List of famous politicians from Norway, listed alphabetically with photos when available. This list of popular Norwegian politicians includes members of the government who are either active or inactive, some of who might even now be dead. These are some of the most well-known Norwegian politicians of all time, so if you're a native of Norway and want to work for your country then these are the people you should look up to. If you're searching for a particular politician from Norway, then use the "search" box to find who you're looking for.
List ranges from Hege Nerland to Rolf Schjerven and more.
You can click on the names of these renowned politicians of Norway in order to get more information about each one.Anne Marit Bjørnflaten
Age: 54Anne Marit Bjørnflaten (born 18 June 1969 in Harstad) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. Between 2000 and 2001, during Stoltenberg's first cabinet, Bjørnflaten was appointed political advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Troms in 2005. She is the leader of the justice committee in the Norwegian Parliament. She will not seek reelection to the parliament in 2013.On the local level, Bjørnflaten was a member of the executive committee of Tromsø municipality council from 2003 to 2005. From 1991 to 1995 she was a member of Troms county council. She was a member of the Labour Party central board from 2002 to 2005.
Anne Rygh Pedersen
Age: 56Anne Rygh Pedersen (born 28 June 1967 in Larvik) is a Norwegian politician. She is a member of the Labour Party. She served in the position of deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Vestfold during the term 2001–2005. Rygh Pedersen was the county mayor of Vestfold 2003–2005. When the second cabinet Stoltenberg assumed office following the 2005 elections, she was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and the Police. Rygh Pedersen resigned om February 9, 2007. She now lives in Tønsberg and has a son.Anne Solsvik
Age: 43Anne Solsvik (born 25 February 1981) is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party (Venstre).Between 2007 and 2010 she was the leader of the Young Liberals of Norway, the youth wing of the Liberal Party. Upon her election she stated that her most important goal was to work for Norwegian membership in the European Union. Solsvik is also a member of the city council in her home town Arendal.Anne Stenhammer
Age: 73Anne Margareth Fagertun Stenhammer (born 28 August 1950) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. From October 2005 to November 2007, during the second cabinet Stoltenberg, Stenhammer was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On the local level she was the mayor of Fauske municipality from 1991 to 1999.- Age: 54Anniken Scharning Huitfeldt (born 29 November 1969) is a Norwegian historian and politician for the Labour Party.
Ansgar Gabrielsen
Age: 68Ansgar Gabrielsen (born 21 May 1955 in Mandal) is a Norwegian consultant and former politician for the Conservative Party.- Dec. at 90 (1921-2012)Anton Skulberg (29 December 1921 – 30 August 2012) was a Norwegian scientist and politician for the Centre Party. He was born in Kristiania as a son of Ragnvald Skulberg (1895–1972) and housewife Anna Marie Busch (1893–1946). Between 9 April 1940 and 27 May 1940 he participated as a soldier in the Norwegian Campaign. He enrolled as a student in 1942, graduated from the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science in 1949, and took further education at the universities of Oxford 1955 and Cambridge 1963. He took his doctorate (dr.med.vet.) in 1965, on the topic Studies on the formation of toxin by Clostridium botulinum. He was first employed at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science in 1953, and was associate professor from 1958 to 1960 and research fellow from 1960 to 1961. From 1970 to 1991 he was a professor. During this time he was also director at the research institute Norsk institutt for næringsmiddelforskning from 1971 to 1988. He published 37 scientific papers.Skulberg was member of Spydeberg municipal council from 1963 to 1971, serving as mayor during the term 1963–1967. From 1963 to 1967 he was also a member of Østfold county council. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Østfold in 1969, and was re-elected on one occasion. He was the Minister of Church Affairs and Education in 1972–1973 during the cabinet Korvald. During his time in cabinet he was replaced in Parliament by Einar Brusevold and, briefly, Birgit Wiig.Skulberg was a member of Norwegian National Council on Nutrition from 1971 to 1978, the Arts Council Norway from 1977 to 1980, the Norwegian Museum Authority from 1983 to 1991, NLVF from 1986 to 1990. He has also been involved in Rotary and the Church of Norway. He became a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1984, received the Order of St. Olav in 1989 and became an honorary member of the Centre Party in 2001.
Arild Stokkan-Grande
Age: 46Arild Stokkan-Grande (born April 5, 1978 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party (AP). He represents Nord-Trøndelag in the Norwegian Parliament, where he meets in the place of Bjarne Håkon Hanssen, who was appointed to a government position.Arne Bergsvåg
Age: 66Arne Bergsvåg (born 2 February 1958) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Rogaland during the term 2005–2009 and 2009–2013.On the local level, Bergsvåg became mayor of Ølen in 1999. When it was incorporated into Vindafjord in 2005, Bergsvåg became the new mayor of that municipality. He declined to stand for another period as mayor in the municipality election in 2011.Since 2003 he has been a member of the county council and he had the top spot on the Hordaland Centre Party's list for the election to the county council in 2011.Arne Braut
Age: 73Arne Braut (born 11 October 1950) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Sør-Trøndelag during the term 2001–2005.On the local level, he has background from Oppdal municipal council.Arne Lyngstad
Age: 61Arne Lyngstad (10 May 1962 - 30 May 2019) was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. Lyngstad was born in Verdal. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Nord-Trøndelag in 1997, and was re-elected on one occasion. Lyngstad was a deputy member of Verdal municipality council in 1983–1987, of Nord-Trøndelag county council in 1987–1991 and of Trondheim city council in 1991–1995.Arne Storhaug
Age: 73Arne Storhaug (born 27 September 1950) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Telemark during the terms 2001–2005 and 2005–2009. On the local level Storhaug has been the mayor of Bø since 1995.Arne Strand
Age: 80Arne Strand (born 17 March 1944) is a Norwegian journalist and politician for the Labour Party. He is the current political editor in the newspaper Dagsavisen. Strand graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.mag. degree in 1968. He worked as a journalist in Vårt Land from 1964 to 1966, in Arbeiderbladet from 1966 to 1976, and in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1976 to 1987. Between 1987 and 1989 he was a State Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister, as a part of Gro Harlem Brundtland's second cabinet.Having been political editor and news editor in his later years with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, in 1990 he was hired as political editor in Arbeiderbladet, which in 1997 changed its name to as Dagsavisen. He was acting editor-in-chief from 2004 to 2005 and from 2009. From 1999 to 2006 he chaired the Norwegian branch of the International Press Institute.He is the adoptive father of the television host Christian Strand.- Dec. at 88 (1883-1972)Arne Toralf Sunde (6 December 1883 – 30 July 1972) was a Norwegian politician, Olympic shooter and army officer. He is best known for his participation in the 1940 Norwegian Campaign, his participation in Nygaardsvold's Cabinet during its 1940–1945 exile in London and three years as a United Nations ambassador. Sunde was President of the United Nations Security Council in June 1949 and July 1950.
Arnfinn Nergård
Age: 72Arnfinn Nergård (born 4 April 1952) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Hedmark during the terms 2005–2009, 2009–2013 and 2013–2017. In total he met during 48 days of parliamentary session.Following the 2007 elections, Nergård became the new county mayor (fylkesordfører) of Hedmark. Before this, he was the mayor of Os municipality. After the 2011 elections Nergård returned to Os as mayor. He lasted one term, until 2015. In 2018, following the downfall of county mayor Dag Rønning, Nergård was selected by the county council for a second tenure as county mayor.Arvid Libak
Age: 66Arvid Libak (born 12 September 1957) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. In 1992, during the third cabinet Brundtland, Libak was appointed political advisor to the Minister of Social Affairs, a position he held to 1995. In 2005, during the second cabinet Stoltenberg, Libak was appointed political advisor in the Ministry of Health and Care Services. After one year he became state secretary in the same ministry. In June 2008 he changed to the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Having spent most of his career in politics, he was the information director of Ullevål university hospital from 1996 to 2000.Åsa Elvik
Age: 45Åsa Elvik (born January 12, 1979 in Bø, Nordland) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party (SV). She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Nordland in 2001. She was a member of the Nordland county council from 1999-2001.Asbjørn Sunde
Dec. at 75 (1909-1985)Asbjørn Edvin Sunde (12 December 1909 – 23 April 1985) was a Norwegian politician for the Communist Party of Norway, communist partisan during the Spanish Civil War, saboteur against the Nazi occupation of Norway during the Second World War, and a convicted Soviet spy. During the Second World War, from 1941 to 1944, Sunde's group, the Osvald Group, carried out approximately 39 acts of sabotage and assassination against the German occupation forces and Norwegian collaborators. In 1954 he was convicted by Eidsivating Court of Appeal of treason and espionage in favour of the Soviet Union, and sentenced to eight years in prison. He was released from prison in 1959 after serving two thirds of his sentence. He was expelled from the Communist Party of Norway in 1970.- Age: 75Åse Maria Kleveland (born 18 March 1949) is a Norwegian singer, guitarist, politician and activist. A well-known folk singer and traditional guitarist in Norway, she was appointed Minister of Culture in Norway in 1990, and held the position until 1996, representing the Labour Party under the Gro Harlem Brundtland administration. She was also president of the Swedish Film Institute from 1999 to 2006. In June 2007 she became Chairman of the Board of Human-Etisk Forbund, the Norwegian humanist organization, a position she held until 2013.
Åse Lill Kimestad
Age: 68Åse Lill Kimestad (born 16 August 1955) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Vest-Agder during the terms 1989–1993, 1993–1997 and 2001–2005. On the local level, Kimestad became the mayor of Mandal municipality in a direct election in 2003.[1] She lost her position following the 2007 elections.Åse Marie Hagen
Age: 51Åse Marie Hagen (born 22 March 1973) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party, from Steinkjer. After the 2007 county election she was appointed deputy county mayor of Nord-Trøndelag. She had behind her a coalition of Labour, Christian, Liberal and Conservative.Aslak Sira Myhre
Age: 50Aslak Sira Myhre (born 28 May 1973 in Stavanger) 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. Myhre's parents were both active on the political left and his father Eldar Myhre is a known trade union chairman at Aker Kværner. Aslak was very active in student demonstrations at the University of Bergen during the 1990s and sat on the university board in 1996. He was the party leader of Red Electoral Alliance between 1997 and 2003, and sat in the city council in his home city Stavanger between 1999 and 2003. He was the top candidate for Storting for Rogaland in the 1997 election and Oslo in the 2001 election, but his party failed to win any seats. Leaving national politics, he became an executive of !Les, an association to stimulate children and youth to read more. Myhre has also worked as a football journalist for both the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and Klassekampen. In 2006 he started as director for the House of Literature in Oslo. The House of Literature opened in 2007, it is Europes largest and has more than 250.000 visitors annually. In 2014 he was appointed director of the National Library. For his work with !les and The House of Literature, Myhre in 2008 received "Eckbos legaters Kulturpris". Myhre has published several books, and has published articles in The Guardian and The Washington Post in the aftermath of the 2011 Norway attacks.He is married to current editor-in-chief of Samtiden, Cathrine Sandnes.Åslaug Haga
Age: 64Åslaug Marie Haga (born 21 October 1959) is a Norwegian politician and the Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust. She was the leader of the Centre Party from 2003 to 2008.Asle Amundsen
Age: 71Asle Amundsen (born 27 June 1952) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Nordland during the term 1985–1989. He met during 32 days of parliamentary session. The first deputy of Hanna Kvanmo, he worked as a farmer in Andøy outside of politics.Astri Aas-Hansen
Age: 53Astri Aas-Hansen (born 16 December 1970) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.In 2005, when Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet assumed office, she was appointed as a political adviser in the Ministry of Justice and the Police. She was promoted to State Secretary in February 2007, and remained here until April 2013. She returned to her former job in Advokatfirmaet Elden.She hails from Lillesand, and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.jur. degree in 1999. From 1995 to 2002 she worked as an advisor for the Labour Party; since 2002 she has worked as a lawyer. She has also held lectures at the University of Oslo and Nesna University College.Atle Hamar
Age: 60Atle Hamar (born 23 June 1963) is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. From 1988 to 1990 he was the leader of the Young Liberals of Norway, the youth wing of the Liberal Party. He was a member of Jølster municipal council and Sogn og Fjordane county council.In 1997, during the first cabinet Bondevik, he was appointed political advisor in the Ministry of Transport and Communications under Minister Odd Einar Dørum. When Dørum changed ministry to the Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1999, Hamar followed. He was soon promoted to state secretary, and held this position until the first cabinet Bondevik fell in March 2000.Instead he was appointed director of the Norwegian Gaming Authority. In 2006 he was elected chair of the International Association of Gaming Regulators.Aud Folkestad
Age: 71Aud Folkestad (born 10 February 1953) is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Møre og Romsdal during the term 1997–2001.Audun Lysbakken
Age: 46Audun Bjørlo Lysbakken (born 30 September 1977) is a Norwegian politician and the current leader of the Norwegian Socialist Left Party. His career in national politics began when he was elected to the Norwegian parliament in 2001. In 2006, he became deputy leader of The Socialist Left Party. He held the post as Minister of Children and Equality in Jens Stoltenberg's second government from October 2009 to March 2012, when he resigned due to a conflict of interest. Under his leadership, the Socialist party has had strong gains in its vote share in Parliamentary elections and membership.Bård Hoksrud
Age: 51Bård André Hoksrud (born 26 March 1973 in Porsgrunn) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party. Since 2005, he has been a member of the Storting, and from 2013 he has been State Secretary at the Ministry of Transport and Communications as a part of Erna Solberg's cabinet. From 1999 to 2002, he was the chairman of the Youth of the Progress Party. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Telemark in 2005. He had previously served in the position of deputy representative during the terms 1997–2001 and 2001–2005. On the local level, Hoksrud was a member of Bamble Municipality council from 1991 to 2007. He does not have higher education, but worked as a grocery store manager before entering politics.Bård Vegar Solhjell
Age: 52Bård Vegar Solhjell (born 22 December 1971) is a former Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. He served as Minister of Education (K–12) from 2007 to 2009, and as Minister of the Environment from 2012 to 2013, both in Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet. Starting in March 2018, he is the Secretary General of WWF Norway.
