Fredriksen is a

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

patronymic A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. Patronymics are still in use, including mandatory use, in many countries worldwide, al ...

surname which may refer to:

People

Aslaug Fredriksen Aslaug Fredriksen (born 9 November 1918 in Vestnes, died 3 February 2000) was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Møre og Romsdal in 1977, and was re-elected on one occasi ...

(1918-2000), Norwegian politician * Britt Fredriksen (born 1945), Norwegian Playmate *

Jan-Henrik Fredriksen Jan-Henrik Fredriksen (2 October 1956 – 8 March 2020) was a Norwegian politician representing the Progress Party (FRP). He was a representative of Finnmark in the ''Storting The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the su ...

(1956-2020), Norwegian politician *

John Fredriksen John Fredriksen (born 10 May 1944) is a Norwegian-born Cypriot oil tanker and shipping billionaire businessman based in London. He owns the world's largest oil tanker fleet and has major interests in the offshore driller Seadrill, the fish farmi ...

(born 1944), Norwegian oil tanker and shipping tycoon * Jon André Fredriksen (born 1982), Norwegian footballer * Kitty Petrine Fredriksen (1910- 2003), Norwegian politician * Lars A. Fredriksen, Norwegian pop singer * Mark Fredriksen (1936-2011), French extreme political right figure in 1960s to the 2000s and founder of a movement * Oskar Fredriksen (cross-country skier), Norwegian cross country skier * Oskar Fredriksen (speed skater) (1872–1920), Norwegian speed skater *

Paula Fredriksen Paula Fredriksen (born January 6, 1951, Kingston, Rhode Island) is an American historian and scholar of early Christianity. She held the position of William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University from 1990 to 2010. Now emeri ...

(born 1951), American scholar *Sigurd Fredriksen, (1907-1986), French painter * Trond Fredriksen (born 1977), Norwegian footballer * Yngvar Fredriksen(1887–1958), Norwegian gymnast

Other

Carl Fredriksens Transport Carl Fredriksens Transport was the code name for an operation during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany to help Jews and other persecuted Norwegians escape persecution, deportation, and murder in death camps. Background The Nazi regime in No ...

, code name for an operation during the occupation of

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

* Fredriksen Island,

South Orkney Islands The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean, about north-east of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest co ...

{{surname Norwegian-language surnames Patronymic surnames Surnames from given names