Westerlund may refer to: *

Westerlund 1 Westerlund 1 (abbreviated Wd1, sometimes called Ara Cluster) is a compact young super star cluster about 3.8 kpc (12,000 ly) away from Earth. It is thought to be the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way, and was discovered by Beng ...

, a star cluster *

Westerlund 2 Westerlund 2 is an obscured compact young star cluster (perhaps even a super star cluster) in the Milky Way, with an estimated age of about one or two million years. It contains some of the hottest, brightest, and most massive stars known. The ...

, a star cluster *

2902 Westerlund 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra a ...

, a Main-belt Asteroid

People with the surname

Anna Westerlund Anna Ǻsa Olivia Westerlund (born 9 April 1989) is a Finnish footballer, who plays at club level for Åland United. She previously played for FC Honka in Finland's Naisten Liiga and Umeå IK. Despite playing 90 minutes in all 22 of Umeå's leagu ...

(born 1989), Finnish footballer *

Bengt Westerlund Bengt Westerlund (January 17, 1921 - June 4, 2008) was a Swedish astronomer who specialised in observational astronomy. He received his PhD from Uppsala University in 1954. In 1957 he was appointed astronomer at the Uppsala Southern Station at Mo ...

(1921–2008), Swedish professor of astronomy *

Björn Westerlund Björn Georg Wilhelm Westerlund, titled ''Vuorineuvos'' (27 January 1912 in Hanover, Germany – 11 March 2009 in Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and t ...

(1912–2009), a Finnish businessman *

Carl Agardh Westerlund Carl Agardh Westerlund (12 January 1831 – 28 February 1908 in Ronneby) was a Swedish malacologist. Biography Westerlund was born at Berga in Kalmar County, Sweden. He became a student in Uppsala University in 1853 and studied at Lund U ...

(1831–1908), Swedish malacologist *

Carl Julius Alvin Westerlund Carl Julius Alvin Westerlund (2 June 1885 – 14 May 1952) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Bodø. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from the Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland counties in 1945, b ...

(1885–1952), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party *

Edvard Westerlund Edvard Vilhelm "Eetu" Westerlund (1 February 1901 – 7 December 1982) was a Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It s ...

(born 1901), Finnish wrestler * Ernst Westerlund (1893–1961), Finnish sailor *

Erkka Westerlund Erkka Westerlund (born 30 March 1957, in Pernå, Finland) was the head coach of the Finnish national men's ice hockey team. He was appointed head coach on November 1, 2004, and his contract ended in May 2007, after winning World Championship Silve ...

(born 1957), previous head coach of the Finnish national men's ice hockey team *

Helena Larsdotter Westerlund Helena Larsdotter Westerlund ( April 24, 1799 — November 22, 1865), was a Swedish educator. She was the first woman in Sweden to have been a formally trained and licensed elementary school teacher, when given special dispensation to study and gr ...

(1799-1865), Swedish educator *

Kalle Westerlund Kalle Westerlund (22 September 1897 – 11 February 1972) was a Finnish wrestler. He was born in Helsinki, and was the brother of Edvard Westerlund and Emil Westerlund. He won an Olympic bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1924. ...

(1897–1972), Finnish wrestler * Karl Valdemar Westerlund (1907–1997), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party *

Majléne Westerlund Panke Majléne Lilian Westerlund Panke (born 1946) is a Swedish politician and former member of the Riksdag, the national legislature. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she represented Halland County Halland County ( sv, Hallands län, link= ...

(born 1946), Swedish politician {{disambiguation, surname Surnames of Swedish origin Surnames of Finnish origin