Famous people who grew up or lived in and around Oslo
4 notable people grew up or lived in and around Oslo. Each listing explores the home and neighbourhood, and how the place shaped the person they became.
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…
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…
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…