swedish team, which was able to win the bronze medal. In the 1924 water polo competition his team finished in fourth place.

Nils Arne Eggen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Nils Arne Eggen: is the most successful coach in the history of Norwegian football. He is best known as the manager for Rosenborg BK in the period 1988–97 and 1999–2002 (he had a year off in 1998, when Trond Sollied stepped in as manager). This period is often referred to