Ivar

Ivar, also Iwer is a male first name. Iwer is also a family name.

Origin and Meaning

Ivar is a first name Swedish, Danish, Norwegian origin. It can be a side form of Ingvar.

Dissemination

Ivar is particularly common in Northern Europe.

Bearers of the name

First name

  • Ivar Aasen (1813-1896), a self-taught Norwegian linguist and poet
  • Ivar Andrésen (1896-1940), Norwegian opera singer
  • Ivar Ballangrud (1904-1969), Norwegian speed skater
  • Ivar Bern ( born 1967), Norwegian chess players
  • Ivar Böhling (1889-1929), Finnish wrestler in the Greco-Roman style
  • Ivar Combrinck (1943-2006), German voice actor
  • Ivar Asbjørn Følling (1888-1973), Norwegian chemist and physician
  • Ivar Giaever ( born 1929 ), Norwegian - American physicist
  • Ivar Grünthal (1924-1996), Estonian writer, poet and exiled politicians
  • Ivar Hallström (1826-1901), Swedish composer
  • Ivar Holmquist (1879-1954), Swedish sports official, the first president of the International Ski Federation ( FIS )
  • Ívar Ingimarsson ( b. 1977 ), Icelandic football player
  • Ivar Ivask (1927-1992), Estonian poet and literary scholar
  • Ivar Jacobson ( born 1939 ), Swedish computer scientist
  • Ivar Johansson (1903-1979), Swedish wrestler
  • Ivar Kreuger (1880-1932), Swedish industrialist, Match King
  • Ivar Lo - Johansson (1901-1990), Swedish author
  • Ivar Lykke (1872-1949), Norwegian conservative politician
  • Ivar Henning Mankell (1868-1930), Swedish composer
  • Ivar Nørgaard (1922-2011), Danish Social Democratic politician
  • Ivar Ragnarsson († 872 or 873 ), eldest son of the legendary Norse warrior and hero Ragnar Lodbrok
  • Ivar Rooth (1888-1972), Swedish banker
  • Ivar Albert Gustaf Sjöberg (1913-2003), Swedish football goalkeeper
  • Ivar Slik (* 1993), Dutch cyclist
  • Ivar Stukolkin ( b. 1960 ), Soviet swimmer
  • Ivar Tengbom (1878-1968), architect, builder of the Hötorget in Stockholm
  • Ivar Karl Ugi (1930-2005), German - Estonian chemist

Between Name

  • Adolf Ivar Arwidsson (1791-1858), Finnish political journalist, writer and historian
  • Nils Ivar Bohlin (1920-2002), Swedish flight engineer and inventor of the three-point seat belt
  • Bernt Ivar Eidsvig ( born 1953 ), Norwegian theologian, Catholic priest and Bishop of Oslo
  • Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866-1927), Swedish mathematician
  • Carl Ivar Hagen ( born 1944 ), Norwegian politician
  • Josef Ivar Müller (1892-1969), Swiss choral conductor and composer

Family name

  • Stan Ivar ( b. 1943 ), American actor

Others

Other particularly known bearers of the name are the asteroid Ivar and a virtually unchanged since 1975 available shelving system from IKEA.

Ingvar (name) Ivar Lo-Johansson Ivar Lykke (politician) Henning Mankell (composer) Iwan (disambiguation)
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