Kjell Ove Hauge (born 20 February 1969) is a retired Norwegian shot putter and discus thrower, turned educator, later Head teacher.

He graduated from Firda Upper Secondary High School in 1988 and studied after this, physical science at Sogn og Fjordane University College.

From the fall of 1990 he was offered a scholarship from University of Texas at El Paso, got an early discharge from the military and entered the UTEP Miners Track and Field program.

[8] Hauge enrolled at UTEP in 1990 and first worked with throws coach Steve Lemke, and from the fall of 1993, Robert Parker.

This ranks him sixth all time among Norwegian shot putters, behind Lars Arvid Nilsen, Marcus Thomsen, Georg Andersen, Jan Sagedal and Knut Hjeltnes.