Tore Hamsun (6 March 1912 – 10 January 1995) was a Norwegian painter, writer, and publisher born in Hamarøy Municipality.

[1] At the age of five, his family moved from Hamarøy to Nørholm, a large agricultural property in Grimstad Municipality.

Hamsun later completed studies at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and debuted as a painter in 1940.

At the end of the war, Hamsun was sentenced to nine months jail for membership in the Nasjonal Samling.

Tore Hamsun died after a traffic accident in Oslo in 1995 and was buried in the Eide cemetery.