Jensen is a Danish and Norwegian patronymic surname derived from the given name Jens (given name)

There was no "Jensen family", merely a system of patronymics that was finally fixed in the 19th century at an arbitrary time, when the state bureaucracy required family names; before that people took their name from their father's first name.[1]

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  • Whitney Jensen (born 1992), American ballet dancer
  • Wilhelm Jensen (1837–1911), German writer and poet
  • William B. Jensen (1948–2024), American chemist and chemical historian
  • William Christian Jensen (November 17, 1889 – March 27, 1917) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played parts of two seasons in the majors, 1912 for the Detroit Tigers and 1914 for the Philadelphia Athletics.
  • Woody Jensen (1907–2001), American college baseball coach

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References

  1. ^ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, A Dictionary of Surnames (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. xxxv & 282-83.
Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_(surname)
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