# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/per-arne-olsen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:23:43.454Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/per-arne-olsen"
name: "Per Arne Olsen"
slug: "per-arne-olsen"
description: "Per Arne Lodding Olsen was a Norwegian politician who served as a Member of Parliament for the Progress Party, where he held the position as second deputy leader. He served as the governor of Vestfold from 2016 to 2019, and from 2019 until his death was the Governor of Vestfold og Telemark, elected by the King-in-Council. While Vestfold and Telemark merged on 1 January 2020, the office of the Governor was merged a year before, on 1 January 2019."
tagline: "Norwegian politician (1961-2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Per_Arne_Olsen_2D_3_2E_jpg_DF0000301292_(crop).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1961-02-21"
deathDate: "2022-11-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           33.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.268250666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Arne_Olsen"
    title: "Per Arne Olsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A2%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%87_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "بير آرنه أولسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A2%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "بير آرنه اولسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Arne_Olsen"
    title: "Per Arne Olsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Arne_Olsen"
    title: "Per Arne Olsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Arne_Olsen"
    title: "Per Arne Olsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3422581"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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