Carl Emil Rustad (10 December 1881 – 1957) was a Norwegian military officer and director.
He was born in Kristiania as a son of Lord Chamberlain Fredrik "Fritz" Frantz Michael Wilhelm Rustad (1852–1930) and Mistress of the Robes Marie Magdalena Schou (1859–1943).
[1] He finished his secondary education in 1899, became an Artillery officer in 1902 and graduated from the Norwegian Military College in 1905.
He served at an artillery and dragoon regiment in Lyon for ten months in 1906, then as an aspirant in the General Staff from 1906 to 1917 and military attaché in Stockholm and Petrograd from 1912 to 1917.
He was a board member of Norsk Aluminium Company, Oslo Sparebank, Forsikringsselskapet Idun and Storebrand.