The Most Famous
SOCIOLOGISTS from Norway
This page contains a list of the greatest Norwegian Sociologists. The pantheon dataset contains 79 Sociologists, 1 of which were born in Norway. This makes Norway the birth place of the 16th most number of Sociologists behind Slovenia, and Netherlands.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Norwegian Sociologists of all time. This list of famous Norwegian Sociologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Nils Christie (1928 - 2015)
With an HPI of 52.76, Nils Christie is the most famous Norwegian Sociologist. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Nils Christie (24 February 1928 – 27 May 2015) was a Norwegian sociologist and criminologist. He was a professor of criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. Considered a leading figure of his field, Christie is one of two Norwegian social scientists covered in the book 50 Key Thinkers in Criminology (Routledge, 2009), alongside sociologist Thomas Mathiesen.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Norwegian sociologists born between 1928 and 1928. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Norwegian sociologists include Nils Christie.
