Nansen (disambiguation)

Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930) was a Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate.

Nansen may also refer to:

People

  • Odd Nansen (1901–1973), Norwegian architect and humanitarian; son of Fridtjof Nansen
  • Eigil Nansen (1931–2017), athlete and architect; son of Odd Nansen
  • Hans Nansen (1598–1667), Danish statesman
  • Peter Nansen (1861–1918), Danish novelist, journalist, and publisher
  • Betty Nansen (1873–1943), Danish actress and theater director
  • Nansen Fugan, Japanese rendering of Nanquan Puyuan (Chinese: 南泉普願 (748–835) Zen Buddhist monk and teacher of Zhaozhou Congshen
  • Are Nansen, founder of Toronto art collective SPAY (now defunct), and columnist for magazine Steel Bananas

Ships

Places

Organisations

  • Nansen International Office for Refugees (French: Office international Nansen pour les réfugiés), an organization of the League of Nations in charge of refugees from war areas from 1930 to 1939
  • Nansen Institute, an independent research foundation in Norway
  • Nansenhjelpen, also known as Nansen Relief in English, a humanitarian organization to provide safe haven and assistance in Norway for Jewish refugees from areas in Europe under Nazi control

Other

  • Nansen (biography), a 1940 children's biography of the explorer by Anna Gertrude Hall
  • Nansen (cat), ship's cat on Belgica during the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1897–98
  • Nansen passport, internationally recognized identity cards first issued by the League of Nations to stateless refugees
  • Nansen bottle, an oceanographic sampling device
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