Olav Torgersen

Olav Torgersen (25 September 1907 – 1978) was a Norwegian pathologist.

He was born in Kristiansand as a son of wholesaler Carl Torgersen (1871–1950) and Kristine Torgersen (1874–1910). He finished his secondary education in 1926 and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.med. degree in 1934. In 1939 he married colonel's daughter Ada Jørgensen (1913–1967).

He substituted for the district physician in Finnmark from 1934 to 1935, before working at the Norwegian Radium Hospital from 1936 and the , Oslo from 1938. In 1940 he took his dr.med. degree with the thesis Om binyrenes variable struktur og deres motstandsevne mot røntgenbestråling, about x-rays to the adrenal glands.

He resided in Bærum. He died in 1978.