| Name | Category | Year | Motivation |
| Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson | Literature | 1903 | "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit" |
| Ragnar Frisch | Economics | 1969 | "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes" |
| Ivar Giaever | Physics | 1973 | "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively" |
| Trygve Haavelmo | Economics | 1989 | "for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures" |
| Knut Pedersen Hamsun | Literature | 1920 | "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil" |
| Odd Hassel | Chemistry | 1969 | "for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry" |
| Finn E. Kydland | Economics | 2004 | "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles" |
| Christian Lous Lange | Peace | 1921 | |
| May-Britt Moser | Medicine | 2014 | "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain" |
| Edvard I. Moser | Medicine | 2014 | "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain" |
| Fridtjof Nansen | Peace | 1922 | |
| Lars Onsager | Chemistry | 1968 | "for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes" |