Tore Pryser (born 9 January 1945) is a Norwegian historian who has served as professor at the Lillehammer University College since 1993.

En sosialhistorisk undersøkelse av thranittene i Ullensaker (1977, an expanded version of his master's degree thesis)[4] and Klassen og nasjonen 1935-1946 (1988, volume four of Arbeiderbevegelsens historie i Norge).

Other war-related publications include Fra varm til kald krig (1994) and Hitlers hemmelige agenter: tysk etterretning i Norge 1939-1945 (2001).

His project mainly led up to Tyske hemmelige tjenester i Norden, a large work on German intelligence in the Nordic countries which was released in late 2012.

The importance of several resistance members, hailed as heroes after the end of war, has, according to Pryser, been exaggerated for nation-building purposes.