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Bjergsen
Bjergsen (Søren Bjerg), Danish League of Legends mid laner; six NA LCS titles and four MVPs with TSM from 2013; later Team Liquid and 100 Thieves; retired April 2023.
Bjerknes (Martian crater)
Bjerknes is a 94-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 43.06°S, 171.40°E, approved by the IAU and named for Norwegian meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes, who also has a lunar crater.
Bjerne S. Clausen
Bjerne S. Clausen is a Danish surface scientist and catalysis researcher who served as president and CEO of the catalyst manufacturer Haldor Topsøe from 2011 until retiring in 2020.
Bjørg Eva Jensen
Bjørg Eva Jensen, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist born 1960 in Larvik; won the 3,000 m gold at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics, Norway's only gold there, plus 23 national skating titles and later cycling championships.
Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 1965, Reykjavík), Icelandic singer-songwriter of the Sugarcubes; solo from Debut (1993) through Medúlla and Biophilia; Cannes best actress for Dancer in the Dark and AIM awards winner.
Björk discography
Björk discography: the Icelandic artist's solo catalog from Debut (1993) to Fossora (2022), ten studio albums plus two soundtracks, remix albums, box sets, and 34 singles.
Bjørk Hammer
Bjørk Hammer (born 1968) is a Danish computational surface scientist and professor at Aarhus University known for his density functional theory studies of metal surfaces and gold catalysis.
Björn Again
Björn Again, the Australian ABBA tribute show founded in Melbourne in 1988 by Rod Stephen and John Tyrrell, first performed 6 May 1989 at The Tote Hotel; famous for Swenglish parody, Reading 1992 with Nirvana, and over 5,300 shows worldwide.
Björn Andrésen
Björn Andrésen (1955–2025), Swedish actor and musician, cast at 15 as Tadzio in Visconti's Death in Venice (1971), dubbed "the most beautiful boy in the world"; later a Japanese idol, bishonen influence, and Midsommar actor.
Bjørn Bergvall
Bjørn Bergvall (born 13 February 1939, Oslo) is a Norwegian sailor who won Flying Dutchman gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics with Peder Lunde Jr. in Sirene, Norway's only gold that year; his sole Olympic appearance.
Björn Borg
Björn Borg (born 1956), Swedish tennis champion known as the Ice Man; won 11 Grand Slam titles (6 French Open, 5 Wimbledon 1976-80), 109 weeks at No. 1, retired at 26 in 1983.
Bjørn Borgen Hasløv
Bjørn Borgen Hasløv (born 1941, Copenhagen) is a Danish retired rower of Roforeningen KVIK who won gold in the men's coxless fours at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics with Hansen, Petersen, and Helmudt.
Bjørn Dæhlie
Bjørn Erlend Dæhlie (born 1967, Elverum) is a Norwegian former cross-country skier and businessman: 8 Olympic golds and 12 medals, 9 World Championship golds, 46 World Cup wins, six overall titles, VO2 max 96.
Björn Dahlbäck
Björn Dahlbäck, born 1949, is a Swedish physician-scientist and professor emeritus at Lund University in Malmö, best known for discovering APC resistance and the factor V Leiden mutation.
Björn Ekström
Björn Lennart Ekström, born 1952, is a Swedish life-science tools entrepreneur in Uppsala who co-founded Olink AB in 2004, sold to Thermo Fisher for about $3.1 billion in 2024.
Bjorn Ferm
Björn Ferm (Björn Bernt Ewald Ferm), Swedish modern pentathlete born 1944 in Jönköping; 1968 Olympic individual gold with 4964 points, beating András Balczó by 11 points; 6th at Munich 1972.
Bjorn Ferry
Björn Ferry, Swedish biathlete born 1978 in Stensele, won the 2010 Vancouver Olympic 12.5 km pursuit gold, first Swedish male biathlon champion since 1960, later SVT expert.
Bjorn Fratangelo
Bjorn Fratangelo (born 1993, Pittsburgh) is an American former pro tennis player, 2011 French Open boys' champion over Dominic Thiem, ATP singles high No. 99, and coach-husband of 2025 Australian Open winner Madison Keys.
Bjørn Helland-Hansen
Bjørn Helland-Hansen (1877–1957) was a Norwegian oceanographer, a founder of physical oceanography who directed the Geophysical Institute at the University of Bergen from 1917 to 1947.
Björn Hof
Björn Hof is an Austrian physicist and professor at the Institute for Science and Technology, known for showing that pipe flow turbulence is transient and can be controlled or suppressed.
Björn Högberg
Björn Högberg, born 1975, is a Swedish DNA nanotechnology and synthetic biology researcher, professor at Karolinska Institutet, known for DNA origami methods and the 2019 Göran Gustafsson Prize in Chemistry.
Björn Ironside
Björn Ironside (Old Norse Bjǫrn Járnsíða) is a legendary Viking, son of Ragnar Lothbrok, known from later sagas describing 9th-century raids, a Mediterranean expedition, and kingship in Sweden.
Björn Jeffery
Björn Jeffery is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded Toca Boca, the Stockholm maker of digital toys for children, and led it as chief executive from 2010 to 2017.
Björn Jonson
Björn Jonson, born in 1941, is a Swedish nuclear physicist and professor at Chalmers University of Technology who worked at CERN's ISOLDE facility and shared the 2020 Lise Meitner Prize.
Bjorn Lind
Björn Lind (Björn Johan Lind, born 1978), Swedish cross-country sprint skier; double gold medalist at Turin 2006 in individual sprint and team sprint with Thobias Fredriksson; 2005/06 sprint World Cup winner.
Bjørn Lomborg
Bjørn Lomborg is a Danish political scientist, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001), and president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank ranking solutions by cost-benefit analysis.
Björn M. Reinhard
Björn M. Reinhard is a chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Boston University who works on nanoplasmonics, developing the plasmon ruler for measuring nanoscale distances.
Björn Ottersten
Björn Ottersten is a Swedish electrical engineer in signal processing and wireless communications, known for inventing SDMA and a professor at KTH Stockholm since 1991.
Bjørn Otto Sverdrup
Bjørn Otto Sverdrup (born 1968) is a Norwegian political scientist and energy executive who chairs the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative and, since 2024, heads the Oil & Gas Decarbonization Charter secretariat.
Björn Pasternak
Björn Pasternak, born 1980, is a Swedish physician and pharmacoepidemiologist known for large-scale register studies of drug safety in pregnancy, including a 2013 NEJM study of SSRIs and autism.