Sverre Julius Gjellum (29 September 1919 – 23 April 1999) was a Norwegian diplomat.
He was born in Kristiania, enrolled in law studies in 1939 and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.jur.
[1] This was during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, and he escaped to neutral Sweden, joined the Norwegian police troops-in-exile before travelling via the United Kingdom to Canada, where he underwent pilot training in Little Norway.
[2] His first posts abroad were as an embassy secretary in Mexico and vice-consul in San Francisco, California.
[1] He was a deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1965 to 1969, Norwegian ambassador in Kenya from 1969 to 1972, permanent under-secretary of state (the highest-ranking bureaucratic position) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1972 to 1977, Norwegian ambassador to the European Community in Brussels from 1977 to 1982 and to West Germany from 1982 to 1987.