•
Hanna Brummenæs (1860-1942), a pioneering female shipping company owner and City Councillor •
Eivind Nielsen (1864–1939), a painter and illustrator of children's books •
Egil Eide (1868–1946), a silent film actor and director •
Henrik Børseth (1885–1970), an actor •
Ellen Sinding (1899–1980), an actress and dancer •
Tollak B. Sirnes (1922–2009), a physician, psychiatrist, and pharmacologist •
Olle Johan Eriksen (1923–1999), a politician who was mayor of
Haugesund Municipality in the 1970s •
Odd Langholm (born 1928), an economist and
historian of economic thought •
Jacob Stolt-Nielsen (1931–2015), an entrepreneur who founded
Stolt-Nielsen, a parcel tanker firm •
Hanne Krogh (born 1956), a singer and actress, won the
Eurovision Song Contest 1985 •
Jon Fosse (born 1959), an author and dramatist awarded in 2023 with the Nobel prize in Literature •
Turid Birkeland (1962–2015), a cultural executive and former politician •
Steffen Kverneland (born 1963), an illustrator and comics writer •
Kjetil Steensnæs (born 1976), a jazz musician who plays guitar,
dobro, and banjo •
Captain Frodo (born 1976), a
Guinness World Record breaking contortionist who lives in Australia •
Gunhild Stordalen (born 1979), a physician and environmental advocate •
Susanne Sundfør (born 1986), a singer-songwriter and record producer
US emigrants •
Gunvald Aus (1851–1950), an engineer who built the
Woolworth Building in
New York City •
Hannah Kallem (1865-1937), an American Army nurse who served in the
Spanish–American War • Martin Edward Mortensen (1897–1981), the son of an emigrant from the village of
Skjold near Haugesund, was listed as father on the birth certificate of
Marilyn Monroe. A statue of Monroe by
Nils Aas stands on the seafront promenade in Haugesund town centre •
Sigmund R. Petersen (born ca.1940), a
rear admiral and fourth Director of the
NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps, who emigrated in 1948 to the USA
Sport •
Stig Traavik (born 1967), a former judoka at
1992 Summer Olympics and diplomat. •
Egil Østenstad (born 1972), a former footballer with 334 club caps and 18 for
Norway •
Trygve Nygaard (born 1975), a retired footballer with over 300 club caps •
Kenneth Høie (born 1979), a former football goalkeeper with 330 club caps •
Svein Oddvar Moen (born 1979), a Norwegian football referee •
Susanne Wigene (born 1978), a middle and long-distance runner •
Christian Grindheim (born 1983), a retired footballer with 530 club caps and 54 for
Norway •
Tor Arne Andreassen (born 1983), former footballer, played 334 games with
FK Haugesund •
Alexander Søderlund (born 1987), a footballer with over 300 club caps and 32 for
Norway •
Sven Erik Bystrøm (born 1992), a Norwegian road bicycle racer •
Tommy Langaker (born 1994), a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu athlete, first Norwegian Black Belt World Champion under IBJJF ==See also==