Henry Thingstad (9 April 1916 – 19 May 1943) was a Norwegian sports official and communist resistance member. He was born in Trondhjem to a mother from Skogn and a father from Tynset. Both died before Thingstad turned twenty. He was a watchmaker by profession. Before the Second World War he was active in the workers' sports club and the Workers' Confederation of Sports. He chaired the district workers' sports organization in Sør-Trøndelag from 1938 to 1940. He also chaired the workers' sports club . In 1939 he supported the merger between the workers' and bourgeois sports organizations, in order to create a against fascism.