List of Famous people with last name Rutledge

Joshua Alan Rutledge is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies and Boston Red Sox between 2012 and 2017.

Leslie Carol Rutledge is an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Arkansas. A member of the Republican Party, she is the 56th attorney general of Arkansas, a position Rutledge has held since January 13, 2015. She is the first Republican and woman to hold the position. In 2020, she announced her candidacy for the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election.

John Rutledge was an American politician and jurist who served as one of the original Associate Justices of the Supreme Court and as its second Chief Justice. Additionally, he served as the first President of South Carolina and later as its first governor after the Declaration of Independence.

Robert Rutledge was an American sound editor who won Best Sound Editing at the 1985 Academy Awards. He won for Back to the Future, which was shared with Charles L. Campbell.

Edward Rutledge was an American politician and youngest signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. He later served as the 39th Governor of South Carolina.

Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1943 to 1949. The ninth and final justice appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he is known for his impassioned defenses of civil liberties. Rutledge favored broad interpretations of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Equal Protection Clause, and he argued that the Bill of Rights applied in its totality to the states. He participated in several noteworthy cases involving the intersection of individual freedoms and the government's wartime powers. Rutledge served on the Court until his death at the age of fifty-five. Legal scholars have generally thought highly of the justice, although the brevity of his tenure has minimized his impact on history.