Emil Oskar Spjøtvoll (21 July 1940 – 4 March 2002) was a Norwegian mathematician and statistician.
He finished his secondary education in 1959 at Trondheim Cathedral School, took the cand.mag.
degree with the thesis A Mixed Model in the Analysis of Variance.
[1] In 1983 Spjøtvoll was hired at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.
Spjøtvoll was then the first rector at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, a post he held from 1996 until 31 December 2001.