Kåre Kleivan (13 June 1917[1] – 10 February 1998) was a Norwegian journalist.
[2] During the German occupation of Norway he studied law at the University of Oslo and contributed to the illegal press before escaping to neutral Sweden, where he worked in the Norwegian legation in Stockholm.
[3] He is also known for escorting the Jewish family Smith from Northern Norway to Finland, away from German forces, in 1940.
[4][5] He worked in Associated Press from 1945 to 1948, then in the newspaper Verdens Gang.
[2] He settled in Kolbotn, was married to a Danish woman and had three children.