Famous People with Name Thorkild

Thorkild Thyrring            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Thorkild Thyrring: is a Danish auto racing driver. He drove several times in the Le Mans 24 hour race, most recently in 2005 and 2006 for Sebah Automotive Ltd in a Porsche 911 GT3. His best result in the race was finishing nineteenth overall in 2005. Previously he raced a Lotus in 1993 and 1994, and a Corvette in 1995. His team had failed to finish the race in all these previous attempts.

Thorkild Simonsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Thorkild Simonsen: is 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.

Thorkild Jacobsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Thorkild Jacobsen: was a renowned historian specializing in Assyriology and Sumerian literature. He was one of the foremost scholars on the ancient Near East. He became a Field Assyriologist for the Iraq Expedition of the The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago (1929-1937) and in 1946 became Director of the Oriental Institute. He served as Dean of the Humanities Division (1948-1951), as an Editor of the Assyrian Dictionary (1955-1959), and as Professor of Social Institutions (1946-1962). Jacobsen retired as a professor of Assyriology at Harvard University in 1974. In 1974 he served as a Visiting Professor at UCLA where he helped develop a strong Assyriology program. Dr. Jacobsen served as president of the American Oriental Society, an organization of scholars. He was 88 years of age when he died in Bradford, New Hampshire.

Andreas Thorkildsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Andreas Thorkildsen: a Japanese model, gravure idol, and actress born on 1982-04-03 in Higashi?saka, Osaka and raised in Tokyo, Japan.[1][2] Her birth name was Kasumi Nakasone (??????, Nakasone Kasumi?), and she formerly worked under the name Kasumi Ue (????, Ue Kasumi?). She graduated from the private Horikoshi High School, the same school attended by talent such as Yoko Minamino, Y?ko Oginome, Ai Kat?, and Masumi Miyazaki.[3]

Inga Marte Thorkildsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Inga Marte Thorkildsen: is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party (SV). Growing up in Stokke, she was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Vestfold in 2001.