Famous People with Name Vilhelm

Vilhelm Hammershøi            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Vilhelm Hammershøi: was a painter born in Copenhagen, Denmark known for his poetic, low-key portraits and interiors.

Vilhelm Cletus Andersson            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Vilhelm Cletus Andersson: was a Swedish water polo player and freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, in the 1912 Summer Olympics, in the 1920 Summer Olympics, and in the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Vilhelm Ludwig Peter Thomsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Vilhelm Ludwig Peter Thomsen: was a Danish linguist. In 1893, he deciphered the Turkic Orkhon inscriptions in advance of his rival, Wilhelm Radloff. He also studied the origins of Russian and Finnish.He is honored on a stela set up in central Copenhagen along with three other Danish pioneers of modern linguistics, Rasmus Rask, N.L. Westergaard, and Karl Verner.

Vilhelm Moberg            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Vilhelm Moberg: was a Swedish author and historian, best known for his series of four novels, The Emigrants.Moberg became a member of a young Social Democrats club in Algutsboda in 1913. During World War I he returned to his studies at the Folk Academy in Grimslöv, and later at a private school in Katrineholm. He worked as a farm and forest laborer, and later at glassblowing before and between his various studies.

Vilhelm Lund Munk Nielsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Vilhelm Lund Munk Nielsen: is a Danish former football (soccer) player, who played for Odense Boldklub. He played five games for the Denmark national football team.

Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint: was a Danish architect, designer, painter and architectural theorist, best known for designing Grundtvig's Church in Copenhagen, generally considered to be one of the most important Danish architectural works of the time. Its Expressionist style relies heavily on Scandinavian brick Gothic traditions. Jensen-Klint became increasingly interested in architecture and his first architectural work was a villa in Hellerup designed for a good friend, the goldsmith W. Holm, after a small private competition also involving the architect Eugen Jørgensen. After that followed several more villas in the same area which all demonstrate various experiments with masonry in red brick. Following completion of the Gym House in Frederiksberg, he was admitted into the Architects' Association of Denmark in spite of his lack of formal training. His principal inspiration came from Danish manor houses, churches and stout, simple Baroque houses.