Kjersti is a given name. Notable people with the given name include:
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Kjersti Alveberg
Kjersti Alveberg (26 July 1948 – 19 October 2021) was a Norwegian choreographer and dancer. Over the last 30 years of her career she created ballets for stage and television and won prestigious awards for her work.
Early life
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(born 1948), Norwegian choreographer and dancer
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Kjersti Bale (born 1959), Norwegian philologist
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Kjersti Beck (born 1979), Norwegian handball player
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Kjersti Buaas
Kjersti Østgaard Buaas (born 5 January 1982) is a Norwegian snowboarder from Trondheim. She placed 4th in women's half-pipe at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States. She received a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in ...
(born 1982), Norwegian snowboarder
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Kjersti Døvigen
Kjersti Døvigen (27 June 1943 – 26 January 2021) was a Norwegian actress. She was known, among other things, for her role in the popular Norwegian TV-drama ''Offshore''.
At the age of seven, Kjersti started dancing, her career began as a ...
(born 1943), Norwegian actress
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Kjersti Engan
Kjersti Engan (born 1971) is a Norwegian researcher in signal and image processing who works as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Stavanger.
Engan was born in 1971 in Bergen. She earned a bachelor's d ...
(born 1971), Norwegian researcher in signal and image processing
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Kjersti Ericsson
Kjersti Ericsson (born 18 January 1944 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian psychologist, criminologist, writer, poet and former politician. She is a professor of criminology at the faculty of law of the University of Oslo.
Ericsson obtained her cand ...
(born 1944), Norwegian psychologist, criminologist, writer, poet and former politician
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Kjersti Fløttum
Kjersti Fløttum (born 12 July 1953) is a Norwegian linguist.
After a tenure at Stavanger University College she was employed by the University of Bergen in 1995 where she is a professor of French language. She has been vice rector of internationa ...
(born 1953), Norwegian linguist
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Kjersti Graver (1945–2009), Norwegian jurist
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Kjersti Grini (born 1971), Norwegian handball player
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Kjersti Holmen (born 1956), Norwegian actress
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Kjersti Horn (born 1977), Norwegian theater director and storyboard artist
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Kjersti Markusson (born 1955), Norwegian politician
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Kjersti Plätzer
Kjersti Tysse Plätzer (born Tysse; 18 January 1972) is a Norwegian race walker, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, in the 20 kilometres race. She finished 12th in the same race in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athen ...
(born 1972), Norwegian race walker
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Kjersti Reenaas (born 1981), Norwegian ski-orienteering competitor
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Kjersti Scheen (born 1943), Norwegian journalist, illustrator, novelist, crime fiction writer and children's writer
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Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold (born 1979), Norwegian author
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Kjersti Løken Stavrum
Kjersti Løken Stavrum (born 1 March 1969) is a Norwegian journalist and editor. Since April 2013, she has been Secretary General of the Norwegian Press Association.
Born in Sarpsborg in south-eastern Norway, Stavrum is a graduate in political s ...
(born 1969), Norwegian journalist and editor
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Kjersti Stenseng (born 1974), Norwegian politician
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Kjersti Stubø
Kjersti Aasan Stubø (born 25 April 1970) is a Norwegian jazz musician vocalist, daughter and musical successor of Jazz guitarist Thorgeir Stubø (1943–1986), mother of elektronica musician Mathias Stubø (b. 1992), and sister of Jazz guitaris ...
(born 1970), Norwegian vocalist
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Kjersti Thun
Kjersti Anita Thun (born 18 June 1974) is a Norwegian former soccer player. Thun played 12 games and scored one goal for Norway, and was on the team that took bronze at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the List of ca ...
(born 1974), Norwegian soccer player
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Kjersti Toppe
Kjersti Toppe (born 20 October 1967) is a Norwegian physician and politician representing the Centre Party (Norway), Centre Party. She served as minister of children and families from 2021 to 2025, second deputy leader of the party since 2025 and ...
(born 1967), Norwegian politician
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