Arvid Gilbert Hansen (5 May 1894 – 24 January 1966) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties.

He spent his entire youth in Bergen, before moving to Stavanger where he took the examen artium in 1913 as a private candidate.

Also in 1923 he wrote the propagandistic history book Den røde ungdom i kamp og seier.

In 1949 he edited Boligreising i Norge og andre land and in 1953 he wrote Boligkooperasjon i Norden, both on the housing question.

In 1960 he wrote a book about laborers in Norwegian poetry, Arbeideren i norsk diktning fra Wergeland til i dag.