List of Famous people named Vilhelm

Here are some famous Vilhelms:

Vilhelm Bjerknes

First Name Vilhelm
Born on March 14, 1862
Died on April 9, 1951 (aged 89)
Born in Norway

Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes was a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern practice of weather forecasting. He formulated the primitive equations that are still in use in numerical weather prediction and climate modeling, and he developed the so-called Bergen School of Meteorology, which was successful in advancing weather prediction and meteorology in the early 20th century.

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Vilhelm Dybwad

First Name Vilhelm
Born on February 12, 1863
Died on March 16, 1950 (aged 87)

Vilhelm Dybwad was a Norwegian barrister and writer. He wrote comedies, revues and songs. In his later years he wrote several memoir books from his life as a lawyer.

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Vilhelm Krag

First Name Vilhelm
Born on December 24, 1871
Died on July 10, 1933 (aged 61)
Born in Norway, Agder

Vilhelm Krag was a Norwegian poet, author, journalist and cultural personality. Known for coining the term Sørlandet to describe a region of Norway, he was the son of Peter Rasmus Krag and younger brother of the novelist Thomas Krag.

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Vilhelm Hammershøi

First Name Vilhelm
Born on May 15, 1864
Died on February 13, 1916 (aged 51)

Vilhelm Hammershøi, often written in English Vilhelm Hammershoi, was a Danish painter. He is known for his poetic, subdued portraits and interiors.

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Vilhelm Moberg

Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg
First Name Vilhelm
Born on August 20, 1898
Died on August 8, 1973 (aged 74)

Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater. His literary career, spanning more than 45 years, is associated with his series The Emigrants. The four books, published between 1949 and 1959, deal with the Swedish emigration to the United States in the 19th century, and are the subject of two movie adaptations and a musical. Among other works are Raskens (1927) and Ride This Night (1941), a historical novel of a 17th-century rebellion in Småland acknowledged for its subliminal but widely recognised criticism of the Hitler regime.

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Vilhelm Johannesen

First Name Vilhelm
Born on August 4, 1942
Died on April 10, 2022 (aged 79)
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Vilhelm Bissen

First Name Vilhelm
Born on August 5, 1836
Died on April 20, 1913 (aged 76)

Christian Gottlieb Vilhelm Bissen was a Danish sculptor. He was also a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts with great influence on the next generation of Danish sculptors and for a while served as its director. Bissen was trained in the Neoclassical tradition from Bertel Thorvaldsen but after a stay in Paris around 1880, he was influenced by Naturalism. With the equestrian statue of Absalon he turned to Neo-romanticism.

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Vilhelm Wohlert

First Name Vilhelm
Born on May 27, 1920
Died on May 10, 2007 (aged 86)

Vilhelm Wohlert was a Danish architect. His most notable work was on the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark.

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Vilhelm Carlberg

First Name Vilhelm
Born on April 5, 1880
Died on October 1, 1970 (aged 90)

Gustaf Vilhelm Carlberg was a Swedish Army officer and sports shooter. He competed at the 1906, 1908, 1912 and 1924 Olympics and won three gold, four silver and one bronze medals. With three gold and two silver medals he was the most successful athlete at the 1912 Olympics. In 1913, he won two medals at the ISSF World Shooting Championships. His twin brother Eric competed alongside Gustaf at all those four Olympics.

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Vilhelm Kyhn

First Name Vilhelm
Born on March 30, 1819
Died on May 11, 1903 (aged 84)

Peter Vilhelm Carl Kyhn was a Danish landscape painter who belonged to the generation of national romantic painters immediately after the Danish Golden Age and before the Modern Breakthrough. Even though he outlived many of his artistic peers by several decades, he remained a traditionalist and expressed strong criticism of many of the new trends in the painting of his day.

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