Brendan Percival Hansen OAM (21 August 1922 – 19 December 1999) was an Australian politician.

[2] Hansen was educated at the Granville State School and Christian Brothers College, Maryborough before becoming a shipwright and loftsman at the Walkers Limited shipyard.

[1] Hansen died in 1999, aged 77, and, in January 2001, his award of the Medal of the Order of Australia was posthumously announced, with the citation "For service to the community of Maryborough, particularly through the Maryborough and District Housing Action group and the Scouting movement".

Brendan Hansen married Moira O'Sullivan in 1960 at St Mary's Catholic Church, Maryborough.

Moira Hansen is a light opera singer who still remains active in the city's arts community.