List of Famous people named Ruth

Frances Ruth Coker Burks is a former caregiver of AIDS crisis victims and an AIDS awareness advocate based in Arkansas. During the onslaught of the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980s, she used her salary as a real estate agent to care for AIDS patients whose families and communities had abandoned them. Because of the prejudices, fears, and stigma surrounding the disease at the time, she was often the patients' only caregiver until they eventually died. She is recognized for burying them in her own family cemetery in Hot Springs, Arkansas. She currently lives in Rogers, Arkansas.

Ruth Shalit, also known as Ruth S. Barrett, is an American freelance writer and journalist. In 1999 she was dismissed from The New Republic following claims of plagiarism and inaccuracy.

Ruth Jebet is a Kenyan-born long-distance runner and steeplechase specialist who competes internationally for Bahrain. She was the world record holder and is currently the reigning Olympic gold medalist in the 3000 metres steeplechase, both achieved before turning 20. In 2018 she got suspended for testing positive for EPO.

Ruth Madoc is a British actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Gladys Pugh in the 1980s BBC television comedy Hi-de-Hi!, for which she received a BAFTA TV award nomination for Best Light Entertainment Performance, and as Daffyd Thomas's mother in the second series of Little Britain.

Ruth Badger is a British businesswoman, best known as the 2006 runner-up in the second series of the UK version of reality TV show The Apprentice, in which contestants compete for a £100,000-a-year job working for British business magnate Sir Alan Sugar. She has also presented her own TV show, Badger or Bust, and done various other TV work.

Ruth Sophia Spelmeyer is a German sprinter. She competed in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2016 European Athletics Championships. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she competed in the women's 400 metre event and the women's 4 x 400 metre relay.

Ruth Núñez is a Spanish actress. She is perhaps the best known for her television roles of Bosnian girl Tanja Mitjović in Compañeros (1998–01) and Beatriz "Bea" Pérez Pinzón in Yo soy Bea (2006–08), the Spanish version of Ugly Betty. In 2016 she had a cast appearance with Andrea Duro in the ninth season of La que se avecina.

Ruth Metzler is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1999 to 2003. A member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC), she headed the Federal Department of Justice and Police.

Ruth Sánchez Bueno, better known as Ruth Gabriel, is a Spanish actress.

Ruth Martha Shady Solís is a Peruvian anthropologist and archaeologist. She is the founder and director of the archaeological project at Caral.