Westergaard

Westergaard is a Danish surname, literally meaning west farm. Note that the double a is equivalent of å in common nouns and is retained from the pre-1948 orthography in proper nouns only. The form Vestergaard is a more common cognate. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Bjørn Westergaard (born 1962), Danish Olympic sailor
 * Harald Ludvig Westergaard (1853–1936), Danish statistician and economist
 * Harold M. Westergaard (1888–1950), Danish professor of theoretical and applied mechanics
 * John Westergaard (1931–2003), American stock analyst
 * Kurt Westergaard (1935–2021), Danish cartoonist
 * Niels Ludvig Westergaard (1815–1878), Danish orientalist
 * Peter Westergaard (1931–2019), American composer and music theorist
 * Marit Westergaard (born 1956), Norwegian linguist and language acquisitionist