Fredrik Barbe Wallem (29 November 1877 – 3 July 1945) was a Norwegian art historian.

[1] He was born in Bergen; the son of Fredrik Meltzer Wallem and Louise Adelaide Barbe.

In 1916 he wrote a book on the first hundred years of the Norwegian Students' Society.

[2] [3] From 1911–1920 he worked at the University of Kristiania Ethnographic Museum and the Antiquities Collection in Oslo.

He was manager of the Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum in Trondheim from 1920 to 1945, and lectured at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.