William Samoei Ruto (born 21 December 1966 in Kamagut, Uasin Gishu) is a Kenyan politician who has been Minister for Agriculture since April 2008. He was Secretary General of the Kenya African National Union, the former ruling political party, and he has been MP for Eldoret North Constituency since the 1997 Kenyan election. He became Minister of Home Affairs in August 2002 but lost the post after the December 2002 election, in which KANU lost to the NARC coalition. He is seen as a fast emerging powerful Rift Valley politician in Kenya's political arena.
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