Ruta (disambiguation)

Ruta might refer to:

• Ruta, commonly known as rue, a genus of strongly scented evergreen subshrubs
• Spanish word for route, trail, way
• Rūta, a common Lithuanian female given name
• Rūta Society, a Lithuanian cultural society active in 1909–1914
• Ruta, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, a village in Poland
• Ruta, Lovrenc na Pohorju, a village in Slovenia

Last name

• Clemente Ruta (1668–1767), an Italian painter
• Domenica Ruta, an American author
• Enrico Ruta (1869–1939), an Italian philosopher, sociologist and translator
• Jason Ruta (born 1979), a Canadian television personality and actor
• Gilda Ruta (1856–1932), an Italian pianist, music educator and composer
• Marcello Ruta, an Italian paleontologist
• Pietro Ruta (born 1987), an Italian rower
• Vanessa Ruta, an American neurobiologist

First name

• see: Rūta
• Ruta Bloomfield, an American harpsichordist
• Ruta Gedmintas (born 1983), an English actress
• Ruta Lealamanua (born 1974), a New Zealand softball player
• Ruta Lee (born 1935), a Canadian actress and dancer
• Ruta Šaca-Marjaša (1927–2016), a Jewish Latvian lawyer, writer, poet, and politician
• Ruta Sepetys (born 1967), a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction