Notable Norwegians

Geni has featured profiles of the week. These are mostly Americans and world famous people. I just wish to draw your attention to other notable people who will probably never make it Geni's famous list, but who are nevertheless worth a look, all from Norway.

First: war hero Martin Linge Martin Linge

not to forget Max Manus , whom they have made a great movie about last year.

a big part of the north america,has people from all over europe and scandinavia.
so a lot of featured profiles they could find,with some real history behind them.

how about Belle Gunnes
or the Hilton`s
the list will go on, and on

Max Manus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Norwegians !

The famous explorers come to my mind because they so often competed agains the Brits!

We are trying to add people to this list, and will hopefully make a separate Kings of Norway list when the chaos in the old lines is cooled down:

http://wiki.geni.com/index.php/Hall_of_fame#Norway

Maybe we should start a topic both in public discussions and on wiki.geni of notables with proofable norwegian ancestry, too?

Remi, you mean non-Norwegians with N ancestry (like Joni Mitchell - there is a thread ab her ancestry on webdebatt Digitalarikvet)?

Martin, it would be great if you managed to trace Belle Gunness and her ancestors and add them all to the tree :-)

Here are the (tagged) profiles of war hero Max Manus

and Linge's son who designed sailing boats Soling and Yngling: Jan Herman Linge

Another notable Norwegian frequently in the media these days is controversial author Agnar Mykle.

Arthur, here's our polar explorer who beat Scott: Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen

Yes, that's exactly what I mean, Anne Marit. Like Belle Gunness, Joni Mitchell, Walter Mondale, Johan Aasen (http://www.laagendalsposten.no/article/20100126/NYHET/701269973/111... [sorry for the norwegian newspaper link, but is is about a guy with norwegian ancestry, emigrated to the US, and became a semi-famous actor in the silent movie era because of his height, supposedly over 250cm.] here is an english speaking website about him: http://www.johanaasen.com/index.html), Peter Graves, James Arness and many, many others.

Yes Anne Marit, I was in "Scott" House at school. We Brits have a great tradition of coming second!

My favorite: Tron Øgrim, who happens to have been my fourth cousin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_%C3%98grim

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Anne :
Belle Gunnes should be around here somewere.
we just have to find the rest of her folks.

from Wikipedia :
Belle Sorenson Gunness (born as Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth, November 11, 1859, Selbu, Norway)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gunness

so some one working on folks from Selbu,might stumble over her there.

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Norman Gabrielsen

Norman Gabrielsen, World War II Norwegian War Hero. Norwegian Secret Agent, who received "Kings Medal for Courage in the Cause of Freedom Great Britain." He also Received St Olav Medal (War Cross with Sword. Norways highest Medal.
He is also listed in Books in Norway and Great Britain.

Norman Gabrielsen

http://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000002020092276?album_type=photo...

There's a long discussion about Belle Gunnes in the Norwigian Digital Archives discussions, it's all in norwegian though.

http://da2.uib.no/cgi-win/WebDebatt.exe?slag=listinnlegg&debatt...

Now there are several more Norwegians on this list of notables to check out:
http://wiki.geni.com/index.php/Hall_of_fame#Norway

@Remi: a challenge for you - add and link these to the tree, and I'll add them to the Hall of Fame.

Norway is busy these days preparing to host the international finals of the European Song Contest on 29 May, and it is exacly 25 years since Elisabeth Gunilla Andreasson was part of Bobbysocks, the winning team of 1985.

Several new additions to our Hall of Fame:
http://wiki.geni.com/index.php/Hall_of_fame#Norway

Famous but controversial writer Knut Hamsun is one of them
Knut Hamsun

and polar explorer Erling Kagge

This week's Norwegian: Fred Kavli

Anyone who knows more (or would like to explore) teh ancestry of our beloved Fleksnes?
Rolv Helge Wesenlund

You could start by using another profile picture of the actor and not one of his role figures ;-)

Post deleted by Private User on Nov 14, 2010 at 9:30 AM

Maybe you should start by getting his birthday right...... :-)

Post deleted by Private User on Nov 14, 2010 at 9:30 AM

>_<

Det er du som er profileier, Anne Marit........

Post deleted by Private User on Nov 14, 2010 at 9:31 AM

Siste navn på lista over berømte nordmenn er Joni Mitchell som er halvt norsk i avstamning, med to norske besteforeldre.

Joni Mitchell

Hennes farmor var fra Gulen i Sogn og navn på gårder med aner er Takle, Engeset, Farestveit og Møster/Myster (Vaksdal). Disse greinen er koblet til Big Tree men det trengs opprydding i området om noen er kjent der.

Jonis farfar var fra Sømne i Nordland, gårder i slekten er Kleiven, Dale, Arnes, Bø, Sund, Grøtheim og Kvitle. En ane bruker navnet Busch. Dersom noen av dere har slekt i Sømne er det flott om dere overtar og får koblet Joni på her også.

Busch er da ett navn som går igjen blant mine aner, eksempel: Gjert Busch

Kanskje kan Gjert knyttes til denne damen som skal være født i Øksningen?
Marthe Marie Busch