Notable Residents
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832–1910) was a Norwegian author and Nobel Prize in Literature winner in 1903. Aulestad in Follebu, Gausdal was his primary residence from 1874 until his death in 1910.
- Reidar Engjom - politician
- Brynhild Marie Foss - politician
- Iver Holter (1850–1941) was a composer and was conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra from 1882 until 1886.
- Jan Erik Kristiansen - politician
- Inge Krokann (1893–1962) was a Norwegian writer who wrote dialect and idiosyncratic nynorsk works which are largely inaccessible to international readers but reputed to be very powerful, lived his later years and died in Gausdal.
- Else Kveine - poet
- Olav Olstad - politician
- Abraham Pihl - theologian, astronomer and architect
- Christen Smed - mountaineer
- Hans Aanrud (1863–1953) was a Norwegian writer who wrote plays, poetry, and stories depicting rural life in Norway.
- Ole Amundsen Buslett (1855–1924) - Norwegian-American author, newspaperman, and politician.
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