Sverdrup (disambiguation)

Several people share the family name Sverdrup:

• Einar Sverdrup (1895-1942), a Norwegian mining engineer and businessman
• Erling Sverdrup (1917-1994), a Norwegian statistician
• Georg Sverdrup (1770-1850), founder of the first Norwegian university library
• Georg Sverdrup (1848-1907), President of Augsburg Seminary
• George Sverdrup, son of Georg, also president of Augsburg Seminary from 1911 to 1937
• George Sverdrup, technology manager of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1813-1891), a Norwegian priest and politician
• Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1888-1957), a Norwegian oceanographer grandson of the previous one
• Harald Sverdrup (1923-1992), a Norwegian writer and poet
• Johan Sverdrup (1816-1892), prime minister of Norway
• Leif J. Sverdrup (1898-1976), a Norwegian-American civil engineer
• Otto Neumann Sverdrup (1854-1930), a Norwegian explorer

Named for these:

• Sverdrup, a unit of volume flux
• Sverdrup balance, an oceanographic theory
• Sverdrup Pass, a pass on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
• Sverdrup Islands, Arctic islands
• Sverdrup Island, another Arctic island
• Sverdrup, a lunar crater near the Moon's south pole
• Sverdrup Township, Minnesota