Dahl (surname)

Dahl is a family name.

Origin and Meaning

Dahl is an original location-based name that occurs especially in the German, Dutch as well as in North Germanic language area. It is derived from the Middle Low German dal or from the Norse dalr, both meaning " valley ".

Bearers of the name

A

  • Adolph Dahl (1886-1940), German architect in Szczecin
  • Albin Dahl (1900-1980), Swedish football player and coach
  • Alexander Dahl (1892-1978), German aviation pioneer
  • Alfred Dahl (* 1916), German Major General of the People's Police
  • Anders Dahl -Nielsen ( born 1951 ), Danish handball player, coach and functionary
  • Andreas Dahl (also Anders Dahl ) ( 1751-1789 ), Swedish botanist and biologist
  • Andreas Dahl ( footballer ) ( born 1984 ), Swedish football player
  • Arlene Dahl (* 1924), American actress
  • Arne Dahl ( b. 1963 ), Swedish author
  • Arnim Dahl (1922-1998), German stuntman and Artist
  • August Dahl ( b. 1942 ), the Protestant pastor and peace activist
  • Aslaug Dahl ( b. 1949 ), Norwegian cross-country skier

B

  • Bo Robin Dahl ( b. 1983 ), German basketball player

C

  • Carsten Dahl (born 1967 ), Danish jazz pianist
  • Carl Dahl (1812-1865), Danish painter
  • Carl G. Dahl (1875-1959), Swedish gardener and Pomologe

E

  • Edward Dahl (1886-1961), Swedish track and field athlete
  • Edwin tungsten Dahl ( b. 1928 ), German poet
  • Eilert Dahl (1919-2004), Norwegian skier
  • Erik Dahl (1914-1999), Swedish zoologist

F

G

  • Gerburg Rohde- Dahl ( b. 1938 ), German film director, filmmaker and graphic designer
  • Gerhard Dahl ( b. 1937 ), German psychoanalyst
  • Göran Dahl ( b. 1953 ), Swedish sociologist and university professor

B

  • Hanne Dahl ( b. 1970 ), Danish politician
  • Hans Dahl (1849-1937), Norwegian painter
  • Hans Andreas Dahl (1881-1919), Norwegian painter
  • Harry Dahl ( born 1929 ), former colonel of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi ) of the GDR
  • Henrik Dahl ( b. 1975 ), Swedish football player
  • Hermann Dahl († 1938 or 1939), German diver

I

  • Ingolf Dahl (1912-1970), American composer and conductor
  • Isa Dahl ( b. 1965 ), German painter

J

  • Jacob Dahl (1878-1944), Faroese Provost and Bible translator
  • Jeff Dahl ( b. 1955 ), American musician and singer
  • Jens Peter Dahl -Jensen (1874-1960), Danish sculptor
  • Johan Christian Clausen Dahl (1788-1857), painter
  • Johan Fjeldsted Dahl (1807-1877), Norwegian bookseller and publisher
  • Johann Wilhelm Christian Dahl (1771-1810), German philologist and Lutheran theologian
  • Johann Siegwald Dahl (1827-1902), German painter
  • John Dahl (1887-1959), German Roman Catholic priest
  • John Dahl (director) ( born 1956 ), American film director
  • John Dahl ( hockey player ) ( b. 1983 ), Canadian ice hockey player
  • John Kristian Dahl ( b. 1981 ), Norwegian cross-country skiers
  • Jon Dahl Tomasson (born 1976 ), Danish football player
  • Joseph Dahl (1838-1917), Catholic priest, canon and vicar general of the diocese of Speyer and Pontifical House prelate
  • Jürgen Dahl (1929-2001), German bookseller, journalist and author
  • Jutta Dahl ( b. 1943 ), Protestant theologian and anti -nuclear activist

K

  • Kevin Dahl ( b. 1968 ), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Kjell Ola Dahl ( b. 1958 ), Norwegian writer
  • Konrad Dahl (1899-1955), German politician ( SPD)

L

  • Laila Riksaasen Dahl ( b. 1947 ), Norwegian Lutheran bishop
  • Lawrence F. Dahl ( born 1929 ), Chemist

M

  • Magnus Dahl (* 1988), Norwegian Handball Goalkeeper
  • Maria Dahl (1872-1972), German zoologist
  • Michael Dahl (~ 1659-1743 ), Swedish portraitist and court painter
  • Minik Dahl Høegh (* 1985), Greenland Handball Players

N

  • Niels Fredrik Dahl ( b. 1957 ), Norwegian poet and journalist
  • Nils Alstrup Dahl (1911-2001), Norwegian Protestant theologian

O

  • Odd Dahl (1898-1994), Norwegian adventurer, polar explorer and physicist
  • Ove Christian Dahl (1862-1940), Norwegian botanist
  • Øyvind Dahl ( b. 1951 ), former Norwegian long-distance runner

P

  • Per Dahl (1916-1989), Norwegian ice hockey player
  • Peter Dahl ( b. 1948 ), Danish football player

R

  • Regin Dahl (1918-2007), Faroese poet and composer
  • Richard Dahl (1933-2007), Swedish track and field athlete
  • Roald Dahl (1916-1990), Welsh writer
  • Robert Alan Dahl (1915-2014), American political scientist

S

  • Simon Dahl ( b. 1975 ), Swedish beach volleyball player
  • Sophie Dahl ( born 1977 ), British model and author

T

  • Tessa Dahl ( b. 1957 ), British author and actress
  • Thomas Dahl ( b. 1964 ), German organist and choirmaster
  • Thorsten Dahl ( b. 1965 ), German politician
  • Tor Edvin Dahl ( b. 1943 ), Norwegian writer

W

  • Walther Dahl (1916-1985), German Luftwaffe colonel
  • Willy Dahl (* 1927), Norwegian literary historian, literary critic and writer
  • Winfried Dahl ( b. 1928 ), German material scientists
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