Jørn

Jørn is a Danish and Norwegian masculine given name. A mainly German variant of the name is Jörn. Outside the Scandinavian or German-speaking areas, the variant Jorn may occasionally occur. Notable people with the name include:

Given name Jørn

• Jørn Andersen (born 1963), Norwegian professional footballer
• Jørn Christensen (born 1959), Norwegian artist, actor, and record producer
• Jørn Didriksen (born 1953), speed skater from Norway
• Jørn Eggum (born 1972), Norwegian trade unionist
• Jørn Goldstein (born 1953), Norwegian Olympic ice hockey goalie
• Jørn Lier Horst (born 1970), Norwegian author of crime fiction and a police officer
• Jørn Hurum (born 1967), Norwegian paleontologist and popularizer of science
• Jørn Jamtfall (born 1966), Norwegian football player and coach
• Jørn Jensen, one of the earliest Danish programmers
• Jørn Jeppesen (1919–1964), Danish stage and film actor
• Jørn Krab (born 1945), Danish rower who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics
• Jørn Lande (born 1968), Norwegian heavy metal and hard rock singer, aka Jorn
• Jørn Magdahl (born 1950), Norwegian politician
• Jørn Nielsen (born 1960), Danish mobster and high-ranking Hells Angels member
• Jørn Rattsø (born 1952), Norwegian professor of economics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Jørn Skaarup (1925–1987), Danish badminton player
• Jørn Skille (1942–2008), Norwegian civil servant
• Jørn Sloth (born 1944), Danish chess grandmaster of correspondence chess
• Jørn Sørensen (born 1936), Danish football player and Olympic silver medalist
• Jørn Ronnie Tagge (born 1969), Norwegian convicted fraudster
• Jørn Inge Tunsberg (born 1970), Norwegian black metal musician
• Jørn Utzon (1918–2008), Danish architect, most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia

Middle name

• Michael Jørn Berg (born 1955), Danish handball player
• Jens Jørn Bertelsen (born 1952), Danish footballer
• Halle Jørn Hanssen (born 1937), Norwegian TV correspondent, development aid administrator, politician

Given name Jorn

• Jorn Barger (born 1953), American blogger, editor of Robot Wisdom, an influential early weblog
• Jorn Berkhout (born 2002), Dutch football player
• Jorn Madslien (born 1967), journalist for BBC News Online
• Jorn Smits (born 1992), Dutch handball player
• Jorn Vermeulen (born 1987), Belgian football player

Given name Jörn

• Jörn Arnecke (born 1973), German composer
• Jörn Borowski (born 1959), German sailor
• Jörn Donner (1933–2020), Finnish writer, film director, actor, producer, and politician
• Jörn Dunkel, German-American mathematician and physicist
• Jörn Gevert (1929–2017), Chilean hurdler
• Jörn Großkopf (born 1966), German football player and manager
• Jörn Hellner (born 1945), Australian sailor
• Jörn Peter Hiekel (born 1963), German musicologist
• Jörn Kaplan (born 1981), German pool player
• Jörn Koblitz (born 1961), German curator, publisher of "MetBase"
• Jörn Köhler (born 1970), German herpetologist
• Jörn König (born 1967), German politician
• Jörn Lenz (born 1969), German footballer
• Jörn Leonhard (born 1967), German historian, professor and author
• Jörn Nowak (born 1986), German footballer
• Jörn-Steffen Pischke, professor of economics
• Jörn Rausing (born 1960), Swedish businessman
• Jörn Renzenbrink (born 1972), German tennis player
• Jörn Schepelmann (born 1986), German politician
• Jörn Schlönvoigt (born 1986), German actor and singer
• Jörn Schwinkendorf (born 1971), German footballer
• Jörn Svensson (1936–2021), Swedish politician
• Jörn Thiede (1941–2021), German palaeontologist and polar scientist
• Jörn Weisbrodt (born 1973), German arts administrator, singer, and artistic director
• Jörn Wemmer (born 1984), German footballer
• Jörn Wenzel (born 2004), German bobsledder
• Jörn Wunderlich (born 1960), German judge and politician

Surnames Jorn, Jörn, Jörns

• Asger Jorn (1914–1973), Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and essayist, founding member of the Situationist International
• Carl Jörn (1873–1947), German-American operatic tenor
• Nils Jörn (born 1964), German historian and author
• Carl Jörns (1875–1969), German race car driver
• Helge Jörns (born 1941), German composer and music educator

See also

• JORN, the Jindalee Operational Radar Network in Australia
• Jörn, a locality in Sweden
• Jorn (band), a Norwegian hard rock and metal band
• Bjorn, also Bjørn and Björn, a common masculine given name