Among the guests who later became famous cultural personalities were Knut Hamsun, Henrik Ibsen, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Hans Jæger, Arne Garborg and Christian Skredsvig.
Hans Christian Andersen | Hans Holbein the Younger | Hans Zimmer | Hans Werner Henze | Hans Memling | Hans Pfitzner | Hans Küng | Hans Conried | Hans Knappertsbusch | Hans Magnus Enzensberger | Hans-Dietrich Genscher | Hans Blix | Hans Zender | Hans Scholl | Hans Hofmann | Hans Christian Ørsted | Hans Raj Hans | Hans Habe | Hans Baldung | Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza | Hans von Ohain | Hans van Manen | Hans Urs von Balthasar | Hans Sloane | Hans Rosbaud | Hans-Georg Backhaus | Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein | Yuvraj Hans | Hans von Halban | Hans von Bülow |
The first editor-in-chief was Christian Krohg, and the most prolific contributor was Hans Jæger, although the latter was imprisoned during parts of the existence of the periodical.
After the confiscation of Hans Jæger's 1885 novel Fra Kristiania-Bohêmen and Christian Krohg's 1886 novel Albertine, Garborg begged the Government that his novel Mannfolk please also be confiscated.