List of Famous people born in Rogaland, Norway
Kjetil Jansrud
Kjetil Jansrud is a Norwegian World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic champion. He races in all alpine disciplines apart from slalom, and his best event used to be the giant slalom where he has 6 World Cup podiums and an Olympic silver medal. However, since 2012 he has become more of a speed specialist, having won all but two of his World Cup victories in the speed events. At the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, he won the Super-G and placed third in the Downhill. At the World Championships in 2019 at Åre, Jansrud won gold in the downhill.
Alexander Søderlund
Alexander Toft Søderlund is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Turkish Süper Lig club Çaykur Rizespor. He has represented the Norwegian national team.
Turid Birkeland
Turid Birkeland was a Norwegian cultural executive and former politician for the Labour Party. She was Minister of Culture in 1996–97. She was an author and also worked in television, including being chief of cultural programming at NRK and a member of the board at Telenor. She also headed the Risør Chamber Music Festival, and was the director of Concerts Norway.
Stig Ingemar Traavik
Stig Ingemar Traavik is a Norwegian civil servant and diplomat. He is currently a Special Envoy for the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment. He has worked with venture capital and renewable energy in Southeast Asia.
Vicky Vette
Vicky Vette is a Norwegian-Canadian pornographic actress, webcam model and webmaster. She has been named the most followed Norwegian on Twitter by the Norwegian newspaper, Verdens Gang. She also shot a mainstream movie in Indonesia called Pacar Hantu Perawan.
Anne Grete Preus
Anne Grete Preus was a Norwegian rock singer in Norway in the 1980s and 1990s, first as member of the bands Veslefrikk and Can Can and later as a solo act. She released nine solo albums and won the Spellemannprisen multiple times. In 2008 she appeared as a narrator in an Arts Alliance production, id - Identity of the Soul. She contracted liver cancer in 2007. In early 2019 she had to cancel the planned concerts for the summer due to illness.
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.
Jens Hundseid
Jens Valentinsen Hundseid was a Norwegian politician from the Agrarian Party. He was a member of the Norwegian parliament from 1924 to 1940 and Prime Minister of Norway from 1932 to 1933.
Ingrid Aune
Ingrid Johansen Aune was a Norwegian politician who was mayor of the city of Malvik from 2015 until her death.
Julie Ege
Julie Ege was a Norwegian actress and model, who appeared in many British films of the 1960s and 1970s.