Editing Vest-Agder (section)

==Notable residents==
[[:Category:People from Vest-Agder]]
*[[Sofus Arctander]] (1845–1924), Liberal politician, Prime Minister for a brief period in 1905.
*[[Bernt Balchen]] (1899–1973), aeronaut, WWII pilot, polar navigator, military officer.
*[[Jens Bjørneboe]] (1920–1976), author and playwright.
*[[Camilla Collett]] (Wergeland) (1813–1895), author, writer, feminist, emancipator.
*[[Bjøro Håland]], country & western musician.
*[[Bjarne Lingås]] (1933–2011), heavyweight boxer, amateur (198, 14 losses) and professional (14, 2 losses).
*[[Rolf Løvland]], musician, composer, director, twice winning [[European Song Contest]].
*[[Herman Wedel Major]] (1814–1854, born in Ireland), regarded as the founder of modern psychiatry in Norway.
*[[Svein Mathisen]] (1952–2011), football player for [[IK Start]], Hibernian, and Norway.
*[[Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway]] (1973–), Crown Princess of Norway.
*[[Jørgen Moe]] (1813–1882), writer, folklorist ([[Peter Christen Asbjørnsen|Asbjørnsen]] og Moe), poet, bishop of Kristiansand. 
*[[Nicolai Tangen]] (1966), hedgefund investor, CEO of the Norwegian Soveregin Wealth Fund (NBIM) since 2020.
*[[Christian Rynning-Tønnesen]] (1959–), business leader, CEO of [[Norske Skog]], [[Statkraft]].
*[[Emanuel Vigeland]] (1875–1948), artist, sculptor, painter, creator of the [[Vigeland installation]] in [[Frogner Park]] in Oslo.
*[[Gustav Vigeland]] (1869–1945), artist, sculptor, painter.
*[[Henrik Wergeland]] (1808–1845), author, writer, playwright, educator, national archivar, bureaucrat, emancipator.