Arne Rettedal (25 July 1926 – 28 December 2001) was a Norwegian engineer, businessperson and politician for the Conservative Party.

He was born in Madla as a son of farmer Ola Rettedal (1882–1956) and Rakel Kristine Berge (1884–1963).

He finished his secondary education in 1947, and enrolled at the Norwegian Institute of Technology where he graduated in engineering in 1957.

[1] Within local politics, he was a member of Madla municipal council from 1960 to 1964, serving as mayor in the last year.

[6] Festschrifts were issued both on Rettedal's fiftieth and sixtieth birthdays, and he was biographed in 1998, in Thorbjørn Kindingstad's book Maktens byggherre.