Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones – most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.
Oskar Skogly was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party. He is known as Minister of Local Government, mayor of Fåberg and three-term member of the Parliament of Norway.
William Martin Nygaard was a Norwegian publisher and politician.
The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers is a non-profit umbrella organization of bookseller associations, with its legal location in Geneva, Switzerland. It federates 22 National Associations of Antiquarian Booksellers, representing nearly 2000 dealers in 32 countries. Antiquarian booksellers affiliated to the League adhere to the ILAB Code of Ethics, and the League aims to server as a global network for the rare book trade.
Yngvar Nielsen was a Norwegian historian, politician, geographer and pioneer of tourism in Norway.
Paul Due was a Norwegian architect and significant contributor to the stations built by the Norwegian State Railways.
Marit Nybakk is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party, a former First Vice-president of the Norwegian Parliament, the Storting, and a former President of the Nordic Council. From 2016 to 2018 she was President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights, the preeminent women's and girls' rights organisation in Norway.
Egil Werner Erichsen was a Norwegian corporate director and politician for the Conservative Party.
Jørgen Wright Cappelen was a Norwegian bookseller and publisher. He was one of the founders of the publishing house Cappelen Damm.
Henrik Johan Florentz Groth was a Norwegian publisher and essayist, who was managing director of the Cappelen publishing company from 1947 to 1973.
Torger Baardseth was a Norwegian bookseller and publisher.
Peter Tidemand Malling was a Norwegian bookseller, printer and publisher. Malling was a pioneer in the publishing industry around the middle of the 19th century.
Johan Nordahl Brun Rolfsen was a Norwegian writer, educationalist and teacher, journalist, translator and speaker. He is best known for the series of five readers for elementary school, Læsebog for folkeskolen (1892–1895), which became the most widely-used schoolbook in Norway.
Elias Gottlieb Oscar Egede Nissen was a Norwegian physician, newspaper editor and politician. He belonged to the Norwegian Labour Party from 1889 to his death, and was both party leader, party secretary as well as editor of the party organ Social-Demokraten for a period. He also made his mark as a campaigner for temperance and better health conditions. He was also chairman of the Norwegian Santal Mission.
Ebba Margareta Haslund Halvorsen was an American-Norwegian novelist, writer of short stories, playwright, essayist, children's writer, literary critic, radio speaker and politician.
Jacob Dybwad was a Norwegian bookseller and publisher as well as a pioneer in the publishing trade. Dybwad was one of the founders of the publishing company and bookstore Jacob Dybwad A/S, which was in operation from 1852 until 1987.
Hagbart Emanuel Berner was a Norwegian lawyer, Liberal Party politician and newspaper editor. He was one of Norway's leading liberal progressives of his time. He represented the Liberal Party as a member of parliament from 1880 to 1888, as Auditor General of Norway from 1883 to 1898 and as Burgomaster of Christiania from 1892 to 1912. He was the first editor-in-chief of the liberal newspaper Dagbladet and the co-founder and first president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. In 1882 he introduced the parliamentary act that admitted women to the university.
Arne Haukvik was a Norwegian sports official for IL i BUL and politician for the Centre Party and the Pensioners Party. He is best known for founding the Bislett Games. As a politician, he was a four-term member of Oslo city council and a one-term member of the Parliament of Norway.
Elise Sem was a Norwegian barrister, women's activist and sports official. She was the first female attorney in Europe and the first female barrister in Norway.
Thorstein Aschehoug Lambrechts was a Norwegian bookseller.
