97 Notable Alumni of the University of Bergen [Sorted List]

Erna Solberg

Born in: Norway
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: Studied in 1988
Occupations: international forum participantpolitician
Biography: Erna Solberg is a Norwegian politician and the current Leader of the Opposition. She served as the 35th prime minister of Norway from 2013 to 2021, and has been Leader of the Conservative Party since May 2004.

Karl Ove Knausgård

Born in: Norway
Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: Studied art and literature
Occupations: novelistautobiographerwriter
Biography: Karl Ove Knausgård is a Norwegian author. He became known worldwide for six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle (Min Kamp). He has been described as "one of the 21st century's greatest literary sensations".

Jon Fosse

Born in: Norway
Years: 1959-.. (age 65)
Occupations: children's writertranslatorwriterliterary scholarplaywright
Biography: 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."

Morten Tyldum

Born in: Norway
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
Occupations: film directorexecutive producer
Biography: 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).

Anne Holt

Born in: Norway
Years: 1958-.. (age 66)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: Graduated with Candidate of Law
Occupations: journalistlawyerpoliticiancrime fiction writer
Biography: Anne Holt is a Norwegian author, lawyer and former Minister of Justice.

Susanne Sundfør

Born in: Norway
Years: 1986-.. (age 38)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: Studied in 2005
Occupations: singersinger-songwriter
Biography: Susanne Aartun Sundfør is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and record producer. Born and raised in Haugesund, Sundfør embarked on her musical career two years prior to the release of her self-titled debut studio album (2007), which reached number three on the Norwegian album chart. It was followed by Take One, a live album consisting of songs from her debut.

Selda Ekiz

Born in: Norway
Years: 1984-.. (age 40)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: Graduated with master's degree
Occupations: television presenterphysicist
Biography: 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.

Gunnar Staalesen

Born in: Norway
Years: 1947-.. (age 77)
Occupations: writernovelistscreenwriterpoetplaywright
Biography: 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 5 million books in 26 countries. Staalesen is also a screenwriter and a playwright who has worked extensively with Den Nationale Scene, the largest theatre in Bergen.

Tore Renberg

Born in: Norway
Years: 1972-.. (age 52)
Occupations: playwrightwritermusicianscreenwriter
Biography: Tore Renberg is a Norwegian writer. He is the author of many books within many genres, including novels, short-stories and children's books, as well as writing for film and stage. His work has been translated into many languages. He has two children named Petra and Allan.

Monica Mæland

Born in: Norway
Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: Studied in 1987-1991
Occupations: advokatpolitician
Biography: 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.

Maria Parr

Born in: Norway
Years: 1981-.. (age 43)
Occupations: children's writerwriterlector
Biography: Maria Parr is a Norwegian children's writer.

Lars Gule

Born in: Norway
Years: 1955-.. (age 69)
Occupations: philosopheruniversity teacher
Biography: 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.

Mukhisa Kituyi

Years: 1956-.. (age 68)
Occupations: international forum participantpolitician
Biography: 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-February 2021 when he stepped down for his presidential ambitions, Immediately prior, 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 is currently an aspirant for the Kenyan presidency in 2022.

Frank Aarebrot

Born in: Norway
Years: 1947-2017 (aged 70)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: Studied in 1977
Occupations: political scientistuniversity teacher
Biography: 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.

Toril Moi

Born in: Norway
Years: 1953-.. (age 71)
Occupations: professorliterary historian
Biography: 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."

Iselin Nybø

Born in: Norway
Years: 1981-.. (age 43)
Occupations: lawyerjuristpoliticianadvokat
Biography: 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.

Kjartan Fløgstad

Born in: Norway
Years: 1944-.. (age 80)
Occupations: writerpoet
Biography: 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.

Tomas Espedal

Born in: Norway
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: university teacherwriter
Biography: Tomas Espedal is a Norwegian writer.

Aslak Sira Myhre

Born in: Norway
Years: 1973-.. (age 51)
Occupations: librarianpolitician
Biography: 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.

Sveinung Rotevatn

Born in: Norway
Years: 1987-.. (age 37)
Occupations: politicianjurist
Biography: 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.

Hans-Wilhelm Steinfeld

Born in: Norway
Years: 1951-.. (age 73)
Occupations: historianjournalistwriter
Biography: Hans-Wilhelm Steinfeld is a Norwegian journalist, foreign correspondent and non-fiction writer.

Terje Tvedt

Born in: Norway
Years: 1951-.. (age 73)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: In 1983 graduated with master's degree; In 1993 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
Occupations: university teacherhistorian
Biography: Terje Tvedt is a Norwegian academic, author and documentary film maker.

Kristin Krohn Devold

Born in: Norway
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Kristin Krohn Devold is a former Minister of Defence of Norway.

Helga Pedersen

Born in: Norway
Years: 1973-.. (age 51)
Occupations: politician
Biography: 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, 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.

Halldór Ásgrímsson

Born in: Iceland
Years: 1947-2015 (aged 68)
Occupations: politiciandiplomat
Biography: Halldór Ásgrímsson was an Icelandic politician, who served as prime minister of Iceland from 2004 to 2006 and was leader of the Progressive Party from 1994 to 2006.

Magnus Takvam

Years: 1952-.. (age 72)
Occupations: political punditjournalist
Biography: Magnus Takvam is a Norwegian journalist.

Carl-Gustaf Rossby

Born in: Sweden
Years: 1898-1957 (aged 59)
Occupations: university teachermeteorologistchemistphysicistmathematician
Biography: 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.

Marte Eberson

Born in: Norway
Years: 1987-.. (age 37)
Occupations: pianistjazz musiciancomposer
Biography: 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.

Ragnar Hovland

Born in: Norway
Years: 1952-.. (age 72)
Occupations: writerpoettranslatorchildren's writerlinguist
Biography: Ragnar Hovland is a Norwegian novelist, essayist, poet, and writer of children's books.

Espen Aarseth

Born in: Norway
Years: 1965-.. (age 59)
Occupations: university teachercomputer scientist
Biography: 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.

Ingrid Halstensen

Born in: Norway
Years: 1987-.. (age 37)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: Graduated with bachelor's degree
Occupations: film producerjournalistsports journalist
Biography: Ingrid Halstensen is a sports anchor for TV 2 and a Norwegian Premier League journalist.

Lubna Jaffery

Years: 1980-.. (age 44)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: Studied in 1999-2007
Occupations: politician
Biography: 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.

Gunnstein Akselberg

Years: 1949-.. (age 75)
Occupations: linguist
Biography: Gunnstein Akselberg is a Norwegian linguist and professor of Nordic linguistics at the University of Bergen.

Kjersti Toppe

Born in: Norway
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: Studied in 1986-1992
Occupations: physicianpolitician
Biography: Kjersti Toppe is a Norwegian doctor and politician representing the Centre Party. She has served as minister of children and families since 2021, and a member of parliament from Hordaland since 2009.

Trine Eilertsen

Born in: Norway
Years: 1969-.. (age 55)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: Studied in 1997
Occupations: journalistpolitical scientistediting staffbusiness undergraduate
Biography: Trine Eilertsen is a Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor. She is the current editor-in-chief of the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten.

Arild Hermstad

Born in: Norway
Years: 1966-.. (age 58)
Occupations: politician
Biography: 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.

Gunnar Stavrum

Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: journalistediting staffbiographer
Biography: Gunnar Stavrum is a Norwegian newspaper editor and author. Since 2003 he has been chief editor of the online newspaper Nettavisen.

Olaug Nilssen

Born in: Norway
Years: 1977-.. (age 47)
Occupations: writer
Biography: Olaug Nilssen is a Norwegian novelist, playwright, children's writer, essayist and magazine editor.

Gunnar Bovim

Born in: Norway
Years: 1960-.. (age 64)
Occupations: researcherneurologistprofessor
Biography: 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.

Peter Christian Frølich

Born in: Norway
Years: 1987-.. (age 37)
Occupations: politicianlawyerjurist
Biography: Peter Christian Frølich is a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Conservative Party. He was elected to the Norwegian parliament for Hordaland in 2013.

Knut Olav Åmås

Born in: Norway
Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Occupations: editing staffwriterbiographerjournalistpolitician
Biography: Knut Olav Åmås is a Norwegian writer, editor and politician for the Conservative Party.

Olav Akselsen

Born in: Norway
Years: 1965-2021 (aged 56)
Occupations: politician
Biography: 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.

Tor Bergeron

Born in: United Kingdom
Years: 1891-1977 (aged 86)
Occupations: meteorologist
Biography: Tor Bergeron was a Swedish meteorologist who proposed a mechanism for the formation of precipitation in clouds. In the 1930s, Bergeron and W. 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.

Halvard Kausland

Born in: Norway
Years: 1945-2017 (aged 72)
Occupations: jazz musicianjazz guitaristcomposer
Biography: Halvard Magne Kausland was a Norwegian jazz guitarist and civil servant.

Gunnhild Øyehaug

Born in: Norway
Years: 1975-.. (age 49)
Occupations: writerpoet
Biography: Gunnhild Øyehaug is a Norwegian poet, writer and lecturer.

Geir Pollestad

Born in: Norway
Years: 1978-.. (age 46)
Occupations: politicianjurist
Biography: Geir Pollestad is a Norwegian solicitor and politician for the Centre Party. He is currently serving as the minister of agriculture and food since 2023, and has been a member of parliament for Rogaland since 2013.

Torbjørn Mork

Born in: Norway
Years: 1928-1992 (aged 64)
Occupations: Director of Healthphysicianpoliticianoncologist
Biography: Torbjørn Mork was a Norwegian physician and civil servant.

Christine Sagen Helgø

Born in: Norway
Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Occupations: politicianlawyer
Biography: 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.

Frank Rossavik

Born in: Norway
Years: 1965-.. (age 59)
Occupations: journalistwriterbiographer
Biography: Frank Rossavik is a Norwegian journalist and writer.

Roger Valhammer

Years: 1984-.. (age 40)
Occupations: politician
Biography: 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.

Jørgen Lorentzen

Born in: Norway
Years: 1956-.. (age 68)
Occupations: literary scholarlocal politiciangender studies scholaragronomist
Biography: 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.

Hilde Sandvik

Born in: Norway
Years: 1970-.. (age 54)
Occupations: journalistediting staffpodcaster
Biography: Hilde Sandvik is a Norwegian journalist working in the whole of Scandinavia and based in Bergen.

Svein Gjerdåker

Born in: Norway
Years: 1963-.. (age 61)
Occupations: editing staff
Biography: Svein Gjerdåker is a Norwegian newspaper editor.

Kjetil Lund

Years: 1970-.. (age 54)
Occupations: economistpolitician
Biography: Kjetil Lund is a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labour Party.

Øystein Bogen

Years: 1969-.. (age 55)
Occupations: journalist
Biography: 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.

Sverre Petterssen

Born in: Norway
Years: 1898-1974 (aged 76)
Occupations: professormeteorologist
Biography: Sverre Petterssen was a Norwegian meteorologist, prominent in the field of weather analysis and forecasting.

Gunnar Skirbekk

Born in: Norway
Years: 1937-.. (age 87)
Occupations: philosopherprofessor
Biography: 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.

Linn Kristin Langley-Rasmussen Engø

Born in: Norway
Years: 1993-.. (age 31)
Occupations: politician
Biography: 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.

Anne Marit Bjørnflaten

Born in: Norway
Years: 1969-.. (age 55)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Anne Marit Bjørnflaten is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

Ida Blom

Born in: Denmark
Years: 1931-2016 (aged 85)
Occupations: professorhistorian
Biography: Ida Blom was a Norwegian historian.

Dag Inge Ulstein

Born in: Norway
Years: 1980-.. (age 44)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Dag Inge Ulstein is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.

Kyrre Nakkim

Years: 1966-.. (age 58)
Occupations: editing staffjournalist
Biography: Kyrre Nakkim is a Norwegian journalist.

Natalie Sandtorv

Born in: Norway
Years: 1988-.. (age 36)
Occupations: singermusicianjazz musician
Biography: Natalie Sandtorv is a Norwegian jazz musician (vocals, waterphone, harmonium, electronics) married July 29, 2016, to drummer Ole Mofjell, residing in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Laila Dåvøy

Born in: Norway
Years: 1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations: politician
Biography: 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.

Hans Sande

Born in: Norway
Years: 1946-.. (age 78)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: Studied in 1967-1974
Occupations: poetpsychiatristvisual artistchildren's writer
Biography: 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.

Grethe Fatima Syéd

Born in: Norway
Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Occupations: university teachertranslatorauthoracademicessayist
Biography: 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.

Øyvind Rimbereid

Born in: Norway
Years: 1966-.. (age 58)
Occupations: writerpoet
Biography: 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.

Ane Breivik

Born in: Norway
Years: 1998-.. (age 26)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: Studied in 2018
Occupations: politician
Biography: Ane Breivik is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.

Merete Morken Andersen

Born in: Norway
Years: 1965-.. (age 59)
Occupations: writerediting staffliterary criticchildren's writerjournalist
Biography: 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

Bernhard Sigmund Schultze

Born in: Germany
Years: 1827-1919 (aged 92)
Occupations: university teachergynaecologistobstetrician
Biography: 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).

Gunnar Danbolt

Born in: Norway
Years: 1940-.. (age 84)
Occupations: professorart historian
Biography: Gunnar Danbolt is a Norwegian art historian.

Harald Thune

Years: 1952-.. (age 72)
Occupations: politicianjurist
Biography: Harald Torfinn Thune is a Norwegian civil servant.

Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair

Born in: Norway
Years: 1970-.. (age 54)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: Studied in 1999
Occupations: professorpsychologist
Biography: 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.

Jakob Lothe

Born in: Norway
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Occupations: university teacherlexicographerphilologist
Biography: Jakob Lothe is a Norwegian literary scholar and Professor of English literature at the University of Oslo.

Sigbjørn Apeland

Born in: Norway
Years: 1966-.. (age 58)
Occupations: musician
Biography: 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.

Petter S. Rosenlund

Born in: Norway
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
Occupations: journalistscreenwriterplaywright
Biography: 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.

Sigurd Hille

Born in: Norway
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: Graduated with Candidate of Law
Occupations: politicianbusinesspersonjurist
Biography: 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.

Odd Magnus Faltinsen

Born in: Norway
Years: 1944-.. (age 80)
Occupations: professormathematician
Biography: Odd Magnus Faltinsen is a Norwegian mathematician and professor of marine technology.

Helge Tverberg

Born in: Norway
Years: 1935-2020 (aged 85)
Occupations: university teachermathematician
Biography: 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.

Marita Liabø

Born in: Norway
Years: 1971-.. (age 53)
Occupations: children's writerwriterteacher
Biography: Marita Burmann Liabø is a Norwegian author.

Torkil Åmland

Years: 1966-.. (age 58)
Occupations: politician
Biography: 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.

Marian Asantewah Nkansah

Born in: Ghana
Years: 1979-.. (age 45)
Occupations: academic
Biography: Marian Asantewah Nkansah 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.

Øyvind Skarbø

Born in: Norway
Years: 1982-.. (age 42)
Occupations: composer
Biography: Øyvind Skarbø is a Norwegian drummer and composer, raised in Stranda, and now residing in Bergen.

Ragnhild Stolt-Nielsen

Born in: Norway
Years: 1969-.. (age 55)
Occupations: political scientistpolitician
Biography: 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.

Knut Aukland

Born in: Norway
Years: 1929-2014 (aged 85)
Occupations: physiologist
Biography: 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.

Dag Ole Teigen

Born in: Norway
Years: 1982-.. (age 42)
Occupations: politician
Biography: 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.

Steinar Stjernø

Years: 1945-.. (age 79)
Occupations: professorpolitician
Biography: Steinar Stjernø is a Norwegian academic.

Øyvind Hegg-Lunde

Born in: Norway
Years: 1982-.. (age 42)
Occupations: drummercomposer
Biography: 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.

Trond Helge Torsvik

Born in: Norway
Years: 1957-.. (age 67)
Occupations: geophysicistuniversity teacher
Biography: 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.

Jill Walker Rettberg

Years: 1971-.. (age 53)
Occupations: scientist
Biography: 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.

Hilde Magnusson Lydvo

Born in: Norway
Years: 1970-.. (age 54)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Hilde Magnusson Lydvo is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

Frode Alfson Bjørdal

Years: 1960-.. (age 64)
Occupations: philosopher
Biography: Frode Alfson Bjørdal is philosophy professor emeritus at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Lars-Henrik Paarup Michelsen

Years: 1981-.. (age 43)
Occupations: politician
Biography: 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.

Gunn-Vivian Eide

Years: 1964-.. (age 60)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: 1994-1994 studied medicine; 1999-2004 studied medicine
Occupations: physicianpoliticianpsychiatrist
Biography: Gunn-Vivian Eide is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.

Egil Lillestøl

Born in: Norway
Years: 1938-2021 (aged 83)
Enrolled in the University of Bergen: Studied in 1964
Occupations: professorphysicist
Biography: Egil Sigurd Lillestøl was a Norwegian experimental elementary particle physicist.

Harald Hove

Years: 1949-2014 (aged 65)
Occupations: politicianlawyer
Biography: Harald Hove was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Liberal Party.

Ágnes Mócsy

Occupations: physicist
Biography: Ágnes Mócsy is a Professor of Physics at the Pratt Institute who works on theoretical nuclear physics. She is also a filmmaker, science communicator and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.