Famous People with Name Holger

Holger Fach            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Holger Fach: a German football manager and former player.Between 1981 and 1998, Fach played 416 Bundesliga games for Fortuna Düsseldorf, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bayer Uerdingen, Bayer Leverkusen and 1860 München. He scored 67 goals during this period, and won the German Cup with Borussia M'gladbach in 1995. Between 1988 and 1989 he earned five caps for the national team.

Holger Hieronymus            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Holger Hieronymus: a former German football player.Hieronymus started his career with local side TuS Hamburg at the age of six and was a promising talent for the sweeper position when then Hamburger SV general manager Günter Netzer snapped him up from local counterpart FC St. Pauli for 75,000 Deutsche Mark following Hamburger SV's Bundesliga title in 1979. The proximate Bundesliga season saw the technically gifted player coming to his first games, being a starter in the European Cup final defeat of his side against Nottingham Forest at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium on 28 May 1980. Failing to claim the Bundesliga trophy of 1980 and 1981,

Holger Crafoord            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Holger Crafoord: was a Swedish industrialist and founded Gambro along with Nils Alwall?, a company that would commercialize Alwall's research into artificial kidneys. He donated the initial funds for the establishment of the Crafoord Prize for scientific research.

Holger Norman-Hansen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Holger Norman-Hansen: was a Danish chess master.He was Danish Champion in 1939 after a play-off. He also finished 1st= in 1936 but lost the play-off.

Holger Pedersen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Holger Pedersen: a Danish linguist who made significant contributions to language science and wrote about 30 authoritative works concerning several languages.As a young man, he traveled to Korfu with the great Indo-Europeanist Karl Brugmann to gather material on Albanian.Pedersen received his doctorate in 1897 from the University of Copenhagen and stayed on there as a professor.Among students of the Celtic languages he is best known for his Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen, 'Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages', which is still regarded as the principal reference work in Celtic historical linguistics.

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.