Bjørn Skau (26 February 1929 – 2 March 2013) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
In 1959, during the third cabinet Gerhardsen, he was appointed personal secretary (today known as political advisor) in the Ministry of Social Affairs.
[2] He was promoted to state secretary in 1961, but lost the position temporarily in 1963, when the cabinet Lyng held office.
During the short-lived first cabinet Brundtland in 1981, Skau was appointed Minister of Justice and the Police.
A member of the temperance movement, he led the Norwegian branch of the International Organisation of Good Templars from 1991 to 1997.