Idar Norstrand

{{short description|Norwegian politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| office= Minister of Pay and Prices

| term_start= 20 January 1964

| term_end= 12 October 1965

| primeminister= Einar Gerhardsen

| predecessor= Karl Trasti

| successor= Dagfinn Vårvik

| birth_name= Idar Olav Norstrand

| birth_date= {{birth date|1915|2|14|df=y}}

| birth_place= Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

| death_date= {{Death date and age|1986|9|8|1915|2|14|df=y}}

| death_place=

| party= Labour

}}

Idar Olav Norstrand (14 February 1915, Bergen – 8 September 1986) was a Norwegian civil servant, trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party.

He worked as a mail carrier from 1934 to 1941, and later as personnel director in Norway Post from 1957 to 1982. From 1941 to 1945, during the German occupation of Norway, he fled to Stockholm, Sweden and worked at the Norwegian legation there. From 1946 to 1951 he chaired the trade union Norwegian Union of Postmen.

From 1964 to 1965, during the fourth cabinet Gerhardsen, he was appointed Minister of Wages and Prices.