Famous People with Name Kurt

Kurt Westergaard            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Kurt Westergaard: is a Danish cartoonist who created the controversial cartoon of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb in his turban. This cartoon was the most contentious of the 12 Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, which met with strong and sometimes violent reactions from Muslims worldwide. Westegaard has since the drawing of the cartoon received several death threats and murder attempts. He as of today under constant protection from the police.[2][3]

Kurt Hockerup            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Kurt Hockerup: was a Danish politician, who served as mayor of Vallensbæk Municipality from 1994 until his death, elected for Conservative People's Party.He was elected to the municipal first time in 1966. He was in many years chairman of the municipality's technical committee, and became mayor in 1994. In 2004 he demanded that the municipality remained independent in the forthcoming local government, which the majority of voters in a referendum backed up on. Vallensbæk got a cooperation agreement with Ishøj Municipality and remained thus independent.

Kurt Thiim            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Kurt Thiim: is a Danish race car driver. After his karting career he raced for several years in single-seaters before moving to the DTM in 1986. He won the championship in his debut year and despite not winning a second title, he remained one of the series' top drivers for the next decade.

Kurt Helmudt            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Kurt Helmudt: is a Danish rower who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics.In 1964 he was a crew member of the Danish boat which won the gold medal in the coxless fours event.

Kurt Peter Larsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Kurt Peter Larsen: Danish author. Born 27.5 1953 in Denmark is the Danish half of the writing duo Oravsky/Larsen and writes in Danish, Swedish, English and German. Kurt Peter Larsen and Vladimir Oravsky won the 2006 worldwide dramacompetition sponsored by The International Playwrights’ Forum, The International Theatre Institute (ITI) and The International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ) with their play ”AAAHR!!!”.