Ruggiero

Ruggiero is an Italian spelling variant of the name Ruggero, a version of the Germanic name Roger, and may refer to:

As a surname
 * Adamo Ruggiero (born 1986), Canadian actor
 * Angela Ruggiero (born 1980), American hockey player
 * Angelo Ruggiero (1940–1989), Member of the New York City Mafia
 * Benjamin Ruggiero (1926–1994), member of the New York City Mafia
 * Deb Ruggiero (born 1958), radio personality and politician from Rhode Island
 * Giuseppe Ruggiero (born 1993) Italian footballer
 * Joseph S. Ruggiero, better known under his stage name Joey Powers (1934–2017), American singer and songwriter
 * Paolo Ruggiero (born 1957), Italian general and member of NATO supreme command
 * Renato Ruggiero (1930–2013), Italian politician
 * Richard S. Ruggiero (1944–2014), New York politician
 * Salvatore Ruggiero (1945–1982), New York City Mafia associate and older brother of Angelo Ruggiero
 * Vic Ruggiero, musician and songwriter from New York City

As a given name
 * Ruggiero (character), character in Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso
 * Roger of Lauria, in Italian known as Ruggero or Ruggiero di Lauria (1245–1305), Italian admiral who was commander of the fleet of Aragon
 * Ruggiero Giovannelli (1560–1625), Italian composer of the Renaissance and Baroque eras
 * Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857–1919), Italian opera composer
 * Ruggiero Ricci (1918–2012), Italian-American violin virtuoso
 * Ruggiero Rizzitelli (b. 1967), Italian football who played in Germany

Other
 * Torre di Ruggiero, a comune and town in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of Italy
 * Ruggiero (music), a musical scheme which is at times harmonic and at times melodic
 * La liberazione di Ruggiero, a 1625 comic opera by Francesca Caccini
 * Ruggiero, an opera by Johann Adolf Hasse (1771)
 * Ruggiero, a character in the opera Alcina of Georg Friedrich Händel.