Virgil Snyder (1869, Dixon, Iowa – 1950) was an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.

In 1886, Snyder matriculated at Iowa State College and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1889.

He attended Cornell University as a graduate student from 1890 to 1892, leaving to study mathematics in Germany on an Erastus W. Brooks fellowship.

Snyder served as president of the American Mathematical Society for a two-year term in 1927 and 1928.

[3] Snyder did research on configurations of ruled surfaces and Cremona and birational transformations.