Editing Gjerstad (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Holmengard-119.JPG|thumb|160px|right|[[Niels Henrik Abel|Abel]] Memorial near [[Gjerstad Church]] {{credit|©Torgrim Landsverk}}]]
* Hans Mathias Abel (1738–1803), the priest at [[Gjerstad Church]] from 1785 to 1804
* [[Søren Georg Abel]] (1772–1820), a politician and also priest at Gjerstad from 1804 to 1821
* [[Niels Henrik Abel]] (1802–1829), a distinguished [[mathematician]] who spent his boyhood in the [[rectory]] at Gjerstad and died young of [[Tuberculosis|TB]]
* [[Svenum Jensen Vævestad]] (1849 in Gjerstad – 1898), a farmer and politician
* [[Morten Ansgar Kveim]] (1892 in Gjerstad – 1966), a pathologist who described the [[Kveim test]]
* [[Magnhild Hagelia]] (1904 in Gjerstad – 1996), a politician
* [[Jan Olav Olsen]] (born 1950), a politician who was mayor of Gjerstad from 1991 to 1999
* [[Inger Løite]] (born 1958 in Gjerstad), a politician
* [[Knut Magne Valle]] (born 1974 in Gjerstad), a [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] guitarist, songwriter, composer, recording studio owner, record producer, and music arranger
* [[Torbjørn Urfjell]] (born 1977), a politician