Stig
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Stig | |
Gender: | Male |
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Origin: | Scandinavia |
Meaning: | "Wanderer" |
Stig is a common forename for men in Scandinavia - notable people with this name include:
- Stig Andersen Hvide, a 13th century Danish marsk and magnate
- Stikkan Anderson, given name Stig, manager of the Swedish band ABBA
- Stig Arild Råket, Swedish footballer
- Stig Berge, Norwegian athlete
- Stig Bergling, Swedish police officer and convicted Soviet agent
- Stig Inge Bjørnebye, Norwegian footballer
- Stig Blomqvist, Swedish rally driver
- Stig Dagerman, Swedish author and journalist
- Stig Dalager, Danish writer
- Stig Fredriksson, former Swedish footballer
- Stig Guldberg, founder of the Guldberg-Plan
- Stig Gælok, Sami poet
- Stig Roar Husby, former Norwegian athlete
- Stig Guldberg, Danish officer and educationalist
- Stig Johansen, Norwegian footballer
- Stig Johansen, a member of the band The Sins of Thy Beloved
- Stig Järrel, Swedish actor, film director and revue artist
- Stig Lindberg, Swedish designer
- Stig Lindow[1]American Born and Raised Muti-Media Artist and Designer.
- Per Stig Møller, Danish politician
- Stig O'Hara, a member of the fictional band The Rutles
- Stig Olin, Swedish actor, theatre director and songwriter
- Stig Saeterbakken, Norwegian author
- Stig Strand, Swedish skier
- Stig Strömholm, Swedish legal scholar
- Stig Synnergren, Swedish general
- Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer
- Stig Vilhelmson, Swedish businessman
- Stig Wennerström, a colonel in the Swedish Air Force convicted of treason in 1956
- Stig Wetzell, former Swedish ice hockey player
- Stig von Bahr, Swedish judge who sat on the European Court of Justice
Other uses for Stig are:
- Stig Hvide, an opera by Ole Olsen
- The Stig, the masked driver in the British television show Top Gear
- STIG, a fanzine dedicated to the League of Ireland association football team UCD
- Evil Stig, a band featuring Joan Jett and the surviving members of The Gits
- Stig of the Dump, a children's book and two TV series
- Stig, a region in eastern Serbia
- Security Technical Implementation Guide.(STIG), a methodology for standardized secure installation and maintenance of computer software and hardware
- Stig's Inferno, a comic by Ty Templeton