Tofte is a surname of Norwegian origin which may refer to:

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Andreas Tofte Andreas Tofte (28 March 1795 – 27 September 1852) was a Norwegian businessperson, elected official and philanthropist. He served as the first Mayor of Oslo, Norway. Biography He was born on the Tofte farm at Hurum in Buskerud, Norway. H ...

(1794–1851), Norwegian businessman and Mayor of Oslo *

Arthur Tofte Arthur R Tofte (June 8, 1902 – May 21, 1980) was an American writer, best known for his science fiction and fantasy. He has an award named after him, which is given to the category of children's literature by the Council for Wisconsin W ...

(1902–1980), American science fiction and fantasy author *

Britt Pettersen Tofte Brit Pettersen Tofte (born 24 November 1961) is a Norwegian former cross-country skier who competed during the 1980s. Pettersen earned one gold and two bronzes at two Winter Olympic Games. At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, she won one go ...

(born 1961), Norwegian cross country skier *

Jørg Tofte Jebsen Jørg Tofte Jebsen (27 April 1888 – 7 January 1922) was a physicist from Norway, where he was the first to work on Einstein's general theory of relativity. In this connection he became known after his early death for what many now call the ...

(1888–1922), Norwegian physicist *

Jørgen Tofte Nielsen Jørgen is a Danish, Norwegian, and Faroese masculine given name cognate to George People with the given name Jørgen * Jørgen Aall (1771–1833), Norwegian ship-owner and politician * Jørgen Andersen (1886–1973), Norwegian gymnast * Jørg ...

(born 1971), Danish former football goalkeeper *

Mads Tofte Mads Tofte (born 20 April 1959) is a Danish computer scientist who has contributed in particular to functional programming and the Standard ML programming language. Education Tofte was born in Lyngby, Denmark and grew up in Holbæk, Denmark. H ...

(born 1959), Danish computer scientist *

Robert Tofte Robert Tofte (bap. 1562 – d. Jan. 1620) was an English translator and poet. He is known for his translations of Ariosto's ''Satires'' and his sonnet sequences ''Alba, The Months Minde of a Melancholy Lover'' (1598) and ''Laura, The Toyes of a ...

(1562–1620), English translator and poet *

Tracy Tofte Tracy Wells (born Tracy Anne Brockstein; March 13, 1971 in Encino, California) is an American actress. Wells is best known for playing Heather Owens on the ABC sitcom ''Mr. Belvedere'' (1985–1990). She won the Young Artist Award in the "Best Y ...

(Tracy Wells, born 1971), American actress *

Valdemar Tofte Lars Valdemar Tofte (21 October 1832 – 28 May 1907) was a Danish violinist who taught for a half century and trained over 300 of Denmark's violinists. Biography Tofte was born on 21 October 1832 in Copenhagen, Denmark, to distiller Hans Larsen ...

(1832–1907), Danish violinist and teacher *

Ørnulf Tofte Ørnulf Tofte (12 February 1922 – 26 August 2020) was a Norwegian police officer and a major figure in the Norwegian intelligence service during the Cold War. He served as assistant chief of police and head of counter-intelligence in the ...

(1922–2020), Norwegian police officer

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Tofte, Norway 250 px, Statkraft Hurum saltkraftverk Tofte is a village in the Asker municipality in Viken, Norway. It is situated on the Hurum Peninsula (''Hurumhalvøya'') on the Oslo Fjord. It is the second largest settlement in Hurum. Before 1897, ...

, village in the municipality of Asker, Norway **

Södra Cell Tofte Södra Cell Tofte is a pulp mill located at Tofte in Buskerud, Norway. The plant dates back to 1897 when Tofte Cellulosefabrik was founded at the initiative of industrialist Anthon B. Nilsen. The raw material used at the plant is from eucal ...

, a pulp mill located in Tofte, Norway *

Tofte Township, Cook County, Minnesota Tofte Township is one of the three townships of Cook County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 226 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Tofte is located within the township. Geography According to the United States Cen ...

, an American township **

Tofte, Minnesota Tofte is an unincorporated community in Tofte Township, Cook County, Minnesota, United States. Location Tofte is on the North Shore of Lake Superior, within the Superior National Forest, 27 miles southwest of the city of Grand Marais and 56 mile ...

, an unincorporated community in Tofte Township *

Tofte Glacier Tofte Glacier is a glacier immediately south of Sandefjord Cove on the west side of Peter I Island Peter I Island ( no, Peter I Øy) is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Bellingshausen Sea, from continental Antarctica. It is claimed as a d ...

, on Peter I Island near Antarctica

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