Ruth Roman (December 22, 1922 – September 9, 1999) was an American actress.

She was born Norma Roman in the Boston suburb of Lynn, Massachusetts and as a young girl pursued her desire to become an actress by enrolling in the prestigious Bishop Lee Dramatic School in Boston. Following completion of her studies Roman headed to Hollywood where she obtained bit parts in several films before being cast in the title role in the 1945 thirteen episode serial Jungle Queen.

In 1949 she played an important role in the 1949 film, Champion. In one of her most memorable roles, Roman costarred with Farley Granger and Robert Walker in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Strangers on a Train (1951). She also appeared in the television serial Jungle Queen in the early 1950s.

Married three times, she had one son, Richard, with her first husband, Mortimer Hall. In the 1950 film Three Secrets, she played a distraught mother waiting to learn whether or not her child survived a plane crash. In July 1956, Roman and her four-year-old son were passengers on board the SS Andrea Doria ocean liner. They were separated from each other when the ship collided with another and sank. Roman was rescued and waited at the pier in New York City for her son's safe arrival aboard one of the rescue ships.

A stage actress, in 1959 she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre. Although she never achieved the level of success in film that many had originally predicted for her, Roman nevertheless worked regularly in film well into the 1960s after which she began making appearances on television shows and movies including a recurring role in 1965-66 in The Long Hot Summer (TV series 1965-1966), and for the 1986 season of Knots Landing and on Murder She Wrote.

Roman was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6672 Hollywood Blvd for her contribution to television.

She died in her sleep at her Laguna Beach, California home in 1999, aged 76.

She and her son Richard "Dickie" Hall, were first-class passengers aboard the Andrea Doria when she collided with the Stockholm and sank in 1956. They were among almost 1,700 saved in the sinking. Roman and her son were separated in the rescue. She arrived in New York first and waited for him, surrounded by news photographers and reporters. She was on the pier to greet him when he arrived the next day when the rescue ship arrived in New York.

Dated Ronald Reagan (I)

Died in her sleep.

Her son Richard was born in November, 1952.

In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by either Rosetta Calavetta or Lidia Simoneschi. Andreina Pagnani and Dhia Cristiani, most notably in Alfred Hitchcock (I)'s Strangers on a Train (1951), also lent their voice to Roman.