page_title: Tromsø
section_title: Public Servants
hierarchical_section_title: Tromsø / Notable residents / Public Servants
caption_attribution_description: Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
context_page_description: Tromsø is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø.
  Tromsø lies in Northern Norway. The 2,521-square-kilometre municipality is the 21st largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Tromsø is the 12th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 76,974. The municipality's population density is 31.1 inhabitants per square kilometre and its population has increased by 14.4% over the previous 10-year period. It is the largest urban area in Northern Norway and the third largest north of the Arctic Circle anywhere in the world. Most of Tromsø, including the city centre, is located on the island of Tromsøya, 350 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. In 2017, the city of Tromsø had a population of about 65,000 people spread out over Tromsøya and parts of Kvaløya and the mainland. Tromsøya is connected to the mainland by the Tromsø Bridge and the Tromsøysund Tunnel, and to the island of Kvaløya by the Sandnessund Bridge.
context_section_description: Johannes Steen (1827-1906) a Norwegian educator and politician, Mayor of Tromsø (1856-1862) and Prime Minister of Norway 1891-1893
  Oscar Nissen (1843–1911) a Norwegian physician, newspaper editor and politician
  Paul Steenstrup Koht (1844–1892) a Norwegian educator and politician, city mayor and MP
  Hans Jacob Horst (1848–1931) a Norwegian politician and a member of the International Court of Arbitration (1906-1929) and a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (1903-1931)
  Just Knud Qvigstad (1853–1957) a philologist, linguist, ethnographer, cultural historian, headmaster, politician and Mayor of Tromsø
  Dorothea Schjoldager (1853–1938) a feminist proponent for women's rights, school teacher and social worker
  James Trane (1857–1936) a Norwegian-American inventor & industrialist, co-founded Trane
  Einar Hoidale (1870–1952) lawyer, newspaper editor and politician from Minnesota
  Arnold Holmboe (1873–1956) a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party and Mayor of Tromsø
  Halvdan Koht (1873–1965) historian, politician and former head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  Kirsten Sand (1895–1996) first fully technically qualified female Norwegian architect
  Einar Johansen (1915–1996) an engineer and decorated resistance member during WW II
  Martin Siem (1915–1996) a businessperson and WWII resistance member
  Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923–2008) an American physician and medical researcher, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on prion disease
  Hermod Skånland (1925–2011) an economist and Governor of the Central Bank of Norway  1985 to 1993
  Gerd Fleischer (born 1942) a human rights activist
  Svein Ludvigsen (born 1946) a Norwegian former politician and a convicted sex offender
  Mads Gilbert (born 1947) a Norwegian physician, humanitarian, activist and politician
  Hermann Kristoffersen (born 1947) a former long-serving Mayor of Tromsø, known as Red Hermann
  Hans-Tore Bjerkaas (born 1951) a former Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
caption: Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
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