Nansen (disambiguation)

Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930) was a Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate.

Nansen may also refer to:

People

• Odd Nansen (1901–1973), Norwegian architect and humanitarian; son of Fridtjof Nansen
• Eigil Nansen (1931–2017), athlete and architect; son of Odd Nansen
• Hans Nansen (1598–1667), Danish statesman
• Peter Nansen (1861–1918), Danish novelist, journalist, and publisher
• Betty Nansen (1873–1943), Danish actress and theater director
• Nansen Fugan, Japanese rendering of Nanquan Puyuan (Chinese: 南泉普願 (748–835) Zen Buddhist monk and teacher of Zhaozhou Congshen
• Are Nansen, founder of Toronto art collective SPAY (now defunct), and columnist for magazine Steel Bananas

Ships

• Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate, the main surface combatant units of the Royal Norwegian Navy
• HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen (1930), the first ship in the Norwegian armed forces to be built specially to perform coast guard and fishery protection duties in the Arctic
• HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen (F310), a 2004 frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy

Places

• Mount Nansen (Antarctica)
• Mount Fridtjof Nansen, Antarctica
• Mount Nansen (Yukon) in Yukon, Canada
• Nansen Island (disambiguation)
• Nansen Land, Greenland
• Nansen (lunar crater)
• Nansen (Martian crater)
• Nansen Sound, a strait in Nunavut, Canada, between Ellesmere Island and Axel Heiberg Island

Organisations

• Nansen International Office for Refugees (French: Office international Nansen pour les réfugiés), an organization of the League of Nations in charge of refugees from war areas from 1930 to 1939
• Nansen Institute, an independent research foundation in Norway
• Nansenhjelpen, also known as Nansen Relief in English, a humanitarian organization to provide safe haven and assistance in Norway for Jewish refugees from areas in Europe under Nazi control

Other

• Nansen (biography), a 1940 children's biography of the explorer by Anna Gertrude Hall
• Nansen (cat), ship's cat on Belgica during the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1897–98
• Nansen passport, internationally recognized identity cards first issued by the League of Nations to stateless refugees
• Nansen bottle, an oceanographic sampling device