# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olav-midttun
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:08:53.200Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olav-midttun"
name: "Olav Midttun"
slug: "olav-midttun"
description: "Olav Midttun was a Norwegian philologist, biographer, magazine editor, and media executive. He edited the cultural magazine Syn og Segn for more than fifty years, and was the first national program director of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK)."
tagline: "Norwegian philologist (1883-1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Olav_Midttun_URN_NBN_no-nb_foto_NF_WA_02786.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1883-04-08"
deathDate: "1972-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           30.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.400972
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10416076/"
    handle:    "nm10416076"
sources:
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Midttun"
    title: "Olav Midttun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Midttun"
    title: "Olav Midttun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Midttun"
    title: "Olav Midttun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Midttun"
    title: "Olav Midttun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Midttun"
    title: "Olav Midttun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3433303"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump