100 Notable alumni of
University of Bergen
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The University of Bergen is 709th in the world, 252nd in Europe, and 2nd in Norway by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Bergen sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Erna Solberg
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Studied in 1988
- Occupations
- Statsministerpolitician
- Biography
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Erna Solberg is a Norwegian politician and the current Leader of the Opposition. She served as the prime minister of Norway from 2013 to 2021, and has been the leader of the Conservative Party since May 2004.
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Karl Ove Knausgård
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Studied literature and art
- Occupations
- writerautobiographernovelist
- Biography
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Karl Ove Knausgård is a Norwegian author. He became known worldwide for a series of six autobiographical novels titled My Struggle (Min Kamp). The Wall Street Journal has described him as "one of the 21st century's greatest literary sensations".
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Jon Fosse
- Occupations
- playwrightliterary scholarwritertranslatorchildren's writer
- Biography
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Jon Olav Fosse is a Norwegian author, translator, and playwright. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable."
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Morten Tyldum
- Occupations
- executive producerfilm director
- Biography
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Morten Tyldum is a Norwegian film director. He is best known in his native Norway for directing the thriller film Headhunters (2011), based on the novel by Jo Nesbø, and internationally for directing the historical drama The Imitation Game (2014), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, and the science fiction drama Passengers (2016).
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Anne Holt
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- crime fiction writerjournalisttelevision presenterlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Anne Holt is a Norwegian author, lawyer and former Minister of Justice.
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Susanne Sundfør
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Studied in 2005
- Occupations
- singer-songwritersinger
- Biography
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Susanne Aartun Sundfør is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and record producer. Born and raised in Haugesund, Sundfør started touring in 2005.
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Bent Høie
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Studied in 1991-1991
- Occupations
- politicianofficial
- Biography
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Bent Høie is a Norwegian politician from the Conservative Party who has served as county governor of Rogaland since 2021. He previously served as Minister of Health and Care Services from 2013 to 2021, and a member of the Storting from Rogaland from 2000 to 2021.
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Selda Ekiz
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- program host
- Biography
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Selda Ekiz is a Norwegian presenter on NRK and is a trained physicist. She grew up in Sande in Vestfold and her parents immigrated from Turkey in the 1970s.
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Gunnar Staalesen
- Occupations
- poetscreenwriternovelistwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Gunnar Staalesen is a Norwegian writer. He is a major figure in the Nordic noir crime fiction genre through his 19 novels featuring Varg Veum, a private detective in Bergen on the rainy west coast of Norway. The Varg Veum series has been praised as one of the best in modern crime fiction, and Staalesen has sold more than 4 million books in 24 countries. Staalesen is also a screenwriter and a playwright who has worked extensively with Den Nationale Scene, the largest theatre in Bergen.
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Maria Parr
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writerlector
- Biography
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Maria Parr is a Norwegian children's writer.
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Monica Mæland
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Studied in 1987-1991
- Occupations
- politicianadvokat
- Biography
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Monica Mæland is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party who served as Minister of Justice from 2020 to 2021. Previously she served as Minister Local Government from 2018 to 2020, and Minister of Trade and Industry from 2013 to 2018. In local politics, she was the Chief Commissioner of Bergen from 2003 to 2013, and leader of the Hordaland Conservatives from 2002 to 2004.
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Lubna Jaffery
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 45)
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Studied in 1999-2007
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lubna Boby Jaffery is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She has served as minister of culture and equality since 2023 and a deputy member of parliament for Hordaland since 2009. She previously served as Bergen city commissioner for labour, social affairs, and housing from 2019 to 2021.
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Lars Gule
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Lars Gule is a Norwegian philosopher. He has graduated with a doctorate in philosophy, and is an associate professor (at Oslo Metropolitan University). From 2000 to 2005 he was secretary general of the Norwegian Humanist Association. Gule became known to the general public in 1977 when after having joined the DFLP group, Gule was arrested in Beirut, Lebanon with Semtex in his luggage intended for Israeli targets leading to a six-month conviction and subsequent deportation. He remains active as a anti-Israel activist. Gule is often used by Norwegian media as an authority on questions regarding the Middle East, Islam and extremism.
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Mukhisa Kituyi
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi is a Kenyan politician who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD from September 2013 to February 2021 when he stepped down to run for the Kenyan Presidency. Prior to joining UNCTAD, Kituyi was Chief Executive of the Kenya Institute of Governance, based in Nairobi. He served as Kenya's Minister of Trade and Industry from 2002 to 2007. He dropped his presidential bid in March 2022 to support former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
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Frank Aarebrot
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Studied in 1977
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Frank Henrik Aarebrot was a Norwegian political scientist, political commentator, and professor of comparative politics. Among the most quoted and popular academics in the Norwegian press, he became better known during his later years for his televised "marathon lectures" and his recurring role in coverage of national and international elections on Norwegian television.
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Toril Moi
- Occupations
- literary historianprofessor
- Biography
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Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies and Professor of English, Philosophy and Theatre Studies at Duke University. Moi is also the Director of the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature at Duke. As an undergraduate, she attended University of Bergen, where she studied in the Literature Department. Previously she held positions as a lecturer in French at the University of Oxford and as Director of the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Bergen, Norway. She lived in Oxford, United Kingdom from 1979 to 1989. Moi lives in North Carolina. She works on feminist theory and women's writing; on the intersections of literature, philosophy and aesthetics; and is fundamentally concerned with "finding ways of reading literature with philosophy and philosophy with literature without reducing the one to the other."
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Kjartan Fløgstad
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Kjartan Fløgstad is a Norwegian author. Fløgstad was born in the industrial city of Sauda in Ryfylke, Rogaland. He studied literature and linguistics at the University of Bergen. Subsequently, he worked for a period as an industrial worker and as a sailor before he debuted as a poet with his collection of poems titled Valfart (Pilgrimage) in 1968. He received the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for his 1977 novel Dalen Portland (Dollar Road). Other major works include Fyr og flamme (Fire and Flame), Kron og mynt, Grand Manila and Grense Jakobselv.
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Iselin Nybø
- Occupations
- politicianjuristlawyeradvokat
- Biography
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Iselin Nybø is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party, who served as the Minister of Trade and Industry from 2020 to 2021. She also served as Minister of Higher Education from 2018 to 2020. She was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Rogaland in 2013, where she served as the first deputy chair of the Standing Committee on Education, Research, and Church Affairs. Her seat is a levelling seat.
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Aslak Sira Myhre
- Occupations
- politicianlibrarian
- Biography
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Aslak Sira Myhre is a Norwegian culture administrator. Since 2014 he is director of the National Library of Norway. Myhre has been a leftwing politician, and was for a period leader of the former party Red Electoral Alliance (RV). In the local election in Oslo in 2015 he was listed for Red, the party succeeding Red Electoral Alliance since 2007, however not on top, and he did not get a seat.
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Sveinung Rotevatn
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Sveinung Rotevatn is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. Rotevatn comes from Nordfjordeid, Sogn og Fjordane, and has a master's degree in law from the University of Bergen. He served as Minister of Climate and the Environment from 2020 to 2021. Prior to that, he served as a state secretary at the same department from 2018 to 2020 under then minister Ola Elvestuen.
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Tomas Espedal
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Tomas Espedal is a Norwegian writer.
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Terje Tvedt
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- In 1983 graduated with master's degree
- In 1993 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Terje Tvedt is a Norwegian academic, author and documentary film maker.
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Hans-Wilhelm Steinfeld
- Occupations
- reporterjournalisthistorianradio personalitywriter
- Biography
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Hans-Wilhelm Steinfeld is a Norwegian journalist, foreign correspondent and non-fiction writer.
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Kristin Krohn Devold
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kristin Krohn Devold is a former Minister of Defence of Norway. She was elected to three terms in the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo as a representative for Conservative Party.
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Halldór Ásgrímsson
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Halldór Ásgrímsson was an Icelandic politician, who served as prime minister of Iceland from 15 September 2004 to 15 June 2006 and was the leader of the Progressive Party from 1994 to 2006.
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Carl-Gustaf Rossby
- Occupations
- physicistchemistmeteorologistuniversity teacheroceanographer
- Biography
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Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby was a Swedish-born American meteorologist who first explained the large-scale motions of the atmosphere in terms of fluid mechanics. He identified and characterized both the jet stream and the long waves in the westerlies that were later named Rossby waves.
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Helga Pedersen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Helga Pedersen is a Norwegian politician, former Minister, and member of the Storting, who served as the deputy leader for the Labour Party from 2007 to 2015. A native of Sør-Varanger Municipality, she served between 2003 and 2005 as the County Mayor of the northernmost Finnmark county. From 2005 to 2009 she served as Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, becoming the youngest member of the Labour-led Red-Green Coalition headed by Jens Stoltenberg.
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Kari Nessa Nordtun
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Kari Nessa Nordtun is a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Labour Party. She currently serves as minister of education since 2023 and was mayor of Stavanger from 2019 to 2023.
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Sarah Louise Rung
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Sarah Louise Rung is a Paralympic swimmer of Norway. She became a wheelchair user after a back surgery in 2008. She won two gold medals and two silver medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. She also has several medals from both World- and European Championships. 2012 Summer Paralympics.
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Marte Eberson
- Occupations
- composerjazz musicianpianist
- Biography
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Marte Maaland Eberson is a Norwegian keyboardist and composer, known from bands including Morning Has Occurred and Highasakite. She is the daughter of the guitarist Jon Eberson.
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Magnus Takvam
- Occupations
- biographerpolitical punditjournalistnon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Magnus Takvam is a Norwegian journalist.
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Ingrid Halstensen
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- sports journalistjournalistfilm producer
- Biography
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Ingrid Halstensen is a sports anchor for TV 2 and a Norwegian Premier League journalist.
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Ragnar Hovland
- Occupations
- translatorpoetwriterlinguistchildren's writer
- Biography
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Ragnar Hovland is a Norwegian novelist, essayist, poet, and writer of children's books.
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Espen Aarseth
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Espen J. Aarseth is a Norwegian academic specializing in the fields of video game studies and electronic literature. Aarseth completed his doctorate at the University of Bergen. He co-founded the Department of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen, and worked there until 2003, at which time he was a full professor.
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Kjersti Toppe
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Studied in 1986-1992
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Kjersti Toppe is a Norwegian physician and politician representing the Centre Party. She served as minister of children and families from 2021 to 2025, and a member of parliament from Hordaland since 2009.
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Gunnstein Akselberg
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- linguist
- Biography
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Gunnstein Akselberg is a Norwegian linguist and professor of Nordic linguistics at the University of Bergen.
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Trine Eilertsen
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Studied in 1997
- Occupations
- political scientistjournalistbusiness undergraduateediting staff
- Biography
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Trine Eilertsen is a Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor. She is the current editor-in-chief of the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten.
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Arild Hermstad
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Arild Hermstad is a Norwegian politician for the Green Party, who has served as the party leader since 2022. He previously served as Party spokesperson, alongside Une Bastholm, from 2018 to 2020, and then the deputy leader from 2020 to 2022.
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Gunnar Stavrum
- Occupations
- biographerjournalistchief executive officerediting staff
- Biography
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Gunnar Stavrum is a Norwegian newspaper editor and author. Since 2003 he has been chief editor of the online newspaper Nettavisen.
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Peter Christian Frølich
- Occupations
- politicianjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Peter Christian Frølich is a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Conservative Party. He has served as a member of parliament for Hordaland since 2013.
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Olaug Nilssen
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Olaug Nilssen is a Norwegian novelist, playwright, children's writer, essayist and magazine editor.
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Gunnar Bovim
- Occupations
- professorneurologistresearcher
- Biography
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Gunnar Bovim is a Norwegian physician and civil servant. He has been the rector at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology from August 1, 2013 to August 21, 2019. After that he will be working with policy matters related to education and research at NTNU and be of disposal to NTNUs top management.
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Grethe Fatima Syéd
- Occupations
- authortranslatoruniversity teachernovelistessayist
- Biography
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Grethe Fatima Syéd is a Norwegian literary scholar, translator and author. She has translated fiction from English, obtained a doctorate with a dissertation on Olav Duun, and published books about the writer Torborg Nedreaas. Her fiction debut was Eventyr for voksne (Fairytales for adults, 2020). In 2019, she was awarded the Klassekampen Neshornet culture prize for her work.
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Knut Olav Åmås
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistbiographerwriterediting staff
- Biography
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Knut Olav Åmås is a Norwegian writer, editor and politician for the Conservative Party.
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Tor Bergeron
- Occupations
- meteorologist
- Biography
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Tor Bergeron was a Swedish meteorologist who proposed a mechanism for the formation of precipitation in clouds. In the 1930s, Bergeron and Walter Findeisen developed the concept that clouds contain both supercooled water and ice crystals. According to Bergeron, most precipitation is formed as a consequence of water evaporating from small supercooled droplets and accreting onto ice crystals, which then fall as snow, or melt and fall as cold rain depending on the ambient air temperature. This process is known as the Bergeron Process, and is believed to be the primary process by which precipitation is formed.
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Oddgeir Bruaset
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Studied in 1968-1970
- Occupations
- pedagoguetelevision presenterradio personalityprogram secretarytelevision director
- Biography
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Oddgeir Bruaset is a Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer.
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Dag Inge Ulstein
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dag Inge Ulstein is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party serving as the party leader since 2024. He previously served as its deputy leader.
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Geir Pollestad
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Geir Pollestad is a Norwegian solicitor and politician for the Centre Party. He served as the minister of agriculture and food from 2023 to 2025, and has been a member of parliament for Rogaland since 2013.
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Olav Akselsen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Olav Akselsen was a Norwegian politician, who served six terms in the Norwegian Parliament for the Norwegian Labour Party, and was Minister of Petroleum and Energy in the first cabinet Stoltenberg from 2000 to 2001. From 2010 to 2021, he worked for the Norwegian Maritime Directorate.
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Halvard Kausland
- Occupations
- jazz guitaristjazz musiciancomposer
- Biography
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Halvard Magne Kausland was a Norwegian jazz guitarist and civil servant.
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Gunnhild Øyehaug
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Gunnhild Øyehaug is a Norwegian poet, writer and lecturer.
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Hilde Sandvik
- Occupations
- editing staffjournalistpodcaster
- Biography
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Hilde Sandvik is a Norwegian journalist based in Bergen. Sandvik has a cand.philol. degree from the University of Bergen, majoring in art history. She edited the periodical Syn og Segn from 2003 to 2006, was briefly debate editor in the newspaper Dagbladet in 2005, and later journalist and debate editor in the newspaper Bergens Tidende from 2006 to 2016. She also has released several books.
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Frank Rossavik
- Occupations
- writerjournalistbiographer
- Biography
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Frank Rossavik is a Norwegian journalist and writer.
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Torbjørn Mork
- Occupations
- politicianphysicianDirector of Healthoncologist
- Biography
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Torbjørn Mork was a Norwegian physician and civil servant.
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Christine Sagen Helgø
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Christine Sagen Helgø is a Norwegian politician of the Conservative Party who served as mayor of Stavanger from 2011 to 2019. Sagen Helgø has seen twelve years of Stavanger's politics, the last eight years as group leader of the Stavanger Conservative Party. In 2011, she replaced the former mayor of the same party, Leif Johan Sevland, who held the title for sixteen years.
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Svein Gjerdåker
- Occupations
- editing staff
- Biography
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Svein Gjerdåker is a Norwegian newspaper editor.
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Roger Valhammer
- Years
- 1984-.. (age 41)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Roger Valhammer is a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party. He served as chief commissioner of Bergen from 2019 to 2022, and previously served as city commissioner for schools, kindergartens and sports between 2018 and 2019.
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Jørgen Lorentzen
- Occupations
- local politicianliterary scholaragronomistgender studies scholar
- Biography
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Jørgen Lorentzen is a Norwegian literary scholar and independent film producer. His research has focused on the representation of men and masculinities in literature, film and popular culture. He became known to a broad audience through his participation in the TV program Hjernevask in 2010. He was employed as a researcher at the Centre for Gender Research in Oslo until 2013, and has since been a freelance researcher and documentary film producer. In collaboration with his wife, film director Nefise Özkal Lorentzen, he has produced several independent documentaries on Turkey and has also become known in Norway as a critic of Erdoğan's government and a commentator on Turkish political developments.
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Kjetil Lund
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Kjetil Lund is a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labour Party.
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Øystein Bogen
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Øystein Bogen is a Norwegian journalist and documentary film maker. Bogen has been working for TV 2 Norway as a foreign correspondent and editor since 1995.
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Sverre Petterssen
- Occupations
- meteorologistprofessor
- Biography
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Sverre Petterssen was a Norwegian meteorologist, prominent in the field of weather analysis and forecasting.
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Bjarte Breiteig
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Bjarte Breiteig is a Norwegian short story writer.
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Gunnar Skirbekk
- Occupations
- professorphilosopher
- Biography
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Gunnar Skirbekk is a Norwegian philosopher. He is professor emeritus at the Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.
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Ane Breivik
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Studied in 2018
- Occupations
- law studentpolitician
- Biography
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Ane Breivik is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
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Linn Kristin Langley-Rasmussen Engø
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Linn Kristin Langley-Rasmussen Engø is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She has served in several posts in Bergen, notably as the city commissioner for schools, kindergartens and sports between 2019 and 2020, and subsequently deputy mayor and then mayor.
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Anne Marit Bjørnflaten
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anne Marit Bjørnflaten is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
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Ida Blom
- Occupations
- historianprofessor
- Biography
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Ida Blom was a Norwegian historian.
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Kyrre Nakkim
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- 1988-1994 studied comparative politics
- Occupations
- political punditjournalistreporter
- Biography
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Kyrre Nakkim is a Norwegian journalist.
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Natalie Sandtorv
- Occupations
- singerjazz musician
- Biography
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Natalie Sandtorv is a Norwegian jazz musician (vocals, waterphone, harmonium, electronics) married July 29, 2016, to drummer Ole Mofjell, residing in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Laila Dåvøy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Laila Dåvøy is a Norwegian nurse and politician for the Christian Democratic Party. She is a former member of the Norwegian parliament and a former Minister and leader of the Norwegian Nurses' Union.
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Hans Sande
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Studied in 1967-1974
- Occupations
- children's writervisual artistpsychiatristpoet
- Biography
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Hans Sande is a Norwegian psychiatrist, poet, novelist and children's writer. He was born in Bergen. He made his literary début in 1969 with the poetry collection Strime, for which he was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. Among his children's books are Lita grøn grasbok from 1972 and Trastedikt from 1977.
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Øyvind Rimbereid
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Øyvind Rimbereid is a Norwegian author and composer of lyric poetry. He has worked as an instructor at Skrivekunstakademiet in Bergen. Rimbereid holds a cand. philol. degree from the University of Bergen with high marks in Nordic languages and literature. He won the Brage Prize 2008 for his poetry collection Herbarium.
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Harald Thune
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Harald Torfinn Thune is a Norwegian civil servant.
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Gunnar Danbolt
- Occupations
- art historianprofessor
- Biography
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Gunnar Danbolt is a Norwegian art historian.
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Bernhard Sigmund Schultze
- Occupations
- university teacherobstetriciangynecologist
- Biography
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Bernhard Sigmund Schultze; sometimes spelled Bernhard Sigismund Schultze was a German obstetrician and gynecologist. He was a younger brother to anatomist Max Schultze (1825–1874) and son of Karl August Sigismund Schultze (1795–1877).
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Merete Morken Andersen
- Occupations
- children's writerliterary criticediting staffwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Merete Morken Andersen is a Norwegian novelist, children's writer and magazine editor, born in Hamar. Andersen won the prestigious Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 2002 for Hav av tid (Oceans of Time). She was editor of the literature periodical Vinduet (Window) from 1993 through 1997. Several of her books have been translated into English
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Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Studied in 1999
- Occupations
- psychologistresearcherprofessor
- Biography
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Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair is a Norwegian psychologist and Professor of Personality Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is married to Tonje Westgaard Kennair, and they have three children together. He was director of the Department of Psychology from 2009 to 2013. His research interests include clinical psychology and evolutionary psychology, and he is widely known for participating in public debate, including the NRK TV series Hjernevask in 2010. He has conducted research on treatment of obsessive–compulsive disorder, anxiety and depression, and on jealousy, sexual behaviour, sexual harassment and hormonal influence on sexual behaviour.
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Jakob Lothe
- Occupations
- lexicographeruniversity teacherphilologist
- Biography
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Jakob Lothe is a Norwegian literary scholar and Professor of English literature at the University of Oslo.
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Karsten Klepsvik
- Occupations
- diplomateconomist
- Biography
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Karsten Klepsvik was a Norwegian diplomat.
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Sigbjørn Apeland
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Sigbjørn Apeland is a musician (organ and Harmonium) and scientist, known from several recordings and for his work in the borderland between folk music, church music and improvisational music.
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Petter S. Rosenlund
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision producerplaywright
- Biography
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Petter S. Rosenlund is a Norwegian dramatist. He is the headwriter of the tv series Hamilton and The Heavy Water War/ The Saboteurs (2015). He has written 17 scripts for TV, film and theater.
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Olve Grotle
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Olve Grotle is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He is a former mayor of the municipalities of Førde and Sunnfjord and has been a member of the Storting since 2021.
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Sigurd Hille
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- Graduated with Candidate of Law
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticianjurist
- Biography
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Sigurd Hille is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Hordaland in 2013 where he was a member of the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs until 2017.
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Odd Magnus Faltinsen
- Occupations
- mathematicianprofessor
- Biography
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Odd Magnus Faltinsen is a Norwegian mathematician and professor of marine technology.
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Helge Tverberg
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Helge Arnulf Tverberg was a Norwegian mathematician. He was a professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Bergen, his speciality being combinatorics; he retired at the mandatory age of seventy.
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Marian Asantewah Nkansah
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Marian Asantewah Nkansah FGA is a Ghanaian environmental chemist. Her research work focuses on finding solutions to environmental problems associated with levels and fate of toxic substances such as heavy/trace metals, persistent organic pollutants and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in food, water, soil, rocks, sediments and other environmental samples. She also researches on the interaction of these pollutants with each other in the environment. In 2016, together with some scientists from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, she led a research which led to the confirmation that edible white clay poses potential cancer risk. In 2016, she became the first scientist to win the Fayzah M. Al-Kharafi Prize, an annual award that recognises exceptional women scientists from scientifically and technologically lagging countries. She and Collins Obuah, another scientist from the University of Ghana, were the two scientist selected to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in 2017. In 2021, she was among five women recipients in developing countries of the OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards. She received the 2022 Africa Role Model Overall Female Personality Award, and was inducted as a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences the same year.
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Marita Liabø
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writerteacher
- Biography
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Marita Burmann Liabø is a Norwegian author.
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Torkil Åmland
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Torkil Åmland is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party. He was appointed State Secretary for Robert Eriksson in the Ministry of Labour when Solberg's cabinet was formed in October 2013.
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Ragnhild Stolt-Nielsen
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Ragnhild Stolt-Nielsen is a Norwegian politician, political scientist, and academic administrator of the Conservative Party. She served as Bergen's Chief Commissioner from 2013 to 2014 when she lost her nomination for the 2015 local elections to Martin Smith-Sivertsen.
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Øyvind Skarbø
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Øyvind Skarbø is a Norwegian drummer and composer, raised in Stranda, and now residing in Bergen.
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Jill Walker Rettberg
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Jill Walker Rettberg is co-director of the Center for Digital Narrative and Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. She is "a leading researcher in self-representation in social media" and a European Research Council grantee (2018–2023) with the project Machine Vision in Everyday Life: Playful Interactions with Visual Technologies in Digital Art, Games, Narratives and Social Media. Rettberg is known for innovative research dissemination in social media, having started her research blog jill/txt in 2000, and developed Snapchat Research Stories in 2017.
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Steinar Stjernø
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- politicianprofessor
- Biography
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Steinar Stjernø is a Norwegian academic.
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Knut Aukland
- Occupations
- physiologist
- Biography
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Knut Aukland was a Norwegian physiologist. He made significant contributions to renal physiology, particularly in fields of renal blood flow measurement and regulation and transcapillary fluid balance, through his studies of blood circulation in the kidneys.
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Dag Ole Teigen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dag Ole Teigen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party (AP). He represented Hordaland in the Norwegian Parliament, where he met from 2005 to 2009 in the place of Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen, who was appointed to a government position. He was elected on his own right to serve a full term from 2009 to 2013.
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Trond Helge Torsvik
- Occupations
- university teachergeophysicist
- Biography
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Trond Helge Torsvik is a Norwegian professor of geophysics at the University of Oslo. He directs the Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics. In 2015 Torsvik received the Leopold von Buch award for his outstanding contributions to the understanding of geodynamics. The prize is awarded by the German Geological Society. In 2016 he also received the Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership from the European Geosciences Union.
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Øyvind Hegg
- Occupations
- composerjazz musiciandrummer
- Biography
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Øyvind Hegg-Lunde is a Norwegian drummer and composer, raised in Borgund, Lærdal, but today resides in Bergen. He is known from collaborations with José Gonzalez, Junip, Arve Henriksen, Ståle Storløkken, Frode Haltli, Trygve Seim, Per Jørgensen, Terje Isungset, Håkon Kornstad, Kurt Johannessen, Stein Urheim, The Megaphonic Thrift, Odin Staveland, Odd Martin Skålnes, Erlend O. Nødtvedt, Nils Petter Molvær, Eivind Aarset and Marilyn Mazur.
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Hilde Magnusson Lydvo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hilde Magnusson Lydvo is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
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Frode Alfson Bjørdal
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Frode Alfson Bjørdal is philosophy professor emeritus at the University of Oslo, Norway.
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Lars-Henrik Paarup Michelsen
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lars-Henrik Paarup Michelsen is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He was leader of the party's youth wing, Young Liberals of Norway, from 2003 to 2007.
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Gunn-Vivian Eide
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 61)
- Enrolled in the University of Bergen
- 1994-1994 studied medicine
- 1999-2004 studied medicine
- Occupations
- politicianphysicianpsychiatrist
- Biography
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Gunn-Vivian Eide is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
