List of Norwegians

This is a list of noted or famous Norwegians. (The list is sorted by when they died; those who are alive, are farther down the list.)

Caspar Wessel (d. 1818), mathematician Ivar Aasen (d. 1896), philologist, lexicographer Henrik Ibsen (d. 1906), playwright, poet, author Edvard Grieg (d. 1907), composer Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (d. 1910), poet, author Fridtjof Nansen (d. 1930) diplomat, scientist Christian Lous Lange (d. 1938), political scientist Edvard Munch (d. 1944), painter Knut Hamsun (d. 1952), author, Ragnar Frisch (d. 1973), economist Lars Onsager (d. 1976), chemist Fredrik Barth (d. 2016), anthropologist Margit Sandemo (d. 2018), author Kåre Willoch (d. 2021), politician, prime minister Ivar Giaever, physicist (d. 2025) Liv Ullmann (1938-), actress Gro Harlem Brundtland (1939-), politician, prime minister Jørgen Lorentzen (1956-), gender studies academic May-Britt Moser (1962-), scientist (Medicine) Edvard Moser (1962-), scientist (Medicine) Tommy Gulliksen (1980-), movie director Marcus Wandt (1980-), first Norwegian astronaut Magnus Carlsen (1990-), chess player

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