Gerhard Rühm (born 12 February 1930) is an Austrian author, composer and visual artist.

From 1972–1996 Rühm taught as a professor at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg and from 1978–1982 he acted as president of the Grazer Autorenversammlung.

His artistic production is inspired by August Stramm, Kurt Schwitters, Gertrude Stein, Carl Einstein und Paul Scheerbart.

Rühm is also the administrator of the estate of Franz Richard Behrens and is the publisher of the works of Konrad Bayer.

In 2009 he was awarded the Alice Salomon Prize for Poetics and on January 25, 2010 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cologne.