Famous People with Name Birger

Birger Larsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Birger Larsen: is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film for his film Dance of the Polar Bears (1990). He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film for his film Sweethearts? (1997).

Birger Carlstedt            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Birger Carlstedt: was a Finnish pioneer of Modern Art. He studied at the School of the Fine Arts Association of Finland and the Central School of Applied Arts in Helsinki.

Birger Wasenius            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Birger Wasenius: was a Finnish World Champion in speed skating. He was born in Helsinki.Wasenius reached the world top in 1933 when he won a silver medal at the European Allround Championships. More medals soon followed, including two silver medals and one bronze medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, but none of them were gold. Most of the gold medals those days went to Norwegian skater Ivar Ballangrud. In fact, four of the six silver medals Wasenius won at the Winter Olympics, the World Allround Championships, and the European Allround Championships were behind Ballangrud. Finally, at the 1939 World Allround Championships of Helsinki, his city of birth, Wasenius became World Allround Champion, winning the 1,500 m and finishing second on the other three distances.

Birger Cederin            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Birger Cederin: was a Swedish Olympic fencer.

Birger Cnattingius            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Birger Cnattingius: was a Swedish Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual épée event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Pablo Birger            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Pablo Birger: was an Argentine racing driver who raced in two World Championship Grands Prix for the Gordini team. He raced a Gordini Type 15 in the 1953 Argentine Grand Prix but the car lasted just twenty-one laps. Two years later he again rented a seat with Gordini, this time racing a Type 16, but spun on the first lap and collided with Carlos Menditeguy.

Birgitta Birgersdotter            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Birgitta Birgersdotter: later known as Saint Birgitta, also known as Santa Brigida or St. Bridgid of Sweden and Birgitta of Vadstena (in Swedish commonly as den heliga Birgitta), was a Mystic and saint, and founder of the Bridgettine Order, after over 20 years of married life before her husband died. Uniquely among saints of the second millennium, she was also the mother of a saint—Saint Catherine of Vadstena of Sweden.