Famous People with Name Holger

Holger Thiele            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Holger Thiele: was a Danish American astronomer.[1]Holger Thiele discovered a number of asteroids. He also discovered the comet C/1906 V1 and calculated the orbits of other comets. He worked at Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory at Bergedorf, in Hamburg, Germany. He immigrated to the United States during 1912.[2] In 1917, he started working as a fellow for the University of California at Lick Observatory, near San Jose, California. During 1946. Holger Thiele died in Alameda County, California. [3]

Holger Geschwindner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Holger Geschwindner: is a former basketball player, mentor, coach and friend of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Dallas Mavericks power forward Dirk Nowitzki. Geschwindner first met Nowitzki when the future basketball star was 16 years old.

Holger Klose            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Holger Klose: is a retired male hammer thrower from Germany. His personal best throw is 82.22 metres, achieved in May 1998 in Dortmund. This ranks him fifth among German hammer throwers, behind Ralf Haber, Heinz Weis, Karsten Kobs and Günter Rodehau.

Holger Handtke            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Holger Handtke: is a German television actor.

Holger Bertil Sundström            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Holger Bertil Sundström: is a Swedish sailor who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Glenn Holgersson            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Glenn Holgersson: a Swedish footballer playing for Örebro SK. He has primarily played left-back or centre-back. Holgersson has one of the toughest shots in the Allsvenskan football league, used to good effect at home against GIF Sundsvall in 2005 (6-2).

Hannah Holgersson            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Hannah Holgersson: an opera singer.In 2003 Holgersson made her opera début as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and in May 2004, she graduated from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, receiving diplomas in voice performance and pedagogy. Her main professor during her years at the RCM was Christina Öqvist-Matton.As a soloist, she has performed with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Opera Orchestra of Stockholm, the Drottningholm Baroque Orchestra and Kroumata (percussion-ensemble), with the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, and with conductors such as Alan Gilbert, Siegfried Köhler and Laurence Reenes. She has also collaborated with the composers Ingvar Lidholm, Steve Dobrogosz and Kjell Perder.