Lieutenant General Hu Ruoyu (1894 - November 26, 1949), was governor of Yunnan (1927).
Hu was born in Luoping, Yunnan, China. He participated in the uprising against the Qing Dynasty in 1911 as a student of Yunnan Military College and served as a regiment commander after graduation.
During the Warlord Era, Hu was a member of the Yunnan clique, one of the actions of which was to expell Yunnan Governor Tang Jiyao from office. Together with Long Yun, Hu was appointed commander of the 39th Army.
He was a member of the chief staff of the Military Committee during World War II.
During the Chinese Civil War Hu participated with the 11th Army Corps against the Chinese Communist Party, following which he was killed in southeastern Guangxi in 1949.