Editing Tromsø (section)

=== Public servants ===
[[File:Johannes Steen.jpg|140px|thumb|Johannes Steen]]
[[File:Daniel Carleton Gajdusek 2bw.jpg|140px|thumb|Daniel Carleton Gajdusek]]
* [[Johannes Steen]] (1827–1906), educator, politician, Mayor of Tromsø from 1856-1862, and [[Prime Minister of Norway]] from 1891-1893
* [[Oscar Nissen]] (1843–1911) , physician, newspaper editor, and politician
* [[Paul Steenstrup Koht]] (1844–1892), educator, politician, city mayor, and member of the [[Storting]]
* [[Hans Jacob Horst]] (1848–1931), politician who was 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), philologist, linguist, ethnographer, cultural historian, headmaster, politician, and Mayor of Tromsø
* [[Dorothea Schjoldager]] (1853–1938), feminist proponent for women's rights, school teacher, and social worker
* [[James Trane]] (1857–1936), Norwegian-American inventor and industrialist who co-founded [[Trane]]
* [[Einar Hoidale]] (1870–1952), lawyer, newspaper editor, and [[United States House of Representatives|politician]] from [[Minnesota]]
* [[Arnold Holmboe]] (1873–1956), 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), engineer and decorated [[Norwegian resistance movement|resistance member]] during WWII
* [[Martin Siem]] (1915–1996), businessperson and [[Norwegian resistance movement|WWII resistance member]]
* [[Daniel Carleton Gajdusek]] (1923–2008), American physician, medical researcher, and co-recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for work on [[prion]] disease
* [[Hermod Skånland]] (1925–2011), economist and Governor of the [[Norges Bank|Central Bank of Norway]] 1985 to 1993
* [[Gerd Fleischer]] (born 1942), human rights activist
* [[Svein Ludvigsen]] (born 1946), former politician and a convicted sex offender
* [[Mads Gilbert]] (born 1947), physician, humanitarian, activist, and politician
* [[Herman Kristoffersen]] (born 1947), former long-serving Mayor of Tromsø who was known as ''Red Hermann''
* [[Hans-Tore Bjerkaas]] (born 1951), former [[Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation]]