Famous People with Name Eskild

Eskild Balschmidt Ebbesen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Eskild Balschmidt Ebbesen: is a noted Danish lightweight rower, who has won a total number of three Olympic and six World Championship gold medals.Ebbesen was the flag bearer of the Danish team at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Eskild Jensen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Eskild Jensen: is a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labour Party. He worked for the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation from 1962 to 1967 and 1969 to 1974. In 1974 he was appointed deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Transport and Communications before serving as state secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister from 1976 to 1980, as part of the cabinet Nordli. From 1980 to 1992 he served as director of the Norwegian Directorate of Public Roads.

María Del Rosario Gutiérrez Eskildsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Mexican

María Del Rosario Gutiérrez Eskildsen: was a Mexican lexicographer, linguist, educator, and poet who is remembered for her studies on the regional peculiarities of speech in her home state of Tabasco as well as for her pioneering work as a teacher and pedagogue in Tabasco and Mexico in general. She has at times been described as Tabasco's first woman “professionist.”The community of María del Rosario Gutiérrez Eskildsen in Centla Municipality, Tabasco, is named in her honor.She was born in Villahermosa (then known as San Juan Bautista) on what was then called Calle Grijalva, her parents were Antonio Gutiérrez Carriles, a Spaniard, and Juana Eskildsen Cáceres de Gutiérrez, a native of Campeche. She was left orphan at a young age when first her mother, and then her father, died; two of her five brothers would die young as well. In order to keep financially afloat,