Nansen (disambiguation)

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

Nansen may also refer to:

People

 * Nansen (surname)
 * Nansen Fugan, the Japanese name for the Tang dynasty Chan (Zen) Buddhist master Nanquan Puyuan

Ships

 * Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate, the main surface combatant units of the Royal Norwegian Navy
 * HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen (1930), a Norwegian coast guard ship
 * HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen (F310), a 2004 frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy

Places

 * Cape Nansen, headland in the Greenland Sea, east Greenland
 * Mount Nansen (Antarctica)
 * Mount Fridtjof Nansen, Antarctica
 * Mount Nansen (Yukon) in Yukon, Canada
 * Nansen Island (disambiguation)
 * Nansen Land, Greenland
 * Nansen (lunar crater)
 * Nansen (Martian crater)
 * Nansen Sound, a strait in Nunavut, Canada, between Ellesmere Island and Axel Heiberg Island
 * Fridtjof Nansen Peninsula, SE Greenland

Organisations

 * Nansen International Office for Refugees (Office international Nansen pour les réfugiés), a 1930–1939 League of Nations organization
 * Nansen Institute, an independent research foundation in Norway
 * Nansenhjelpen, also known as Nansen Relief in English, a Norwegian humanitarian organisation

Other

 * The Nansen Refugee Award
 * 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