Rasmus (given name)

Rasmus is a shortened form of "Erasmus", a name which means "beloved" and was the name of Erasmus of Formia, a well-known saint. It is a common male name in Scandinavia.^[1]

People with the given name Rasmus include:

• Rasmus B. Anderson (1846–1936), American author, professor, and diplomat
• Rasmus Andersson, Swedish ice hockey player
• Rasmus Bille Bahncke, Danish songwriter, record producer and musician
• Rasmus Bartholin (1625-1698) (Latinized Erasmus Bartholinus), Danish scientist and physician
• Rasmus Bengtsson, Swedish football player
• Rasmus Bengtsson (ice hockey), Swedish ice hockey player
• Rasmus Bjerg, Danish actor
• Rasmus Christensen, (born 1991), Danish football player
• Rasmus Christiansen (actor), Danish actor
• Rasmus Dahlin, Swedish ice hockey player
• Rasmus Daugaard, Danish football player
• Rasmus Edstrom, Swedish ice hockey player
• Rasmus Elm, Swedish football player
• Rasmus Faber, Swedish music artist
• Rasmus Fleischer, Swedish historian, musician, freelance journalist
• Rasmus Hansen (footballer born 1979), Danish football player
• Rasmus Hansen (gymnast) (1885–1967), Danish gymnast
• Rasmus Hansen (politician) (1797–1860s), Norwegian jurist and politician
• Rasmus Hardiker, English actor
• Rasmus Grønborg Hansen, Danish football player
• Rasmus Quist Hansen, Danish rower
• Rasmus Harboe (1868–1952), Danish sculptor
• Rasmus Henning, Danish triathlon athlete
• Rasmus Falk, Danish footballer
• Rasmus Festersen, Danish football player
• Rasmus Flo (1851–1905), Norwegian teacher, philologist, magazine editor, translator and proponent for Nynorsk language
• Rasmus Frandsen (1886–1974), Danish rower
• Rasmus Green (1980–2006), Danish football player
• Rasmus Hatledal (1885–1963), Norwegian topographer and military officer.
• Rasmus Jensen (priest) (d. 1620), Danish Lutheran priest and the first Lutheran cleric in Canada
• Rasmus Jensen (speedway rider) (born 1993), Danish motorcycle rider
• Rasmus Jönsson, Swedish football player
• Rasmus Kaljujärv, Estonian actor
• Rasmus Katholm, Danish football player
• Rasmus Kofoed, Danish chef and restaurateur
• Rasmus Kofoed (cricketer), Danish cricketer
• , Swedish composer, arranger, singer, musical director of Zero8 chorus, tenor in Ringmasters quartet
• Rasmus Olsen Langeland (1873-1954), Norwegian politician and minister
• Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic-Danish programmer and creator of the PHP programming language
• Rasmus Lindgren, Swedish football player
• Rasmus Løland (1861–1907), Norwegian journalist, novelist and children's writer
• Rasmus Lyberth, Greenlandic singer, songwriter and actor
• Rasmus Malling-Hansen (1835–1890), Danish inventor, minister and principal at the Royal Institute for the Deaf, and one of the true pioneers of the 19th century
• Rasmus Marvits, Danish football player
• Rasmus Midgett, (1851–1926), US Life-Saving Service surfman in North Carolina who single-handedly rescued ten men from the sinking barkentine Priscilla
• Rasmus Olai Mortensen (1869-1934), Norwegian politician and minister
• Rasmus Nielsen (disambiguation)
• Rasmus Tønder Nissen (1822–1882), Norwegian politician
• Rasmus Nøhr, Danish musician and guitarist
• Rasmus Nordbø (1915 – 1983), Norwegian admminstrator and minister
• Rasmus Pettersen, Norwegian gymnast
• Rasmus Quaade, Danish road and track bicycle racer
• Rasmus Rändvee (born 1995), Estonian singer
• Rasmus Christian Rask (1787-1832), Danish scholar and philologist
• Rasmus Rasmussen (disambiguation), several people
• Rasmus Ristolainen, Finnish ice hockey player
• Rasmus Sandin, Swedish ice hockey player
• Rasmus Lauge Schmidt, Danish handball player
• Rasmus Schüller, Finnish football player
• Rasmus Seebach, Danish singer songwriter
• Rasmus Sindre, (1859-1908), Norwegian newspaper editor and politician
• Rasmus Sjöstedt, Swedish football player
• Rasmus Skylstad (1893–1972), Norwegian diplomat
• Rasmus Carl Staeger (18001875), Danish entomologist
• Rasmus Steinsvik (1863–1913), Norwegian writer, magazine editor and newspaper editor
• Rasmus Stjerne, Danish curler
• Rasmus Thude, Danish singer and songwriter
• Rasmus Andreas Torset (1897-1965), Norwegian politician
• Rasmus Videbæk, Danish cinematographer
• Rasmus Wengberg, Swedish badminton player
• Rasmus Borregaard Winther, Danish League of Legends e-sport player
• Rasmus Wremer, Swedish handball player
• Rasmus Würtz, Danish football player

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See also[]

• Rasmus (disambiguation)