Knut Helle (born 19 December 1930) is a Norwegian historian. A professor at the University of Bergen from 1973 to 2000, he has specialized in the late medieval history of Norway. He has contributed to several large works.

He was born in Larvik as the son of school inspector Hermann Olai Helle (1893–1973) and teacher Berta Marie Malm (1906–1991). He was the older brother of politician Ingvar Lars Helle. The family moved to Hetland when Knut Helle was seventeen years old.

He took the examen artium in Stavanger in 1949, and a teacher's education in Kristiansand in 1952. He studied philology in Oslo and Bergen, and graduated with the cand.philol. degree in 1957. His paper Omkring Bǫglungasǫgur, on the Bagler sagas, was printed in 1959. In December 1957 he married Karen Blauuw, who would later become a professor. Helle's marriage to Blauuw was dissolved in 1985. In October 1987 Helle got married to museum director and professor of medieval archaeology Ingvild Øye. They reside in Bergen.

Helle was a research fellow at the University of Bergen from 1958 to 1963, with the last year being spent at Oxford University. He was hired as a lecturer of history at the University of Bergen in 1963, and promoted to professor in 1973. He specialized in the history of Norway in the Late Middle Ages, and his first major work was Norge blir en stat 1130–1319, published in 1964 and covering general Norwegian history from 1130 from 1319. His main work was Konge og gode menn i norsk riksstyring ca. 1150–1319, published in 1972. In historiography, he is known for reaching different conclusions than did important Norwegian historians of the 1930s, such as Edvard Bull, Sr. and Andreas Holmsen.

Knut Arild Hareide (born 23 November 1972) is a Norwegian businessperson and the leader of the Christian Democratic Party. Hareide served as Minister of the Environment from 2004 to 2005. Hareide received his share of criticism during this time; environmental press groups spoke out against him on numerous occasions, and even pressed legal charges following a controversial case.

Before his tenure as government minister, Hareide had sat through one term in the municipal council of his native Bømlo, served as a deputy representative to the national parliament as well as working two years as a State Secretary. He was also second deputy leader of his party from 2003 to 2007, having come through the ranks of the party's youth organization. An economist by education, Hareide currently works for the media conglomerate Schibsted. In 2007 he announced his stepping down from the national political scene for the time being, but he returned when announced as the top candidate for the Christian Democratic Party ticket in Akershus in the 2009 election. After Dagfinn Høybråten stepped down as party leader, Hareide was unanimously elected to take his place at the 2011 party convention.

Knut Anders Sørum is a Norwegian singer from Østre Toten. He won the Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest selection in 2004, the so-called Melodi Grand Prix, and thus represented Norway at Eurovision 2004 in Istanbul with the pop-ballad "High", written by two Swedish composers. In the final he came last, with just three points, all from Sweden.

Knut Anders Sørum has recently done backing vocals for the latest Wig Wam-LP Wig Wamania.

Ian James Alastair Graham (born 12 November 1923) is a British Mayanist whose explorations of Maya ruins in the jungles of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize helped establish the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions published by the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. Among his related works is a biography of an early predecessor, the 19th-century British Maya explorer Alfred Maudslay.

Ian Graham was born 1923 in Campsea Ashe, a village in the East Anglia county of Suffolk, England. He went to Trinity College, Oxford in 1942 as an undergraduate in physics, but his studies were put on hold the following year when he left to enlist in the Royal Navy in which he served for the remainder of World War II. After the war his studies were resumed at Trinity College, Dublin from where he completed his bachelor's degree in 1951.

Tore Vagn Lid (born 1973) is a Norwegian theatre director, playwright and musician, serving as artistic director of Transiteatret-Bergen. He was born in Bergen.

He earned a PhD from the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Germany. He has both directed and written a number of award-winning performances, including Walk Cat, Walk! (2002), Esse est precipi (2006) and Polyphonia (2007).

He was awarded the Hedda Award (category "Project of the year") in 2008 for his direction of the play Mann=Mann, a cooperation with Rogaland Teater. His play Operasjon Almenrausch, based on the World War II Operation Almenrausch, was first performed at Agder Teater in October 2008. In 2009 he received the Hedda Award in the category "Event of the year" for this play.

He was selected to the program "Young directors project" for the Salzburg Festival 2008 with his staging of Brecht/Eislers play The Measures Taken (in German: Die Maßnahme). Central in what is seen as a new political turn in the contemporary Norwegian theater. Has also written numerous articles, especially focusing on the relationship between theater and music, musicdramaturgy and musical strategies for theater directing. The theater suite Elephant Stories (performed at the Bergen International Festival and at The Festival for contemporary theater at the National Theater, Oslo 2009) is an audio-visual confrontation between the theater room and a "new naturalism" represented by the new neuro-sciences. His last production is a Norwegian firstperformance and musical adaption of Gerhart Hauptmanns Before Sunrise (Vor Sonnenaufgang) at "Den Nationale Scene" during the Bergen International Festival 2011, following up the critical discussion about biologism, and using Hauptmanns naturalistic piece (1889) as a prism towards an upcoming new naturalism.