Carlson (name)
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Carlson is a patronymic
surname
meaning "son of Carl". It is used as a given name
rarely. There are variations to the spelling. People with the name Carlson or its variant spellings include:
Patronymic
A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...
surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
meaning "son of Carl". It is used as a given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
rarely. There are variations to the spelling. People with the name Carlson or its variant spellings include:
Surname
- A. J. CarlsonA. J. CarlsonAnton Julius Carlson was a Swedish American physiologist. Carlson was Chairman of the Physiology Department at the University of Chicago from 1916 until 1940.-Biography:...
(1875 - 1956), Swedish American physiologist - Allan C. CarlsonAllan C. CarlsonAllan C. Carlson is a scholar and professor of history at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. He is the president of the Howard Center, a director of the Family in America Studies Center, the International Secretary of the World Congress of Families and editor of the Family in America...
(b. 1949), International Secretary of the World Congress of Families - Amy CarlsonAmy CarlsonAmy Lynn Carlson is an American actress best known for playing Josie Watts on Another World and Alex Taylor on Third Watch. More recently, she played Kelly Gaffney on the short-lived NBC courtroom drama, Law & Order: Trial by Jury. She currently plays Linda Reagan on the CBS drama Blue Bloods...
(b. 1968), American actress - Arne CarlsonArne CarlsonArne Helge Carlson, Sr. is an American politician and the 37th Governor of the state of Minnesota.-Early years, education and family:...
(b. 1934), Governor of the State of Minnesota - Catherine CarlsonCatherine CarlsonCatherine Carlson was appointed to the Provincial Court of Manitoba on November 23, 2006.Judge Carlson graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba in 1986. She began her legal career with the Winnipeg law firm of Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson, where she primarily practiced...
(?-?), Canadian judge in Manitoba - Charlie CarlsonCharlie CarlsonCharlie Carl Carlson, Jr. , is an American author, novelist, actor, and film producer. Known as "Florida's Man in Black", or "Master of the Weird", Carlson specializes in the paranormal, strange events and places, and many historical books...
(b. 1943), Author and film producer in Florida - Chester CarlsonChester CarlsonChester Floyd Carlson was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington....
(1906 - 1968), American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney - Clifford CarlsonClifford CarlsonHenry Clifford "Doc" Carlson is a Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee as the men's college basketball coach of his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh, from 1922 to 1953...
(1894 - 1964), American, University of Pittsburgh basketball coach, physician for Carnegie Steel Company - David CarlsonDavid CarlsonDavid Carlson American composer.Carlson studied theory and composition at the Los Angeles High School of the Arts and with Leonard Stein at the California Institute of the Arts...
(b. 1952), American composer - Dylan CarlsonDylan CarlsonDylan Carlson is the lead guitarist, lead singer, and only constant member of the Drone doom group Earth.Carlson was born in Seattle, Washington, United States. His father worked for the Department of Defense, and, as a result, as a child he moved quite frequently, living in Philadelphia, Texas,...
(b. 1968), American, band member of band Earth - Edward CarlsonEdward CarlsonEdward "Eddie" Carlson , was an American businessman and Seattle, Washington civic leader.Carlson was born in Tacoma, Washington and, as a youth, helped his single mother make ends meet by working as an attendant at a gas station, as well as other odd jobs...
(1911 - 1990), American, Seattle civic leader - Emily CarlsonEmily Carlson-Television:Carlson is a reporter at WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa. Before that she reported for TV30 in the Bay Area of California until it stopped doing news in June 2008. In 2006 and 2007 she reported for WICD in Champaign, Illinois. In 2005 and 2006 she was a reporter and news anchor at KEYC in...
(?-?), American, figure skater, broadcast journalist - Evans CarlsonEvans CarlsonBrigadier General Evans Fordyce Carlson was the famed U.S. Marine Corps leader of the World War II "Carlson's Raiders"...
(1896 - 1947), USMC leader in WWII - Frank CarlsonFrank CarlsonFrank Carlson was an American politician who served as the 30th Governor of Kansas and United States Representative and United States Senator from Kansas.-Biography:...
(1893 - 1987), American politician - Fritz CarlsonFritz CarlsonFritz David Carlson was a Swedish mathematician. He's famous for* Carlson's theorem in complex analysis* Carlson's inequality*Carlson–Levin constant*Carlson theorem on Dirichlet series...
(1888 - 1952), Swedish mathematician - Gretchen CarlsonGretchen CarlsonGretchen Elizabeth Carlson is an American television personality who currently co-hosts the Fox News morning show Fox & Friends along with Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade...
(b. 1966), American television personality and former Miss America - Jeffrey CarlsonJeffrey CarlsonJeffrey Carlson is a Broadway, film, television actor and singer, best known for his role as the transgender Zarf/Zoe on the long-running daytime soap opera All My Children....
(b. 1975), American actor - Jim CarlsonJim CarlsonJim Carlson was an American film and television writer. He had been involved in shows as Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Emergency!, CHiPs and Battlestar Galactica, and an ABC special based on The Mouse and the Motorcycle...
(1932 - 2007), American film and television writer - Jim Carlson (Minnesota politician)Jim Carlson (Minnesota politician)Jim Carlson is a Minnesota politician and a former member of the Minnesota Senate who represented District 38, which includes southeastern Eagan and most of Apple Valley and Rosemount in Dakota County, which is in the southeastern Twin Cities metropolitan area. A Democrat, he was first elected in...
(b. 1947), American - Kelly CarlsonKelly CarlsonKelly Lee Carlson is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as Kimber Henry on Nip/Tuck. In 2001 she was listed on Tear Sheet Magazines 50 Most Beautiful list.-Career:...
(b. 1976), American actress - KyleCarlson TwinsKyle and Lane Carlson, known collectively as the Carlson Twins, are identical twin brothers and work together as male fashion models.-Biography:...
and Lane CarlsonCarlson TwinsKyle and Lane Carlson, known collectively as the Carlson Twins, are identical twin brothers and work together as male fashion models.-Biography:...
(b. 1978), American models - Len CarlsonLen CarlsonLen Carlson was a Canadian voice actor on many animated television series from the 1960s onward, an occasional live-action TV actor, and a Kraft Canada TV pitchman during the 1970s and 1980s...
(1937-2006), Canadian voice actor - Linda CarlsonLinda CarlsonLinda Carlson is an American actress.Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, she began her career on TV in 1977, and has appeared on numerous shows.-Filmography:*Honey, I Blew Up the Kid ... Nosey Neighbor...
(b. 1945), American actress - Margaret CarlsonMargaret CarlsonMargaret Carlson is an American journalist and a columnist for Bloomberg News.-Biography:She is best known for being the first female columnist at TIME magazine. Carlson joined Time in January 1988 from The New Republic, where she was managing editor; in 1994, she became the first female columnist...
(?-?), American journalist - Paul CarlsonPaul CarlsonPaul Carlson was an American medical missionary of the Evangelical Covenant Church that served in Wasolo, a city in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
(1928 - 1964), American medical missionary - Paul Howard CarlsonPaul H. CarlsonPaul Howard Carlson , an historian of Texas, the American West, and Native Americans, is a professor emeritus at Texas Tech University in Lubbock....
(born 1940), American historian - Paulette CarlsonPaulette CarlsonPaulette Tenae Carlson is a country singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s as the founder and lead vocalist for the country band Highway 101...
(b. 1952), American singer - Richard Carlson (actor) (1912 - 1977), American
- Richard Carlson (author)Richard Carlson (author)Richard Carlson Ph.D. was an American author, psychotherapist, and motivational speaker, who rose to fame with the success of his book, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s all Small Stuff , which became one of the fastest-selling books of all time and made publishing history as USA Todays...
(1961 - 2006), American - Robert James CarlsonRobert James CarlsonRobert James Carlson is an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the ninth and current Archbishop of St. Louis. He previously served as Auxiliary Bishop of St...
(b. 1944), American, Roman Catholic bishop - Tucker CarlsonTucker CarlsonTucker Swanson McNear Carlson is an American political news correspondent and conservative commentator for the Fox News Channel...
(b. 1969), American news pundit - Veronica CarlsonVeronica CarlsonVeronica Carlson is an English model and actress, famous for her roles in Hammer horror films.Born as Veronica Mary Glazer, Veronica Carlson spent most of her childhood in Germany where her father was stationed...
(b. 1944), English model and actress - William H. CarlsonWilliam H. CarlsonWilliam H. "Billy" Carlson was an American Independent politician and land developer from California.-Personal:William "Billy" Carlson was born 1864 in Sweden. He immigrated to the U.S...
(1864 - 1937), American politician - William S. CarlsonWilliam S. CarlsonWilliam Samuel Carlson was a 20th Century academic administrator who served as President of four universities....
, explorer of Greenland and former President of four universities
Given name
- Carlson GracieCarlson GracieCarlson Gracie, Sr. was a practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He was the eldest son of Carlos Gracie, founder of the system with his uncle Hélio Gracie, and learned the art from his uncle and his father. He was a member of the legendary Gracie family.- Biography :Carlson Gracie would later split...
(1935 - 2006), Brazilian martial artist - Christy Carlson RomanoChristy Carlson RomanoChristy Carlson Romano is an American stage and film actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the sitcom Even Stevens and the animated series Kim Possible, in which she is the voice of the title character, as well as the voice of Yuffie Kisaragi in Kingdom Hearts and Final...
(b. 1984), American actress, dancer, author and singer
See also
- Carlsen (disambiguation)
- Carlson (disambiguation)
- Carlsson (disambiguation)
- Karlson (disambiguation)
- KarlssonKarlssonKarlsson is a Scandinavian patronymic surname meaning "son of Karl" or "Karl's son". It is one of the most and has a number of alternative spellings. Apart from Karlsson, Carlsson is the most common spelling variation...
- Andrew Carlssin