Johan Elsness (born 27 February 1947) is a Norwegian linguist and politician for the Conservative Party.
Elsness is a professor of English language at the University of Oslo, Norway. He issued the book The perfect and the preterite in contemporary and earlier English on De Gruyter Mouton in 1997.[1]
He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Østfold during the term 1989 - 1993. In total he met during 68 days of parliamentary session. He resides in Halden, where he has been active in the Roman Catholic community.[2]