page_title: Ullensvang
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Ullensvang / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Eiliv Austlid, born 6 May 1899, dead 15 April 1940
context_page_description: Ullensvang is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre is the town of Odda. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Lofthus, Utne, Vikebygd, Alsåker, Botnen, Eitrheim, Håra, Røldal, Seljestad, Skare, Tyssedal, Jondal, Herand, Kysnesstranda, and Torsnes.
  The main inhabited part of Ullensvang municipality lies just to the west of Hardangervidda National Park, which covers most of the Hardangervidda plateau, Europe's largest mountain plateau. Most inhabitants live in the narrow coastal mountainsides and valleys along the Hardangerfjorden and Sørfjorden. The largest urban areas in Ullensvang are Odda, Kinsarvik, Jondal, and Lofthus. The Norwegian National Road 13 and the European route E134 are the two main roads through the municipality. National road 13 crosses the Hardangerfjorden via the Hardanger Bridge in the far northern part of the municipality.
  The 3,237-square-kilometre municipality is the 12th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Ullensvang is the 104th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 11,048.
context_section_description: Nils Christian Egede Hertzberg (1827 in Ullensvang – 1911) theologian, educator and politician
  Knud Knudsen (1832 in Odda – 1915) one of Norway's first professional photographers
  Nils Tjoflot (1865 in Tjoflot – 1898) a Norwegian violinist
  Georg Brochmann (1894 in Ullensvang – 1952) journalist, writer and playwright
  Halldor O. Opedal (1895 in Lofthus – 1986) a Norwegian teacher and folklorist
  Eiliv Austlid (1899 in Ullensvang – 1940) a Norwegian farmer and army officer
  Zinken Hopp (1905 in Ullensvang – 1987) a Norwegian author, poet and playwright
  Claes Gill (1910 in Odda - 1973) a Norwegian author, poet and actor 
  Torbjørn Mork (1928 in Odda – 1992) a Norwegian physician and civil servant
  Roger Albertsen (1957–2003) a football midfielder with over 300 club caps and 25 for Norway
  Anne B. Ragde (born 1957 in Odda) a Norwegian novelist 
  Frode Grytten (born 1960) a Norwegian writer and journalist, he grew up in Odda
  Knut Olav Åmås (born 1968 in Odda) a Norwegian writer, editor and politician
  Svein Olav Herstad (born 1969 in Odda) a jazz pianist
  Leif Einar Lothe (born 1969 in Odda) a Norwegian TV personality, stage name Lothepus
  Marit Eikemo (born 1971 in Odda) an essayist, novelist, journalist and magazine editor
  Rannveig Djønne (born 1974 in Djønno) a Norwegian folk musician
  Håkon Opdal (born 1982 in Odda) a footballer with over 350 club caps and 12 for Norway
caption: Eiliv Austlid, ca.1925
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