Virgil Gay Bogue (1846–1916) was an American civil engineer who worked initially in his home state of New York before taking jobs internationally and in the western and northwestern United States.

He received a degree in civil engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, in 1868.

As a consulting engineer, Bogue worked on Columbia River Navigation, Commencement Bay and Grays Harbor, the New Zealand Railway, the New York Department of Public Works, and finally, shortly before his death, the Greater Seattle Plan.

Bogue died at sea aboard the steamship Esperanza on October 14, 1916.

[1] It would have established Seattle's first comprehensive plan and a variety of improvements, including a civic center in the new Denny Regrade area.