Erling Herolf Bentzen, sometimes given as Bentsen (8 January 1897 – 12 December 1962) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties. He was born in Kristiania, but moved to Sarpsborg. He joined , by extension the Labour Party, in 1911, and sat as a county board member. He found work at in 1915, and became a secretary of his local trade union.