Kersten is a German given name and a Dutch/Low German surname.
Given name
A German male or female given name
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Kersten Artus (born 1964), female German journalist and politician
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Kersten Meier (1954–2001), male German swimmer at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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Kersten Neisser (born 1956), female German rower
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Kersten Reich, German educator and cultural theorist
Surname
A
Dutch
Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
** Dutch people as an ethnic group ()
** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship ()
** Dutch language ()
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and
Low German
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patronymic surname
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A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based o ...
, meaning "son of Kerst/Kersten/Kerstijn/Kerstiaen", archaic forms of the name
Christian
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People with this surname include:
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Adam Kersten
Adam Kersten (26 April 1930 in Kutno - 11 January 1983 in Warsaw) was a Polish historian, expert on the Polish history in the 17th century. Member of the faculty at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University since 1955.
From 1980 he was active in the Sol ...
(1930–1983), Polish historian
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Alicia Kersten (born 1988), German football player
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Ben Kersten (born 1981), Dutch-Australian racing cyclist
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Carool Kersten (born 1964), Dutch historian
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Charles J. Kersten (1902–1972), American politician from Wisconsin
* (1733–1796), German missionary in Suriname
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Claire Kersten
Claire Kersten (born 9 July 1989) is a New Zealand netball player who plays in the ANZ Premiership, playing for the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic. Claire can play WD and C. In 2013, she made her ANZ Championship debut for the Central Pulse
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(born 1989), New Zealand netball player
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Dagmar Kersten (born 1970), East German gymnast
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Felix Kersten
Eduard Alexander Felix Kersten (30 September 1898 – 16 April 1960) was the personal physical therapist of ''Reichsführer-SS'' Heinrich Himmler.
Early life
Kersten was born in a Baltic German family in Dorpat, Imperial Russia, now Tartu, in ...
(1898–1960), Himmler's masseur who aided people persecuted by Nazi Germany
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Frank L. Kersten (1870–1950), American politician
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Franziska Kersten (born 1968) German politician
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Gerrit Hendrik Kersten
Gerrit Hendrik Kersten (6 August 1882 – 6 September 1948) was a Dutch Calvinist minister and politician. After briefly working as a primary school teacher Kersten was inducted into his first pastorate in Meliskerke in 1905 without formal theolo ...
(1882–1948), Calvinist minister and Dutch politician (SGP)
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Holger Kersten (born 1951), German writer on the lost years of Jesus in India
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Ina Kersten
Ina Kersten (born 1946) is a German mathematician and former president of the German Mathematical Society. Her research concerns abstract algebra including the theory of field extensions and algebraic groups. She is a professor emerita at the Univ ...
(born 1946), German mathematician
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Joke Kersten (1944–2020), Dutch politician
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Krystyna Kersten
Krystyna Kersten (pen name, Jan Bujnowski; born Krystyna Goławska May 25, 1931 in Poznań – July 10, 2008 in Warsaw) was a Polish historian, a professor at the Historical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of Collegium In ...
(1931–2008), Polish historian
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Mark Kersten (born 1950), Australian politician
* (1906–1999), German physicist and metallurgist
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Martin L. Kersten (1953–2022), Dutch computer scientist
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Mik Kersten (born 1975), Polish-born Canadian computer scientist
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Otto Kersten
Otto Kersten (23 December 1839 in Altenburg – 22 November 1900 in Altenburg) was a German chemist and geographer.
He studied chemistry and natural sciences at the University of Leipzig, and after graduation, worked as an assistant at the v ...
(1839–1900), German explorer, chemist and geographer
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Peter Kersten (born 1958), German rower
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Ryan Kersten (born 1986), Australian basketball player
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Sam Kersten (born 1998), Dutch football player
See also
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Kerstens
References
{{given name, type=both
Dutch patronymic surnames
Low German surnames
German unisex given names
Patronymic surnames