Carl Frederik Motzfeldt (3 April 1808 – 24 June 1902) was a Norwegian politician.

The son of General Major Carl M. Motzfeldt, he enrolled as a student in 1827 and graduated as cand.jur.

He mostly worked in the Ministry of Auditing until 1854, when he was appointed Diocesan Governor of Tromsø stiftamt, which also included the jobs of County Governor of both Finmarkens Amt and Tromsø Amt (two of the subordinate counties under Tromsø).

[1] In 1857 he was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1848, representing the urban constituency of Tromsø, Hammerfest og Vadsø, as the Governor was seated in Tromsø.

[2] However, he left Northern Norway the same year to become the Diocesan Governor of Trondhjems stiftamt and the County Governor of Søndre Trondhjems Amt.