Famous People with Name Paulsen

Axel Paulsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Axel Paulsen: was a Norwegian figure skater and speed skater. He is the inventor of the figure skating Axel jump. Paulsen first publicly executed the Axel jump in 1882 at the World Championships in Vienna while wearing speed skates. At the Vienna World Championships Pa

Fridtjof A. Paulsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Fridtjof A. Paulsen: was a Norwegian speed skater who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics. In 1924 he finished fourth in the 10000 metres event and seventh in the 5000 metres competition.

Friedrich Paulsen            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Friedrich Paulsen: was a German philosopher and educator. He was the greatest of the pupils of Gustav Theodor Fechner, to whose doctrine of panpsychism he gave great prominence by his Einleitung in die Philosophie (1892; 7th ed., 1900; Eng. trans., 1895). He went, however, considerably beyond Fechner in attempting to give an epistemological account of the knowledge of the psychophysical. Admitting Kant's hypothesis that by inner sense we are conscious of mental states only, he holds that this consciousness constitutes a knowledge of the thing-in-itself which Kant denies. Soul is, therefore, a practical reality which Paulsen, with Schopenhauer, regards as known by the act of will.

Kraig Paulsen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kraig Paulsen: is the Iowa State Representative from the 35th District.He has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2002.For the 84th General Assembly for the years 2011-2012.Speaker of the House of Representatives

Patrick Layton "Pat" Paulsen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Patrick Layton "Pat" Paulsen: was an American comedian and satirist notable for his roles on several of the Smothers Brothers TV shows, and for his campaigns for President of the United States in 1968, 1972, 1980, 1988, 1992, and 1996, which had primarily comedic rather than political