Peder Ragnar Holt (25 January 1899–24 March 1963) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

During the occupation of Norway he was forced to resign all of his jobs (newspaper editor and mayor) because he refused to support the Nasjonal Samling government.

In November the same year, while the liberation of camps throughout Øst-Finnmark continued and the Germans were burning towns, a Soviet vessel brought Holt back to Vardø.

Once there, he led a three-member administration council for the liberated areas of Finnmark, according to a plan developed at a secret meeting in Tromsø the year before and approved by the government-in-exile in London.

[1] After the German occupation of Norway and the war ended, he was appointed Consultative Minister of Supplies and Reconstruction for northern Troms and Finnmark from 1945–1948 during Gerhardsen's Second Cabinet.