Ragnvald Iversen

Ragnvald Iversen (January 18, 1882 – August 21, 1960) was a Norwegian educator and professor of North Germanic linguistics.

Iversen was born in Tromsø.

Iversen retired in 1952 and also received the Fridtjof Nansen Prize for Outstanding Research the same year. In 1957 he received the Gunnerus Medal. At Uppsala University, he became a member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy in 1933, a member of the Upsala Linguistics Society in 1952, and a member of the Royal Society of Humanities at Uppsala in 1959, and he received an honorary doctorate from the university in 1954. He was also a recipient of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star. Iversen also held the position of Deputy Chief Scout from 1920 to 1945, for which he received the Silver Wolf award in 1924 and the King's Medal of Merit in Gold in 1936, as well as the Order of St. Olav (knight and commander).

Iversen married Clara Grace Brodersen (1878–1921) in 1915 while they were both teachers at Hønefoss. He remarried in 1932 to Torborg Tjernström (1909–2001), with whom he had a son (Gudmund, born 1932) and a daughter (Reidun, born 1937). Iversen died in Trondheim.