page_title: Sør-Varanger
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Sør-Varanger / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Helga Pedersen Norsk bokmål: Helga Pedersen
context_page_description: Sør-Varanger is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kirkenes. Other settlements in the municipality include the villages of Bjørnevatn, Bugøynes, Elvenes, Grense Jakobselv, Hesseng, Jakobsnes, Neiden, and Sandnes. Located west of the Norway–Russia border, Sør-Varanger is the only Norwegian municipality that shares a land border with Russia, with the only legal border crossing at Storskog.
  The 3,972-square-kilometre municipality is the 6th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Sør-Varanger is the 112th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 10,158. The municipality's population density is 2.9 inhabitants per square kilometre and its population has increased by 4.3% over the last decade.
context_section_description: Kathrine Bugge (1877–1951) a educator, cultural worker and politician, brought up in Jarfjord
  John Savio (1902 in Bugøyfjord - 1938) an artist of Sami and Kven descent, made woodcuts
  Osvald Harjo (1910–1993) a resistance member in WWII and a prisoner in Soviet Gulag camps for over a decade
  Alfred Henningsen (1918 in Sør-Varanger – 2012) a military officer, spy and politician
  Gudmund Grytøyr (born 1920 in Sør-Varanger - 2001) a sailor, laborer in industry and forestry, a farmer and politician
  Annemarie Lorentzen (1921 in Sør-Varanger – 2008) a politician and Norwegian ambassador to Iceland 1978 to 1985
  Aino Hivand (born 1947 in Bugøyfjord) Norwegian-Sami visual artist and children's book writer
  Helga Pedersen (born 1973 in Sør-Varanger) a politician, former Minister and member of the Storting; brought up in Vestertana
  Pavel Zakharov (born 2001 in Sør-Varanger) a Russian college basketball player
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caption: Helga Pedersen, 2009
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