Sigurd Forchhammer (18 April 1906 – 12 March 1981) was a Danish sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. The piece he produced for the event was called Vrhač koule (Shot putter)
Forchhammer was born in Neu-Isenburg, Germany. He studied in Norway and later in Copenhagen as a scholar of Einar Utzon-Frank. Before World War II he worked as a school teacher in Copenhagen, and then from 1956 as a curator at the Thorvaldsen Museum there. He created mainly sacred sculptures for church interiors, in wood, which was his primary material. Other materials included bronze, terracotta and artificial stone and he also worked as a restorer of medieval art.
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