Greatest Norwegians

The Top Ten
1 Harald Fairhair
2 Leif Erikson Leif Erikson or Leif Ericson was a Norse explorer from Iceland. He was the first known European to have set foot on continental North America, before Christopher Columbus.
3 Erik the Red
4 Roald Amundsen
5 Edvard Grieg
6 Fridtjof Nansen
7 Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre.
8 Olaf II
9 Edvard Munch Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.
10 Kirsten Flagstad
The Contenders
11 Sigrid Undset
12 Olav V
13 Thor Heyerdahl
14 Gustav Vigeland
15 Sonja Henie
16 Haakon VII
17 Harald V
18 Einar Gerhardsen
19 Mari Boine
20 Henrik Wergeland
21 Ole Gunnar Solskjær
22 Erik Bye
23 Kim Friele
24 Jens Stoltenberg
25 Christian Michelsen
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