Sverdrup (disambiguation)
Several people share the family name Sverdrup:
- Einar Sverdrup (1895–1942), a Norwegian mining engineer and businessman
- Erling Sverdrup (1917–1994), a Norwegian statistician
- Georg Sverdrup (1770–1850), founder of the first Norwegian university library
- Georg Sverdrup (1848–1907), President of Augsburg Seminary
- George Sverdrup, son of Georg, also president of Augsburg Seminary from 1911 to 1937
- George Sverdrup, technology manager of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1813–1891), a Norwegian priest and politician
- Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1888–1957), a Norwegian oceanographer grandson of the previous one
- Harald Sverdrup (1923–1992), a Norwegian writer and poet
- Johan Sverdrup (1816–1892), prime minister of Norway
- Keith Sverdrup, Geophysicist
- Leif J. Sverdrup (1898–1976), a Norwegian-American civil engineer
- Otto Neumann Sverdrup (1854–1930), a Norwegian explorer
Named for these:
- Sverdrup, a unit of volume flux
- Sverdrup balance, an oceanographic theory
- Sverdrup Pass, a pass on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
- Sverdrup Islands, Arctic islands
- Sverdrup Island, another Arctic island
- Sverdrup, a lunar crater near the Moon's south pole
- Sverdrup Township, Minnesota
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