John Lind Johansen
John Lind Johansen( 29 September 1852 – 31 January 1940) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
He was born at Aarstein in Ibbestad.
He studies fisheries in France and Belgium, and spent his working career as a fisher and farmer.
He was a member of Ibbestad municipal council, and served as deputy mayor, for some time.
He was elected to the Parliament of Norway already in the 1903 election, representing the constituencies of Troms ø
Amt.
The Labour Party went from 0 to 4 seats after the 1903 election, all representatives of Northern Norway.
In addition to Lind Johansen, they were Meyer Foshaug, Alfred Eriksen and Jørg Berge; also, Adam Egede- Nissen was elected on the Liberal Party ballot.
Johansen was re-elected from the new single- member constituency Trondenes in 1906 to serve one more term.
Jens Galaaen
Jens Galaaen( 25 April 1893 – 13 May 1963) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties.
He was born in Røros as a son of farmers.
He contributed to the local Labour newspaper" Arbeidets Rett" from a young age, and edited the newspaper from 1919 to 1923.
He was also imprisoned from 1918 to 1919 for being a conscientious objector.
In 1923 he broke away from the Labour Party, joining the Communist Party.
He was a journalist in" Buskerud- Arbeideren" from 1924 to 1925, edited" Møre Arbeiderblad" from 1925 to 1929 and" Arbeidet" from 1929.
In 1932 he was again imprisoned, this time for six months.
He defended the Moscow processes in" Klassekampen" in 1937.
In 1938 he edited the book" Norske frivillige i Spania.
En dokumentasjon om antifascistiske frontkjempere i Spania", about.
Adam Egede- Nissen, Lise Lindbæk and Nordahl Grieg also contributed.
During the Second World
War he was involved in the calamities around Peder Furubotn.
In 1941 he was dispatched by the central committee of the Communist Party to relieve Furubotn of his position as party secretary in Western Norway.
This did not happen; instead the Western Norway party branch excluded Galaaen from the party.
Thorolf Bugge
Thorolf Bugge (1 October 1879 – 21 May 1935) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour and Communist parties.
He was born in Heddal as a son of district physician Johan Carl Bugge (1847–1902) and Christine Theodora Drolsum (1854–1882).
He was a grandson of Ulrik Bugge.
He had middle school education, and also studied at Bergen Technical School.
He was hired at a post office in Vardø in 1898, and when postmaster Adam Egede-Nissen was a member of Parliament, Bugge was acting postmaster in Vardø from 1901 to 1906.
He then started working at a farm and in the company Sydvaranger.
He became chairman of the trade union Nordens Klippe from 1907 to 1908, but for his activism he was blacklisted.
He continued as a farmer until 1916, then as a manager in Sør-Varanger provisioning council until 1917, then as a municipal secretary.
He moved from his farm to Kirkenes.
He had entered politics, and was a member of the executive committee of Sør-Varanger municipal council from 1910 to 1922; also a school board member from 1910 to 1916.
In the 1921 Norwegian parliamentary election he was elected to the Parliament of Norway.
He was a member of the Standing Committee on Roads.
In 1923, before the parliamentary term was over, he left the Labour Party and joined the Communist Party.
He headed their ballot in the subsequent elections of 1924, 1927, 1930 and 1933, but was never again re-elected.
He was married to cultural worker Kathrine Bugge (née Hanssen, 1877–1951) from December 1922.
He died in May 1935, aged 55.
Girma Asmerom
Girma Asmerom Tesfai( 10 December 1949 – 5 October 2016) was an Eritrean politician and diplomat.
He was the ambassador of Eritrea to the United Nations at the time of his death.
He also previously served as ambassador to South Africa, the United States of America, the European Union( 2006 – 2011) and African Union.
He died in New York City in the United States in 2016.
The very seasoned diplomat was also once a college soccer star as an undergraduate student at Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine.
He got his BA degree in June, 1973 where he majored in Government studies.
He also was an Honor student- athlete and made the Dean's List.
He was also very active on campus and was a Student Proctor between 1971- 1972.
Outside of the class room he was the winner of the George Levine Memorial Soccer Trophy award and was Bowdoin's leading goal scorer of all time until 2007 when it was broken by another player who played all 4 years.
Ambassador Girma accomplished the record in 3 years.
Ghirmai Ghebremariam
Ghirmai Ghebremariam was the ambassador of Eritrea to the United States and Canada from September 2016 to March 2011.
In September 2006 he was sworn in and replaced Ambassador Girma Asmerom.
Gebremariam was formerly the ambassador to the UK.
His tenure as Eritrea's ambassador to the United States and Canada ended on March 2011.
Gerd Grieg
Gerd Grieg, née Egede- Nissen( 21 April 1895 – 9 August 1988) was a Norwegian stage and film actress.
She was born in Bergen, Norway.
Her parents were Georga Wilhelma Ellertsen( 1871- 1959) and politician Adam Egede- Nissen( 1868- 1953).
She had ten siblings.
Her siblings Aud Egede- Nissen, Ada Kramm, Stig Egede- Nissen, Lill Egede- Nissen and Gøril Havrevold became actors as well.
Gerd Grieg made her acting début at the Nationaltheatret in 1910.
During the German occupation of Norway, Gerd Grieg was active in supporting the Norwegian war effort from exile.
Gerd Grieg mostly stayed in the United States and the United Kingdom," entertaining Norwegian seamen like a Norwegian Vera Lynn".
Gøril Havrevold
Gøril Havrevold, née Egede- Nissen( 11 July 1914 – 17 March 1992) was a Norwegian stage and film actress.
Aud Egede-Nissen
Aud Egede- Nissen( 30 May 1893 – 15 November 1974) was a Norwegian actress, director and producer.
She appeared in many early 20th- century German silent films.
Adam Egede-Nissen
Adam Hjalmar Egede- Nissen( b. 29 June 1868 in Levanger, d. 4 April 1953 in Bærum, Akershus), a Norwegian postmaster and politician, began his political career in the Liberal Party and was first elected to the Storting( parliament) in 1900.
He later switched to the Labour Party before eventually joining the Communist Party of Norway, serving as party chairman from 1934 to 1946.
Jørg Berge
Jørg( Jørgen) Berge( 3 September 1854 – 1916) was a Norwegian editor, temperance activist and politician for the Labour Party.
He was born in Arendal.
He spent several years as a seaman, and studied and worked in Canada, Spain and several cities in France.
He converted to Roman Catholicism while hospitalized in Montreal.
Back in Norway he worked as a teacher at Catholic schools in Kristiania and Alten, and also a cathecet in Harstad.
He was briefly subeditor of the newspaper" Finmarken" in Vadsø, and from 1907 lighthouse keeper in Vikten.
However, he is best remembered for his time in Narvik, where he moved with his family around 1900.
While living in Narvik he edited the Labour newspaper" Fremover" and was elected to the Parliament of Norway as early as in the 1903 election, representing the urban constituency of" Tromsø, Bodø og Narvik".
The Labour Party went from 0 to 4 seats after the 1903 election, all representatives of Northern Norway.
In addition to Berge, they were Meyer Foshaug, Alfred Eriksen and John Lind Johansen; also, the socialist Adam Egede- Nissen won election on the Liberal Party ballot.
Berge served only one term, as Narvik was deprived of having a candidate in" Tromsø, Bodø og Narvik".
He stood for re-election in Nord- Trøndelag in 1912 and 1915, but without succeeding.

Question: Were Girma Asmerom and Adam Egede-Nissen of the same nationality?
Answer: no