Viking Fotballklubb, commonly known as Viking or Viking Stavanger internationally, is a Norwegian football club from the city of Stavanger. The club was founded in 1899. It is one of the most successful clubs in Norwegian football, having won 8 Norwegian top division titles, most recently in 1991, and 6 domestic Norwegian Cup titles, most recently in 2019. The club has played more top-flight league games than any other club in Norway. It has played in the top division since the league was established, except for the years 1966–67, 1987–88 and 2018. Notable European successes include knocking English side Chelsea out of the UEFA Cup during the 2002–03 season, knocking out Sporting CP from the same tournament in 1999–2000, and qualifying for the group stages of the 2005–06 UEFA Cup.
Anne Enger, formerly Anne Enger Lahnstein, is a Norwegian politician who served as County Governor of Østfold from 2004 until 2015, and Leader of the Centre Party from 1991 to 1999, with opposition to the European Union. She was the front person of the successful "No to EU" campaign at the 1994 referendum. She was also the leader in the failed campaign against elective abortion in Norway in the late 1970s.
Norges Bank / Noregs Bank is the central bank of Norway. The bank shall promote economic stability in Norway. Norges Bank also manages the Government Pension Fund of Norway and the bank’s own foreign exchange reserves.
Kjell Hallbing was a Norwegian author of Western books.
Kjell Borgen was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He served as Minister of Transport and Communications from 1986 to 1988, Minister of Local Government from 1988 to 1989 and again from 1990 to 1992. He served as County Governor of Hedmark from 1993 until his death.
Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party, and a professor of medicine. She was the state secretary to the Minister of Social Affairs 1981–1985, and Minister of Administration and Consumer Affairs in 1986.
Kjell is a Scandinavian usually male given name. In Denmark, the cognate is Kjeld or Keld. The name comes from the Old Norse word kętill, which means "kettle" and probably also "helmet" or perhaps "cauldron". Examples of old spellings or forms are Ketill, Kjætil and Ketil. An equally likely meaning is a source, a hope that the boy will get ample resources to draw upon later in life.
Stig Riemmbe Gaelok was born on 7 July 1961 in Divtasvuodna/Tysfjord. He is a Same author who writes his books in Lule Same language (julevsámegiella) and Norwegian language (norsk). His first book, the poetry collection O, Oarjjevuodna, which was published in 1983, was the first collection of poems ever in Lule Same, and also the first book in Lule Same since Anta Pirak´s book Jåhttee saamee viessom, which was published 46 years earlier, in 1937, and was the first book ever written by a Lule Same author in Lule Same language.
Kjell Gotfred Bohlin was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
Svein Ingvar Gjedrem is a Norwegian economist and former Governor of the Central Bank of Norway.
Kjell-Idar Juvik is a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party.
Events in the year 1930 in Norway.
Kenneth Storvik is a former football midfielder.
Kjell Magne Yri is a Norwegian priest, linguist and translator.
Helge Aune is a retired Norwegian football defender.
Kjell Bartholdsen was a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone), that lived in Bodø from 1968.
Erik Solbakken is a Norwegian television presenter. Solbakken hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 together with Haddy Jatou N'jie and Nadia Hasnaoui.
Lorentz Johannsen was a Norwegian merchant and member of the Norwegian Parliament.
Dag Inge Ulstein is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.
