Ruth Shaw

• Ruth Shaw Wylie, United States-born composer and music educator
• Ruth Faison Shaw, American artist and educator
• Ruth Shaw (politician), British politician
• Ruth Geyer Shaw, evolutionary biologist and former editor of the monthly scientific journal Evolution
• Ruth G. Shaw, former CEO of Duke Energy
• Ruth Shaw (Prisoner), character from Australian TV series Prisoner, played by Mary Murphy
• Ruth Shaw, character from the 1949 Western Down Dakota Way, played by Dale Evans