Anton Alexander (19 September 1870 – 10 October 1945) was a Norwegian educator and politician for the Liberal Party.
He was born in Tvedestrand as the son of sailor Alexander Paulsen (1841-1871) and his wife Anna Andersen (1834-1887).
Over his career he mainly worked as a school teacher and principal; in Kristiania, Bodø, Skien, Kristiania again, Lillehammer, Drammen and Skien again.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament for the term 1934–1936, representing the Market towns of Telemark and Aust-Agder counties.
[2] He also assisted in the polar expeditions of Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup and Roald Amundsen, as well as Gunnar Isachsen's expedition to Svalbard, with astronomical calculations.