Famous People with Name Niels

Niels Wellenberg            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Niels Wellenberg: a Dutch footballer who currently plays for FC Twente. Wellenberg is a defender and midfielder who was born in Deventer and made his debut in the professional football squad of Go Ahead Eagles in the 2001-02 season before joining FC Twente in 2004.

Niels Christensen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Niels Christensen: was a Danish-American inventor whose principal invention was the O-ring, the ubiquitous hydraulic seal.In 1933, working in his basement, he discovered by trial and error that a ring-shaped piece of rubber in a groove one and a half times long as the minor radius of the ring made a reliable, tight seal of a piston sliding in a cylinder. He applied for a U.S. patent in 1937 and it was granted two years later. After Pearl Harbor, the government bought the rights to many war-related patents, and made them available to manufacturers royalty-free. Christensen was paid $75,000. When the war ended (formally, in 1952) and the patent rights were transferred back to him, the patent had only four years left.

Niels Kaare Krabbe            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Niels Kaare Krabbe: is an ornithologist and bird conservationist based at the Vertebrate Department of the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, researching various aspects of ornithology, especially bioacoustics and conservation; systematics and altitudinal replacements of Scytalopus tapaculos. Niels has spent many years in the Andes, especially Ecuador, and wrote the passerine section of Birds of the High Andes (1990) and the accounts of most Andean species in Threatened Birds of the Americas (1992).

Niels Alexander Lassen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Niels Alexander Lassen: was a Danish medical doctor and pioneer of neuroimaging.His father, H.C.A. Lassen, was professor at the University of Copenhagen, and Niels Lassen graduated as medical doctor from the same university in 1951. With his colleague Ole Munck he began in the 1950s to use radioactive isotopes for the measurement of the blood circulation in the brain, and in the beginning of the 1960s he together with David H. Ingvar from University of Lund began the development of methods for regional measurements on the brain with krypton-85 and xenon-133 isotopes.

Niels Hausgaard            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Niels Hausgaard: is a danish singer, songwriter and comedian. He is best known for his songs and understated comedy which often combine dry observations on the human condition with the trials and tribulations of life in a socialist country. Originally, Hausgaard spoke with a distinct dialect, vendelbomål, which became something of a trademark during his sets, but which in recent years has been somewhat toned down.