Jan Christian Brøgger (January 13, 1936, in Paris, France – February 28, 2006, in Oslo, Norway) was a Norwegian professor of social anthropology and a clinical psychologist.
Brøgger later travelled to Cornell University where he studied under Victor Turner.
Jan Brøgger became full professor in social anthropology at the University of Trondheim (later NTNU) in 1975, a position he held until he died in 2006.
Jan Brøgger was probably most known as an active participant in the Norwegian public sphere for several decades.
His initial notability was due to his strongly anti-Communist/anti-radical stance in a university environment where this was unconventional, with several books (in Norwegian only [1]) published.