Malte or Malthe is a male given name that is mainly used in

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, which is from Old Danish ''Malti''. It originated from ''Helmhold / Helmwald'' ("helmet-govern") or from former Low German and Old Danish short form of Old German names beginning with ''Mahal-'' "assembly". It described the advisor of the

Thing (assembly) A thing, also known as a folkmoot, assembly, tribal council, and Thing (assembly)#Etymology, by other names, was a governing assembly in early Germanic peoples, Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by a l ...

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Malte-Conrad Bruun Conrad Malte-Brun (; born Malthe Conrad Bruun; 12 August 177514 December 1826), sometimes referred to simply as Malte-Brun, was a Dano-French geographer and journalist. His second son, Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun, was also a geographer. Today he ...

(1755–1826), Danish-French geographer *

Malte Amundsen Malte Meineche Amundsen (; born 11 February 1998) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer. Club career Beginnings in Denmark Born in Næstved, Amundsen started his youth career wit ...

(born 1998), Danish footballer *

Malte Gallée Malte Lenz Gallée (born 5 September 1993) is a German politician from Alliance 90/The Greens. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2021 to 2024. He took the place of Sven Giegold, who resigned as an MEP to join the domestic governmen ...

(born 1993), German politician *

Malte Kaufmann Malte Kaufmann (born 14 December 1976 in Mannheim) is a German economist, entrepreneur and politician from the AfD. He has been Member of the German Bundestag since 2021. Political career In the 2021 German federal election, he contested Heid ...

(born 1976), German economist, entrepreneur and politician *

Malte Ludin Malte Ludin is a German filmmaker. He was born in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1942. He studied political science at the Free University of Berlin. Malte was the youngest son of Hanns and Erla Ludin. His father served as ambassador to Slovakia durin ...

(born 1942), German filmmaker *

Malte Persson Malte Persson (born 1976) is a Swedish author of novels and poetry and translator. Biography Persson grew up in Gothenburg and attended Sigrid Rudebecks gymnasium. His first book ''Livet på den här planeten'' (Life on this planet), a novel, ...

(born 1976), Swedish author *

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ''The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge'', first published as ''The Journal of My Other Self'',Mary D. Herter Norton, M. D. Herter Norton (tr.). New York: W. W. Norton, 1949, 1992. Translator's Foreword, p. 8. is a 1910 novel by Austrian poet Ra ...

, novel by Rainer Maria Rilke *

Malte Gårdinger Larse Malte Isidor Myrenberg Gårdinger (born 23 July 2000) is a Swedish actor, chiefly known for starring as August in the Netflix series ''Young Royals'' from 2021 to 2024. Since 2021, he has released music under the name Gibbon (stylised in a ...

(born 2000), Swedish actor It is also the French name of

Malta Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The two ...

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Ethelreda Malte Ethel(d)reda Malte (sometimes referred to as Audrey; ) was an English courtier of the Tudor period who was reputed to be an illegitimate daughter of King Henry VIII. She was the wife of poet and writer John Harington, prior to Isabella Markham. ...

, alleged illegitimate daughter of Henry VIII of England and the royal laundress. *

Kim Malthe-Bruun Kim Malthe-Bruun (born Kim Friis-Hansen, 8 July 1923 – 6 April 1945) was a Canadian-born seaman and a member of the Danish resistance, who was executed by the Germans during their occupation of Denmark. Biography He was born in Edmonton, ...

(1923-1945), Danish resistance member during World War II *

Natassia Malthe Natassia Linn Malthe (; born 19 January 1974) is a Norwegian actress. Early life and career Natassia Malthe, born on January 19, 1974, in Oslo, Norway, is an actress and model of Norwegian and Malaysian descent. She trained in ballet at the ...

(born 1974), Norwegian model and actress

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