Gilje is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Bømlo is a municipality in the southwestern part of Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnhordland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Svortland. Other villages in Bømlo include Mosterhamn, Rubbestadneset, Lykling, and Langevåg. Most of the municipal residents live on the island of Bømlo, which makes up the majority of the land in the municipality.
Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright who, together with Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Alexander Kielland, is considered to have been one of the Four Greats of 19th century Norwegian literature.
Neil is a masculine given name of Gaelic origin. The name is an Anglicisation of the Irish Niall which is of disputed derivation. The Irish name may be derived from words meaning "cloud", "passionate", or "champion". As a surname, Neil is traced back to Niall of the Nine Hostages who was an Irish king and eponymous ancestor of the Uí Néill and MacNeil kindred. Most authorities cite the meaning of Neil in the context of a surname as meaning champion.
Gunnar Skirbekk is a Norwegian philosopher. He is professor emeritus at the Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.
Reins are items of horse tack, used to direct a horse or other animal used for riding or driving.
Dagen is a Norwegian Christian newspaper established in 1919, and published in Bergen. The average circulation in 2004 was 5,307 copies. The ideological goal of the newspaper was "to influence society from a revival Christian point of view". On 1 January 2008 the newspaper merged with another Christian newspaper, Magazinet and was renamed to DagenMagazinet. On 1 April 2011 DagenMagazinet was renamed to Dagen. The current chief editor of Dagen is Vebjørn Selbekk, former editor of Magazinet.
Erik Theodor Werenskiold was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. He is especially known for his drawings for the Asbjørnsen and Moe collection of Norske Folkeeventyr, and his illustrations for the Norwegian edition of the Snorri Sturlason Heimskringla.
Carlsen is a Danish-Norwegian patronymic surname meaning "son of Carl". The form Karlsen is cognate. The parallel Swedish forms are Carlsson and Karlsson.
Dahl or Dahle is a surname of Germanic origin. Dahl, which means valley in the North Germanic languages, is common in Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and the Faroe Islands. The origin of the German forms Dahl and Dahle may have been in medieval Westphalia. In Germany about 11 places are called Dahl. In the Netherlands, a suburb of the city of Nijmegen is called "Heyerdaal", in which "daal" also means "valley". Other examples are "Bloemendaal," "Rozendaal," and "Roosendaal." There are several variations as it was common to add a suffix to Dahl in order to denote the name bearer's original locale or occupation. You also find several variations of -dahl used with prefixes. The oldest record of the name appears in Austria. People with the surname include:
Kari is either a male or female given name, or a surname.
Arne Gilje is a retired Norwegian competition rower and twice World Champion.
Pål Børnick is a Norwegian competition rower and twice World Champion.
Rein Gilje is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1980s. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 500 m event.
Prosa is Norway's largest literary magazine. The magazine is published on a bimonthly basis and has been in circulation since 1995.
Yannis Kyriakides is a composer of contemporary classical music, and sound art. His music explores new forms and hybrids of media, synthesizing disparate sound sources and highlighting the sensorial space of music. He has focused in the majority of his work on ways of combining traditional performance practices with digital media, particularly in the use of live electronics. The relation between music and language has been explored in many pieces that utilize text films as a multimedia element.
Tova is a given name, nickname and a surname. Notable people with this name include:
HC Gilje is a Norwegian artist who works with realtime environments, installations, live performance, set design and single channel video.
Kathleen Gilje is an American art restorer and artist. She is best known for her appropriations of Old Master Paintings which combine their historical provenance with contemporary ideas and perspective.
Kaja or Kája is a given name and surname. Kaja is regarded as a Polish feminine given name that is a diminutive form of Karolina, a derivative of Karl. Kája is a Czech unisex given name that is a diminutive form of Karolína, Karla and Karel, also derivatives of Karl.
Calle is a Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish masculine given name, nickname and surname that is a diminutive form of Carl and Karl and an alternate form of Kalle. Calle is a surname with Spanish, English, Irish, Scottish, and German origins. Its Spanish origins are from the Spanish word calle, which means street and traces its origins back to Santander, Spain. a derive Notable people referred to by this name include the following: