List of Famous people named Ruben

Rubén Galván was an Argentine football midfielder who played for Club Atlético Independiente for most of his career. At international level, he was part of the Argentina squad that won the 1978 FIFA World Cup on home soil.

Rubén Ochandiano is a Spanish actor and director. He has appeared in more than thirty films since 1997. He has worked with some of the most interesting film directors over the world: Pedro Almodovar, Alejandro González Iñarritu, Steven Soderbergh among others.

Claes Olle Ruben Östlund is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. His films Force Majeure (2014) and the satirical picture The Square (2017) were both critically acclaimed and won awards at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Palme d'Or for the latter.

Rubén Alfonso de la Barrera Fernández is a Spanish football manager, currently in charge of Deportivo de La Coruña.

Ruben Um Nyobè was an anti-colonialist Cameroonian leader, slain by the French army on 13 September 1958, near his natal village of Boumnyebel, in the department of Nyong-et-Kellé in the maquis Bassa. He created on 10 April 1948 the Cameroon's People Union (UPC), which used armed struggle to obtain independence from French colonial rule. After his death, he was replaced by Félix-Roland Moumié, who was assassinated by an agent of the SDECE with thallium in Geneva in 1960. Until the 1990s, any mention of Ruben Um Nyobè was prohibited in Cameroon.

Rubén González Rocha, known simply as Rubén, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central defender.

Ruben Edera Ecleo Sr. was a Filipino cult leader who founded the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association, Incorporated in 1965, and the mayor of the Municipality of Dinagat, Surigao del Norte from 1963 up to 1987. Married to Glenda Buray Ecleo, they had eight children: Ruben Jr., Glorigen, Gracelyn, Benglen, Allan I, Allan II, Geraldine and Gwendolyn. Ecleo also has a son with former mistress Reyneria Borja named Ruben Al.

Rubén Sobrino Pozuelo is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Cádiz, on loan from Valencia.

Rubén Oswaldo Díaz Figueras was an Argentine footballer. He played as a defender for Racing Club in Argentina and Atlético Madrid in Spain. He was nicknamed "Panadero" (baker) because his father owned a bakery.

Ruben Karlenovich Vardanyan is an Armenian-born Russian entrepreneur, Venture philanthropist, and investor, co-founder of Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, and UWC Dilijan College. Vardanyan initiated and co-founded Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, and held its president's seat in 2006–2010. He is the also founder of the "Philin" initiative, the co-founder of the family welfare service "Phoenix Advisors", and the former CEO and major shareholder of "Troika Dialog" investment bank (1992—2012).