Pedersen (Danish pronunciation: [ˈpʰe̝ðɐsn̩]) is a Danish and Norwegian patronymic surname, literally meaning "son of Peder". It is the fourth most common surname in Denmark, shared by about 3.4% of the population, and the sixth most common in Norway. It is of similar origin as the surname Petersen.
Listing of people with the surname Pedersen
- Aaron Pedersen (born 1970), Australian actor of Arrente/Arabana descent
- Abdul Wahid Pedersen (born 1954), Danish Imam
- Alexander Pedersen (1891–1955), Norwegian sprinter
- Alex Pedersen (cyclist) (born 1966), Danish cyclist
- Alf Pedersen (1904–1925), Norwegian boxer
- Allen Pedersen (born 1965), Canadian retired professional ice hockey player
- Alma Pedersen (born 2005), Danish rhythmic gymnast
- Anne Rygh Pedersen (born 1967), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party
- Bente Pedersen (born 1961), Norwegian novelist
- Bent-Ove Pedersen (born 1967), Norwegian tennis player
- Bernard E. Pedersen, American politician
- Bjarne Bent Rønne Pedersen (1935–1993), Danish musician, banjo player and singer
- Bjarne Pedersen (born 1978), Danish speedway rider
- Blaine Pedersen, Canadian politician in Manitoba
- Carl Alfred Pedersen (1882–1960), Norwegian gymnast and triple jumper
- Carl Pedersen (gymnast) (1883–1971), Danish gymnast
- Carl Pedersen (rower) (1884–1968), Danish rower
- Carl-Henning Pedersen (1913–2007), Danish painter
- Carsten Pedersen (born 1977), Danish cricketer
- Cato Zahl Pedersen (born 1959), Norwegian skier
- Charles J. Pedersen (1904–1989), American organic chemist
- Chris Pedersen (actor), American actor and film star
- Chris Pedersen (musician), Australian drummer
- Christian Pedersen (1889–1953), Danish gymnast who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Christiern Pedersen (1480–1554), Danish canon, humanist scholar, writer, printer and publisher
- Christina Pedersen (handballer) (born 1982), Danish team handball goalkeeper
- Christina Pedersen (referee) (born 1981), Norwegian football referee
- Christopher S. Pedersen (born 1986), Norwegian baritone
- Dag Erik Pedersen (born 1959), Norwegian road racing cyclist
- Dan A. Pederson, USN, first officer-in-charge of the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program known as Topgun
- David Pedersen (born 1986), Norwegian singer
- Dwite Pedersen (1941–2021), American politician
- Dynes Pedersen (1893–1960), Danish gymnast
- Eigil Pedersen (1917–1994), Danish chess player
- Ellen Birgitte Pedersen (born 1955), Norwegian politician
- Erik Bue Pedersen (born 1952), Danish handball player
- Erik Pedersen (born 1967), Norwegian footballer
- Finn Pedersen (1925–2012), Danish rower
- George Pedersen (academic administrator) (born 1931), Canadian academic administrator
- Gerhard Pedersen (1912–1987), Danish boxer
- Gitte Pedersen (born 1979), Danish football player
- Gro Pedersen Claussen (born 1941) Norwegian graphic designer
- Gunner Møller Pedersen (born 1943), Danish composer
- Haakon Pedersen (1906–1991), Norwegian speed skater
- Hallgeir Pedersen (born 1973), Norwegian jazz guitarist
- Hans Eiler Pedersen (1890–1971), Danish gymnast
- Hans Pedersen (1887–1943), Danish gymnast
- Helga Pedersen (Denmark) (1911–1980), Danish Chief Justice and politician
- Helga Pedersen (Norway) (born 1973), Norwegian deputy leader for the Labour Party
- Helmer Pedersen (1930–1987), New Zealand Olympic Gold medallist in yachting
- Henrik Bolberg Pedersen (born 1960), Danish trumpeter and flugelhorn player with the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra
- Henrik Pedersen (footballer) (born 1975), Danish professional football player
- Herb Pedersen (born 1944), American musician, guitarist, banjo player, and singer-songwriter
- Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen (born 1964), Norwegian cross-country skier
- Holger Pedersen (1867–1953), Danish linguist
- Holger Pedersen (born 1946), Danish astronomer at the European Southern Observatory
- Inger Pedersen (1936–2023), Norwegian politician
- Inger Stilling Pedersen (1929–2017), Danish politician
- Jørgen V. Pedersen (born 1959), Danish road bicycle racer
- Jacob Pedersen (1889–1961), Norwegian track and field athlete
- James Pedersen (1868–1944), American politician
- Jamie Pedersen (born 1968), American lawyer and politician
- Jan Pedersen (born 1967), Danish Speedway rider
- Jan O. Pedersen (born 1962), Danish Speedway rider
- Jan Ove Pedersen (born 1968), Norwegian football coach and former player
- Johanne Samueline Pedersen (1887–1961), Norwegian politician
- Johannes Pedersen (1892–1982), Danish gymnast
- Johannes Pederson (1883–1977), Danish theologian and linguist
- John Pedersen (disambiguation), multiple people
- Jonas Pedersen (1871–1953), Norwegian politician
- Jostein Pedersen, Norwegian commentator and "music intelligencia"
- Karl Pedersen (born 1940), Danish chess player
- Katrine Pedersen (born 1977), Danish football midfielder
- Kayla Pedersen (born 1989), American basketball player
- Kenneth Møller Pedersen (born 1973), Danish professional football midfielder
- Kjetil Ruthford Pedersen (born 1973), Norwegian footballer
- Knud Pederson (1925–2014), Danish resistance leader and leader of the Churchill Boys
- L. C. Pedersen, American politician
- Laura Pedersen (born 1965), American author
- Lena Pedersen (born 1940), Canadian politician and social worker from Nunavut
- Lene Pedersen (born 1977), Norwegian ski mountaineer
- Lene Marlin Pedersen (born 1980), Norwegian musician more commonly referred to as Lene Marlin
- Lisa Brix Pedersen (born 1996), Danish discus thrower
- Mads Pedersen (born 1995), Danish professional racing cyclist
- Marc Pedersen (born 1989), Danish professional football player
- Marcus Pedersen (born 1990), Norwegian football player
- Martin Pedersen (cyclist) (born 1983), Danish professional road bicycle racer
- Martin Pedersen (footballer) (born 1983), Danish professional football player
- Martin Pedersen (tennis) (born 1987), Danish professional tennis player
- Merete Pedersen (born 1973), Danish football midfielder
- Mette Pedersen (born 1973), Danish badminton player
- Mia Bak Pedersen (born 1980), Danish football defender
- Michael Pedersen, (born 1986), Danish cricketer
- Mikael Pedersen (1855–1929), Danish inventor associated with the English town of Dursley
- Mikkel O. Pedersen (born 1997), Danish racing driver
- Monica Pedersen, American designer on the show "Designed to Sell"
- Monika Pedersen, Danish singer of the band Sinphonia
- Morten Gamst Pedersen (born 1981), Norwegian football player who currently plays for Blackburn Rovers
- Morten Pedersen (born 1972), Norwegian soccer player, who played as defender
- Nancy Pedersen, American genetic epidemiologist
- Nicki Pedersen (born 1977), Danish motorcycle speedway rider
- Nicklas Pedersen (born 1987), Danish professional football striker
- Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (1946–2005), Danish jazz bassist
- Poul Lars Høgh Pedersen (1959–2021), Danish football goalkeeper
- Odd Kvaal Pedersen (1935–1990), Norwegian journalist, author and translator
- Olaf Pedersen (gymnast) (1884–1972), Danish gymnast
- Olaf Pedersen (1920–1997), Danish historian of science
- Oluf Pedersen (gymnast) (1878–1917), Danish gymnast
- Ove Pedersen (born 1954), Danish football manager and a former player
- Paul Pedersen (composer) (born 1935), Canadian composer
- Paul Pedersen (gymnast) (1886–1948), Norwegian gymnast
- Peder Larsen Pedersen (1880–1966), Danish gymnast
- Peder Oluf Pedersen (1874–1941), Danish engineer and physicist
- Peder Pedersen (disambiguation)
- Per Pedersen (cyclist) (born 1964), Danish retired road bicycle racer
- Per Pedersen (footballer) (born 1969), Danish former football (soccer) player
- Peter Dorf Pedersen (1897–1967), Danish gymnast
- Peter Pedersen (politician), (born 1954), Swedish Left Party politician
- Poul Pedersen (1932–2016), Danish retired football (soccer) player
- Ralf Pedersen (born 1973), Danish professional football defenders
- Randy Pedersen (born 1962), American professional bowler and color analyst for ESPN
- Ray Pedersen, American artist and graphic designer
- Red Pedersen (born 1935), former territorial level politician
- Rolf Birger Pedersen (1939–2001), Norwegian footballer and football coach
- Ronni Pedersen (born 1974), Danish motorcycle speedway rider
- Rune Pedersen (born 1963), Norwegian referee in the 1990s
- Rune Pedersen (footballer) (born 1979), Danish professional footballer
- Søren Pedersen (born 1978), Danish professional football defender
- Sigurd Pedersen (1893–1968), Norwegian politician
- Simon Azoulay Pedersen (born 1982), Danish professional football player
- Snorre Pedersen (born 1972), Norwegian skeleton racer who competed from 1997 to 2005
- Solveig Pedersen (born 1965), Norwegian cross country skier
- Steinar Pedersen (born 1975), Norwegian football defender
- Steinar Pedersen (politician) (born 1947), Norwegian politician
- Steve Pedersen, American guitarist from Omaha, Nebraska
- Susan Pedersen (historian), American historian currently working at Columbia University
- Susan Pedersen (swimmer) (born 1953), American swimmer
- Sverre Lunde Pedersen (born 1992), Norwegian speed skater
- Terese Pedersen (born 1980), Norwegian handball goalkeeper
- Terje Moland Pedersen (born 1952), Norwegian politician
- Terje Pedersen (born 1943), Norwegian javelin thrower
- Thomas Pedersen (disambiguation), several people
- Thor Pedersen (born 1945), Danish politician
- Thor Pedersen (rower) (1924–2008), Norwegian competition rower
- Torben Mark Pedersen (born 1960), Danish economist and politician, founder of the political party Liberalisterne
- Tore Pedersen (born 1969), Norwegian international football defender
- Torny Pedersen (born 1946), Norwegian politician
- Torsten Schack Pedersen (born 1976), Danish politician
- Trond Pedersen (born 1951), Norwegian former football player and coach
- Trond Jøran Pedersen (born 1958), Norwegian ski jumper
- Trygve Pedersen (1884–1967), Norwegian sailor
- Vilhelm Pedersen (1820–1859), Danish artist who illustrated the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen
- Walter E. Pedersen (1911–1998), American politician
- Willy Pedersen (born 1952), Norwegian sociologist
Pedersen as a middle or hyphenated name
- Birger Møller-Pedersen, Norwegian computer scientist and Professor at the University of Oslo
- Gustav Natvig-Pedersen (1893–1965), Norwegian politician
- Hans Pedersen Herrefosser (1800–1869), Norwegian politician
- Jørgen Pedersen Gram (1850–1916), Danish actuary and mathematician
- Johannes Pedersen Deichmann (1790–1832), Norwegian politician
- Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen (born 1959), Norwegian politician
- Knut Pedersen Hamsun (1859–1952), Norwegian author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1920
- Maya Pedersen-Bieri (born 1972), Swiss skeleton racer
- Michael Pedersen Friis (1857–1944), Danish Prime Minister (April 5, 1920 to May 5, 1920)
- Morten Pedersen Porsild (1872–1956), Danish botanist who lived and worked in Greenland
- Nils Pedersen Igland (1833–1898), Norwegian farmer and politician
- Peder Johan Pedersen Holmesland (1833–1914), Norwegian politician
- Rasmus Pedersen Thu (1864–1946), Norwegian photographer
- Simon Pedersen Holmesland (1823–1895), Norwegian politician
- Ulla Pedersen Tørnæs (born 1962), Danish politician and former Minister for Development Cooperation of Denmark
Other references
- Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) is an international architectural design firm located in New York, London and Shanghai
- .276 Pedersen, experimental 7 mm cartridge developed for the U.S. Army and used in the Pedersen rifle
- 3312 Pedersen (1984 SN), Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1984
- Pedersen bicycle, bicycle designed by Mikael Pedersen
- Pedersen commitment, a cryptographic technique used in multiple applications, including zero-knowledge proofs
- Pedersen Device, attachment developed during World War I for the M1903 Springfield rifle that allowed it to fire a short 0.30 (7.62 mm) caliber intermediate cartridge in semi-automatic mode
- Pedersen index, measure of electoral volatility in party systems
- Pedersen rifle, United States semi-automatic rifle designed by John Pedersen
- Pedersen's law, named after Danish linguist Holger Pedersen, is a Balto-Slavic accent law which states that the stress was retracted from stressed medial syllables in Balto-Slavic mobile paradigms
- Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management, United States lawsuit
See also
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References
- "Navne - Danmarks Statistik". dst.dk. Retrieved September 6, 2017.
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