Carel Lodewijk Hansen was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. He was a pupil of Pieter Pietersz Barbiers. He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1794. He was the father and teacher of Carel Lodewijk II and Lambertus Johannes Hansen. He is known for cityscapes and landscapes, often in moonlight. He received a gold medal in 1818 in the category 'cityscapes'. He painted a cityscape of Leiden after a powder ship explosion in 1807.