- Marc Chagall, stateless after the Russian civil war, traveled to France on a Nansen passport
- named for explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and developer of that document for refugees, Fridtjof Nansen
- who skiied across Greenland with Norwegian-Sami explorer Samuel Balto
- namesake of Balto, lead sled dog on the 1925 serum run to Nome
- who, in the animated film loosely based on that journey, is voiced by Kevin Bacon.
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