Norwegians

The Norwegians are the largest ethnic group in Norway. Most ethnic Norwegians speak Norwegian. Of the 9.5 million people ethnically Norwegian descent 4.4 million live in Norway itself

Famous Norwegians and Norwegian women

• Roald Amundsen, polar explorer
• Erik the Red, discoverer
• Jan Garbarek, Jazz Musicians
• Edvard Grieg, composer
• Knut Hamsun, writer
• Gerhard Armauer Hansen, discoverer of the causative agent of leprosy
• Harald V, Monarch and sailors
• Thor Heyerdahl, an anthropologist and adventurer
• Henrik Ibsen, playwright
• Fridtjof Nansen, polar explorer, politician and Nobel Peace Prize
• Eva Joly, a lawyer, has revealed the Elf Aquitaine Leuna affair
• Kirsten Flagstad, opera singer, soprano
• Maria Mena, singer
• Nils Petter Molvaer, musicians
• Sverre Fehn, Architect
• Alexander Rybak, winner of the Euro Vision Song Contest 2009