The Most Famous
INVENTORS from Norway
This page contains a list of the greatest Norwegian Inventors. The pantheon dataset contains 354 Inventors, 1 of which were born in Norway. This makes Norway the birth place of the 35th most number of Inventors behind Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Norwegian Inventors of all time. This list of famous Norwegian Inventors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Colin Archer (1832 - 1921)
With an HPI of 51.50, Colin Archer is the most famous Norwegian Inventor. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Colin Archer (22 July 1832 – 8 February 1921) was a Norwegian naval architect and shipbuilder known for his seaworthy pilot and rescue boats and the larger sailing and polar ships. His most famous ship is the Fram, used for both Fridtjof Nansen's and Roald Amundsen's polar expeditions.He was born at Tollerodden in Larvik, Norway, where he also had his own house built and his boatyard.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as inventors born between 1832 and 1832. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased inventors include Colin Archer.
