Hakon Lunde (12 October 1918 – 2 October 2005) was a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party. He was born in Kristiania as a son of wholesaler Ragnvald Bredo Lunde (1889–1964) and housewife Bergljot Iversen (1892–1987). He attended his first years of school in Nordstrand and Oslo Commerce School from 1935 to 1937. During World War II he was a soldier, first in the Norwegian Campaign. After irregular resistance work, he fled to Sweden, where he worked in the Norwegian legation in Stockholm. He then continued to the United Kingdom, where he received further education in the Royal Norwegian Navy-in-exile and the Royal Navy. Among others, he participated in the D-Day invasion, surviving the sinking of his ship, the destroyer HNoMS Svenner. He became heavily decorated with the UK Defence Me