Torleif Torkildsen (; 12 May 1892 – 7 October 1944) was a Norwegian gymnast and tennis player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Norwegian gymnastics team, which won the bronze medal in the gymnastics men's team, Swedish system event.
In tennis, he was a member of the Norway Davis Cup team, in which he earned Norway's first victorious rubber in the tie against Hungary in 1929 by beating Imre Takáts.Béla Kehrling, ed. (25 May 1929). "Osloi levél [Letter from Oslo]" (in Hungarian). Tennisz és Golf (Budapest, Hungary: Bethlen Gábor írod. és Nyomdai Rt) I (2): 35. Retrieved 21 February 2013. Before entering the Davis Cup in 1927, Norway competed in the Nordisk Cup, an annual four-nation Scandinavian tennis team cup, in which he earned Norway's only won match against Sweden's Curt Östberg. The same year in August, he won an international tournament in Oslo, meeting Östberg again in the final. In national competition, he was a five-time tennis champion between 1926 and 1930.
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