Kjell Opseth

{{short description|Norwegian politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name= Kjell Opseth

| image= 266px

| caption= Opseth in 2009.

| office= Minister of Local Government

| term_start= 25 October 1996

| term_end= 17 October 1997

| primeminister= Thorbjørn Jagland

| predecessor= Gunnar Berge

| successor= Ragnhild Haarstad

| office2= Minister of Transport and Communications

| term_start2= 3 November 1990

| term_end2= 25 October 1996

| primeminister2= Gro Harlem Brundtland

| predecessor2= Lars Gunnar Lie

| successor2= Sissel Rønbeck

| office3= Member of the Norwegian Parliament

| term_start3= 1 October 1981

| term_end3= 30 September 2001

| constituency3= Sogn og Fjordane

| birth_name= Kjell Olav Opseth

| birth_date= {{birth date|1936|01|02|df=y}}

| birth_place= Førde, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

| death_date= {{Death date and age|2017|12|03|1936|01|02|df=y}}

| death_place= Førde, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

| spouse= Hjørdis Årberg {{Small|(m. 1963)}}{{cite web| url= https://nbl.snl.no/Kjell_Opseth | title= Kjell Opseth | language= no | publisher= Store Norske Leksikon | date= 4 December 2017 | access-date = 25 June 2020}}

| party= Labour

}}

Kjell Olav Opseth (2 January 1936 – 3 December 2017) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Transport and Communications 1990–1996 and Minister of Local Government Affairs 1996–1997.{{cite web|url=http://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=KO|title=Opseth, Kjell ( 1936- )|publisher=Stortinget.no|language=no|access-date=8 January 2010}} As Transport Minister, he once observed of advertising hoardings featuring model Anna Nicole Smith that "on her own [she] is not a traffic hazard. It depends where she is."Daily Telegraph, 'Quotes of the Year', 29 December 1993