Karl Alfred Ingvald Næss (26 April 1877 – 6 July 1955) was a Norwegian speed skater.

[1] He set the men's world record for 500 meter speed skating on 5 February 1893 at 49.4 seconds in Hamar, Norway.

); and Alvilde Marie Magdalene Næss (1875–1933) who married Thorvald Martin Tandberg (1874–1970).

[10] After Montreal he visited his sister in Portland, Maine, and gave a demonstration on 17 February 1897.

He set world records on three occasions in the 500 meter at Akersvika on Lake Mjøsa in Hamar, Norway.