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Vik (surname)
Vik is a surname. People with the surname include: *Anne Petrea Vik (born 1933), Norwegian politician *Arnfinn Vik (1901–1990), Norwegian politician *Bjarte Engen Vik (born 1971), Nordic combined skier *Bjørg Vik (1935–2018), Norwegian writer *Frithjov Meier Vik (1902–1986), Norwegian politician *Ingebrigt Vik (1867–1927), Norwegian sculptor *Jakob Nilsson Vik (1882–1960), Norwegian politician * Knut Severin Jakobsen Vik (1892–1972), Norwegian politician * Maya Vik, Norwegian musician *Oddmund Vik (1858–1930), Norwegian politician *Ragnar Vik (1893–1941), Norwegian sailor *Robin Vik (born 1980), Czech tennis player See also * Vic (name) Vic and Vik are short forms of the given names Victor (name), Victor and Viktor. Notable people and characters with these names include: * Vik Adhopia, Canadian radio reporter * Vic Aldridge (1893–1973), American Major League Baseball pitcher * V ... {{surnames Norwegian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Petrea Vik
Anne Petrea Vik (born 8 January 1933) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. From 1989 to 1990, while the cabinet Syse held office, Vik was appointed Minister of Agriculture. On the local level she was a member of Kvæfjord municipal council from 1975 to 1975, and later served as deputy mayor from 1995 to 1999. From 1979 to 1987 she was a member of Troms county council. From 1979 to 1984 she chaired the Centre Party Women's Association, during the same period she was a member of the Centre Party central party board. She was a member of the board of the Norwegian Agrarian Association from 1979 to 1984 and of Harstad University College from 1994 to 1997. She has also been involved in the Royal Norwegian Society for Development The Royal Norwegian Society for Development ( no, Det Kongelige Selskap for Norges Vel, also known as ''Norges Vel'' 'Norwegian Development', originally called ''Selskabet for Norges Vel'' 'Norwegian Society for Development') is a general develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnfinn Vik
Arnfinn Vik (20 May 1901 – 13 September 1990) was a Norwegian politician who served as Mayor of Oslo. He was born at Drammen in Buskerud, Norway. He participated in the Left Communist Youth League's military strike action of 1924. He was convicted for assisting in this crime and sentenced to 4 months of prison. He was secretary of the Oslo Labour Party in 1936 and was a member of the Oslo City Council from 1938. He was a central resistance member during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany (1940-1945) and served as a leader of the Norwegian resistance group, ''Hjemmefrontens Ledelse''. After the end of World War II, he served as mayor of Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ... from 1945 to 1947. He was later director of the Oslo housing authority (''Boligfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjarte Engen Vik
Bjarte Engen Vik (born 3 March 1971 in Tromsø) is a Norwegian former nordic combined athlete. He won the FIS World Cup overall twice, in 1997/98 and 1998/99 with a total of 24 wins. He also has eight medals from the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with five golds (1997: 4 x 5 km team, 1999: 15 km individual, 7.5 km sprint, 2001: 15 km individual, 4 x 5 km team), and three silvers (1995: 4 x 5 km team, 1997: 15 km individual, 1999: 4 x 5 km team). He also won a bronze medal in the Norwegian championship in ski jumping. His consecutive wins in the Individual Gundersen at the Nordic skiing World Championships in 1999 and 2001 were the first since Oddbjørn Hagen did it in 1934 and 1935. Vik also found great success at the Holmenkollen ski festival, winning the Nordic combined individual event five times (1996–2000), becoming one of only four athletes to do so (Lauritz Bergendahl, Johan Grøttumsbråten, and Rauno Miettinen are the other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjørg Vik
Bjørg Vik (11 September 1935 – 7 January 2018) was a Norwegian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and journalist. Biography Bjørg Turid Vik was born in Oslo, Norway. Her parents were Sverre Thorbjørn Johansen (1903–1958) and Anna Sofie Marcussen (1902–1987). She grew up in the neighborhood of St. Hanshaugen in Oslo. She completed her ''examen artium'' at Hegdehaugen School in 1954 and attended the Journalist Academy in Oslo from 1955 to 1956. From 1956 to 1960, she was a journalist for the newspaper '' Porsgrunns Dagblad''. She made her literary debut in 1963 with the short story collection ''Søndag ettermiddag''. Further collections from the 1960s are ''Nødrop fra en myk sofa'' (1966) and ''Det grådige hjerte'' (1968). She also wrote five novels. Between 1988 and 1994 she published the semi-autobiographical Elsi Lund trilogy of novels about adolescence and maturity in postwar Oslo. The trilogy consists of ''Små nøkler store rom'' (1988), ''Poplene på St. Han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frithjov Meier Vik
Frithjov Meier Vik (15 March 1902 – 2 January 1986) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He was born in Kvæfjord. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Troms in 1954, and was re-elected on two occasions. Vik was deputy mayor of Kvæfjord Kvæfjord ( sme, Giehtavuotna) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms og Finnmark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Central Hålogaland. The administrative centr ... municipality in 1950–1951 and 1951–1954. References * 1902 births 1986 deaths People from Kvæfjord Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting 20th-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingebrigt Vik
Ingebrigt Vik (5 March 1867 – 22 March 1927) was a Norwegian sculptor. Vik is regarded as having been one of Norway's greatest sculptors from the first part of the 20th century. Biography Ingebrigt Vik was born in the village of Øystese in the municipality of Kvam, Hordaland county, Norway. He was the son of Hans Gunnarson Tveit (1832–1901) and Ingebjørg Torgeirsdotter Vik (1841–1902). He grew up in Øystese and began as a wood carver in his father's factory. He trained as an artist at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from 1889 to 1891. After surgery for tuberculosis in his left knee, he returned home to recover. In 1903 he moved to Paris and attended Académie Colarossi where he trained with sculptor Jean Antoine Injalbert. In 1906, he was assigned the Houens legat and studied in Italy. Some of Vik's best known works are in the National Gallery of Norway, including ''Ung Pike'' (1903) ''Sittende ung pike'' (1908) and ''Ynglingen'' (1913) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob Nilsson Vik
Jakob Nilsson Vik (March 12, 1882 – 1960) was a Norwegian farmer, dairy manager, and politician. He sat in the Parliament of Hordaland from 1928 to 1945, became the Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs 1931–1933 in Kolstad and Hundseid, and was the Consultative Councillor of State from 1940 to 1941. Vik was born in Kvam, and was educated at the Uprights Agricultural School in 1903 and the National Dairy School, located in Brandbu Brandbu is a village in Gran Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located in Hadeland, along the eastern shore of the large lake Randsfjorden, about to the northwest of the capital city of Oslo. Brandbu and its neighboring ..., in 1906. Besides working as a farmer in Kvam, he was the dairy manager for several years. He also was the chairman of the Hardanger Meieribolag and director of The Norwegian Milk Manufacturers Association. In 1919, Vik was elected District Council in Kvam. During 1922-1931 he was the mayor, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knut Severin Jakobsen Vik
Knut Severin Jakobsen Vik (23 February 1892 – 16 July 1972) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland in 1954, and was re-elected on one occasion. He had previously served in the position of deputy representative during the term 1950–1953. During this term he served temporarily as a regular representative meanwhile Jakob Martin Pettersen were appointed to the Cabinet, until July 1953 when the death of Ole Jensen Rong Ole Jensen Rong (26 November 1885 – 18 July 1953) was a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party, Labour Party. He was born in Herdla, Herlø. He was elected to the Stortinget, Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland in 1945, and was ... meant that Moe moved up in the hierarchy to be considered a full representative. Pettersen was instead covered by another former deputy representative Gurid Almenningen. Jakobsen Vik was born in Bruvik and a member of Bruvik municipality co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Vik
Maya Vik is a "Norwegian Grammy" (Spellemannprisen) winning singer, songwriter, and bass player from Norway. Her career has spanned over 15 years with music that is often described by the press as reminiscent of the Minneapolis Sound. Most recently, Maya gained notoriety with her Lindstrøm produced homage to Michael Douglas with a song titled "Y.M.D. (Young Michael Douglas)" in which Vice Noisey called a "weird obsession". Early years Maya Vik was born into a middle-class family. Her father, is an athlete who specialized in the high jump and won the Norwegian national championship in 1970. Growing up in the small town of Os just outside Bergen, Maya bought a guitar when she was 14 and started learning to play. Ultimately, Maya's sister was her biggest influence on music and introduced her to the songs of Janet Jackson, Prince, Michael Jackson, etc. Two years later, Maya switched to playing the bass at age 16. Bands Furia In 1999 Maya joined Furia, an all-female rock band t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oddmund Vik
Oddmund Jakobsen Vik (19 April 1858 – 12 February 1930) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He was born in Vik i Øystese as the son of farmer Jakob Larsen Vik (1828–1925) and his wife Magnhild Nilsdotter Laupsa (1828–1914). He graduated from the teacher's college at Stord in 1877, and worked as a teacher in Sund in 1878, at Sagatun folk high school the next year, in Telemark from 1879, in Askov from 1882 and Andebu from 1884 to 1888. In 1885 he wrote a piece in ''Dagbladet'', "Fra Ekserserpladsen Tvildemoen", which was seen as anti-military agitation. He was sentenced to 40 days in prison by a military court; the sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court. He was also ordered to pay NOK 100 in costs. However, the government of Norway changed the sentencing to ten days in prison and no costs. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragnar Vik
Ragnar Magne Vik (3 July 1893 – died 9 January 1941 in Liverpool) was a Norwegian sailor who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van .... He was a crew member of the Norwegian boat ''Sildra'', which won the gold medal in the 8 metre class (1919 rating). References External linksprofile 1893 births 1941 deaths Norwegian male sailors (sport) Sailors at the 1920 Summer Olympics – 8 Metre Olympic sailors for Norway Olympic gold medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in sailing Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics {{Norway-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Vik
Robin Vik (born 5 February 1980 in Hradec Králové) is a Czech professional tennis player. Vik turned professional in 1995 and he reached a career high ranking of World No. 57 in January 2006. Career highlight runs are reaching the semifinals of St. Petersburg in 2005 and the quarterfinals of Dubai and Munich in 2006. Notable victories include World No. 10 Gastón Gaudio at the 2006 World Team Cup in Düsseldorf, World No. 25 Tomáš Berdych at Dubai in 2006, World No. 27 and recent US Open semifinalist Mikhail Youzhny at St. Petersburg in 2005 and a declining World No. 27 and defending champion Guillermo Coria at Umag in 2006. Vik was beaten in the first round of the 2006 Australian Open by Lleyton Hewitt Lleyton Glynn Hewitt (born 24 February 1981) is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player. He is the most recent Australian man to win a major singles title, with two at the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon Championships. In November 200 ... in a tight 5-set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
