List of Famous people born in Norway
Bjarte Myrhol
Bjarte Håkon Myrhol is a Norwegian handballer for Skjern Håndbold and the Norway men's national handball team.
Magnus Abelvik Rød
Magnus Abelvik Rød is a Norwegian handball player for SG Flensburg-Handewitt and the Norwegian national team.
Maren Lundby
Maren Lundby is a Norwegian ski jumper. She is one of the most successful contemporary ski jumpers, male or female, having won three consecutive World Cup overall titles, thirty individual World Cup wins, and gold medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2019 World Championships.
Vaadjuv Nyqvist
Vaadjuv Dag Nyqvist was a Norwegian sailor who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Niklas Castro
Niklas Fernando Nygård Castro is a football forward who currently plays for Aalesund. Born in Norway, Castro represents the Chile national team.
Nora Holstad Berge
Nora Holstad Berge is a retired Norwegian footballer who played as a defender for NWSL club North Carolina Courage and the Norway national team. In the past, she has played for FK Larvik, Kolbotn, Linköpings FC, Arna-Bjørnar, and FC Bayern Munich.
Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold
Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold is a Norwegian biathlete who competed for Norway at the 2018 Winter Olympics. She represents the club Fossum IF.
Karl Ove Knausgård
Karl Ove Knausgård is a Norwegian author. He became known worldwide for six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle. He has been described as "one of the 21st century's greatest literary sensations" by the Wall Street Journal. Since the completion of the My Struggle series in 2011, he has also published an autobiographical series entitled The Seasons Quartet, as well as critical work on the art of Edvard Munch.
Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway
Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway is the elder child of Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit. She is second in line to succeed her grandfather King Harald V. A member of the House of Glücksburg, she is expected to become the country's second female monarch, after the 15th-century Queen Margaret.
Petter Northug
Petter Northug Jr. is a Norwegian former cross-country skier and double Olympic champion. He won a total of 13 World Championship and 2 Winter Olympic gold medals with 20 medals overall, and 18 individual FIS Cross-Country World Cup wins with 13 podium places. He is also the record holder for most stage wins (13) in Tour de Ski. By winning his ninth gold medal in the Nordic World Ski Championships in 4 × 10 km relay in Val di Fiemme 2013 he leveled the achievement of Bjørn Dæhlie who had been the most successful World Champion male skier up to that point.