Karsten
Karsten or Carsten is both a masculine given name and a surname. It is believed to be either derived from a Low German form of Christian, or "man from karst". Notable persons with the name include:
Given name
;Carsten:- Carsten Becker, German politician
- Carsten Höller, German artist
- Carsten Jancker, German football player and coach
- Carsten Lichtlein, German handball player
- Carsten Niebuhr, German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in the service of Denmark
- Carsten Pohl, German basketball coach
- Carsten Charles Sabathia, American baseball player
- Carsten Schatz, German historian and politician
- Carsten Schneider, German politician
- Karsten Alnæs, Norwegian author, historian, and journalist
- Karsten Andersen, Norwegian conductor
- Big Daddy Karsten, 2017 Eurovision Jury List; Norwegian Pre-select for Eurovision
- Karsten Buer, Norwegian harness coach
- Karsten Fonstad, Norwegian politician
- Karsten Forsterling, Australian rower
- Karsten Isachsen, Norwegian Lutheran priest, essayist and public speaker
- Karsten Jakobsen, Norwegian engineer
- Karsten Johannessen, Norwegian footballer and coach
- Karsten Kroon, Dutch former professional road bicycle racer
- Karsten Runquist, American film critic and filmmaker
- Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born American golf club designer and businessman
- Karsten Stolz, German shot putter
- Karsten Warholm, Norwegian athlete
Surname
- Adrian Karsten, American college football reporter
- Christoffer Christian Karsten, Swedish opera singer
- Ekaterina Karsten, Belarusian Olympic rower
- Elisabeth Charlotta Karsten, Swedish painter
- Elke Karsten, Argentine handball player
- Frank Karsten, Dutch Magic: The Gathering player
- Frank M. Karsten, American politician
- George Karsten, German botanist
- Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, German botanist and geologist
- Gustav Karsten, German physicist
- Kai Karsten, German Olympic sprinter
- Karl Johann Bernhard Karsten, German mineralogist
- Karl G. Karsten, American economist, statistician and businessman
- Petter Adolf Karsten, Finnish mycologist
- Sophie Karsten, Swedish dancer and artist
- Sophie Mariane Karsten, Polish opera singer
- Thomas Karsten, Dutch engineer
- Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten, German mathematician