* 1924 – Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor

* 1867 – Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist ( d. 1953 )

* Holger Nehring, ' From Gentleman's Club to Folk Festival: The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Manchester, 1958-63 ', North West Labour History Journal, No. 26 ( 2001 ), pp. 18 – 28

* Holger Nehring, ' National Internationalists: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons, the Politics of Transnational Communications and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957 – 1964 ', Contemporary European History, 14, No. 4 ( 2006 )

* Holger Nehring, ' The British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Cultures of the Cold War, 1957 – 64 ', Contemporary British History, 19, No. 2 ( 2005 )

* 1981 – Holger Göpfert, German singer and musician

* 1938 – Holger Czukay, German musician ( Can )

* June 2 – Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe, Holger Meins and some other members of Red Army Faction are arrested in Frankfurt am Main after a shootout.

* Herwig, Holger “ The Failure of German Sea Power, 1914-1945: Mahan, Tirpitz, and Raeder Reconsidered ” pages 68 – 105 from The International History Review, Volume 10, Issue # 1, February 1988.

"" Playing the Cook ": Nurturing Men in Titus Andronicus ", in Holger Klein and Rowland Wymer ( editors ), Shakespeare and History ( Shakespeare Yearbook ), ( Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1996 ), 327 – 54

* Holger Pedersen ( 1867 – 1953 ) from Denmark

Ior Bock (; originally Bror Holger Svedlin ; 17 January 1942 – 23 October 2010 ) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish tour guide, actor, mythologist and eccentric.

* Holger Czukay – bass guitar, sound engineer, electronics ( 1968 – 1977, 1986 – 1991 )

* Holger Nielsen ( 1866 – 1955 ), Danish Olympic competitor in various sports

In 1991 Petersen stood down as party chairperson, he was replaced by Holger K. Nielsen, who was – compared to the other candidate Steen Gade – closer to the party's socialist past.

* Holger Apfel 2011 – present

Ludvigsen married in 1946 to Holger Ludvigsen ( 1925 – 2008 ) and never finished her university studies in literature, but became a mother of five children.

* Holger Müller, German comedian (“ Ausbilder Schmidt ” – a persona that he adopts )

Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann ( 9 October 1846 – 14 January 1908 ), was a Danish poet and dramatist.

* 1988 – 89 Holger Christiansen ( men's interim )

Holger Crafoord ( 1908 – 1982 ) was a Swedish industrialist and founded Gambro along with Nils Alwall, a company that would commercialize Alwall's research into artificial kidneys.