title: Klitgaard
text: # Klitgaard
  
  Klitgaard is a Danish surname, referring to a farm ('gaard') in a dune ('klit'). As a place name it is found in a few locations in Northern Jutland. As a surname it may refer to:
  
  * Christen Julius Klitgaard (1835–1917), 50 year Danish Master Mariner, Knighted
  * Kasper Klitgaard (born 1979), Danish handball player
  * Mikael Klitgaard (born 1954), mayor of Brønderslev and formerly of Dronninglund
  * Mogens Klitgaard (1906–1945), Danish novelist
  * Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard (born 1966), Danish political scientist
  * Robert Klitgaard (born 1947), U.S. academic
  