Ellen Birgitte Pedersen (born 1955) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. Born in Bergen, she took the cand.med. degree in 1979. She has worked in Øksnes, Bodø and Stokmarknes, as well as a lecturer at the University of Tromsø. She has been a member of Øksnes municipal council and Nordland county council, and chaired her party on both municipal and county level. She has also chaired the former health trust Hålogaland Hospitalbeen a board member of Nordland Hospital Trust.