Ruben Nikolayevich Simonov (, ; 2 April 1899 â 5 December 1968) was a Soviet actor, theater director and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1946).
Simonov was born in Moscow, to a family of Russian Armenians. Graduating from the Moscow State University, he then became an actor, starting his career at the Armenian drama studio in the Armenian House of Culture. In 1939, he became director of the Vakhtangov Theatre. He also led the Armenian and Uzbek theaters of Moscow.