- Liv Ullmann
Liv Johanne Ullmann (born December 16, 1938) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning Norwegian actress, author and film director. She played lead roles in nine films by Ingmar Bergman, with whom she had a daughter, Norwegian author Linn Ullmann. The consummate psychological actress, she was the object of considerable critical acclaim during the 1970s (awards include three Best Actress prizes from the prestigious National Society of Film Critics, … - Leif Ove Andsnes
Leif Ove Andsnes is a Norwegian pianist. He studied with Jiri Hlinka at the Grieg Academy of Music in Bergen. He is an ardent champion of the works of Edvard Grieg. Andsnes is one of the most respected classical pianists in the world today and has been nominated for the prestigious Grammy Awards four times (as of December 2004). He has won numerous awards, including the Hindemith-Prize (1987), Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (1997), Royal Philharmonic Society Award, … - Sverre Fehn
Sverre Fehn is a Norwegian architect. Fehn was born in in Kongsberg, Buskerud. He received his architectural education shortly after World War II in Oslo, and quickly became the leading Norwegian architect of his generation. In 1952-1953, during a travel in Maroc, he discovered primitive architecture, which was to deeply influence his future work. Later he moved to Paris, where he worked for two years in the studio of Jean Prouvé, and where he knew Le Corbusier. - Kåre Willoch
(born October 3, 1928) is a Norwegian politician from the Conservative Party. He was Prime Minister of Norway from 1981 to 1986. Willoch graduated as an economist (cand. oecon.) from the University of Oslo. He served in the Norwegian Brigade that formed part of the Allied occupation in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, after World War II, and became a dedicated friend of Germany during that time. He speaks Norwegian, English, German and French, and has published a number of books. - Kristen Nygaard
Kristen Nygaard (August 27, 1926 - August 10, 2002) was a Norwegian mathematician, computer programming language pioneer and politician. He was born in Oslo and died of a heart attack in 2002. - Knut Nystedt
Knut Nystedt, born September 3, 1915, in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway, is an orchestral and choral composer. He grew up in a Christian home where hymns and classical music were an important part of everyday life. His major compositions for choir and vocal soloists are mainly based on texts from the Bible or sacred themes. Old church music, especially Palestrina and Gregorian chants, have had a major influence on his compositions. - Sonja Henie
Sonja Henie (April 8, 1912 - October 12, 1969) was a Norwegian figure skater and actress. She is a three-time Olympic Champion (1928, 1932, 1936), a ten-time World Champion (1927-1936) and a six-time European Champion (1931-1936). Henie won more Olympic and World titles than any other ladies figure skater. At the height of her acting-career she was one of the highest paid movie-stars in Hollywood. - Ole-Johan Dahl
Ole-Johan Dahl was a Norwegian computer scientist and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard. Dahl, born in Mandal, Norway, is widely accepted as Norway’s foremost computer scientist. - Nicolae Ceauşescu
Nicolae Ceauşescu (IPA, in English, sometimes (and erroneously)) (January 26, 1918-December 25,1989) was the leader of Romania from 1965 until December 1989. That month, he was placed on trial and convicted for crimes against the state, genocide, and "undermining the national economy." His subsequent execution marked the final act of the Revolutions of 1989. - Jostein Gaarder
Jostein Gaarder (born August 8 1952 in Oslo) is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world. He often uses metafiction in his works, writing stories within stories. Gaarder was born into a pedagogical family. His best known work is the novel "Sophie's World", … - Kristine Bonnevie
Kristine Bonnevie was a Norwegian biologist and Norway's first female professor. Her fields of research were cytology, genetics and embryology. She was one of nine children of Jacob Aall Bonnevie. Her family moved from Nidaros to Kristiania in 1886. Bonnevie started studying zoology in 1892, later switching to biology. - Jan Petersen
Jan Petersen is a Norwegian politician. He is Candidate of Law 1973 from the University of Oslo, member of the Parliament since 1981, leader of the Conservative Party from 1994 to 2004 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from October 2001 to October 2005 in a coalition government led by Kjell Magne Bondevik from the Christian Democratic Party. - Arne Næss
Arne Dekke Eide Næss is widely regarded as the foremost Norwegian philosopher of the 20th century, and is the founder of deep ecology. His philosophical work focused on Spinoza, Buddhism and Gandhi. He was the youngest person to be appointed full professor at the University of Oslo. Næss, himself an avid mountaineer, is also known as the uncle of mountaineer and businessman Arne Næss Jr. (1937–2004) and the younger brother of shipowner Erling Dekke Næss. - Sissel Kyrkjebø
Sissel Kyrkjebø, also known as just Sissel, is a Norwegian singer. She is best known for singing the Olympic Hymn (Hymne Olympique) at the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway, for duets with Plácido Domingo, Charles Aznavour, Neil Sedaka, Warren G, Josh Groban and The Chieftains, and for participation on the "Titanic" film soundtrack. - Jan Garbarek
Jan Garbarek (born March 4, 1947 in Mysen, Norway) a Norwegian tenor and soprano saxophonist, active in the jazz, classical, and world music genres. Garbarek was the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war and a Norwegian farmer's daughter. Garbarek grew up in Oslo. At 21, he married Vigdis. His daughter Anja Garbarek is also a musician. Garbarek's sound is one of the hallmarks of the ECM record label, which has released virtually all of his recordings. - Christian Sinding
Christian August Sinding (January 11, 1856-December 3, 1941) was a Norwegian composer. He was born in Kongsberg and studied music first in Oslo before going to Germany, where he studied at the conservatory in Leipzig under Salomon Jadassohn. He lived in Germany for much of his life, but received regular grants from the Norwegian government. In 1920-21 he went to the United States of America to teach composition for a season at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, … - Ole Edvart Rølvaag
Ole Edvart Rølvaag (April 22, 1876 - November 5, 1931) was a Norwegian-American writer and professor, well known for his writings on the immigrant experience. Karl F. Rolvaag, the former Governor of Minnesota and US ambassador to Iceland was Ole Rølvaag's son. - Frederik Stang
Frederik Stang (4 March 1808, Stokke - 1884) was a Norwegian lawyer, public servant, and politician who served as Norway's first prime minister. Stang, known as Friederich until the 1830s, entered the study of law at the age of 16 and graduated by the time he was 20. At 22, he accepted a position as lecturer of law at the University of Oslo. During this time, he published a seminal text on Norwegian constitutional law. He went over to private practice in 1834, … - Erik Bye
Erik Erikssønn Bye was a Norwegian journalist and artist, and one of the 20th century's most well-known and popular radio and television personalities in Norway. Born in Brooklyn, New York to Rønnaug (nee Dahl) and opera singer Erik Ole Bye, his family moved home to Norway when he was six years old. After a few years in Ringerike they settled in the Nordstrand borough in Oslo, where they took over a bed and breakfast. - Emil Stang
Emil Stang (June 14, 1834 - July 4, 1912) was a Norwegian politician. He was first chairman of the Conservative Party from 1884-1889, and lead the party again 1891-1893, and again 1896-1899. He was Prime Minister of Norway from 1889 to 1891 and from 1893 to 1895. - Theodor Kittelsen
Theodor Severin Kittelsen was a Norwegian artist born in the coastal town of Kragerø in Norway. He is famous for his nature paintings on the one hand, and on the other hand for his illustrations of fairytales and legends, especially of trolls. For a time, Kittelsen studied painting and watchmaking. When his talent was discovered by Diderich Maria Aall, he attended classes at the School of Art in Christiania. - Francis Sejersted
Francis Sejersted is a Norwegian history professor and former Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Sejersted was educated in history as well as nordic language and literature at the University of Oslo and achieved a candidatus philologiæ in 1965 and a doctorate in 1973. From 1971 to 1973 Sejersted served as docent in history at the University of Oslo and was thereafter Professor of Social and Economic History at the same institution until 1998. - Kjell Aukrust
Kjell Aukrust was a Norwegian author, poet and artist. He was the nephew of Olav Aukrust. He is most famous for his memoirs of his childhood in Alvdal in the books "Simen", "Bonden" and "Bror Min", and his creation of the fictional Norwegian village of Flåklypa and its cast of idiosyncratic characters. This setting was the basis of the 1975 animated film "Flåklypa Grand Prix", directed by Ivo Caprino. - Erna Solberg
Erna Solberg is a Norwegian politician, the current leader of the Conservative Party, and former Minister of Local Government and Regional Development. She was born in Bergen, and obtained an undergraduate degree (cand. mag) in sociology, political science, statistics and economics (cand.mag.) at the University of Bergen in 1986. - Nils Arne Eggen
Nils Arne Eggen is the most successful coaches in the history of Norwegian football. He is best known as the manager for Rosenborg B.K. in the period 1988-97 and 1999-2002 (he had a year off in 1998, when Trond Sollied stepped in as manager). This period is often referred to as "The Golden Age" for the club. - Egil Hovland
Egil Hovland is a Norwegian composer. Hovland was born in Råde. He studied at the Oslo conservatory with Arild Sandvold and Bjarne Brustad, in Copenhagen with Vagn Holmboe, in Tanglewood with Aaron Copland, and in Florence with Luigi Dallapiccola. He has been the organist and choir leader in Fredrikstad since 1949. He composed two symphonies, a concerto for trumpet and strings, a "Music for ten instruments", a set of Variations for two pianos, … - Ole Reistad
Ole Imerslund Reistad was a Norwegian military officer. Reistad was an accomplished athlete. He was Norwegian pentathlon champion in 1922 and participated in the 1928 Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland. In 1922, he was awarded the most prestigious Norwegian sports award - the "Egebergs Ærespris". During the campaign following Nazi Germany's assault on Norway on 9 April 1940, … - Gunnar Sønsteby
Gunnar Fridtjof Thurmann Sønsteby DSO (born 11 January 1918) is the most highly decorated Norwegian, based in large part on his efforts as a Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II. Known also as "Kjakan" ("The Chin") and "No. 24", he participated in the resistance effort from 1940. After saboteur training in England in 1943, he became head of the Kompani Linge group in Oslo. - Truls Mørk
Truls Otterbech Mørk is a Norwegian cellist. He was born in Bergen, Norway, the child of two professional musicians, his father a cellist and his mother a pianist. His mother began teaching him the piano when he was seven. He also played the violin, but soon switched to the cello, taking lessons from his father. Mørk started studying with Frans Helmerson at 17 at the renowned Edsberg Music Institute. An admirer of Mstislav Rostropovich and the Russian school of cello, … - Rolf Nesch
Rolf (Emil Rudolf) Nesch (January 7, 1893 in Esslingen, Germany - October 27, 1975 in Oslo, Norway) was a German-Norwegian artist. Nesch is regarded as one of the greatest and most original printmakers of the twentieth century. ---- Rolf Nesch worked in a range of disciplines. He began as a painter, and until the end of the 1920s it was painting he concentrated on most. When he left Germany and moved to Norway in 1933, he discarded canvas and paintbrushes for good, … - Ingrid Bjoner
Ingrid Kristine Bjoner Pierpoint was a Norwegian soprano noted particularly for her Wagnerian interpretations. Born in Kråkstad, Bjoner was educated as a pharmacist at the University of Oslo but got public notice after an extraordinary performance at Oslo Cathedral, which launched a professional musical career. She travelled to Germany for voice lessons with Paul Lohmann at Frankfurt Musikhochschule and Franziska Mattienseen-Lohmann in Düsseldorf. - Henry Collingwood
Henry Collingwood, O.C. (May 6, 1918 - December 8, 2005), businessman and recipient of the Knight's Cross of Royal Order of St. Olav as granted to him by the King of Norway in 1975. Born St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada and educated at Prince of Wales Collegiate in St. John's, Collingwood began his working career at the family firm of Baine Johnston in 1934. In 1972 Collingwood was appointed President and CEO of the firm. - Karen-Christine Friele
Karen Christine ("Kim") Friele (born May 27 1935) is a Norwegian gay rights activist, famous for being the first Norwegian to admit to her sexuality. She acted as the leader for the previously secret organization Forbundet av 1948 between 1966 and 1971, and as its secretary general until 1989. Friele was born Karen-Christine Wilhelmsen in Fana in Bergen, Norway. - Ole Henrik Magga
Ole Henrik Magga is a Sámi linguist and politician from Kautokeino, Norway. - Kirsten Bråten Berg
Kirsten Marie Bråten Berg is a Norwegian folk singer and silversmith currently living in Valle in the Setesdal area of southern Norway. She trained as a silversmith at the Torleiv H. Bjørgums Vocational College ("Oslo Yrkesskole an Torleiv H. Bjørgums") in Setesdal and then set up her own workshop there, in Nomeland. She began singing traditional Norwegian folksongs in the 1970s and since the late 1970s has given concerts and made recordings, … - Ola Skjåk Bræk
Ola Skjåk Bræk was a Norwegian banker and politician. He was Minister of Industry from 1972 and 1973 in the coalition government formed by Lars Korvald after Trygve Bratteli resigned his government after a referendum defeated his proposal for Norway to join the European Union. Skjåk Bræk was born in Eidsvoll, the second child of the local banker Gudbrand Bræk and his wife Elisabeth Fischer. He studied law at the University of Oslo and earned his degree in 1935. - Berthold Grünfeld
Berthold Grünfeld is a Norwegian physician, specialised in psychiatry, and professor emeritus of social medicine at University of Oslo. He is often used as an expert in forensic psychiatry. - Herman Wildenvey
Herman Wildenvey, born Herman Theodor Portaas, was one of the most prominent Norwegian poets of the twentieth century. During his lifetime he published 44 books of his own poetry, in addition to translations of William Shakepeare, Ernest Hemingway, and Heinrich Heine. Wildenvey was born in Mjøndalen, near the city of Drammen. His childhood home, from which he got his birthname, was called "Portåsen". - Egil Monn-Iversen
Egil Monn-Iversen (14 april 1928 -) is one of the most influential modern composers in Norway. He has had many important roles in Norwegian music, film, opera, television, comedy and theatre. For some time he had so much power in the cultural Norway that he got the nickname "The Godfather", even though he has always considered himself a down-to-earth musician. Egil Monn-Iversen owned a film production company, a record label, and an agency for musical artists, … - Olaf II of Norway II of Norway
Olaf II Haraldsson, king from 1015-1028, (known during his lifetime as the Stout ("Olav Digre") and after his canonization as Saint Olaf), was born in the year in which Olaf Tryggvason came to Norway. His mother was Åsta Gudbrandsdatter, and his father was Harald Grenske, great-grandchild of Harald I Fairhair. In modern day Norway he is known as Olav den Hellige or Olaf the Holy as a result of his sainthood.
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