Otto Jensen (11 September 1856 – 26 February 1918) was a Norwegian bishop and politician.

He was born in Kongsberg as the son of sexton Even Jensen and his wife Inger Margrethe Berggrav.

From 1889 to 1899 he was a curate in Berg i Smaalenene; he subsequently returned to Stavanger to hold the same position there.

However, already on 27 January the same year he was Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs, replacing Christoffer Knudsen in the cabinet Michelsen.

[2] Jensen lost his job on 22 October 1907, when the cabinet Michelsen fell.