Mads is a male given name, a Scandinavian form of

Matthew Matthew may refer to: * Matthew (given name) * Matthew (surname) * ''Matthew'' (ship), the replica of the ship sailed by John Cabot in 1497 * ''Matthew'' (album), a 2000 album by rapper Kool Keith * Matthew (elm cultivar), a cultivar of the Chi ...

(see also: Mats). Notable people with the name include:

Music

Mads Arp Miromusic is an electronic music partnership of Mads Arp and Steen Thottrup of Denmark. Origins Miro was founded in Farum, Denmark in 1990 and released their first record ''Energy'' / ''Mystery'' on Coma Records in 1991. Their international ...

, Danish composer, producer and electronic music pioneer *

Mads Christian Mads Christian Lyhne (born 9 February 2000), better known as Mads Christian, is a Danish singer who competed in the ninth season of the Danish series Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A n ...

(born 2000), Danish singer *

Mads Eriksen Mads Eriksen (born 15 July 1977) is a Norway, Norwegian cartoonist, best known for the comic strips ''M (comic strip), M'' and ''Gnom''. Biography Eriksen was born in Malvik. His career in comics began in 2000, when his first comic strip, ''Gnom ...

(born 1962), Norwegian guitarist and composer *

Mads Langer Mads Lillelund Langer (née Langer Clausen; born 14 January 1984) is a Danish singer-songwriter, who became internationally known for his cover of " You're Not Alone" by the British band Olive. He is a multi platinum and multi award winning art ...

(born 1984), Danish composer, singer-songwriter and pop musician born Langer Clausen *

Mads Tolling Mads Tolling (born July 5, 1980) is a Danish-American violinist, violist, composer and two-time Grammy Award-Winner. As a former member of the Turtle Island Quartet and bassist Stanley Clarke’s band, Tolling is today leading his own projects ...

(born 1980), Danish-American violinist and composer *

Mads Tunebjerg Kashmir is a Danish alternative rock band consisting of Kasper Eistrup (vocals and lead guitar); Mads Tunebjerg (bass); Asger Techau (drums) and Henrik Lindstrand (keyboards and guitar). History In the spring of 1991, Eistrup, Tunebjerg and ...

, Danish bass player in the Danish rock band Kashmir *

Mads Vinding Mads Vinding (born 7 December 1948, Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish jazz double-bassist. Music career Vinding began his professional career when he was 16 as the house bassist for Jazzhus Montmartre, a jazz club in Copenhagen. He has played ...

, Danish jazz

double-bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar ...

ist

Sports

Mads Albæk Mads Albæk (born 14 January 1990) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for SønderjyskE. He has also represented the Danish national under-21 team. Youth career Born in Roskilde, Albæk began his footballing career sta ...

(born 1990), Danish footballer *

Mads Andersen (rower) Mads Christian Kruse Andersen (born 25 March 1978 in Lolland) is a Danish lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as B ...

(born 1978), Danish rower *

Mads Juel Andersen Mads Juel Andersen (born 27 December 1997) is a Danish footballer who plays as a centre back for Barnsley. Youth career Mads Juel Andersen started his football career at Herstedøster Idræts Club (HIC) at the age of 5. He started because the ot ...

(born 1997), Danish footballer *

Mads Glæsner Mads Glæsner (born 18 October 1988 in Tårnby) is a Danish swimmer. He participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 400 metre freestyle and the 1500 metre freestyle disciplines. His swimming club is Vallensbæk-VAT but he trains at the N ...

(born 1988), Danish swimmer *

Mads Jørgensen Lars Mads Jørgensen (born 10 February 1979) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and won two Danish Superliga championships and two Danish Cup trophies with Brøndby IF. He started his career with AG ...

(born 1979), Danish retired footballer *

Mads Jørgensen (footballer, born 1998) Mads Jørgensen (born 5 July 1998) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Danish Second division club Middelfart Boldklub. Career Jørgensen played with the Odense Boldklub youth and U19 teams until his contract was ...

, Danish footballer *

Mads Junker Mads Junker (born 21 April 1981) is a Danish football pundit and former footballer who played as a striker. He played seven matches for the Danish national team. During his career, and increasingly after his retirement in 2015, Junker worked a ...

(born 1981), Danish pundit and retired footballer *

Mads Kaggestad Mads Petter Kaggestad (born February 22, 1977 in Ringerike) is a former Norwegian professional road racing cyclist. He competed for the French Crédit Agricole team between 2003 and 2007. During 2002 he was a member of the amateur Team Krone. ...

(born 1977), Norwegian retired road racing cyclist *

Mads Laudrup Mads Thunø Laudrup (born 9 February 1989) is a Denmark, Danish former professional Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. He has scored two goals and played 29 games for various Danish youth national teams. Career Laudrup p ...

(born 1989), Danish professional football player who currently plays for

HB Køge HB Køge () is a professional Danish football club based primarily in the town of Herfølge, and secondly in the town of Køge, both in the Køge Municipality, part of 'Region of Zealand', in the eastern part of Zealand, south of Copenhagen. ...

Mads Østberg Mads Østberg (born 11 October 1987) is a Norwegian rally driver. His co-driver is Torstein Eriksen. Career Østberg competed in his first rally in 2004. His first World Rally Championship event was the 2006 Swedish Rally, in which he finishe ...

(born 1987), Norwegian rally car driver *

Mads Pedersen (badminton) Mads Pedersen (born 14 February 1990) is a Danish badminton player. Achievements European Junior Championships ''Boys' doubles'' BWF International Challenge/Series ''Men's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF International Challenge to ...

(born 1990), Danish badminton player *

Mads Pedersen (cyclist) Mads Pedersen (born 18 December 1995) is a Danish professional racing cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . In September 2019, he won the men's road race at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships in Yorkshire, England, and became the first Danis ...

(born 1995), Danish road racing cyclist, 2019 Road Race World Champion *

Mads Pedersen (footballer, born 1993) Mads Pedersen (born 17 January 1993) is a Danish footballer who last played for Sandefjord Sandefjord () is a city and the most populous municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The municipality of Sandefjord was established on ...

, Danish footballer *

Mads Rasmussen Mads Reinholdt Rasmussen (born 24 November 1981 in Idestrup on Falster) is a Danish rower and double World Champion and Olympic Gold winner in the lightweight double sculls, with his partner Rasmus Quist Hansen. Rasmussen and Quist ...

(born 1981), Danish rower *

Mads Timm Mads Timm (born 31 October 1984) is a Danish footballer who plays as a forward for Danish Serie 1 club Kerteminde Boldklub. Playing career Spending his youth years at Odense, Timm joined English club Manchester United in the Premier League in 2 ...

(born 1984), Danish footballer *

Mads Valentin Mads Giersing Valentin Pedersen (born 1 September 1996), usually known as Mads Mini or Mads Valentin, is a Danish professional footballer who plays for Bundesliga club FC Augsburg. Club career FC Nordsjælland Valentin was promoted to the first ...

(born 1996), Danish footballer

Other fields

Mads Alstrup Mads Alstrup (1808-1876) was the first Danish portrait photographer with his own studio. For 16 years, he produced an enormous number of daguerreotypes, in Copenhagen and the provinces, before his business suffered from the financial crisis of 185 ...

(1808–1876), Danish photographer *

Mads Andersen (chess player) Mads Andersen (born 1 March 1995) is a Danish chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Danish Chess Champion. Chess career Born in 1995, Andersen earned his international master title in 2011 and his grandmaster title in 2016. He won the Danish ...

(born 1995), Danish chess grandmaster *

Mads Andersen (poker player) Mads Andersen (born 1970) is a poker and backgammon player from Copenhagen, Denmark. As of June 2015, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,225,000. and Heroscore ranks him as the 16th most influent Danish poker player. Before making hi ...

(born 1970), Danish poker and backgammon player *

Mads Brügger Mads Brügger (; born 24 June 1972) is a Danish filmmaker and TV host. Career Film Brügger's first two projects, the documentary series '' Danes for Bush'' and the feature ''The Red Chapel'', filmed in the United States and North Korea, res ...

(born 1972), Danish filmmaker and TV host *

Mads Clausen Mads Clausen (21 October 1905 – 27 August 1966) born in Elsmark, parish of Havnbjerg, municipality of Nordborg in Denmark, was a Danish industrialist and founder of Danfoss in 1933. He died in transit from Elsmark to Sønderborg. He marri ...

(1905–1966), Danish industrialist and founder of Danfoss *

(born 1977), Norwegian cartoonist *

Mads Fuglede Mads Fuglede (born 23 August 1971) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. He was elected into parliament in the 2019 Danish general election. Political career Fuglede first ran for parliament in ...

(born 1971), Danish politician *

Mads Gilbert Mads Fredrik Gilbert (born 2 June 1947) is a Norwegian physician, humanitarian, activist, and politician for the Red Party. He is a specialist in anesthesiology and head of the emergency medicine department at the University Hospital of North N ...

(born 1947), Norwegian doctor, activist and politician *

Mads Gram Harald Mathias "Mads" Gram (6 February 1875 – 1929) was a Norwegian physician. Personal life He was born in Drammen as the son of Jens Gram. He was a brother of Johan Fredrik Gram Johan Fredrik Gram (14 April 1868 – 27 December 1947) was a No ...

(1875–1929), Norwegian physician *

Mads Langaard Mads Ellef Langaard (3 May 1815 – 23 March 1891) was a Norwegian brewery owner and industrialist. He was the founder of the brewery Frydenlunds bryggeri, now a division of Ringnes. Personal life Langaard was born at Lillesand in Aust ...

(1815–1891), Norwegian brewery owner and industrialist *

Mads Johansen Lange Mads Johansen Lange, nicknamed the ''King of Bali'' (18 September 1807 in Rudkøbing, Denmark13 May 1856 in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia), was a Danish trader, entrepreneur, peace maker on Bali, knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, and ...

(1807–1856), Danish trader, entrepreneur and peace maker on Bali *

Mads Lauritz Madsen Mads Lauritz Madsen (1782–1840) was a Norwegian politician. He was elected to the first session of the Norwegian Parliament in 1827, representing the constituency of Drammen Drammen () is a city and municipality in Viken, Norway. The port a ...

(1782–1840), Norwegian politician *

Mads Nissen Mads Nissen (born November 17, 1979) is a Danish documentary photographer and winner of 2015 and 2021 World Press Photo of the Year. Life and work Nissen was born on November 17, 1979 in Hobro, Denmark. He completed his studies with distinction ...

(born 1979), Danish photojournalist *

Mads Mikkelsen Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen, (; born 22 November 1965) is a Danish actor. Originally a gymnast and dancer, he rose to fame in Denmark as an actor for his roles such as Tonny in the first two films of the ''Pusher'' film trilogy (1996, 2004), Det ...

(born 1965), Danish actor *

Mads Rørvig Mads Rørvig Nielsen is a former Danish politician who was a member of the Danish Parliament from 2010 to 2015. He represented the district Silkeborg Sydkredsen as a member of the Venstre party. As of June 2020, Rørvig is the CEO of De Danske ...

, Danish politician {{given name Danish masculine given names Norwegian masculine given names