Ola Nordmann

(: Nuurmann Ola og Kari Nordmann (pronounced ), often referred to simply: Norwegian Ola og Kari ) Kari and Ola Nordmann is the placeholder name for an average family in Norway.

Comparable are Ola and Kari Nordmann with the Germans Max and William Smith and John Doe or the English John Doe and Jane Doe. Ola and Kari Nordmann emerge quite naturally in the Norwegian journalism as fictitious persons without there resonates a jocular tone and the audience has yet to be explained, who is meant. Nordmann is the Norwegian term for a Norwegian, Ola and Kari Nordmann are thus the average Norwegian.