- Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (March 20, 1828 - May 23, 1906) was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of modern realistic drama. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama." Ibsen is held to be the greatest of Norwegian authors and one of the most important playwrights of all time, celebrated as a national symbol by Norwegians. His plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, …
- Biosphere
Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen (born 1962), a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalogue of ambient electronic music. He is well known for his "ambient techno" and "arctic ambient" styles, his use of music loops, and peculiar samples from sci-fi sources. His track "Novelty Waves" was used for the 1995 campaign of Levi's. His 1997 album "Substrata" is generally seen as one of the all time classic ambient albums
- Edvard Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist who composed in the romantic period. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt" (which includes Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King), and for his collection of piano miniatures "Lyric Pieces".
- Jens Stoltenberg
(born March 16, 1959) is a Norwegian economist, leader (since 2002) of the Norwegian Labour Party and the current Prime Minister of Norway. Stoltenberg was the leader of the Workers' Youth League between 1985 and 1989, and the Oslo chapter of the Labour Party between 1990 and 1992. He was junior minister (statssekretær) in the Department of the Environment 1990-1991, Minister of Industry 1993-1996, and Minister of Finance 1996-1997.
- Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker, and an important forerunner of Expressionistic art. "The Scream" (1893; similar paintings include "Despair" and "Anxiety"), Munch's best-known painting, is one of the pieces in a series titled "The Frieze of Life", in which Munch explored the themes of life, love, fear, death, and melancholy. As with many of his works, he painted several versions of it.
- Thor Hushovd
Thor Hushovd is a professional road bicycle racer, presently rider for the Crédit Agricole Professional team. Hushovd is renowned for his Sprinting and Time Trialing prowess. He is a former Norwegian National Time Trial Champion and was the first Norwegian to wear the coveted yellow jersey. Before turning a professional in 1998, Hushovd won the U23 Time-Trial World Championship and the U23-versions of the two bicycle classics Paris-Roubaix and Paris-Tours.
- Jonas Gahr Støre
Jonas Gahr Støre is the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was appointed to his current position in the second cabinet Stoltenberg on 17 October 2005. Mr. Gahr Støre belongs to the Norwegian Labour Party. He attended Berg School in Oslo followed by naval officer training at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy. He later studied political science at the Institut d'etudes politiques de Paris (best known as Sciences Po) in Paris, …
- Roald Amundsen
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the first successful Antarctic expedition to the South Pole between 1910 and 1912. He disappeared in June 1928 while taking part in a rescue mission. With Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Amundsen was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
- Erik Solheim
Erik Solheim (born January 18, 1955 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian politician and the current Norwegian Minister of International Development. He has distinguished himself as an international peace maker involved in resolving the current civil war in Sri Lanka.
- Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (born October 10, 1861 in Store Frøen, near Christiania - died May 13, 1930 in Lysaker, outside Oslo) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat. Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his work as a League of Nations High Commissioner.
- Erik Hagen
Erik “Panzer” Hagen is a Norwegian international football player. He is a center back and is known for his reckless way of playing. During his time in Vålerenga he became a high profiled player, and came to be a firm favourite with the supporters of the club. Among other things he made a “hate list” of Norwegian footballers in the club magazine Vål'enga Magasin, containing among others the Rosenborg center back Vidar Riseth.
- Harald Heide-Steen Jr.
Harald Heide-Steen Jr. is a Norwegian actor. He is the son of Harald Heide Steen. Harald Heide-Steen jr. is among other things known for his role as «Dynamite-Harry» in the Norwegian "Olsen Gang"-movies. He is also known as an improv-comic, often collaborating with Rolv Wesenlund in the late 1960s.
- Jan Egeland
Jan Egeland (born 1957 in Norway) was the United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator from June 2003 to December 2006. Egeland was appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan and succeeded Kenzo Oshima. He traveled extensively, drawing attention to humanitarian emergencies. Egeland will take up the position as director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs on September 1, 2007.
- Magne Furuholmen
Magne Furuholmen (Mags, is best known as the guitarist/keyboardist in a-ha. He was born to father Kåre and mother Annelise. He has one sister, Line, and two half brothers, Thorstein and Trygve Christian. Magne's father, a jazz musician, (who played trumpet with Bent Solve's Orchestra) was killed in an aeroplane crash over Drammen, south of Oslo in 1967, when Magne was just five. Magne married Heidi Rydjord, his high school sweetheart, …
- Martin Andresen
Martin Andresen is a Norwegian football midfielder.
- Polar
Polar, or K, is Kjetil Dale Sagstad, a Norwegian electronic music artist. He is originally from Meland in Norway, and grew up with his former musical partner Teebee. Together they started Subtitles Recordings, which Teebee now runs by himself. He currently lives in San Francisco. Labels: Certificate 18 (alone and with Teebee as K), Subtitles Recordings, Breakbeat Science.
- Kurt Asle Arvesen
Kurt Asle Arvesen (born February 9, 1975 in Molde) is a professional road bicycle racer from Eresfjord, Norway. He is currently part of the Danish Team CSC, where he has been since 2004. After winning the gold medal at the 1997 Under-23 World Championship as an amateur, Arvesen turned pro with Italian team Asics in 1998, where later Team CSC teammate Ivan Basso rode as a stagiare. The two riders moved on to Davide Boifava's team, Riso Scotti-Vinavil in 1999, …
- Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914 Larvik, Norway - April 18, 2002 Colla Micheri, Italy) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a scientific background in zoology and geography. Heyerdahl became famous for his Kon-Tiki Expedition in which he sailed by raft 4,300 miles (7,000 km) from South America to the Tuamotu Islands.
- Kristin Halvorsen
Kristin Halvorsen (born September 2 1960 in Horten, Vestfold) is a Norwegian socialist politician and is the Minister of Finance since October 17, 2005 in the second cabinet Stoltenberg. Taking over as leader of the Socialist Left Party in 1997, she established an unprecedented level of consensus within the party. The last few years have been marked by high polling numbers, but at the 2005 election, the party received a disappointing 8.8 percent, …
- Carl Berner
Carl Christian Berner (1841-1918) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He was member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1891-1892, and Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs 1891-1893. Berner was born in Oslo, and studied science and mathematics before he started working as a teacher at several different schools in Oslo.
- Olav Thon
Olav Thon is a Norwegian real estate developer and listed by Forbes "List of Billionaires" as the 428th richest person in the world in 2006. His 2005 reported income was NOK 1.2B (US $179M), the highest in Norway. He lives in Oslo, Norway. His company owns 360 properties in Norway and 18 abroad, including shopping malls, office buildings, retail stores and hotels. His principal holdings are the private companies Stormgård AS and Thongård AS, …
- Thom Hell
Thom Hell (birth name Thomas Helland) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. He has released two EPs and two albums. His band is called "the Love Connection". Hell also contributes on Norwegian singer-songwriter Marit Larsen's recently released album Under the Surface where he joins Larsen in a duet for the song To An End.
- Magnus Carlsen
Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster who came to international attention after winning the C group of the Corus Chess Tournament in January 2004 at the age of thirteen, and winning the B group of the same tournament two years later at 15. <br>In the July 2007 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2710, making him Norway's number 1, World Juniors' number 2 and World's number 17. On April 26, 2004 Carlsen became Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 4 months, …
- 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, …
- Kjell Magne Bondevik
(born September 3, 1947) is a Norwegian Lutheran minister and politician. He served as Prime Minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005, making him Norway's longest serving non-Socialist Prime Minister since World War II. He is also the first Prime Minister who took sick leave due to mental illness. Currently, he is the President of the Oslo Centre for Peace and Human Rights. The 31 October 2006 he published his memoir, …
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(born April 20, 1939) is a Norwegian politician, diplomat, and physician, and an international leader in sustainable development and public health. She is a former Prime Minister of Norway, and has served as the Director General of the World Health Organization. She now serves as an Environmental Envoy of the United Nations.
- Stein Erik Hagen
Stein Erik Hagen is a Norwegian businessman who, with his father, opened a discount supermarket in the late 1970s. Ultimately he partnered with supermarket giant Ahold, obtaining both a cash payout and a 20% stake in the company. When the deal is renegotiated, it is expected that each will attempt to obtain the other's stake in the company. Hagen also has a significant stakes in Orkla, a large Norwegian outfit with interests in chemicals, …
- Suzann Pettersen
Suzann Pettersen, born in Oslo on April 7 1981 is a Norwegian professional golfer who plays mainly on the U.S. based LPGA Tour and is also a member of the Ladies European Tour.
- Erling Jensen
Erling Jensen (born July 3, 1891 - died ?) was a Norwegian gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Norwegian gymnastics team, which won the bronze medal in the gymnastics men's team, Swedish system event.
- Janove Ottesen
Janove Ottesen (born 1975, formerly Jan Ove Ottesen) is a Norwegian musician, born in Bryne, Rogaland. Norway. He specializes in vocals, guitar and barrels. Ottesen gave up his military training for the sake of his beloved pump organ. Janove is behind many of Kaizers Orchestra's songs. The energy he displays during shows has helped Kaizers Orchestra earn the reputation of being a good live band.
- Sondre Lerche
Sondre Lerche (born September 5, 1982, in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian singer, guitarist, and songwriter who plays music in a folk/pop style.
- Petter Solberg
Petter "Hollywood" Solberg, from Spydeberg i Østfold, Norway, is a professional rally driver. He is married to a Swede, Pernilla Walfridsson, with whom he has a son, Oliver. Pernilla is the daughter of former Volvo factory driver and 1980 European Rallycross Champion, Per-Inge "Pi" Walfridsson (who also claimed a remarkable 4th overall in the 1973 RAC Rally). She was also, for some time, rated as possibly the world's fastest female rally driver.
- Liv Tyler
Liv Tyler (born Liv Rundgren, on July 1, 1977 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New York) is an American actress most famous for her roles of Grace Stamper in "Armageddon" and Arwen in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
- Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun was a leading Norwegian author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1920.
- Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a Welsh novelist, short story author and screenwriter of Norwegian parentage, famous as a writer for both children and adults. His most popular books include "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "James and the Giant Peach", "Matilda", "The Witches", "The BFG", and "Kiss Kiss".
- Trond Giske
Trond Giske is a Norwegian politician and the current Minister of Culture and Church Affairs representing the Norwegian Labour Party in the government headed by Jens Stoltenberg. Giske was elected into the Norwegian parliament for Sør-Trøndelag county in 1997, and served as Minister of Education, Research and Church Affairs in the first cabinet of Jens Stoltenberg 2000-2001. He was re-elected to parliament in 2001 and 2005.
- Magnet
Magnet is the pseudonym used by Norwegian singer-songwriter Even Johansen.
- John Arne Riise
John Arne Semundseth Riise is a Norwegian football player who currently plays for Liverpool F.C. Riise is renowned for the venomous shooting power and accuracy of his favoured left foot, as well as his excellent physical conditioning, most notably his outstanding stamina levels. He is the older brother of Bjorn Helge Riise.
- Siv Jensen
Siv Jensen (born June 1, 1969 in Oslo) is the chairman of the Progress Party, the largest opposition party in Norway. She was appointed party chairman on May 6, 2006, after a long period of being next in leadership, after Carl I. Hagen, party's chairman for 28 years, resigned in 2006. In September 2006 a political biography on Siv Jensen was released written by chief editor of the magazine Ny Tid, Martine Aurdal.
- Espen Lind
Espen Lind (born May 13, 1971) is a Norwegian songwriter, producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist.