List of Famous people born in Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Sebastian Foss Solevåg
Sebastian Foss Solevåg is a Norwegian alpine ski racer. Born in Ålesund, he competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in slalom where he placed 9th.
Kjell Inge Røkke
Kjell Inge Røkke is a Norwegian billionaire businessman.
Nina Haver-Løseth
Nina Haver-Løseth is a retired Norwegian World Cup alpine ski racer and specializes in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom.
Stian Rode Gregersen
Stian Rode Gregersen is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Ligue 1 club Bordeaux and the Norway national team.
Ane Brun
Ane Brun is a Norwegian songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist of Sami origin. Since 2003, she has recorded ten albums, eight of which are studio albums of original material, an acoustic album, and a covers album; she has also released three live albums, two compilations, one live DVD, and four EPs. She has lived in Stockholm, Sweden, since 2001, where she writes, records, and runs her own label.
Edvard Moser
Edvard Ingjald Moser is a Norwegian professor of psychology and neuroscience at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. In 2005, he and May-Britt Moser discovered grid cells in the brain's medial entorhinal cortex. Grid cells are specialized neurons that provide the brain with a coordinate system and a metric for space. In 2018 he discovered a neural network that expresses your sense of time in experiences and memories located in the brain's lateral entorhinal cortex. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014 with long-term collaborator and then-wife May-Britt Moser, and previous mentor John O'Keefe for their work identifying the brain's positioning system. The two main components of the brain's GPS are; grid cells and place cells, a specialized type of neuron that respond to specific locations in space. Together with May-Britt Moser he established the Moser research environment, which they lead.
Kjetil Rekdal
Kjetil André Rekdal is a Norwegian football manager and a former footballer.
May-Britt Moser
May-Britt Moser is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist, who is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She and her then-husband, Edvard Moser, shared half of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded for work concerning the grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, as well as several additional space-representing cell types in the same circuit that make up the positioning system in the brain. Together with Edvard Moser she established the Moser research environment at NTNU, which they lead. Since 2012 she heads the Centre for Neural Computation.
Kristin Krohn Devold
Kristin Krohn Devold is a former Minister of Defence of Norway.
Sindre Rekdal
Sindre Magne Rekdal is a Norwegian former football player, most notably for Molde FK.