Famous People with Name Pedersen

Finn Pedersen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Finn Pedersen: is a Danish rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics.In 1948 he was a crew member of the Danish boat which won the gold medal in the coxed pairs event.

Svend Ove Pedersen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Svend Ove Pedersen: is a Danish rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.In 1952 he was a crew member of the Danish boat which won the bronze medal in the coxed pairs event.

Helmer Orlaf Leif Pedersen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Helmer Orlaf Leif Pedersen: was an Olympic Gold medallist for New Zealand in yachting. With Earle Wells, Pedersen won the Flying Dutchman class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Pedersen had previously been the reserve for the same class at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. In his home country of Denmark he had been mainly a Finn class yachtsman but could not make the Danish Olympic team due to the presence of the great Paul Bert Elvstrøm.

Christiern Pedersen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Christiern Pedersen: was a canon, humanist scholar, writer, printer and publisher.He studied at the University of Paris from 1508 to 1515, where in 1511 he received a Master of Arts degree. During his stay in Paris he developed an interest in writing, translating and publishing. At that time Paris was the undisputed capital of the still-new printing press. While considering writing a new Latin-Danish lexicon, he wrote a replacement for the 300-year-old Latin grammar, Doctrinale, written in 1199 by Alexander of Villedieu[1], and still used as standard in the schools of Denmark at that time. In 1510 he published his new Latin-Danish lexicon, called Vocabularium ad usum Dacorum.

Johannes Pedersen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Johannes Pedersen: was a noted theologian and linguist.Pedersen believed that "objective thought, that is to say, inactive, disinterested thought" does not exist in most instances. Pederson was committed to the assumption that the full social context is necessary to understanding written texts.