Ole Otto Paus (26 October 1910 – 6 April 2003) was a Norwegian General, diplomat and NATO official. Born in Vienna, Austria to the Norwegian Consul, Thorleif Paus, and a Viennese mother, Paus grew up in Vienna and graduated from the Theresianum in 1929. He subsequently moved to Norway, where he attended the Norwegian Military Academy, graduating as an officer in 1932. He graduated from the Norwegian Military College in 1938, from the Senior Officers' School in the United Kingdom in 1947, and attended the NATO Defence College in 1963.