Kierkegaard (surname)
# Kierkegaard (surname)

Kierkegaard 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
