Olav Rytter (29 January 1903 – 7 June 1992) was a Norwegian newspaper editor, radio personality, foreign correspondent, philologist and translator.

After working as a teacher in the Norwegian language in Prague and Warsaw, from 1928 to 1935, he returned to Norway in 1935 to edit the newspaper Norsk Tidend.

[2] When Norway was invaded by Germany in April 1940, Rytter fled the country together with the Norwegian royal family and cabinet.

After a short period in Stockholm he reunited with the Norwegian authorities-in-exile in London, where he worked for the NRK and BBC until 1944.

[5] In 1944 Rytter travelled to Finnmark to oversee the liberation of Northern Norway as an officer of information.