Famous people who grew up or lived in Norway

Edvard Munch1863–1944

📍 Hoffsveien 48, 0275 Oslo, Norway

I was born Edvard Munch on the 12th of December 1863 in Løten but grew up in Oslo — then Christiania. My mother died of tuberculosis when I was five. My father was a military doctor of…

Erling Haaland2003–2017

📍 Bryne, Rogaland, Norway

Erling Braut Haaland was born in Leeds, England, in July 2000, while his father, Alf-Inge Haaland, was playing for Leeds United, and when he was three the family moved home to Bryne, a…

Fridtjof Nansen1901–1930

📍 Polhøgda, 1327 Lysaker, Bærum, Norway

I built Polhøgda — the High Meadow — on the Lysaker fjord outside Oslo in 1901, and it was my home for the rest of my life. I had returned from the Fram expedition across the Arctic Ocean…

Maya Plisetskaya1932–1934

📍 Barentsburg, Svalbard, Norway

I was born in Moscow in November 1925 into a family of artists: my mother, Rachel Messerer, was a silent film actress, and her brother and sister, Asaf and Sulamith Messerer, were stars of…

Roald Amundsen1908–1928

📍 Uranienborg, Roald Amundsens vei 192, 1420 Svartskog, Norway

I was born in Borge, near Fredrikstad, into a family of shipowners and sea captains, and when I was a few months old we moved to Christiania, now Oslo, where I grew up on Uranienborgveien…

Sonja Henie1912–1936

📍 Frogner, Oslo, Norway

I grew up in a wealthy family in Frogner, in Oslo; when I was four, we moved to a flat on Thomas Heftyes gate, just a short walk from the ice rink at Frogner Stadium. My father, Wilhelm…