Holmenkollbakken is a large ski jumping hill located at Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway. It has a hill size of HS134, a construction point of K-120, and a capacity for 70,000 spectators. Holmenkollen has hosted the Holmenkollen Ski Festival since 1892, which since 1980 have been part of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup and 1983 the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup. It has also hosted the 1952 Winter Olympics and the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in 1930, 1966, 1982 and 2011.
Anette Sagen is a Norwegian former ski jumper.
Kristen Carroll Wiig is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and voice actress. She was born in Canandaigua, New York, and raised in both Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Rochester, New York. She later relocated to Los Angeles, where she broke into comedy as a member of the improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings, and made her television debut in 2003.
NBU-prisen is a prize which is awarded by the Norwegian Writers for Children to a person or institution who had produced award winning work in children or youth literature in Norway. It is awarded every year to a Norwegian author or organization. The actual prize is a work of art, typically created by an illustrator of children’s books.
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 took place from 23 February to 6 March 2011 in Oslo, Norway, at the Holmenkollen National Arena. It was the fifth time these championships had been hosted in Holmenkollen, having been done previously in 1930, the 1952 Winter Olympics, 1966, and 1982. On 25 May 2006, the 45th FIS Congress in Vilamoura, Portugal, selected the Holmenkollen area over both Val di Fiemme, Italy, and Zakopane, Poland, with a vote of 12 to 4 to 0. These games coincided with the Holmenkollen Ski Festival as they have previously in 1930, 1952, 1966, and 1982.
Anette Sofie Olsen is a Norwegian businesswoman.
Anette Hovind Johansen is a Norwegian handball player. She played for Nordstrand and for the Danish club GOG Svendborg TGI.
Events in the year 1964 in Norway.
Sylvi Listhaug is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party who served as Minister for the Elderly and Public Health of Norway under Prime Minister Erna Solberg from May to December 2019. In addition, she has also served as the Minister of Petroleum and Energy of Norway from December 2019 to January 2020. Listhaug served as Norway's first Minister of Immigration and Integration from 2015 to 2018, a specially created cabinet position during the European migrant crisis, and Minister of Agriculture and Food from 2013 to 2015. She served as Minister of Justice, Public Security and Immigration from January 2018 until her resignation in March 2018. Originally from the rural municipality of Ørskog in Sunnmøre, she began her political career in Oslo as City Commissioner of Welfare and Social Services.
Målfrid Grude Flekkøy was a Norwegian chief psychologist and civil servant. Having worked for several years in different health and educational institutions for children she was appointed as Children's Commissioner in Norway from 1981 to 1989, the first person in the world to hold such a position. She established and developed the role, and after eight years the UN Organization for Children UNICEF engaged her to assist in spreading the institution to other countries. Målfrid Grude Flekkøy travelled extensively, participated in professional organizations and wrote books and articles on children's rights. At her death in 2013, more the 80 children's commissioners were set up around the world.
Dansefeber is a Norwegian television reality program and dance competition airing on the TVNorge network. The show is a version of the US original version So You Think You Can Dance. Season two premiered with Merete Lingjærde, Geir Bie and Vibeke Sørlie as permanent judges and Henriette Lien returning to host. Contemporary dancer Hanna Mjåvatn was crowned Norway's Favourite Dancer and the top price of 500,000 norwegian kroner, as the first female dancer to win the competition in every version of the show. Runner-up were hip-hop dancer Eric Nærbø, with jazz dancer Michelle Purvis finishing 3rd, and Latin ballroom dancer Bjørn Holthe finishing 4th.
Else Werring, née Wilhelmsen was a Norwegian royal hostess.
Gudrun Anette Høie is a Norwegian sport wrestler from Kristiansund.
Ellen Christine Christiansen is a Norwegian politician representing the Conservative Party and formerly the Progress Party.
Vibeke Hein Bæra is a Norwegian lawyer. She was a defence lawyer for Anders Behring Breivik in his trial for his role in the 2011 Norway attacks.
Asta Nørregaard was a Norwegian painter who is best known for her portraits.
Iselin Nybø is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party, who is the Minister of Trade and Industry since 2020. She also served as Minister of Higher Education from 2018–2020. She was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Rogaland in 2013, where she is the first deputy chair of the Standing Committee on Education, Research, and Church Affairs. Her seat is a levelling seat.
Benny Anette Motzfeldt was a Norwegian visual artist and glass designer and sculptor.
Anette Askvik is a Norwegian songwriter, composer, pianist, and vocalist. She released her first album in 2011 and her second in 2016. She lives in Oslo, Norway, where she writes, records, and runs her record label, Bird.
Kirsten Utheim Toverud was a Norwegian pediatrician.
