Roald Halvorsen (17 February 1914 – 18 October 2010) was a Norwegian typographer, Communist Party politician and resistance member from World War II.

During the German occupation of Norway in World War II, Halvorsen joined the communist part of the Norwegian resistance movement in 1942.

[1] In March 1942 he got a warning that the German police had tried to contact him at his home, and started to live undercover.

[2] When he disappeared from the police, his wife Fanny was incarcerated at the Grini concentration camp for sixteen months, as a hostage.

In 1988 he was an editor and contributor to the book De trykte illegale avisene, about the illegal press during the war.