Ludvig

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Ludvig Given Name
Gender	Male
Meaning	famous warrior
Origin	Scandinavian
Alternative spelling	Ludwig
Nicknames	Ludde
Related names	Louis, Love, Lovisa, Lova
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Ludvig

Ludvig is a Scandinavian given name, and may refer to:

In politics:

• Anton Ludvig Alvestad, Norwegian politician for the Labour Party
• Christian Ludvig Diriks, Norwegian appointed Minister of Auditing in 1856
• Christofer Rutger Ludvig Manderström, the Norwegian Prime Minister for Swedish-Norwegian affairs
• Fredrik Ludvig Konow, the Norwegian Minister of Finance
• Johan Ludvig, a minister of state of Denmark
• Ludvig Almqvist, Swedish politician
• Ludvig Aubert, Norwegian Minister of Justice in 1884
• Ludvig Daae, Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party
• Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg, Danish politician
• Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, a Danish politician
• Ole Ludvig Bærøe, Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party

In literature:

• Johan Ludvig Heiberg, a Danish poet and critic
• Johan Ludvig Runeberg, a Finland-Swedish poet
• Ludvig Bødtcher, a Danish lyric poet
• Ludvig Holberg, a Danish-Norwegian writer and playwright
• Peder Ludvig Møller, Danish literary critic

In other fields:

• Carl Ludvig Engel, a German architect
• Ernst Ludvig Ipsen, a U.S. portrait painter
• Harald Ludvig Westergaard, a Danish statistician and economist
• Ludvig Faddeev, Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician
• Ludvig G. Braathen, a Norwegian shipping magnate, land owner and founder of the Braathens airline
• Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, a Danish explorer
• Ludvig Nobel, Alfred Nobel's second oldest brother
• Ludvig Schytte, a Danish composer, pianist, and teacher
• Ludvig Strigeus, Swedish programmer best known for writing the BitTorrent client µTorrent and the conversion of Transport Tycoon to C
• Nada Ludvig-Pečar, first woman composer in Bosnia

[edit] See also

• Ludwig