List of Famous people born in Norway
Olav Christopher Jenssen
Olav Christopher Jenssen is a Norwegian artist. Jenssen is considered one of the most acclaimed contemporary Norwegian artists, with a significant international career. He has for years lived and worked in Berlin. From 1996 to 2003 he was professor of painting at the Hochschule Fine Arts in Hamburg, and since 2007, he is professor of painting at the Hochschule Fine Arts in Braunschweig. In 1992, he was selected to exhibit at the prestigious exhibition documenta in Kassel, Germany.
Ola Kvernberg
Ola Kvernberg is a Norwegian jazz musician known for his virtuosic string swing violin playing and his international performances. He is the son of traditional musicians Liv Rypdal Kvernberg and Torbjørn Kvernberg, and the brother of traditional musicians Kari Kvernberg Dajani and fiddler Jorun Marie Kvernberg, and grandson of the fiddler and traditional music composer Peter L. Rypdal. Kvernberg studied classical violin from the age of nine, and won 3rd prize in a great classical violin competition in Italy when he was fourteen.
Anne Østerud
Finn Kalvik
Finn Bjørn Kalvik is a Norwegian singer and composer.
Knut Vollebæk
Knut Vollebæk is a former Norwegian diplomat to the United States, (2001–2007, and centrist politician. He is currently a member of the International Commission on Missing Persons Board of Commissioners and heads a government commission investigating the situation of Norwegian Travellers.
Tom Lund
Tom Lund is a former Norwegian football coach and striker, he is considered by some as Norway's greatest football player of all time.
Snorre Pedersen
Snorre Pedersen is a Norwegian skeleton racer who competed from 1997 to 2005. He finished 14th in the men's skeleton event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He also competed in the luge at the 1992 Winter Olympics.
Carl Fredrik Hagen
Carl Fredrik Hagen is a Norwegian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Israel Start-Up Nation.
Eirik Bakke
Eirik Bakke is a Norwegian retired football player. He played on the right-hand side or centre of midfield.
Eirik Verås Larsen
Eirik Verås Larsen is a Norwegian sprint kayaker who has competed internationally since the early 1990s. He has participated in three Summer Olympics, and has won a complete set of medals.