Bjørn Bruland

Bjørn Rochmann Bruland (13 October 1926 – 3 July 2014) was a Norwegian admiral and politician for the Labour Party.

He was born in Rjukan and started his career in the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1945 after taking his education at the Norwegian Naval Academy, also serving in the British and US navies and under the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.

[1][2] Bruland led the Norwegian Naval Training Establishment "HNoMS Tordenskjold" and the naval camp at Madla, "HNoMS Harald Hårfagre" and served as director of the Norwegian Defence University College.

[1] Bruland has been chairman of United World Colleges in Norway[2] and served as president of the Norwegian Red Cross from 1987 to 1993.

Bruland lived in over twenty places in his life, last in Stavanger.