Bård André Hoksrud (born 26 March 1973 in Porsgrunn) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party.

From 1999 to 2002 he was the chairman of the Youth of the Progress Party. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Telemark in 2005. He had previously served in the position of deputy representative during the terms 1997–2001 and 2001–2005. On the local level Hoksrud was a member of Bamble Municipality council from 1991 to 2007. He does not have higher education, but worked as a grocery store manager before entering politics.

On 21 September 2011, he admitted having paid a Latvian prostitute for sex in Riga, the capital of Latvia. This is punishable under Norwegian law, and the party's deputy leader, Per Sandberg, said that Hoksrud will resign from his political positions, if the party so wishes.

Terje Søviknes (born 28 February 1969) is a Norwegian politician, and the first politician of the Progress Party to become mayor of a Norwegian municipality, namely Os, Hordaland. He was also a deputy member to the Norwegian Parliament from 1997 to 2001.

Søviknes was born in Os, Norway to metalworker Eirik Søviknes (born 1939) and shop employee Gunn Drange (born 1942). He is married and has two children.

Søviknes was from 1999 to 2001 vice chairman of the Progress Party together with Siv Jensen, and was considered as a possible successor to Carl I. Hagen as chairman of the party. He however became controversial after an incident at a party congress in 2001 where he had committed adultery with a 16 year old intoxicated member of the Youth of the Progress Party. Søviknes is still mayor of Os and did not lose his local support after the incident. In fact, the support for the Progress Party in Os, from the 1999 local elections to the 2003 local elections increased from 36.6 to 45.7% (the highest share of votes for the party in a municipality for the election).

Siv Jensen (born 1 June 1969) is a Norwegian conservative-liberal politician, and the current leader of the Progress Party. She was the Progress Party's candidate for Prime Minister in the 2009 parliamentary election.

Jensen was born in the capital city of Oslo, Norway to self-employed Tore Jensen (1926–1989), and Monica Kjelsberg (born 1939), owners of a shoe store during her childhood. While she holds that her neighbourhood was a nice place to grow up, her home was the scene of numerous burglaries. Her parents where divorced around 1980, and her father soon moved to Sweden. Her mother was for a short while active in the Ullern Progress Party, until finding out that politics was "not her thing". Besides three half-sisters, she has one younger brother and one younger sister, Nina Jensen, a noted leader for the Norwegian WWF. Her great-grandmother was the early feminist Betzy Kjelsberg.

Jensen is educated from the Norwegian School of Economics. In September 2006, a biography on Siv Jensen was released, written by Martine Aurdal, chief editor of the feminist magazine Fett, later chief editor of the left-wing news magazine Ny Tid.