Dahl (surname)

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Dahl Family Name
Related names	Dahle, Dahlen, Dahlin, Dahlem, Dallen, Dallin, Dahlstrom, Dale
Popularity	Behind the Name
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Dahl

Dahl is a Low German surname originating in medieval Westphalia. There are several variations as it was common to add a suffix to Dahl in order to denote the namebearer's original locale or occupation. The oldest record of the name appears in Austria.^[1] Dahl is also common amongst Norwegian people. Dahl is uncommon as a given name. People with the surname include:

• Alexander Dahl, German balloonist and author
• Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist
• Arlene Dahl, American film actress
• Christopher Dahl, college president from New York
• Ingolf Dahl, German-born American composer of Swedish ancestry
• Jay Dahl, baseball pitcher
• Johann Christian Dahl, Norwegian artist
• John Dahl. American filmmaker
• Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish football (soccer) player
• Kurt Dahle, drummer for the Canadian Indie Rock group The New Pornographers
• Laura Dahl, American fashion designer
• Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Norwegian-American fashion and portrait photographer
• Nikolai Dahl, Russian physician and Sergei Rachmaninov's psychologist
• Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist
• Roald Dahl, British novelist
• Robert A. Dahl, American political scientist
• Ryan Dahle, musician with the Canadian alternative rock group Limblifter
• Sophie Dahl, British model and writer; granddaughter of Roald Dahl
• Stephan Dahl, British writer and a lecturer
• Steve Dahl, American radio personality
• Terje "Terry" Dahl, Norwegian writer and editor, called the world's first climate-refugee
• Tessa Dahl, British writer; daughter of Roald Dahl
• Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer

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