Pedersen

Pedersen 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 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
 * 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
 * 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