Famous People with Name Gade

Per Gade            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Per Gade: is a Danish football (soccer) player, who plays as a defender. His preferred field position is as a right defender. He started his career with youth football in Nibe Boldklub, before he joined the Superliga team Aalborg BK, but never broke into the first team due to injuries. He moved to lower-league team FC Nordjylland in 2000, and when the club went bankrupt, he joined AC Horsens in the summer of 2004.

Ariel Gade            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ariel Gade: an American child actress. She made her first acting appearance on an episode of television’s Strong Medicine, and followed this with a “breakthrough” performance in Barry Levinson’s Envy (2004).Gade’s second film role was as Ceci in Dark Water (2005). Also in 2005, she acquired the role of Rose on Shaun Cassidy’s Invasion. Gade made a guest appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in July 2005.

Peter Høeg Gade            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Peter Høeg Gade: is a professional badminton player. He currently resides near Charlottenlund in Copenhagen with his wife, accomplished handball player Camilla Høeg. Together they have a daughter, Nanna, born in 2004.

Axel Gade            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Axel Gade: was a Danish violinist, composer and conductor. He was the son of Niels Wilhelm Gade.

Jacob Thune Hansen Gade            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Jacob Thune Hansen Gade: was a Danish violinist and composer, mostly of orchestral popular music. Today he is remembered for a single tune, the familiar Jalousie 'Tango Tzigane', also known as Tango Jalousie, or simply Jalousie, premiered September 14, 1925. The tango, written to accompany a silent film when Gade was leader of the orchestra of the Palads Cinema, was an instant international hit. When talkies were introduced it was featured in over 100 films. The royalties allowed Gade to devote himself to composition fulltime for the rest of his life. Arthur Fiedler made the first recording of the piece with the Boston Pops, further increasing Gade's income. The royalties now fund a foundation for young musicians.