Famous People with Name Nansen

Fridtjof Nansen            Origin/Culture/Country:

Fridtjof Nansen: a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat. He was married to Eva Nansen (died 1907). Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his work as a League of Nations High Commissioner.

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen: was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat.Before the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden on 7 June 1905, Nansen had been a devoted republican, along with other prominent Norwegians like the authors Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Arne Garb

Hans Nansen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Hans Nansen: was a Danish statesman.The son of a burgher, Evert Nansen, he was born at Flensburg. He made several voyages to the White Sea and to places in northern Russia, and in 1621 entered the service of the thriving Danish Icelandic Company. For many years the whole trade of Iceland, which he frequently visited, passed through his hands, and he soon became equally well known at Glückstadt, the centre of the Iceland trade, and at Copenhagen.

Betty Nansen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Betty Nansen: was a Danish actress and theatre director of the theater that carries her name, the Betty Nansen Theatre. She had her debut in the fall of 1893 in Copenhagen's Casino Theater as the title character in Victorien Sardou's Dora. She went on to play Magda in Hermann Sudermann's Homeland as well as the title character in Alexandre Dumas' The Lady of the Camellias. In the fall of 1896 she changed to the Royal Danish Theatre, where she had her debut as Martha in Ibsen's The Pillars of Society. In 1913 to 1916, she went to the United States to try to make a career as a movie actress. She starred in a number of unsuccessful films by J. Gordon Edwards, e.g. Anna Karenina (which is now considered lost) The Song of Hate, Should a Mother Tell, A Woman's Resurrection, and The Celebrated Scandal. After this failed attempt at movie stardom, she took over management of the Alexandra Theatre in Frederiksberg, which she went on to rename the Betty Nansen Theatre. She managed the theatre for 26 seasons until her death in 1943.