List of Famous people born in Norway
Josefine Frida
Josefine Frida Pettersen is a Norwegian actress. She is best known for the role of Noora in the TV series Skam. Pettersen is from Sigdal.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gro Harlem Brundtland is a Norwegian politician, who served three terms as Prime Minister of Norway and as Director-General of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003. She is also known for having chaired the Brundtland Commission which presented the Brundtland Report on sustainable development.
Magne Furuholmen
Magne Furuholmen is a Norwegian musician and visual artist. He was named Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav by King Harald for his services to Norwegian music and his international success. Furuholmen, better known to music fans by his stage name Mags, is the keyboardist of the synthpop/rock band A-ha, and co-wrote hits such as "Take On Me", "Stay on These Roads", "Manhattan Skyline", "Cry Wolf", "Forever Not Yours", "Analogue ", "Minor Earth Major Sky", "Touchy!", "You Are the One", "Move To Memphis" and "Foot of the Mountain". The band A-ha has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide.
Jørn Andersen
Jørn Andersen, sometimes written as Jörn, is a Norwegian-born German football manager and former player.
Hanna Paulsberg
Hanna Paulsberg is a Norwegian Jazz musician and composer.
Hanna Bredal Oftedal
Hanna Oftedal Sagosen is a retired Norwegian handball player who most recently played for the Danish club Silkeborg-Voel KFUM. She also represented Norway in the 2013 Women's Junior European Handball Championship, placing 4th, and in the 2014 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, placing 9th.
Sylvi Listhaug
Sylvi Listhaug is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party who served as Minister for the Elderly and Public Health of Norway under Prime Minister Erna Solberg from May to December 2019. In addition, she has also served as the Minister of Petroleum and Energy of Norway from December 2019 to January 2020. Listhaug served as Norway's first Minister of Immigration and Integration from 2015 to 2018, a specially created cabinet position during the European migrant crisis, and Minister of Agriculture and Food from 2013 to 2015. She served as Minister of Justice, Public Security and Immigration from January 2018 until her resignation in March 2018. Originally from the rural municipality of Ørskog in Sunnmøre, she began her political career in Oslo as City Commissioner of Welfare and Social Services.
Siv Jensen
Siv Jensen is a Norwegian politician and leader of the Progress Party since 2006. She also held the position as Minister of Finance from 2013 to 2020 in the Solberg Cabinet. She has been a member of the Norwegian parliament from Oslo since 1997.
Jarl Magnus Riiber
Jarl Magnus Riiber is a Norwegian nordic combined skier who has been competing since 2014.
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.