Janne Bondi Johannessen

Janne Bondi Johannessen (1 August 1960 – 15 June 2020) was a Norwegian linguist.

She was born in Asker. Having initially dropped out of secondary school to pursue another path, she finished examen artium and became interested in linguistics when learning Greek. Johannessen graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.philol. degree in 1988. In 1993 she became managing director of the Text Laboratory at the University of Oslo, and the following year she completed her doctoral thesis for the dr.philos. degree. She served as president of the Northern European Association for Language Technology

Locally, she was the leader of a lobby group to save the Kolsås Line and leader of Kolsås neighborhood association. She was married and had three children.