Editing Vestvågøy Municipality (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Edvarda Lie.jpg|140px|thumb|Edvarda Lie, 1935]]
* [[Hartvig Jentoft]] (1693 in Borge – 1739), a tradesman and sailor
* [[Karl Uchermann]] (1855 in Borge – 1940), a painter of dogs and altarpieces
* [[Mikael Heggelund Foslie]] (1855 in Borge – 1909), a botanist and [[algae]]ologist
* [[Jens R. Nilssen]] (1880 in Valberg – 1964), an illustrator, comics creator, and cartoonist
* [[Edvarda Lie]] (1910–1963), a painter, drawer, and illustrator who was brought up in Vestvågøy
* [[Boy Rist]] (1912 in Gravdal – 1972), a naval officer and member of the [[Norwegian resistance movement|Norwegian resistance]] in WWII
* [[Harald Sverdrup (writer)|Harald Sverdrup]] (1923 in Gravdal – 1992), a poet and children's writer
* [[Kari Wærness]] (born 1939 in Leknes), a sociologist
* [[Søren Fredrik Voie]] (born 1949 in Vestvågøy), a politician who was Mayor of Vestvågøy from 1983-1987
* [[Guri Ingebrigtsen]] (1952–2020), a [[politician]] who was Mayor of Vestvågøy from 1999 to 2007
* [[Aga Khan V]] (born 1971), who bought a house in Unstad in 2019 (before succeeding to the Imamate)