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Contemporary Notables of the name Bjorn (post 1700) +

  • Jocelyn Bjorn Lovell (1950-2016), English-born, Canadian three-time gold medalist cyclist who was injured by a truck while in training making him a quadriplegic, inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1985
  • Ronald Bjorn Jensen (b. 1936), American mathematician awarded the Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research in 2003
  • Herman Bjorn Dahle (1855-1920), American Republican politician, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin 2nd District, 1899-1903 1
  • Bjorn "Lillebjorn" Falk Nilsen (1950-2024), Norwegian singer-songwriter and folk musician
  • Bjorn Klaassen, Dutch animator, known for Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds (2017), Horizon Zero Dawn (2017) and The Division 2 (2019)
  • Bjorn Merten, former American football placekicker who played from 1993 to 1996 for the UCLA Bruins
  • Bjorn Alberic Basson (b. 1987), South African professional rugby union player
  • Bjorn Staib, Norwegian polar explorer


  1. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 12) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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