Rasmus

Rasmus is a shortened form of "Erasmus", the name of Desiderius Erasmus. As a male first name it is most common in Scandinavia. It may refer to:

First (given) name

• Rasmus (Swedish musician), Swedish musician
• Rasmus B. Anderson (1846–1936), American author, professor, and diplomat
• Rasmus Morten Andersen (1861–1930), Danish sculptor
• Rasmus Bille Bahncke, Danish songwriter, record producer and musician
• Rasmus Bartholin 1625-1698) (Latinized Erasmus Bartholinus), Danish scientist and physician
• Rasmus Bengtsson, Swedish football player
• Rasmus Bengtsson (ice hockey), Swedish ice hockey player
• Rasmus Bjerg, Danish actor.
• Rasmus Birkelund (1888–1972), Norwegian sportsman sailor
• Rasmus Christensen, (born 1991), Danish football player
• Rasmus Christiansen (actor), Danish actor
• Rasmus Christiansen (footballer born 1988), Danish football player
• Rasmus Christiansen (footballer born 1989), Danish soccer player
• Rasmus Christiansen (painter), Danish painter, used the signature RxCHR
• Rasmus Daugaard, Danish football player
• Rasmus Edstrom, Swedish ice hockey player
• Rasmus Elm, Swedish football player
• Rasmus Faber, Swedish music artist
• Rasmus Fleischer, Swedish historian, musician, freelance journalist
• Rasmus Hansen (footballer born 1979), Danish football player
• Rasmus Hansen (gymnast) (1885–1967), Danish gymnast
• Rasmus Hansen (politician) (1797–1860s), Norwegian jurist and politician
• Rasmus Hardiker, English actor
• Rasmus Grønborg Hansen, Danish football player
• Rasmus Quist Hansen, Danish rower
• Rasmus Hansen (Danish politician), Danish government in the 1940s and 1950s
• Rasmus Harboe (1868–1952), Danish sculptor
• Rasmus Henning, Danish triathlon athlete
• Rasmus Falk, Danish footballer
• Rasmus Festersen, Danish football player
• Rasmus Flo (1851–1905), Norwegian teacher, philologist, magazine editor, translator and proponent for Nynorsk language
• Rasmus Frandsen (1886–1974), Danish rower
• Rasmus Green (1980–2006), Danish football player
• Rasmus Hatledal (1885–1963), Norwegian topographer and military officer.
• Rasmus Jensen (d. 1620), Danish Lutheran priest and the first Lutheran cleric in Canada
• Rasmus Jonasson, Swedish tennis player
• Rasmus Jönsson, Swedish football player
• Rasmus Kaljujärv, Estonian actor
• Rasmus Katholm, Danish football player
• Rasmus Kofoed, Danish chef and restaurateur
• Rasmus Kofoed (cricketer), Danish cricketer
• Rasmus Olsen Langeland (1873-1954), Norwegian politician and minister
• Rasmus Lerdorf, programmer and creator of the PHP programming language
• Rasmus Lindgren, Swedish football player
• Rasmus Løland (1861–1907), Norwegian journalist, novelist and children's writer
• Rasmus Lyberth, Greenlandic singer, songwriter and actor
• Rasmus Malling-Hansen (1835–1890), Danish inventor, minister and principal at the Royal Institute for the Deaf, and one of the true pioneers of the 19th century
• Rasmus Marvits, Danish football player
• Rasmus Midgett, (1851–1926), US Life-Saving Service surfman in North Carolina who single-handedly rescued ten men from the sinking barkentine Priscilla
• Rasmus Mogensen, Danish fashion photographer
• Rasmus Olai Mortensen (1869-1934), Norwegian politician and minister
• Rasmus Nielsen, Danish football player
• Rasmus Tønder Nissen (1822–1882), Norwegian politician
• Rasmus Nøhr, Danish musician and guitarist
• Rasmus Nordbø (1915 – 1983), Norwegian admminstrator and minister
• Rasmus Pettersen, Norwegian gymnast
• Rasmus Quaade, Danish road and track bicycle racer
• Rasmus Christian Rask (1787-1832), Danish scholar and philologist
• Rasmus Rasmussen, (1899–1974), Danish gymnast
• Rasmus Refer, Danish entrepreneur and businessman
• Rasmus Ristolainen, Finnish ice hockey player
• Rasmus Lauge Schmidt, Danish handball player
• Rasmus Schüller, Finnish football player
• Rasmus Seebach, Danish singer songwriter
• Rasmus Sindre, (1859-1908), Norwegian newspaper editor and politician
• Rasmus Sjöstedt, Swedish football player
• Rasmus Skylstad (1893 – 1972), Norwegian diplomat
• Rasmus Jonassen Sørnes (1893-1967), a Norwegian inventor, clockmaker and radio technician
• Rasmus Carl Staeger (1800 - 1875), Danish entomologist
• Rasmus Steinsvik (1863 – 1913), Norwegian writer, magazine editor and newspaper editor
• Rasmus Stjerne, Danish curler
• Rasmus Pederson Thu, (1864-1946), Norwegian photographer
• Rasmus Thude, Danish singer and songwriter
• Rasmus Andreas Torset (1897-1965), Norwegian politician
• Rasmus Videbæk, Danish cinematographer
• Rasmus Wengberg, Swedish badminton player
• Rasmus Wremer, Swedish handball player
• Rasmus Würtz, Danish football player

Middle name

• Hans Rasmus Astrup (1831-1898), Norwegian politician
• Urban Jacob Rasmus Børresen (1857–1943), Norwegian rear admiral
• Peter Rasmus Krag (1825–1891), Norwegian engineer captain in the Norwegian Army and politician
• Peder Rasmus Lyng (1799–1863), Norwegian politician
• Ole Rasmus Møgster, (1958–2010), Norwegian businessperson

Family name

• Colby Rasmus, an American professional baseball player

Others

• The Rasmus, a Finnish band formerly called Rasmus
  • The Rasmus (album), self-titled studio album by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus
• Rasmus Seebach (album), album by Rasmus Seebach
• Rasmus på luffen, Swedish film directed by Olle Hellbom
• Rasmus Storm's Notebook, handwritten collection of tunes written in the 1760s by Rasmus Storm
• Rasmus Klump, a Danish comic strip
• Erasmus Montanus, or Rasmus Berg, a character in a comedy by Ludvig Holberg

See also:

• Rasmussen ("Rasmus' Son"), family name derived from "Rasmus"
• Erasmus (disambiguation)

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