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Grete Salomonsen is a Norwegian director of family films. She is probably best known for directing Kamilla and the Thief (1988), its sequel and Yohan: The Child Wanderer (2010) produced by Penelopefilm AS. [1] The first film she directed for the big screen was PIPP, a film for very young children.
Liv Grete Skjelbreid from Hålandsdal, Fusa, near the city of Bergen in western Norway, is a former professional biathlete. On 20 March 2006, Liv Grete announced her retirement, effective at the end of the season which ended on 26 March at the Holmenkollen. She said that she was retiring because of her young daughter, Emma, her family and because she did not have the motivation to continue.
Grete Waitz was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. In 1979, she became the first woman in history to run the marathon in under two and a half hours. She won nine New York City Marathons, women's division, between 1978 and 1988, more than any other runner in history. She won a silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and a gold medal at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki. Her other marathon victories included winning the London Marathon in 1983 and 1986. She was also a five-time winner of the World Cross Country Championships.
Grete Ingeborg Nykkelmo is a former biathlete and cross-country skier from Norway. She competed in both events from 1982 to 1992.
Anne-Grete Hjelle Strøm-Erichsen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She served as Minister of Defence from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2012 to 2013. She also served as Minister of Health and Care Services from 2009 to 2012. In local politics, she served as the Mayor of Bergen from 1999 to 2000 and its first Chief Commissioner from 2000 to 2003.
Grete Faremo is a former Norwegian politician, lawyer and business leader. Since August 2014, she has held the post of Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). During her political career, she held high-level positions in the Norwegian Government including Minister of Justice from 1992-1996 and 2011–2013, Minister of Petroleum and Energy in 1996, Minister of International Development from 1990-1992 and Minister of Defence from 2009–2011.
Deborah (Debbie) Cameron is a Danish-American singer of Bahamian descent who has had a career in music in Denmark.
Kamilla and the Thief is a Norwegian family movie from 1988 directed by Grete Salomonsen and produced by her husband Odd Hynnekleiv. The movie is an adaption from a Norwegian children's novel by Kari Vinje, and is the first feature film of renowned Norwegian actor Dennis Storhøi and also stars 1980s pop idol Morten Harket in a minor role. Kamilla and the Thief was a huge success in Norway, selling half a million tickets. It was so popular that a sequel was made, Kamilla and the Thief II, which was released the year after. In 2005 both movies were digitally restored and released on DVD.
Kamilla and the Thief II is a Norwegian family movie from 1989 directed by Grete Salomonsen and produced by her husband Odd Hynnekleiv. It is a sequel to Kamilla and the Thief and is a loose adaption of another novel by Kari Vinje.
Grete Nordrå was a Norwegian actress who appeared on screen from the 1950s onwards. She was born in Asker.
Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu is a Norwegian long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon.
Grete or Grethe is a feminine given name, a derivate of Margaret. It is most often used in Scandinavia, Estonia, and German-speaking Europe.
Gabriel Øidne was a Norwegian geographer and historian. Analyzing regional differences in party choice in Norway, he was the first to pinpoint factors relating to relations of production as well as counter-cultural cleavages when describing distinctions between Eastern and Western Norway. He also wrote several works on his native region, Agder, among others on the so-called child migration in older times.
Yohan: The Child Wanderer is a 2010 family film directed by Grete Salomonsen. The film is based on true stories about child wanderers in Norway.
Grete Prytz Kittelsen, was a Norwegian goldsmith, enamel artist, and designer. She is one of the most well-known Norwegians in the Scandinavian Design movement, and has been referred to as the "Queen of Scandinavian Design". Through her work she contributed to internationalisation, innovation and scientific research. She was one of the few Norwegian practitioners who shaped the Scandinavian design style in the post-war era and is the periods’ most renowned Norwegian practitioner. Kittelsen's aim was to make beautiful and user-friendly everyday objects available for everyone. She had a vast and varied production. With her enamelled objects and jewelry she has been a pioneer in design in the post-war era and a model for the next generation of designers. Today her pieces constitute design icons and are sought-after collectables.
Grete Eliassen is an American-Norwegian freestyle skier. She won a bronze medal in Slopestyle at the 2011 Winter X Games XV in Aspen, Colorado, behind Kaya Turski and Keri Herman. She has won 6 medals at the Winter X Games in slopestyle and halfpipe events including back to back gold medals in 2005 and 2006. Eliassen serves as the 16th president of the Women's Sports Foundation, effective January 2017.
Grete Brochmann is a Norwegian sociologist and Professor at the University of Oslo. Her main research field is international migration. As of 2012, she is head of department for the Department of Sociology and Human Geography. She has been a visiting scholar the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the University of California, Berkeley. She chaired the Norwegian Welfare and Migration Committee, the so-called Brochmann Committee.
Grete Anita Dyb is a Norwegian psychiatrist and terrorism researcher. She is a research professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies and a professor in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Oslo Institute of Clinical Medicine. She has carried out research on psychological trauma and been involved in clinical work with children and adolescents exposed to sexual abuse, violence and disasters, and has in recent years directed a research project on the effects of the 2011 Norway attacks. She is President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (2015–2016).
Salomonsen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hanne Grete Einarsen is a Norwegian-Sami artist.
Grete Wold is a Norwegian politician.
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