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Thorson

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ2429033 ↗
Source-derived summary

Thorson or Thorsen are Swedish, Norwegian and Danish surnames, and a first name in the Kadaru language. Notable people with the surname include:

Thorson

Brett Thorson (born 2000), Australian player of American football

Charles Thorson (1890–1966), Canadian political cartoonist, character designer

Celeste Thorson (born 1984), American actress, model writer, and activist.

Clayton Thorson (born 1995), American football player

Eric Thorson, American Inspector General for the United States Treasury Department.

Gunnar Thorson (1906–1971), Danish marine zoologist and ecologist.

Herman Thorson (1880–1960) American politician with the North Dakota Republican Party

John F. Thorson (1920–1944) American soldier in the United States Army

Joseph Thorarinn Thorson (1889–1978), Canadian lawyer and politician

Karen L. Thorson, American television producer

Kenneth Thorson (born 1966), Canadian Roman Catholic bishop

Linda Thorson (born 1947), Canadian actress

Maddy Thorson (born 1988), Canadian video game developer

Mark Thorson (born 1983), American football player

Scott Thorson (1959–2024), American who became famous for his relationship with Liberace

Tanner Thorson (born 1996), American racing driver

Theodore W. Thorson (1922–2018), American educator and politician

Victoria Thorson (born 1943), American sculptor and art historian

William Thorson (born c. 1983), Swedish professional poker player

Thorsen

Eric Thorsen (born 1967), American sculptor

Finn Thorsen (born 1940), Norwegian footballer

Jan Einar Thorsen (born 1966), Norwegian Olympic alpine skier

Jens Jørgen Thorsen (1932–2002), Danish artist

Kjetil Trædal Thorsen (born 1958), Norwegian professor

Øyvind Thorsen (1943–2025), Norwegian journalist, and author

Sven-Ole Thorsen (born 1944), Danish actor, stuntman, and athlete

Thea Selliaas Thorsen (born 1974) Norwegian classicist

Vegard Thorsen, Norwegian heavy metal guitarist

See also

Thorsen House (c.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 1890, 1966, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Thorson, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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Why this record matters

“Thorson” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Thorson, Wikimedia and disambiguation provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2429033. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000, 1890, 1966 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Thorson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.