Trygve Stangeland was a Norwegian businessperson.

He was born in Sola

Sola

Sola is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is part of the region of Jæren. The old municipality of Håland was divided into Sola and Madla in 1930....

, and founded the construction company Stangeland Gruppen

Stangeland Gruppen

Stangeland Gruppen is a Norwegian construction company.It is a parent company of T. Stangeland Maskin, Stangeland Kran and TS Eiendom. It was founded by Trygve Stangeland in 1959. It had a turnover of in 2008, and has about 600 employees, most of them in T. Stangeland Maskin....

 in 1959. The company had a turnover of in 2008, and Stangeland himself has a fortune of NOK 402 million, about .

He resided in Tjelta. His son Olav Stangeland is the director of Stangeland Gruppen's daughter company, T. Stangeland Maskin.

On 17 June 2011 he was involved in a bicycle accident near the airport hotel at Stavanger Airport, Sola

Stavanger Airport, Sola

Stavanger Airport, Sola is an international airport located in Sola, Norway, southwest of Stavanger. It is Norway's third-busiest airport, with both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter traffic for the offshore North Sea oil installations...

, and sustained a severe head trauma. The injury claimed his life; he died on Stavanger University Hospital

Stavanger University Hospital

Stavanger Universitetssjukehus in Stavanger, Norway, is Norway's fourth largest hospital.The hospital has more than 7000 employees and caters for a population of 300,000. It serves as the local hospital from the municipality of Hjelmeland in the north to the municipality of Sokndal in the south,...

in the afternoon the next day.