Ragnar Kvam Jr. (born 23 September 1942) is a Norwegian journalist, globetrotter, biographer and non-fiction writer.
Kvam was born in Kvinesdal and is a son of Ragnar Kvam. He is married to Sidsel Wold.
From 1974 to 1987 he was a journalist for the newspaper Dagbladet. He then initiated a period of sailing around the world, which eventually resulted in three books, Oppbrudd from 1990, Havet har meg nÃÂ¥ from 1992, and En sjøreise til Sibir from 1996. He has written biographies of Hjalmar Johansen and other polar explorers, and his three-volume biography of Thor Heyerdahl earned him the RiksmÃÂ¥lsforbundet's literary prize. He has also written a biography on painter and counterfeiter Knud Bull, who was deported from Great Britain to Australia in 1846.