List of Famous people born in Norway
Rune Jarstein
Rune Almenning Jarstein is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Hertha BSC and the Norwegian national team.
Anne Holt
Anne Holt is a Norwegian author, lawyer and former Minister of Justice.
Torbjørn Bergerud
Torbjørn Sittrup Bergerud is a Norwegian handball player for SG Flensburg-Handewitt and the Norwegian national team.
Erik Rotheim
Erik Andreas Rotheim was a Norwegian professional chemical engineer and inventor. He is best known for invention of the first aerosol spray can and valve that could hold and dispense fluids.
Emil Iversen
Emil Iversen is a Norwegian cross-country skier who represents IL Varden. He is 2019 World Champion in team sprint and 4 × 10 km relay.
Jakob Oftebro
Jakob Hoff Oftebro is a Norwegian actor. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 2004 including Hamilton and Kon-Tiki, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards.
Christian O'Sullivan
Christian O'Sullivan is a Norwegian handball player for SC Magdeburg and the Norwegian national team.
Kristoffer Joner
Kristoffer Joner is a Norwegian actor. He is best known for his roles in Villmark and The Man Who Loved Yngve. He was a part of Rogaland Teater when he was 14 years of age until his early 20s. He was one of the founders of Cementen pub located in Stavanger, Norway. In 1996 he got the role as Ståle Pettersen in an original NRK-series Offshore, a role he kept until the shows cancelling in 2000. The same year he got his first movie role in a Pål Jackman movie by the name of Detektor, where he played the role of a satanist.
Robert Johansson
Robert Johansson is a Norwegian ski jumper. He is a former ski flying world record holder, having landed a jump of 252 m (827 ft) in Vikersund on 18 March 2017. Johansson has often been nicknamed the "Wing Commander" for his distinctive moustache.
Edvald Boasson-Hagen
Edvald Boasson Hagen is a Norwegian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Total Direct Énergie. He was ranked as no. 3 in the world by UCI as of 31 August 2009, when he was 22 years old. He is known as an all-rounder, having won the Norwegian National Road Race Championships in 2012, 2015 and 2016. He is also a ten-time winner of the Norwegian National Time Trial Championships.