Svein Gunnar Morgenlien

Svein Gunnar Morgenlien (13 May 1922 – 22 September 2016) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party.

He was born in Aurskog as a son of smallholder and sawmill manager Johan Morgenlien (1878–1948) and housewife Ovidia Davidsen (1882–1970). He spent his working career as a forest worker and sawmill manager from 1937 to 1959 and forest manager from 1959 to 1962.

Morgenlien was involved in the trade union , which in 1988 merged to form the United Federation of Trade Unions. From 1956 to 1960 he was a national board member, from 1962 to 1965 he was a secretary, from 1965 to 1979 he was treasurer and from 1979 to 1987 he was chairman. In the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions he was a member of the supervisory board from 1965 to 1977 and secretariat from 1979 to 1987.