Elisa Helland-Hansen (b. 1950 in New York, USA) is a Norwegian potter, raised in Bergen and educated at The Bergen School of Arts and Crafts (Bergens Kunsthåndverkskole) in the mid 1970s. She built a two-chambered wood-fired kiln in 1981 outside Bergen which she fired in for 25 years. Now she works full time at her studio in Rosendal using a gas-kiln, only wood-firing a salt/soda kiln twice a year in Balestrand. She exhibits regularly both in Norway and abroad. She was head of the Ceramic Department as professor at HDK, University of Gothenburg from 2000 to 2005.

Elisa Helland-Hansen has dedicated her 50-year career to making functional pots for kitchen and meals.