List of Famous people born in Norway
Suzann Pettersen
Suzann Pettersen is a retired Norwegian professional golfer. She played mainly on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour, and was also a member of the Ladies European Tour. Her career best world ranking was second and she held that position several times, most recently from August 2011 until February 2012. She retired on 15 September 2019 after holing the winning putt for the European team at the 2019 Solheim Cup, notwithstanding that she had been away from golf for almost 20 months on maternity leave prior to the event.
Sander Sagosen
Sander Sagosen is a Norwegian handball player for THW Kiel and the Norwegian national team.
Anders Indset
Anders Indset is a Norwegian philosopher, author and public speaker. Among the philosophical and socio-political ideas he has advanced are digitization, lifelong learning, narcissistic rage and the Q Economy.
Ida Elise Broch
Ida Elise Broch is a Norwegian actress. She is the half-sister of Nicolai Cleve Broch and Christian Cleve Broch. Broch played Catherine in the film The Man Who Loved Yngve and had a starring role in the film Switch. She had a featured role in season 3 of the Netflix series Lilyhammer and starred in the Norwegian TV series The Third Eye, where she played police detective Mari Friis. She starred in the Netflix series Home for Christmas.
Ståle Solbakken
Ståle Solbakken is a Norwegian professional football manager and former player who currently is the manager of Norway.
Finn Christian Jagge
Finn Christian "Finken" Jagge was a Norwegian alpine skier. He was the son of alpine skier Liv Jagge-Christiansen and tennis player Finn Dag Jagge. In the World Cup he won seven slalom victories. He also won the Norwegian Championship eight times. His career highlight came with the gold medal in the slalom competition at the 1992 Olympics in Albertville. He retired in 2000. He trained the Norwegian women ski team from 2005 to 2007. He worked for the Norwegian telecom company Ludo and later as a Partner Headhunter for Dynamic People Headhunting in Oslo. Jagge won the Norwegian reality TV show Mesternes Mester in 2011. He was 54 years old, when he died after a short illness in July 2020. He was married to Trine-Lise Jagge and had two children.
Martin Ellingsen
Martin Ellingsen is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Eliteserien club Molde.
Emil Meek
Emil Weber Meek is a Norwegian professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the UFC's Welterweight division.
Sonja Henie
Sonja Henie was a Norwegian figure skater and film star. She was a three-time Olympic champion in women's singles, a ten-time World champion (1927–1936) and a six-time European champion (1931–1936). Henie has won more Olympic and World titles than any other ladies' figure skater. At the height of her acting career, she was one of the highest-paid stars in Hollywood and starred in a series of box-office hits, including Thin Ice (1937), Happy Landing, My Lucky Star (1938), Second Fiddle (1939) and Sun Valley Serenade (1941).
John Carew
John Alieu Carew is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He was capped 91 times, scoring 24 goals for the Norwegian national team.