Orla Schartau Hyllested (4 August 1912 – 6 September 2000) was a Danish union representative, politician and mayor of Aarhus.

[1] From a young age Hyllested had to work to supplement the income in his family by delivering milk and later as the assistant in a barber shop.

In 1944 he became manager Fagorganisationernes Boligselskab and from 1954 he was hired permanently there as he had to give up the physically demanding mason job.

[2][3] In 1981, Aarhus suffered from unemployment and the aftermath of the 1979 energy crisis, and Hyllested decided not to run for mayor again.

Orla Hyllested was forced to run newspaper ads asking people to vote for the Social Democratic Party.