Knut Gard

Knut Einar Dag Gard (9 April 1905 – 29 March 1966) was a Norwegian dentist and organizational leader.

He was born in Stavanger as a son of Lieutenant Colonel Edw. Aug. Gundersen. He finished his secondary education in 1924 and finished officer's training. He was a Premier Lieutenant from 1927 and certified radio telegrapher from 1929. He spent the years 1929 to 1931 on whaling expedition in the Southern Sea. In 1934 he graduated from the Norwegian College of Odontology and started a career as a dentist in Drammen. In 1935 he moved to Oslo, and in 1936 he married dentist Liv Henriette Dunker Kjerulf.

He is best known as secretary-general of the Norwegian Dental Association from 1938 to his death. He was also a corresponding member of the Danish Dental Association from 1945, and later an honorary member of the American Dental Association, the Swedish Dental Society as well as their French, German, Austrian, Finnish and Irish counterparts. He was a board member of the FDI World Dental Federation from 1952, was vice president from 1958 and presided over the organization from 1965 to his death.

In the military, Gard was promoted to Captain in 1940. He was decorated with the Defence Medal 1940–1945. He died in March 1966 was buried from Frogner Church at Vestre gravlund, where the Norwegian Dental Association also raised a monument to him and his wife.