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Westergaard


Westergaard is a Danish surname, literally meaning west farm. Note that the double a is equivalent of å in common nouns and is retained from the pre-1948 orthography in proper nouns only. The form Vestergaard is a more common cognate. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Bjørn Westergaard (born 1962), Danish Olympic sailor
  • Elof Westergaard (born 1962), Danish Lutheran bishop
  • Harald Ludvig Westergaard (1853–1936), Danish statistician and economist
  • Harold M. Westergaard (1888–1950), Danish professor of theoretical and applied mechanics
  • John Westergaard (1931–2003), American stock analyst
  • Kurt Westergaard (1935–2021), Danish cartoonist
  • Niels Ludvig Westergaard (1815–1878), Danish orientalist
  • Peter Westergaard (1931–2019), American composer and music theorist
  • Marit Westergaard (born 1956), Norwegian linguist and language acquisitionist
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