Kierkegaard (surname)

Kierkegaard [ˈkʰiɐ̯kəˌkɒˀ] is a Danish surname, literally meaning church farm or church yard and colloquially meaning graveyard. Note that the double a is equivalent of å in common nouns and is retained from the pre-1948 orthography in proper nouns only.

Notable people with the surname include:

• Christer Kierkegaard (1918–1999), Swedish Navy rear admiral
• Niels Christian Kierkegaard (1806-1882), Danish painter
• Peter Kierkegaard (1805–1888), Danish theologian
• Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish philosopher
• Sylvia Kierkegaard (1952–2015), Philippine law scholar
• Emil Kirkegaard, creator of OpenPsych