Oslo - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

Main category: People from Oslo
  • Sigrid Undset (1882–1949), writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928
  • Jens Stoltenberg (b. 1959), Prime Minister
  • Fabian Stang (b. 1955), mayor
  • Kjetil André Aamodt (b. 1971), alpine skier
  • Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862–1951), meteorologist
  • Espen Bredesen (b. 1968), ski jumper, Olympic champion
  • Gro Harlem Brundtland (b. 1939), Prime Minister and Director-General of WHO
  • Lars Saabye Christensen (b. 1953), author
  • Thorbjørn Egner (1912–1990), Playwright, songwriter and illustrator
  • John Fredriksen (b. 1944), shipping magnate
  • Ragnar Frisch (1895–1973), economist, Nobel Prize laureate (1969)
  • Johan Galtung (b. 1930), sociologist, founder of peace and conflict studies
  • Sindre Goksøyr (b. 1975), artist, musician
  • Christian Krohg (1852–1925), painter
  • Hans Gude (1825–1903), landscape painter
  • Tine Thing Helseth (b. 1987), trumpeter
  • Sonja Henie (1912–1969), Norwegian figure skater and actress
  • Eva Joly (b. 1943), magistrate
  • Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906), playwright, theatre director and poet
  • Erling Kagge (b. 1963), polar explorer
  • Espen Knutsen (b. 1972), former professional ice hockey player
  • Edvard Munch (1863–1944), painter
  • Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930), polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, Nobel laureate
  • Lars Onsager (1903–1976), physical chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Børge Ousland (b. 1962), polar explorer, writer
  • Grete Waitz (1953–2011), marathon runner
  • Kjell Ola Dahl (b. 1958), author
  • Jo Nesbø (b. 1960), author and musician

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