Anders Behring Breivik is the admitted perpetrator of the July 2011 attacks in Norway that killed 77 people.
Erik the Red was the founder of the first European settlement on Greenland (986) and the father of Leif Eriksson, one of the first Europeans to reach North America.
Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson, the second son of Erik the Red, was possibly the first European to reach North America.
Morten Harket is best known for being lead singer of the Norwegian pop band A-ha, which produced the 1980s hit "Take On Me" and its innovative music video.
Sonja Henie was a Norwegian figure skater who won three Olympic gold medals. After retiring from skating, she acted in Hollywood films like The Thin Ice.
Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl made a celebrated journey aboard a raft called Kon-Tiki in 1947, and later wrote an international best-seller about his amazing expedition.
Exiled Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler, the latter of which featured one of theater's most notorious characters.
Norwegian singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad and her band, ABBA, became an overnight sensation in 1974 with their first hit single, "Waterloo."
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter who has become widely known for his iconic pre-Expressionist painting The Scream.