# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-fredrik-dahl
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:33:38.700Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-fredrik-dahl"
name: "Hans Fredrik Dahl"
slug: "hans-fredrik-dahl"
description: "Hans Fredrik Dahl is a Norwegian historian, journalist and media scholar, best known in the English-speaking world for his biography of Vidkun Quisling, a Nazi collaborationist and Minister President for Norway during the Second World War. His research is focused on media history, the totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, and the Second World War. He served as culture editor of Dagbladet 1978–1985 and has been a board member of the paper since 1996. He was a professor at the University of Oslo 1988–2009, and is now a professor emeritus."
tagline: "Norwegian historian and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nordiske_Mediedager_2010_-_Thursday_-_NMD_2010_(4583647613)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-10-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.03
  momentum:             1.875
  historical:           7.672354666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10043633/"
    handle:    "nm10043633"
sources:
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    title: "Hans Fredrik Dahl"
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    title: "هانس داهل (مؤرخ)"
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    title: "Hans Fredrik Dahl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Fredrik_Dahl"
    title: "Hans Fredrik Dahl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Fredrik_Dahl"
    title: "Hans Fredrik Dahl"
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    title: "Hans Fredrik Dahl"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Fredrik_Dahl"
    title: "Hans Fredrik Dahl"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Fredrik_Dahl"
    title: "Hans Fredrik Dahl"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump