1971 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch – Olav V
• Prime Minister – Per Borten until 17 October, Trygve Bratteli

  Events

• Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country.
• 17 March – Bratteli's First Cabinet was appointed.
• 22 May – The crew quarters of the Norwegian passenger ship MS Meteor catches on fire outside Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 32 people of the ship's crew are killed in the event.
• 22 September – Princess Märtha Louise of Norway is born.

  Popular culture

Sports

Music

Film

Literature

• Per Arneberg, poet, prosaist and translator is awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize.
• Gunvor Hofmo, writer and poet, is awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for Gjest på jorden.
• Stein Mehren, poet, novelist, essayist and playwright, is awarded the Dobloug Prize literature award.
• Arild Nyquist, novelist, poet, children's writer and musician, is awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment literary prize.

  Notable births

• 3 April – Ingvild Vaggen Malvik, politician
• 6 April – Mona Grudt, model and 1990 Miss Universe
• 13 May – Espen Lind, songwriter, producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist
• 28 June – Dagrun Eriksen, politician
• 20 July – Guro Angell Gimse, politician
• 2 October – Anette Igland, footballer
• 18 October – Line Henriette Holten Hjemdal, politician
• 22 November – Geir Hartly Andreassen, cinematographer

  Notable deaths

• 16 January – Halfdan Gran Olsen, rower and Olympic bronze medallist
• 29 January – Bjarne Guldager, sprinter
• 31 January – Gunnar Jahn, jurist, economist and politician
• 24 February – Hartvig Svendsen, politician
• 1 March – Harald Damsleth, cartoonist, illustrator and ad-man
• 1 April – Hans Svarstad, politician
• 2 May – Olaf Barda, chess player, first Norwegian International Master
• 24 May – Haakon Hansen, politician
• 2 June – Per Mathiesen, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist
• 26 June – Halvor Birkeland, sailor and Olympic gold medallist
• 16 July – Birger Brandtzæg, merchant and owner of a fishing station.
• 19 July – Hans Kristian Bromstad, politician
• 20 July – Olaf Ingebretsen, gymnast and Olympic bronze medallist
• 6 August – Finn Moe, politician.
• 19 August – Arthur Sundt, politician
• 4 September – Bjarne Lyngstad, politician and Minister
• 29 September – Johannes Lid, botanist.
• 5 October – Marit Hemstad, sprinter
• 5 October – Marit Øiseth, cross country skier
• 17 October – Leif Grøner, banker and politician
• 22 October – Håkon Ellingsen, rower and Olympic bronze medallist
• 18 November – Leif Bjorholt Burull, politician
• 10 December – Arne Langset, politician
• 12 December – Kristian Johan Bodøgaard, politician

  Full date unknown

• Thorstein John Ohnstad Fretheim, politician
• Johs Haugerud, politician
• Nils Hønsvald, politician and Minister
• Nic. Stang, art historian and writer
• Julius Sundsvik, novelist and newspaper editor