List of personalities of the city of Kongsberg
The list of personalities of the city of Kongsberg contains people who were born in Kongsberg as well as those who lived there temporarily, each listed chronologically according to the year of birth.
Personalities born in Kongsberg
1700-1899
- Caspar Johannes Boye (1791-1853), Danish poet
- Otto Sinding (1842–1909), painter
- Christian Sinding (1856–1941), composer
- Halfdan Cleve (1879–1951), composer
- Carl Wilhelm Hartmann (1880–1957), lawyer
1900-1949
- Sigmund Ruud (1907–1994), ski jumper
- Tormod Mobraaten (1910-1991), Canadian ski jumper
- Olav Ulland (1910-2003), Norwegian-American ski jumper
- Hans Beck (1911-1996), ski jumper
- Birger Ruud (1911–1998), ski jumper
- Arnholdt Kongsgård (1914–1991), ski jumper
- Hilmar Myhra (1915-2013), ski jumper
- Asbjørn Ruud (1919–1989), ski jumper
- Petter Hugsted (1921-2000), ski jumper
- Sverre Fehn (1924–2009), modernist architect and Pritzker Prize winner
- Willy Rasmussen (1937-2018), javelin thrower
- Håkon Austbø (* 1948), pianist and university teacher
1950-1974
Morten Harket , singer of the band aha
- Bjørn Grimnes (* 1950), javelin thrower
- Morten Harket (* 1959), singer in the pop band a-ha
- Geir Gulliksen (* 1963), author and publisher
- Christian Wallumrød (* 1971), jazz musician and composer
Since 1975
- Stine Brun Kjeldaas (* 1975), snowboarder
- Morten Qvenild (* 1978), jazz pianist
- Hanne Hukkelberg (* 1979), musician
- Susanna Wallumrød (* 1979), singer
- Sigurd Pettersen (* 1980), ski jumper
- Børre Næss (* 1982), cross-country skier
- Christian Meaas Svendsen (* 1988), jazz and improvisation musician
- Stian Sivertzen (* 1989), snowboarder
- Silje Norendal (* 1993), snowboarder
People related to Kongsberg
- Johann Georg von Langen (1699–1776), German forest and chief hunter master
- Maurits Christopher Hansen (1794-1852), writer
- Arne Rinnan (* 1940), captain
- Eldbjørg Løwer (* 1943), politician