List of Norwegian Americans

This is a list of notable Norwegian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

The list is ordered by category of human endeavour. Persons with significant contributions in two fields are listed in both of the pertinent categories, to facilitate easy lookup.

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To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Norwegian American or must have references showing they are Norwegian American and are notable.

List

Academics

Historians and Sociologists

Architects

Entertainment

Actors and Actress

Peter Graves
Melanie Griffith
Lance Henriksen
Priscilla Presley

Screenwriters, Directors and Producers of film

Singers and Musicians

Beck
Peggy Lee

Models

Sport

Boomer Esiason

Bankers

Business

Cartoonists

Charles Schulz

Explorers and Founders of places

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (Norwegian: [ˈɾuːɑl ˈɑmʉnsən]; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition of 1910–12 which was the first to reach the South Pole, on 14 December 1911. In 1926, he was the first expedition leader for the air expedition to the North Pole.

Amundsen is recognized as the first person, without dispute, as having reached both poles.[2][3] He is also known as having the first expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage (1903–06) in the Arctic.

Journalist

Eric Sevareid

Lawyers

Earl Warren

Meteorologists

Military

Politicians

Hubert H. Humphrey
Henry M. Jackson
Warren G. Magnuson
Walter Mondale

Published

Religious

Scientists

Ernest O. Lawrence
Sally Ride

Seamen

Settlers

Visual artists

Writers and Editors

Norman Borlaug

Others

Eliot Ness

See also

References

MY DAD, HOLGER ANDERSON. worked his way across to America from Sandefjord, NORWAY to BROOKLYN, NY where he met my mother AMELIA CONN, Narpes Sweden. Early 1930's. We lived on Bedford Ave. Just below Eastern Parkway and Ebbits Field? He was a carpenter, floor scraper know all over Staten Island. At the same time he worked for DL&W in the shipyard wood shop where tug boats were repaired. Parents of four daughters. I could write a book!

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