Editing Akershus (section)

== Notable residents ==
[[:Category:People from Akershus|People from Akershus]]
* [[Kristoffer Ajer]] (1998–), football player ([[Celtic FC]]), national team
* [[Harriet Backer]] (1845–1932), artist, painter educated in Oslo, Berlin, Munich and Paris
* [[Jo Benkow]] (1924–2013), WWII pilot and politician, president of [[Stortinget]] 1985-1993
* [[John Carew]] (1979–), former football player (Lørenskog, Vålerenga, Valencia, Lyon, Aston Villa), with 24 goals for Norway.
* [[Bjørn Dæhlie]] (1967), cross-country skier and most-winning skier globally, with eight gold medals from Winter Olympics
* [[Kai Eide]], diplomat, writer and politician; special UN envoy to Kosovo in 2005, head of UN mission to Afghanistan from 2008 to 2010
* [[Euronymous]] (1968–1993), musician and co-founder of black metal band [[Mayhem (band)|Mayhem]]
* [[Åslaug Haga]] (1959–), politician, member of parliament and government, president of [[Global Crop Diversity Trust]] from 2013 to 2020
* [[Morten Harket]] (1959–), musician and singer, vocal of pop group [[A-ha]]
* [[Trygve Haavelmo]] (1911–1999), economist and [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize laureate]]
* [[Anniken Huitfeldt]], politician, chair of [[Stortinget]] Committee on Foreign Relations and Defence
* [[Carl Otto Løvenskiold]] (1839–1916), politician, and briefly prime minister in Stockholm in 1884
* [[Rolf Presthus]] (1936–1988), politician, former chairman of Conservative Party and minister of Finance
* [[Jan Tore Sanner]] (1966–), politician, minister of Finance in Norway since 2020
* [[Reiulf Steen]] (1933–2014), politician, chairman of the [[Norwegian Labour Party]] from 1965 to 1975
* [[Johan Herman Wessel]] (1742–1785), poet and early satiric author