Gjerdrum is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike.
Håkon Wium Lie is a Norwegian web pioneer, a standards activist, and the Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software from 1998 until the browser was sold to new owners in 2016. He is best known for developing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) while working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1994.
Lars Saabye Christensen is a Norwegian/Danish author.
HV-016 is a former military unit of Norway, that was a part of the Home Guard. It was established after 1985 to "stop terror- or sabotage actions that could weaken or paralyze Norway's ability to mobilize its military and its ability to resist".
deLillos is a Norwegian poprock band formed in Oslo in 1984. They are generally regarded as one of the "Four Greats" in modern Norwegian pop music, i.e. one of the four 1980s groups that founded a new tradition for rock music with lyrics in Norwegian. The remaining three "Greats" are DumDum Boys, Raga Rockers and Jokke & Valentinerne.
Unni Maria Lindell is a Norwegian writer. She is best known for her crime novels (whodunits), but has also written a collection of poems and several children's and young adult books.
The German occupation of Norway began on 9 April 1940. In 1942, there were at least 2,173 Jews in Norway. At least 775 of them were arrested, detained and/or deported. More than half of the Norwegians who died in camps in Germany were Jews. 742 Jews were murdered in the camps and 23 Jews died as a result of extrajudicial execution, murder and suicide during the war, bringing the total of Jewish Norwegian dead to at least 765, comprising 230 complete households.
Pernille Holmboe is a Norwegian model widely known as the face of the Swedish clothing company Gina Tricot, with whom she had a long-running contract, that was terminated in 2010. She is especially known for this among Norwegians, to whom she has become "synonymous" with the brand.
Georg Fredrik Rieber-Mohn is a Norwegian judge.
David Sandved was a Norwegian architect.
Hege Storhaug is a Norwegian political activist and author. Since the 1990s she has been known for her criticism of Islam and anti-immigration activism. She formerly worked briefly as a journalist, before she became involved in anti-immigration activism. She runs the small anti-immigration organization Human Rights Service with her partner, and holds the title information director within the organization. In 2015 she published the book Islam, den 11. landeplage which claimed that Islam is a "plague." Scholars and commentators have described her views as far-right and Islamophobic.
The Pelle group was a Norwegian resistance group that conducted acts of sabotage against the German occupation of Norway in Østlandet during the autumn of 1944.
RX II is a 36-foot yacht in which a three-man Norwegian crew circumnavigated the North Pole over two seasons in 2009–2010.
Shirley Isabelle Theresa Bernadette Bottolfsen was an Irish humanitarian activist based in Bodø, Norway. For over forty years she raised money to help the poor.
The 2013 Valdresekspressen hijacking was a hijacking of an express bus running on the Nor-Way Bussekspress Valdresekspressen route, which took place east of Øvre Årdal on 4 November 2013. The driver and both passengers were killed.
Geir Eriksen, former names Geir Selvik and Geir Selvik Malthe-Sørenssen, is a Norwegian con artist and convicted felon. He formerly worked as a private investigator for criminal clients, and became known for fabricating material in the Arne Treholt case; it was subsequently revealed that he had engaged in similar fraud in a large number of other cases. He was charged with aggravated fraud and forgery; he pled guilty to all charges and in 2018 was sentenced to three years in prison and to pay 7 million kr in restitution. He has changed his names several times, but is best known under the name Geir Selvik Malthe-Sørenssen, his legal name from 2010 to 2017.
Odin Thiago Holm is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a forward for Vålerenga. He was included in The Guardian's "Next Generation 2020".
The 2020 Gjerdrum landslide was a quick clay landslide that occurred in the early hours of 30 December 2020 at Ask village, the administrative centre of Gjerdrum, Norway. It spanned a flow off area of 300 by 700 metres and additionally affected 9 hectares by debris flow. Several buildings were destroyed, most of them houses and apartment buildings.
Marit Slagsvold is a Norwegian priest in the Church of Norway, sociologist, author and researcher. She is the wife of Jonas Gahr Støre, the Prime Minister of Norway.
Lea Mathilde Skar-Myren is a Norwegian actress and fashion model. She is known for playing the lead role Maya in the NRK drama Girls (2013–2015), and later for her lead role as Jeanette in the NRK sitcom It's All Relatives (2020–present). Myren has also performed in the NRK sitcom Side om side (2018) and teen drama Blank (2019) as supporting roles.
