Birger Fredrik Sinding-Larsen

Birger Fredrik Sinding-Larsen (12 October 1867 – 27 November 1941) was a Norwegian military officer.

He was born in Kristiania as a son of jurist and writer Alfred Sinding-Larsen (1839–1911) and Elisabeth Lange (1841–1887).

[1] He was a brother of physician Christian Magnus Sinding-Larsen, architect Holger Sinding-Larsen and painter Kristofer Sinding-Larsen, and also a grandnephew of mining engineer Matthias Wilhelm Sinding, second cousin of painter Sigmund Sinding,[2] maternal great-grandson of founding father Christian Magnus Falsen and nephew of Balthazar Lange.

[2][3] He finished his secondary education in 1885, then enrolled at the Norwegian Military Academy from which he graduated in 1888.

He was also awarded with the King's Medal of Merit in Gold for making a Festschrift for the Norwegian Military Academy's 150th anniversary in 1900.