Oddbjørn Snøfugl (2 October 1941 – 14 December 2022) was a Norwegian school principal politician for the Centre Party (Norway), Centre Party. He grew up in Buvika at the Snøfugl farm. Not wanting a career as a farmer, he took the examen artium at Orkdal Upper Secondary School, Orkdal landsgymnas, tried working as a teacher in Bangsund and enrolled at the University of Trondheim, Norwegian Teachers' College. He graduated in 1971 with the cand.philol. degree, his graduate thesis in English being ''Edward Albee's play Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse Tung: an analysis''. Snøfugl was hired as a teacher at Støren Secondary School, later Støren Upper Secondary School. In 1984 he was hired as headmaster of Melhus Upper Secondary School. He was recruited to Vinstra Upper Secondary School as headmaster in 1992. Moving to Lillehammer, he also worked in Oppland County Municipality as school director and vice chief administrative officer. Following the 1975 Norwegian local elections, Snøfugl was elected mayor of Midtre Gauldal. He edged out Labour's Inge Grav with a 18–16 vote between the members of the municipal council (Norway), municipal council. After a four-year term he stepped down and was replaced by partyfellow Anders Storrøsæter. He served as a deputy representative to the Storting, Parliament of Norway from Sør-Trøndelag (Storting constituency), Sør-Trøndelag during the term 1969–1973. In total he met during 6 days of parliamentary session. After retiring, Snøfugl wrote three books, one of them about a missionary in India, Johan Ofstad. Snøfugl also spent two years editing the local history yearbook ''Gauldalsminne''. He resided in Støren.

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