Famous People with Name Pehr

Pehr Kalm            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Pehr Kalm: was a Swedish-Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of Carolus Linnaeus's most important students. Among his many accomplishments, Kalm can be credited for the first description of the Niagara Falls, written by someone trained as a scientist.Kalm was born in Ångermanland, Sweden, where his parents had taken refuge from Finland during the Great Northern War. His father died six weeks after his birth. When the hostilities were over, his widowed mother returned with him to Närpes in Ostrobothnia, Finland, where Kalm's father had been a Lutheran minister. Kalm studied at the Academy of Turku from 1735, and from 1740 at the University of Uppsala, where he met the renowned naturalist Carolus Linnaeus and became one of his first students. In Uppsala Kalm became the superintendent of an experimental plantation owned by his patron, Baron Sten Karl Bielke.

Pehr Osbeck            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Pehr Osbeck: was a Swedish explorer and naturalist.He was born in the parish of Hålanda in Västergötland and studied at Uppsala with Carolus Linnaeus. In 1750–1752 he travelled as chaplain on the ship Prins Carl to Asia where he spent four months studying the flora, fauna, and people of the Canton region of China.

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Af Qvalstad            Origin/Culture/Country: Europe

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Af Qvalstad: was the President of Finland from 1931 to 1937. Serving as a lawyer, judge, and politician in the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, he played a major role in the movement for Finnish independence. Svinhufvud was the first Head of State of independent Finlan

Pehr Hjalmar Ensio Siilasvuo            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Pehr Hjalmar Ensio Siilasvuo: was a Finnish general. His father was general Hjalmar Siilasvuo of Winter War fame.Ensio Siilasvuo enlisted in the Finnish Army in 1940 and served as a chief-of-staff of an infantry regiment in 1945. He was promoted to captain at the age of 22 and was wounded twice.After the war he led several UN missions. He was the Commander of the Finnish Contingent to Cyprus in 1965, UNFICYP. He served in a variety of positions in the Middle-East after the Six-day War. He retired in 1980.

Ingeborg Pehrson            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Ingeborg Pehrson: was a Danish stage and film actress.

Magnus Pehrsson            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Magnus Pehrsson: a retired Swedish football player who is currently the manager of GAIS, a position he has held since November 2007. During his playing career he played for IFK Lidingö, Djurgårdens IF and IFK Göteborg in Sweden, as well as Bradford City in England.