Portal:Norway/Selected anniversaries/January
- Trygve Martin Bratteli (11 January 1910 - 20 November 1984) was a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party and Prime Minister of Norway from 1971 to 1972 and from 1973 to 1976.
- Dorothe Engelbretsdotter (born 16 January 1634 in Bergen, Norway, died 19 February 1713 in Bergen), was Norway's first recognized woman author.
- Carl Abraham Pihl (pictured) (born 16 January 1825 in Stavanger, Norway, died 14 September 1897) was Norway's first railroad engineer and director.
- Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born 30 January 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of Swedish and Norwegian descent.