Robert Ferguson (born 2 June 1948) is an English-born Norwegian biographer, dramatist, novelist, and translator who specialises in the history and culture of the Scandinavian countries, and Norway in particular.

Robert Ferguson was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, and grew up in Blackpool, Lancashire.

Between 1968 and 1976, he travelled widely in the UK and worked at numerous jobs, including postman, builder's labourer, trawler fisherman, hospital porter and factory hand.

[1] In 1980, Ferguson made his debut as a dramatist with an adaptation for BBC Radio 3 of Knut Hamsun's 1890 novel Hunger.

In 1997, Ferguson selected, translated and introduced Tales of Love and Loss, a collection of twenty of Hamsun's short stories.