Karsten
Karsten or Carsten is a both a given name and a surname. The name Karsten is a Greek baby name. In Greek the meaning of the name Karsten is: Anointed.
It is also known to be derived from a Low German form of Christian.[1] Notable persons with the name include:
Given name
- Carsten Niebuhr (1733–1815), German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in the service of Denmark
- Karsten Solheim (1911-2000), Norwegian-born American golf club designer, businessman
- Carsten Pohl (born 1965), German basketball coach
- Karsten Forsterling (born 1980), Australian rower
- Karsten Warholm (born 1996), Norwegian athlete
Surname
- Adrian Karsten (1960–2005), U.S. college football reporter
- Christoffer Christian Karsten (1756–1827), Swedish opera singer
- Ekaterina Karsten (born 1972), Belarusian Olympic rower
- Elisabeth Charlotta Karsten (1783-1856), Swedish painter
- Frank Karsten (born 1984), Dutch Magic: The Gathering player
- Frank M. Karsten (1913–1992), U.S. politician
- George Karsten (1863-1937), German botanist
- Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817–1908), German botanist and geologist
- Gustav Karsten (1820–1900), German physicist
- Kai Karsten (born 1968), German Olympic sprinter
- Karl Johann Bernhard Karsten (1782–1853), German mineralogist
- Karl G. Karsten (1891-1968), American economist, statistician and businessman
- Petter Adolf Karsten (1834–1917), Finnish mycologist
- Sophie Karsten (1783-1862), Swedish dancer and artist
- Sophie Mariane Karsten (1753-1848), Polish opera singer
- Thomas Karsten (1885–1945), Dutch engineer
- Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten (1732-1787), German mathematician
Other
- Karsten (fish), a genus of fish in the family Oxudercidae
See also
References
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