Kierkegaard (surname)

Kierkegaard is a Danish surname, literally meaning church farm or church yard and colloquially meaning graveyard. Note that the double a is equivalent of å in common nouns and is retained from the pre-1948 orthography in proper nouns only.

Notable people with the surname include:


 * Christer Kierkegaard (1918–1999), Swedish Navy rear admiral
 * Niels Christian Kierkegaard (1806–1882), Danish painter
 * Peter Kierkegaard (1805–1888), Danish theologian
 * Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish philosopher
 * Sylvia Kierkegaard (1952–2015), Philippine law scholar