Knut Henning Thygesen (born 7 April 1953 in Risør, Norway) is a Norwegian author and politician for the Red Party.

[1] He started education as an architect from the Norwegian Institute of Technology[2] in Trondheim where he among other things was editor of the student newspaper Under Dusken.

After two years he moved to Bærum and started training as a construction worker.

Thygesen's interest for politics started at upper secondary school in the early 1970s, with the three topics Norwegian EEC membership, the protest against the Vietnam War and environmentalism.

He was heavily engaged in the protests against the planned nuclear power plants that were suggested built in Risør.