The Most Famous
Chess Players from Norway
This page contains a list of the greatest Norwegians Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 4 of which were born in Norway. This makes Norway the birth place of the 34th most number of Chess Players behind Argentina and Lithuania.
Top 4 Norwegian Chess Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Norwegians Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Norwegians Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Magnus Carlsen
b. 1990
HPI 61.9194 langsNorwegian chess player
- #2
Simen Agdestein
b. 1967
HPI 55.6137 langsNorwegian chess player and footballer
- #3
Aryan Tari
b. 1999
HPI 31.7420 langsNorwegian chess player
- #4
Jon Ludvig Hammer
b. 1990
HPI 30.3815 langsNorwegian chess grandmaster
