Gro Brundtland is a Norwegian politician (Arbeiderpartiet),who served three terms as the 29th prime minister of Norway,as the leader of the Labour Party from 1981 to 1992,and as the director-general of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003. She is also known for having chaired the Brundtland Commission which presented the Brundtland Report on sustainable development.
Kåre Isaachsen Willoch was a Norwegian politician who served as the 30th prime minister of Norway from 1981 to 1986 and as leader of the Conservative Party from 1970 to 1974. He previously served as the Minister of Trade and Shipping from August to September 1963 and 1965 to 1970,and as the president of the Nordic Council in 1973.
Oscar Fredrik Torp was a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. He was party leader from 1923 to 1945,and mayor of Oslo in 1935 and 1936. In 1935 he became the acting minister of Defence in the government of Johan Nygaardsvold. He was also the minister of Social Affairs from 1936 to 1939,and then the minister of Finance from 1939 to 1942. He was appointed Minister of Defence again in 1942 in the London-based Norwegian exile government. He continued until the election in 1945 when he became the minister of Provisioning and Reconstruction until 1948.
Kristin Clemet is a Norwegian politician for Høyre,Norway's Conservative Party.
Petter Jakob Bjerve was a Norwegian economist,statistician and politician for the Labour Party. Prominent positions include director of Statistics Norway from 1949 to 1980,Norwegian Minister of Finance from 1960 to 1963,and president of the International Statistical Institute from 1971 to 1975.
Kari Gjesteby is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She has never been a member of the Norwegian Parliament,but has been State Secretary for three tenures,as well as Minister of Trade and Shipping from February to October 1981 and Minister of Justice and the Police from 1990 to 1992. After her political career she has been a director in the Bank of Norway,director of the National Library of Norway and the Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille and,from 2009 to 2013,the first female State Conciliator of Norway.
Gudmund Harlem was a Norwegian physician and politician for the Labour Party. He was the Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs from 1955 to 1961 and Norwegian Minister of Defence from 1961 to 1965. As a physician he spent most of his career at Statens Attføringsinstitutt,serving as director from 1970 to 1977. He was then a professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology and director of NTNF. He was the father of former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and former Norwegian Minister of Justice Hanne Harlem.
Finn Kristensen is a Norwegian electrician,trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party. He served as Minister of Industry in 1981,from 1986–1988 and from 1992-1993 and Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 1990-1992. He was also an MP for Telemark from 1969 to 1985.
Olav Meisdalshagen was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party best known for serving as the Norwegian Minister of Finance from December 1947 to November 1951 and as the Norwegian Minister of Agriculture from January 1955 to May 1956. He was also a Member of Parliament for a long time,being elected for the first time in parliamentary election of 1936 and serving until his death,except for the period between 1940 and 1945 when the Parliament of Norway was de facto defunct due to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. His death in 1959 came halfway through his fifth term in Parliament,and shortly after a parliamentary speech.
Ulf Oscar Sand was a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labour Party.
Wenche Frogn Sellæg is a Norwegian handball player,physician and politician for the Conservative Party. She was Minister of Environmental Affairs 1981–1983,Minister of Justice 1985–1986,Minister of Social Affairs 1989–1990 and a member of the Parliament of Norway from 1985 to 1993.
Bjørn Skau was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
Arne Øien was a Norwegian economist and politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 1986 to 1989.
Kurt Mosbakk is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Trade and Shipping from 1986 to 1987,when the ministry was closed;he continued on as the Minister of Trade and Shipping Affairs at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs until June 1988. He served as the acting County Governor of Finnmark county for about five months during 1990.
Bjørn Skogstad Aamo was a Norwegian economist and politician for the Labour Party. He was State Secretary for three non-consecutive terms between 1973 and 1993,and served as Director of the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway from 1993 to 2011.
Sosialdemokrater mot EU was a Norwegian interest organization which opposed a future Norwegian membership in the European Union,coupled with a Social Democrat ideology. It was special in that the Social Democrat Norwegian Labour Party,spearheaded by Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland,strongly supported such a membership. Sosialdemokrater mot EU was active in 1993 and 1994,around the 1994 Norwegian European Union membership referendum where a majority rejected the membership.
Gro Møllerstad is a Norwegian headhunter,former editor and politician for the Labour Party.
Ingjald Ørbeck Sørheim was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Labour Party.
Helga Marie Hernes is a German-born Norwegian political scientist,diplomat,and politician for the Labour Party.
Mina Gerhardsen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
