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Anders is a name in Scandinavian languages, the equivalent of the Greek Andreas ("manly") and the English Andrew. Anders is the German and Dutch word for different.

In Sweden, Anders has been one of the most common names for many centuries. According to Statistics Sweden, as of December 31, 2002, it ranks 4th among the male names. The great frequency of this name at the point in time (around 1900) when patronymics were converted into family names is the reason why 1 out of every 30 Swedes today are called Andersson.

The name day of Anders in the Scandinavian calendar is November 30, and in the old peasant superstition that day was important for determining what the Christmas weather would be. If it was very cold on November 30, there would be much sleet on Christmas (and vice versa).

In Denmark (but not in Norway or Sweden), Donald Duck's name is Anders And.

The equivalent of Anders in Basque is Ander, which is also a very common name.

People[link]

Given name[link]

• Anders Anundsen (born 1975), Norwegian Progress Party politician
• Anders Aukland (born 1972), Norwegian Olympic and world champion cross-country skier
• Anders Behring Breivik (born 1979), Norwegian mass murderer
• Anders Björler (born 1973), Swedish heavy metal guitarist for the bands At The Gates and The Haunted
• Anders Carlsson (born 1960), "Masken", Swedish ice hockey player
• Anders Celsius (1701–1744), Swedish astronomer
• Anders Eklund (1957–2010), Swedish boxer
• Anders Eklund (murderer) (born 1965), Swedish rapist and double murderer
• Anders Eriksson (born 1975), Swedish ice hockey player
• Anders Fridén (born 1973), Swedish death metal singer for the band In Flames
• Anders Gärderud (born 1946), Swedish steeplechase runner
• Anders Abraham Grafström (1790–1870), Swedish poet and historian
• Anders Hedberg (born 1951), Swedish pioneering ice hockey player
• Anders Hejlsberg (born 1960), Danish software engineer
• Anders Holm, American writer and one of the stars and creators of the Comedy Central show Workaholics
• Anders Holmertz (born 1968), Swedish retired swimmer, twice freestyle world champion
• Anders Jacobsen (ski jumper) (born 1985), Norwegian ski jumper
• Anders Järryd (born 1961), Swedish former tennis doubles player, winner of eight Grand Slam titles
• Anders Lange (1904–1974), Norwegian politician
• Anders Limpar (born 1965), Swedish footballer
• Anders Lindegaard (born 1984), Danish footballer
• Anders Linderoth (born 1950), Swedish professional football player and coach
• Anders Lindström (born 1969), Swedish rock guitarist and pianist
• Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1778–1860), Danish politician and jurist, Prime Minister of Denmark (1853–1854)
• Anders Sandøe Ørsted (botanist) (1816–1872), Danish botanist, mycologist, zoologist and marine biologist, nephew of the prime minister
• Anders Rapp (1927–1998), Swedish geographer
• Anders Fogh Rasmussen (born 1953), Danish politician, Secretary General of NATO* Anders Södergren (born 1977), Swedish cross-country skier
• Anders Svensson (footballer) (born 1976), Swedish footballer
• Anders Sunesen (born c. 1167), Danish archbishop
• Anders Erikson Sparrman (1748–1820), Swedish naturalist and abolitionist
• Anders Szalkai (born 1970), Swedish retired long-distance runner
• Anders Wijkman (born 1944), Swedish politician
• Anders Zorn (1860–1920), Swedish painter, sculptor and printmaker

Surname[link]

• Allison Anders (born 1954), American film and television director
• Andrea Anders (born 1975), American actress
• Andy Anders (born 1956), Louisiana state representative
• Christian Anders (born 1945), Austrian singer and composer
• Frank L. Anders (1875–1966), U.S. Army soldier awarded the Medal of Honor
• Günther Anders (1902–1992), German thinker
• Günther Anders (cameraman) (1908–1977), German cinematographer
• Merry Anders (born 1932), American actress
• Peter Anders (tenor) (1908–1954), German operatic tenor
• Rob Anders (born 1972), Canadian politician
• Thomas Anders (born 1963), German singer
• William Anders (born 1933), Apollo 8 astronaut, former U.S. Air Force officer, and businessman
• Władysław Anders (1892–1970), Polish general and politician

Characters[link]

• Samuel Anders, from the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series
• Andrea Anders (James Bond), from the film The Man with the Golden Gun
• Professor Ellen Anders, in the video game Halo Wars
• Terry Anders, protagonist in the novel The Car by Gary Paulsen
• Anders, in the video games Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening and Dragon Age II
• Anders Holmvik, in the Comedy Central sitcom Workaholics

Other uses[link]

• Anders (crater), an impact crater on the Moon's far side

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Anders Holm is a comedy writer and one of the stars and creators of the Comedy Central show Workaholics. Originally from Evanston, Illinois, Holm graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and the Second City Conservatory in L.A.^[1] He, along with fellow Workaholics creators Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine and Kyle Newacheck form the sketch-comedy group, Mail Order Comedy.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website of Mail Order Comedy
• Anders Holm at the Internet Movie Database

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Władysław Anders
Born	(1892-08-11)11 August 1892 Krośniewice-Błonie, Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire
Died	12 May 1970(1970-05-12) (aged 77) London, England
Years of service	1913-1946
Rank	Lt. General (Polish – Generał Broni)
Battles/wars	World War I, PBW, PDW, World War II, Monte Cassino
Awards	Cross of Monte Cassino (Poland) Legion of Merit (II Class)

The tombstone of General Anders at the Polish War Cemetery at Monte Cassino in Italy.

The Polish War Cemetery at Monte Cassino in Italy.

Lieutenant-General Władysław Anders CB (11 August 1892 – 12 May 1970) was a General in the Polish Army and later in life a politician with the Polish government-in-exile in London.

Biography[link]

Anders was born on 11 August 1892 to his Baltic-German father Albert Anders and his mother Elizabeth, born Tauchert,^[1] in the Polish village of Krośniewice–Błonie, near Kutno which at that time was part of the Russian Empire (Partitions of Poland). He was baptized as a member of the Protestant Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland; but while being kept in Soviet prisons he made a promise that if he survived and regained strength in his legs (he was seriously injured) he would convert to Roman Catholicism. He did survive, and did indeed convert.^[1]

While an undergraduate at Riga Technical University Anders became a member of the Polish student fraternity Arkonia. As a young officer, he served Tsar Nicholas II in the 1st Krechowiecki Lancer's Regiment during World War I, later joining the Polish Army and again serving in cavalry as a commanding officer in 15th Poznań Uhlans Regiment.

Anders was in command of a cavalry brigade at the time of the outbreak of World War II. The Polish army at that time had not yet had a chance to fully modernise, having been resurrected only 20 years earlier, in 1918–19, following Polish independence from German, Austrian and Russian rule. Polish forces, mechanized and personnel, were no match for the larger German credit/debit-funded Wehrmacht with their massive Blitzkrieg tactics, and the Polish forces were forced to retreat to the east. During the fighting and retreat he was wounded a number of times. Anders was later taken prisoner by Soviet forces and was jailed, initially in Lvov (then Lwów) and later in Lubyanka prison in Moscow. During his imprisonment Anders was tortured.^[2]

General Sikorski with Polish junaks (cadets) in the Middle East 1943, visiting Polish Army in the Middle East under command of General Anders.

Shortly after the attack on the Soviet Union by Germany on 22 June 1941, Anders was released by the Soviets with the aim of forming a Polish Army to fight alongside the Red Army. Continued friction with the Soviets over political issues as well as shortages of weapons, food and clothing, led to the eventual exodus of Anders' men – known as the Anders Army – together with a sizeable contingent of Polish civilians via the Persian Corridor into Iran, Iraq and Palestine. Here, Anders formed and led the 2nd Polish Corps, fighting alongside the Western Allies, while agitating for the release of Polish nationals still in the Soviet Union.

Anders was the commander of the 2nd Polish Corps in Italy 1943–1946, capturing Monte Cassino in the Battle of Monte Cassino.

After the war the Soviet-installed communist government in Poland in 1946 deprived him of Polish citizenship and of his military rank. Anders had, however, always been unwilling to return to a Soviet-dominated Poland where he probably would have been jailed and possibly executed, and remained in exile in Britain. He was prominent in the Polish Government in Exile in London and inspector-general of the Polish forces-in-exile.

After the war Anders wrote a book covering his thoughts and experiences. An Army in Exile was published originally by MacMillan & Co., London, in 1949. The book has been recently re-issued under the same title.

In 1948 he married the actress Irena Anders.

He died in London on 12 May 1970, where his body lay in state at the church of Andrzej Bobola, where many of his former soldiers and families came to pay their last respects. He was buried, in accordance with his wishes, amongst his fallen soldiers from the 2nd Polish Corps at the Polish War Cemetery at Monte Cassino in Italy.

After the collapse of Communist Poland in 1989, his citizenship and military rank were posthumously reinstated.

Medals[link]

Poland[link]

• Wound Decoration, 8 times
• Order of the White Eagle (posthumously, November 11, 1995 by Lech Walesa
• Virtuti Militari Commander's Cross, Officer's Cross, Golden Cross IV Class and Silver Cross V Class
• Polonia Restituta Commander's Cross and Officer's Cross
• Cross of Valour (Krzyż Walecznych) 4 times (3 times for the Polish-Soviet War and once for the Polish Defensive War of 1939)
• Cross of Independence
• Golden Cross of Merit with Swords, 4 times
• Medal Wojska Military Medal four times
• Commemorative Medal for War of 1919-1921
• Medal 10-lecia Odzyskania Niepodległości
• Medal 3 Maja
• Medal za Długoletnią Służbę (Long Service Medal)
• Krzyż Armii Krajowej (Cross of the Home Army)
• Krzyż Monte Cassino (Monte Cassino Commemorative Cross)

Foreign[link]

Czechoslovakia

• Order of the White Lion

France

• Légion d'honneur, Commandeur
• Croix de guerre with Palm^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• Medaille Interallie

Italy

• Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro) 1st Class
• Croce di Guerra al Valore Militare

Knights of Malta

• Croce al Merito del Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta

Persia

• Order of Homayoun 1st Class

Russia (Imperial Russia)

• Order of St. George
• Order of St. Vladimir with Swords, IV class (1915)
• Order of St. Anna with Swords 2nd, 3rd (1918) and 4th class
• Order of Saint Stanislas with Swords 2nd, 3rd and 4th classes (1918)

United Kingdom

• Order of the Bath, Companion
• Italy Star
• Defence Medal

United States of America

• Legion of Merit, Commander
• Order of Lafayette

Yugoslavia (Royal)

• Commander of the Order of St. Sava

Notes[link]

• Wladyslaw Anders2.jpg

See also[link]

• Anders Army
• Anders (tank)

v t e General Inspectors of the Armed Forces of Poland Józef Piłsudski · Edward Rydz-Śmigły · Władysław Sikorski · Kazimierz Sosnkowski · Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski · Władysław Anders · Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski · Stefan Dembiński · Stanisław Kopański · Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko · Bronisław Duch

v t e Members of the Council of Three 1954-1955 Władysław Anders · Tomasz Arciszewski · Edward Bernard Raczyński 1956-1966 Władysław Anders · Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski · Edward Bernard Raczyński 1966-1968 Władysław Anders · Roman Odzierzyński · Edward Bernard Raczyński 1968-1969 Władysław Anders · Stanisław Mglej · Edward Bernard Raczyński 1969-1970 Władysław Anders · Edward Bernard Raczyński · Alfred Urbański 1970-1972 Stanisław Kopański · Edward Bernard Raczyński · Alfred Urbański

Christian Andersen (born September 28, 1944) is a Danish former football player and now manager. He was most recently the manager of Boldklubben Frem

As player he played for B 1903, Cercle Brugge, FC Lorient and Akademisk Boldklub and played two caps for the Danish national football team.

As manager he has managed Akademisk Boldklub a couple of times, but he is most famous for his controversies with FC Copenhagen chairman Flemming Østergaard and former chairman of Akademisk Boldklub, Per Frimann. The first controversy was about Andersen being fired as manager of FC Copenhagen after only one match, and the other because Andersen in his autobiography called Frimann the reason why AB had had economic problems. Frimann began talking about a possible lawsuit, but this was solved, when Andersen made a public apology.^[1]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Danish national team profile

Anders "Anden" ("The Duck") Matthesen (born July 6, 1975) is a Danish stand-up comedian, actor and rapper. He is known for creating a wide array of memorable characters and stereotypes which he uses as alter-egos in performances.

After failing as a rapper, Matthesen started his stand-up career at the Danish Stand-Up Championship in 1993, where he finished in second place. After making a name on this scene, as well as through his comedy radio stories, he also contributed to several other projects. For example, a television "Julekalender", Jul på Vesterbro, featured fourteen characters of his invention, all of them played by himself. These included the drunken, prostitute-addicted sailor Stewart Stardust, and his junkie son, Danny. The story revolves around Stewart's hot dog stand, which a band of terrorists attempts to use to detonate a nuclear device during a UN meeting in Copenhagen.

Anders Matthesen has also released several CDs with his radio material, in addition to the animated movie Terkel in Trouble, based on one of these. He has also shown himself as a capable actor in a few plays including one about the life of the Danish travel tycoon Simon Spies. In 2006 he revisited rapping on his album Soevnloes, to great success, selling enough records to earn a "Guldplade".^[1]

Recently Anders Matthesen has gone back to his stand-up roots, touring Denmark with shows like Bytte, bytte købmand (in collaboration with stand-up comedian Thomas Hartmann) from 2009 and the new one man show "ANDERS" which will premier September 5, 2012.

Discography[link]

• 2000 Hva' snakker du om? - Den ka' byttes Vol. 1
• 2001 Hva' snakker du om? - Arne fortæller... Terkel i knibe
• 2003 Jul på Vesterbro
• 2005 Snedronningen (Co-produced three tracks)
• 2006 Soevnloes
• 2010 Villa Peakstate

Filmography[link]

Stand-up[link]

• 2001 Hva' snakker du om?
• 2001 Talegaver til børn 2001 (vært sammen med Mick Øgendahl)
• 2002 Talegaver til børn 2002
• 2002 9 års jubilæum
• 2002 Den ægte vare
• 2004 Tal for dig selv
• 2006 Anden paa coke?
• 2008 Anders Matthesen ...vender tilbage
• 2009 Bytte, bytte købmand
• 2012 ANDERS

Movies[link]

• 2004 Terkel i knibe
• 2006 Rene hjerter
• 2009 Sorte kugler

TV productions[link]

• 1998 Andarki
• 1998 Andensortering
• 1999 Casper og Mandrilaftalen
• 2001 Langt fra Las Vegas
• 2002 Perforama
• 2004 Jul på Vesterbro
• 2008 Comedy Kuren

Musicals[link]

• 2004 Simon - Spies, skæg og ballade

References[link]

External links[link]

• Anden.dk, the official Danish homepage
• Big danish fanclub
• IMDb's profile

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