- Einar Haugen
Einar Ingvald Haugen was an American linguist and Professor at University of Wisconsin and Harvard University. Haugen (pronounced HOW-gən) was born in Sioux City, Iowa to Norwegians from the town of Oppdal in Norway. As a young child, the family moved back to Oppdal for a few years, but then returned to the United States. He attended Morningside College in Sioux City but transferred to St. Olaf College to study with Ole Edvart Rølvaag, where he earned his B.A. in 1928. - Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Tosten Bunde Veblen July 30, 1857 - August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a founder, along with John R. Commons, of the Institutional economics movement. He was an impassioned critic of the performance of the American economy, and is most famous for his book "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899). - Walter Mondale
Walter F. Mondale 's record of public service includes: vice president of the United States, U.S. ambassador to Japan, and U.S. senator and attorney general for the State of Minnesota. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for U.S. president in 1984. He is currently a partner with the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, headquartered in Minneapolis with 16 offices worldwide. He serves as chair of the firm's Asia Law Practice Group. - Waldemar Ager
Waldemar Ager (1869-1941), was a Norwegian-American newspaperman and author. - Karl Rove
Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. For most of his career prior to his employment at the White House, Rove was a political consultant. Rove's election campaign clients have included George W. Bush (2000 and 2004 presidential elections, 1994 and 1998 Texas gubernatorial elections), … - Ole Evinrude
Ole Evinrude, born Ole Evenrudstuen was a Norwegian-American inventor, famous for the invention of the outboard motor. Evinrude was born in Norway and emigrated with his family to Cambridge, Wisconsin, USA at the age of five. At age sixteen he went to Madison working in machinery stores and studying engineering on his own. He became a machinist while working at various machine tool firms in Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. - Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor 's latest book, "Homegrown Democrat," was released on July 15, 2004. Here he offers the first four chapters for your perusal, courtesy of Viking Books. Dedicating the book to "all of the good Democratic-Farmer-Laborites of Minnesota," he offers "a few plain thoughts from the heart of America." - Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 - August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, singer, model and pop icon. She was known for her comedic skills and screen presence, going on to become one of the most popular movie stars of the 1950s and early 1960s. At the later stages of her career, she worked towards serious roles with a measure of success. - Kristanna Loken
Kristanna Sommer Loken or Kristanna Sommer Løken is a Norwegian-American actress and former fashion model. - Cleng Peerson
Cleng Peerson (17 May 1783 - 16 December 1865) led the first group of Norwegians to emigrate to the United States, traveling on the sloop "Restauration". He was born in Tysvaer, Norway, and died in Bosque County, Texas. Peerson is buried in the cemetery of Our Savior's Lutheran Church outside of Cranfills Gap, Texas. In 1825, he led a group of Norwegians, many of them Quakers, who traveled from Stavanger, Norway to New York City, … - Knute Nelson
Knute Nelson (February 2, 1843 - April 28, 1923) was an American politician who served in the Wisconsin and Minnesota legislature, in the U.S. House of Representatives, as governor of Minnesota, and as a U.S. Senator. - Bernt Balchen
Bernt Balchen, D.F.C., (23 October 1899 - 17 October 1973), was a Norwegian-American polar (and general) aviation pioneer. Born at the farm Myren in Tveit, just outside Kristiansand, Norway, Balchen, at his death, became one of the few Norwegian-born people buried at Arlington Cemetery. During World War II, Balchen was responsible for setting up the pilot training camp/school for Norwegian exiled soldiers, "Little Norway", outside Toronto, Ontario, Canada. - Fred Kavli
Fred Kavli, b. 1927, is a naturalized American physicist, business leader, innovator, and philanthropist. Born in the village of Eresfjord, Nesset municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Today Kavli lives in the city of Oxnard, California, after having sold his life's work he is actively pursuing the establishment of a foundation to further science. This technology entrepreneur turned philanthropist has only recently appeared in media for his work. - John Anderson
John Joseph Anderson (December 14, 1873-July 23, 1949) was a former baseball outfielder and first baseman. Nicknamed "Honest John", Anderson played for 6 seasons in the National League from 1894 to 1899 and then in the American League from 1900 to 1908. Anderson was born in Sarpsborg, Norway; he was the first of only three major league baseball players to have ever been born in the country. He first appeared in the National League in 1894, … - 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. - Josh Groban
Joshua Winslow Groban (born February 27 1981) is a Grammy-nominated American singer/songwriter known for his mature and lyrical baritone voice. He has concentrated his career so far mostly in concert singing and recordings, although he has said that he wishes to pursue musical theater in the future. - John Ashcroft
John David Ashcroft was the 79th Attorney General of the United States. He served during the first term of President George W. Bush from 2001 until 2005. Ashcroft was previously the Governor of Missouri (1985–1993) and a U.S. Senator from Missouri (1995–2001). He is the author of several books, including: "On My Honor: The Beliefs that Shape My Life", "Lessons from a Father to his Son," and most recently, … - Eliot Ness
Eliot P. Ness (April 19, 1903 - May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois as the leader of a legendary team nicknamed The Untouchables. - Lars Onsager
Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 - October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University. - Earl Warren
Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 - July 9, 1974) was a California district attorney of Alameda County, the 20th Attorney General of California, the 30th Governor of California, and the 14th Chief Justice of the United States (from 1953 to 1969). As Chief Justice, his term of office was marked by numerous rulings affecting, among other things, the legal status of racial segregation, civil rights, separation of church and state, and police arrest procedure in the United States. - Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving under President Lyndon Johnson. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and Americans for Democratic Action. He also served as mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1945–1949. - Carole Landis
Carole Landis, born Frances Lillian Mary Ridste, was an American film actress. - Tom Waits
Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by one critic as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock styles such as blues, jazz, and Vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, … - Marcus Thrane
Marcus Møller Thrane was the leader of the first Norwegian labour movement, later known as the Thranitter movement, which at its height had approximately 30,000 members, making it the third largest labour movement at the time, second only to those in France and the United Kingdom, and the largest counting per capita (Norway having only 1.4 million inhabitants). - 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. - Sally Ride
Sally Kristen Ride (born May 26 1951) is an American former astronaut who in 1983 became the first American woman to reach outer space. She was preceded by two Soviet women, Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). She was also the youngest American to enter outer space. She was married for a time to NASA Astronaut Steve Hawley. Sally Ride was born in Los Angeles, the oldest child of Dale and Joyce Ride. - James Arness
James Arness is an actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke" for 20 years (though the length of time in a role is shared with Kelsey Grammer’s portrayal of Dr. Frasier Crane, Grammer played the same role on "three" different programs, Cheers, Frasier, and Wings), however, James Arness has played the part of Marshal Matt Dillon in 5 separate decades. 1955 to 1975 in the weekly series. - Peter Graves
Peter Graves (born March 18 1926) is an American film and television actor. He is known for his starring role in the television series "Mission: Impossible" from 1967 to 1973 (and again from 1988 to 1990). - Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties. - Snowshoe Thompson
Snowshoe Thompson was a nickname for the Norwegian-American John A. Thompson, an early resident of the Sierra Nevada of Nevada and California. He is considered the father of California skiing. Thompson was born Jon Torsteinson-Rue in the town of Tinn, Norway. Between 1856 and 1876, he delivered mail between Placerville, California and Genoa, Nevada and later Virginia City, Nevada. - Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee was an American jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Oscar-nominated performer. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom and was famous for her "soft and cool" singing style. Though she recorded dozens of hit songs (many of which she wrote or cowrote), Lee might be best known for her interpretation of the Davenport/Cooley composition "Fever" and the song written by her and Dave Barbour, "It's a Good Day." - Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. She shot to fame during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy, "Pretty Woman", opposite Richard Gere. Since then, Roberts has become the highest-paid actress in the world, topping the "Hollywood Reporter's" annual power list of top-earning female stars for four consecutive years (2002-2005). - Knute Rockne
Knute (pronounced "kah-noot") ("noot" is the anglicized nickname) Kenneth Rockne (March 4, 1888 - March 31, 1931) was an American football player and is regarded by many as the greatest coach in college football history. His biography at the College Football Hall of Fame calls him, "American football's most-renowned coach. - Hans Christian Heg
Hans Christian Heg (December 21, 1829 - September 19, 1863) was a Norwegian immigrant to the United States who served as a colonel and brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Hans C. Heg was born in Drammen, Norway. He immigrated with his family to America in 1840, settling in the Muskego Settlement in Wisconsin. Heg was a Major in the 4th Wisconsin Militia. - Belle Gunness
Belle Sorenson Gunness (born Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth, November 22, 1859 in Selbu, Norway- probably died 1931 Los Angeles), was one of America's most profligate known female serial killers. At 6 ft (1.8 m) tall and over 200 lb (90 kg), she was a powerful Norwegian-American woman. She may have killed both of her husbands and all of her children (on different occasions), but she is known to have killed most of her suitors, boyfriends, … - Conrad Hilton
Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Sr. was an American hotelier and founder of the Hilton Hotel chain. - James Cagney
James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American film actor who won acclaim for a wide variety of roles and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1942 for his role in "Yankee Doodle Dandy". Like James Stewart, Cagney became so familiar to audiences that they usually referred to him as "Jimmy" Cagney — a billing never found on any of his films. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Cagney eighth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. - Piper Perabo
Piper Lisa Perabo (born October 31, 1976) is an American movie actress. - Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 - July 1, 1997) was an American film actor and singer. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the "film noir" style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and '60s. - Andrew Furuseth
Andrew Furuseth (March 12, 1854 - January 22, 1938) of Romedal, Norway was a merchant seaman and an American labor leader. Furuseth was active in the formation of two influential maritime unions: the Sailor's Union of the Pacific and the International Seamen's Union, and served as the executive of both for decades. Furuseth was largely responsible for the passage of four reforms that changed the lives of American mariners.
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