Editing Asker (section)

=== Public service ===
[[File:Berit Ås.jpg|140px|thumb|Berit Ås, 2004]]
* [[Einar Gerhardsen]] (1897 in Asker – 1987) [[Prime Minister of Norway]] 1940s to 1960s
* [[Dagny Berger]] (1903 in Asker – 1950) Norway's first woman aviator
* [[Anders Lange]] (1904 in Nordstrand – 1974), politician, founded the [[Progress Party (Norway)]]
* [[Arne Skaare]] (1907-1981) politician, Mayor of Asker municipality from 1956 to 1967
* [[Jens Evensen]] (1917–2004 in Asker), Norwegian lawyer, judge, politician, member of the [[International Law Commission]] and judge at the [[International Court of Justice]] in [[The Hague]]
* [[Hans Christen Mamen]] (1919 in Asker – 2009) a [[Norwegian resistance movement|resistance member]], local historian and priest
* [[Sverre Bergh]] (1920 in Asker – 2006) an engineer and spy in Nazi Germany during WWII
* [[Erik Gjems-Onstad]], [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] (1922–2011) [[Norwegian resistance movement|resistance member]] and lawyer; lived in Hvalstad
* [[Jon Fossum]] (1923 in Hvalstad – 2007) orienteer and Mayor of Asker municipality 1968/80
* [[Berit Ås]] (born 1928) former Asker councilor, psychologist, and feminist
* [[Jan Martin Larsen]] (born 1938) cartographer, orienteer and Asker councilor 1995 to 2007
* [[Eyvind W. Wang]] (born 1942) politician, Mayor of Asker 1980 to 1995, and car mechanic
* [[Morten Strand]] (born 1947) politician, Mayor of Asker 1995 to 2007, and footballer
* [[Valgerd Svarstad Haugland]] (born 1956) politician, county Governor of Oslo and Akershus 2011/18
* [[Beate Gangås]] (born 1963 in Asker) LGBT Oslo Chief of Police