Nansen (disambiguation)

Nansen may refer to:

People

• Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel laureate
• Odd Nansen, Norwegian architect and humanitarian; son of Fridtjof Nansen
• Eigil Nansen, athlete and architect; son of Odd Nansen
• Hans Nansen, Danish statesman
• Peter Nansen, Danish novelist, journalist, and publisher
• Betty Nansen, Danish actress and theater director
• Nansen Fugan, Japanese rendering of Nánquán Pǔyuàn (Chinese: 南泉普願 (748–835) Zen Buddhist monk and teacher of Zhaozhou Congshen
• Are Nansen, founder of Toronto art collective SPAY (now defunct), and columnist for magazine Steel Bananas

Ships

• Fridtjof Nansen class frigate, the main surface combatant units of the Royal Norwegian Navy
• HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen OPV, the first ship in the Norwegian armed forces to be built specially to perform coast guard and fishery protection duties in the Arctic
• HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen (F310), a frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy

Places

• Mount Nansen (Antarctica)
• Mount Fridtjof Nansen in Antarctica
• Mount Nansen (Yukon) in Yukon, Canada
• Nansen Island (disambiguation)
• Nansen (lunar crater)
• Nansen Sound, a strait in Nunavut, Canada, between Ellesmere Island and Axel Heiberg Island

Organisations

• Nansen International Office for Refugees (French: Office international Nansen pour les réfugiés), an organization of the League of Nations in charge of refugees from war areas from 1930 to 1939
• Nansen Institute, an independent research foundation in Norway
• Nansenhjelpen, also known as Nansen Relief in English, a humanitarian organization to provide safe haven and assistance in Norway for Jewish refugees from areas in Europe under Nazi control
• Nansen passport, internationally recognized identity cards first issued by the League of Nations to stateless refugees

Other

• Nansen (biography), a 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

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