Notable Residents
Main category: People from Grimstad- Roald Dahl (1916–1990), author, visited his grandparents and summered at the Strand Hotel in Fevik in Grimstad
- Tryggve Gran (1889–1980), polar explorer and flight pioneer
- Christopher Grigson (1926-2001) developer of the scanning electron microscope
- Knut Hamsun (1859–1952), author
- Sverre Hassel (1876–1928), polar explorer who accompanied Roald Amundsen to the South Pole
- Thor Hushovd (born 1978), road bicycle racer - 2010 World Road Race Champion, the first Norwegian to wear the yellow jersey and win the green jersey in the Tour de France, and the second Norwegian to win a stage
- Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906), playwright, wrote his first drama, Catalina in Grimstad
- Dag Otto Lauritzen (born 1956), road bicycle racer, first Norwegian to win a stage in the Tour de France
- Marius Nygaard Smith-Petersen (1886–1953), Norwegian American physician and orthopaedic surgeon
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