Herman Pedersen (21 May 1928 – 24 January 2009) was a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Vestre Toten as a son of Asbjørn Pedersen (1897–1983) and housewife Hanna Nøkleby (1897–1992). He studied political science at the University of Oslo and Yale University, and also had an UNESCO scholarship to stay in Latin America before being hired as a secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1958. He made a career in the system and was hired as an embassy secretary in Poland in 1960, and went on to the United Nations delegation from 1962 to 1965.