Notable people

Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole (1872–1928)

Norwegian playwright and theatre director (1828–1906)

Norwegian novelist (1859–1952)

Norwegian painter. (1863–1944)

Norwegian composer and pianist (1843–1907)

Norwegian chess player

King of Norway since 1991

Norwegian mathematician (1802–1829)

Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914-2002)

Norwegian author (born 1952)

Norwegian writer, theater writer and translator

Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist

Norwegian economist

American physical chemist and theoretical physicist (1903-1976)

Norwegian-American physicist

explorer and founder of the first viking settlement in Greenland

Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier

Norwegian linguist and poet, dubbed the father of Nynorsk (1813 – 1896)