John Bjørnebye (12 January 1941 – 3 May 2017) was a Norwegian diplomat. He was born in

Tromsø Tromsø (, , ; se, Romsa ; fkv, Tromssa; sv, Tromsö) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Tromsø (city), city of Tromsø. Tromsø lies ...

, and was a cand.philol. by education. He started working for the

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Norwegian (Bokmål): ''Det kongelige utenriksdepartement''; Norwegian (Nynorsk): ''Det kongelege utanriksdepartement'') is the foreign ministry of the Kingdom of Norway. It was established on June ...

in 1970. He served as the Norwegian consul-general in

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from 1989 to 1994, and then as the Norwegian ambassador to

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

from 1994 to 1999. After two years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was the Norwegian ambassador to

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from 2001 to 2006. Bjørnebye died on 3 May 2017, aged 76.

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1941 births 2017 deaths People from Tromsø Norwegian civil servants Norwegian expatriates in the United States Ambassadors of Norway to Japan Ambassadors of Norway to Belgium {{Norway-diplomat-stub