Ruggiero

Ruggiero or Ruggero (pronounced roo-JEH-roh) is the Italian 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 (1941–1989), leader 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
• Joseph S. Ruggiero, better known under his stage name Joey Powers (born 1935), American singer and songwriter
• Giuseppe Ruggiero (born 1993) Italian footballer
• Renato Ruggiero (1930–2013), Italian politician
• Richard S. Ruggiero (1944–2014), New York politician
• Salvatore Ruggiero (1930–1982), 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 operain by Francesca Caccini
• Ruggiero, an opera by Johann Adolf Hasse (1771)
• Ruggiero, a character in the opera Alcina of Georg Friedrich Händel.