Holmberg is a Swedish surname formed from the words holm(e) meaning islet and berg meaning mountain. It is a relatively common name, at least in Sweden, which has to do with the fact that many Swedish place names contain the suffixes -holm, -holmen or -berg, -berga, -berget. Notable people with the surname include:
Holmberg is a Swedish surname formed from the words holm(e) meaning islet and berg meaning mountain. It is a relatively common name, at least in Sweden, which has to do with the fact that many Swedish place names contain the suffixes -holm, -holmen or -berg, -berga, -berget. Notable people with the surname include: Åke Holmberg (1907–1991), Swedish author and translator Anne Holmberg (born 1938), American writer of historical romance novels Arvid Holmberg (1886–1958), Swedish gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics Barbro Holmberg (born 1952), Swedish Social Democratic politician Birgit Agda Holmberg (1921–2007), Swedish revue director, actress and singer Bo Holmberg (1942–2010), Swedish politician, widower of former Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh (1957–2003) Britta Holmberg (1921–2004), Swedish film actress Carl Holmberg (1884–1909), Swedish gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics Carl-Erik Holmberg, Swedish football player active in the 1920s Cay Holmberg (born 1933), Swedish Navy officer Dennis Holmberg (born 1951), American minor league baseball player and major league coach Eduard Ladislas Kaunitz, baron von Holmberg (1778–1853), Austrian military officer who joined the Argentine revolutionary forces Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg (1852–1937), Argentine natural historian and novelist Elena Holmberg (1931–1978), assassinated Argentine diplomat Erik Holmberg (astronomer) (1908–2000), Swedish astronomer Erik Holmberg (football player) (1922–1998), Norwegian football player active in the 1950s Erik Holmberg (singer) (born 1970), musician in Swedish band Dive and music producer Erik Holmberg, director of the Swedish Institute at Athens (1947–1948) Gunnar Holmberg (1897–1975), Swedish football player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics Henric Holmberg (1946–2026), Swedish actor, director and scriptwriter Henrik Holmberg (born 1963), Swedish curler Henrik Johan Holmberg or Heinrich Johann Holmberg (1818–1864), Finnish naturalist, geologist and ethnographer Igge Holmberg (1966–2020), Ålandic politician John-Henri Holmberg (born 1949), Swedish author, critic, publisher and translator Joyce Holmberg (1930–2017), American educator and politician Kari Lise Holmberg (born 1951), Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party Krister Holmberg (born 1946), professor of Surface Chemistry at Chalmers University of Technology N. J. Holmberg (1878–1951), American farmer and politician Nils Holmberg (1902–1981), communist leader in Sweden Oswald Holmberg (1882–1969), Swedish gymnast and tug of war competitor Per Holmberg, passenger, SAS flight captain and survivor of the Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751 crash Peter Holmberg (born 1960), sailor from the U.S. Virgin Islands Pontus Holmberg (born 1999), Swedish ice hockey player Ray Holmberg (born 1944), former North Dakota state senator and convicted child sex offender Rob Holmberg (born 1971), American football linebacker Rolf Holmberg (1914–1979), Norwegian football player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics Ronald Holmberg (born 1938), American tennis instructor Tobias Holmberg (born 1987), Swedish Bandy midfielder
==See also== Holmberg IX, a dwarf irregular galaxy and a satellite galaxy of M81 3573 Holmberg, a Main-belt asteroid discovered on August 16, 1982
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).