List of Famous people born in Norway

Suzann Pettersen

First Name Suzann
Born on April 7, 1981 (age 45)

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.

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Sander Sagosen

First Name Sander
Last Name Sagosen
Born on September 14, 1995 (age 30)
Born in Norway, Trøndelag
Height 195 cm | 6'5

Sander Sagosen is a Norwegian handball player for THW Kiel and the Norwegian national team.

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Anders Indset

First Name Anders
Last Name Indset
Born on April 11, 1978 (age 48)
Born in Norway, Trøndelag

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.

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Ida Elise Broch

First Name Ida
Last Name Broch
Born on June 25, 1987 (age 38)

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.

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Ståle Solbakken

Ståle Solbakken is a Norwegian professional football manager and former player who currently is the manager of Norway.

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Finn Christian Jagge

First Name Finn
Last Name Jagge
Born on April 4, 1966
Died on July 8, 2020 (aged 54)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

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.

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Martin Ellingsen

First Name Martin
Last Name Ellingsen
Born on May 4, 1995 (age 30)
Born in Norway, Innlandet
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Martin Ellingsen is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Eliteserien club Molde.

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Emil Meek

First Name Emil
Born on August 20, 1988 (age 37)
Born in Norway, Trøndelag

Emil Weber Meek is a Norwegian professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the UFC's Welterweight division.

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Sonja Henie

First Name Sonja
Born on April 8, 1912
Died on October 12, 1969 (aged 57)
Born in Norway
Height 160 cm | 5'3

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).

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John Carew

John Alieu Carew
First Name John
Last Name Carew
Born on September 5, 1979 (age 46)
Born in Norway, Viken
Height 193 cm | 6'4

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.

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