Ragnar Sigvald Skancke (9 November 1890 – 28 August 1948) was the Norwegian Minister for Church and Educational Affairs in Vidkun Quisling's Nasjonal Samling government during World War II.

[3] Skancke worked as a docent at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim from 1913 to 1918, and then spent the next five years as an supervising engineer at the telecommunication company Elektrisk Bureau.

[9] In one instance of refusal to cooperate fully with the German authorities, Skancke delayed acting on an order from Reichskommissar Terboven issued on 5 July 1941 that all Norwegian church bells were to be sent to Germany for smelting and use in the war industry.

Before his execution, the Norwegian High Court had received letters from 668 priests who asked for mercy on Skancke's behalf.

[11] Ragnar Skancke was one of only three Norwegian Nazi leaders to be executed for political crimes in the post-war legal purge, the others being Quisling and Internal affairs minister Albert Viljam Hagelin,[9][12] all the 34 other Norwegians and Germans executed in the post war process having been convicted of murder, torture or systematic informing.

[13] In addition to professional works on electrical engineering in the 1930s, Skancke also wrote a book on Vidkun Quisling.