List of Famous people born in Norway
Grete Ingeborg Nykkelmo
Grete Ingeborg Nykkelmo is a former biathlete and cross-country skier from Norway. She competed in both events from 1982 to 1992.
Sverre Lunde Pedersen
Sverre Lunde Pedersen is a Norwegian speed skater. He is the son of former speed-skater Jarle Pedersen.
Magni Wentzel
Magni Wentzel is a Norwegian jazz musician, the daughter of musicians Odd Wentzel-Larsen and Åse Wentzel, and known for a number of jazz recordings.
Kjetil Rekdal
Kjetil André Rekdal is a Norwegian football manager and a former footballer.
Sven Ole Fagernæs
Sven Ole Fagernæs is a Norwegian jurist and civil servant who has been Attorney General of Norway since 2004.
Arne Lindtner Næss
Arne Lindtner Næss is a Norwegian actor, director, television producer, and writer. He has had many film and television roles. The best known may be Frode Birkeland in the television series Familiesagaen De syv søstre on TV2. His father was film director, producer, and screenwriter Peder Hamdahl Næss.
Anne Marie Ottersen
Anne Marie Ottersen Lindtner is a Norwegian actress. She has been working at Nationaltheatret since 1970, and acted in roles such as "Polly Peachum" in Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, and "Martha" in Edward Albees Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Anne-Karine Strøm
Anne-Karine Strøm is a Norwegian singer, best known for having taken part in the Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest selection, Melodi Grand Prix, in six consecutive years between 1971 and 1976, winning on three occasions and representing Norway in the Eurovision Song Contests of 1973, 1974 and 1976.
Kristin Kaspersen
Kristin Kaspersen is a Swedish-Norwegian television host who is working for the Swedish media company TV4 Group, which is the owner of the television channel TV4. She is the daughter of Lill-Babs and Kjell Kaspersen and was raised in Stockholm. Kaspersen began her television career in the early 1990s after completing an internship on one of Robert Aschberg's programs. She has hosted many popular television shows since then, and is "one of Sweden's famous television faces" according to a 2009 article in Sydsvenskan. Kaspersen is one of the hosts of Nyhetsmorgon on TV4.
Haddy Njie
Haddy Jatou Njie is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, writer and journalist. Her father is Gambian and her mother is Norwegian. She grew up in Kolbotn near Oslo and is the eldest of five siblings. Her younger sister is illustrator and picture book writer Lisa Aisato.