Heraclio Ruggia was an Uruguayan engineer and politician.
[1] He obtained a degree in civil engineering, after which he became a member of the Postal Directory.
[3] Ruggia was named as Minister of Public Works in the cabinet of Óscar Diego Gestido on March 1, 1967.
[4] On October 10, 1967, Ruggia and other Batllista ministers resigned from the cabinet in protest against Gestido's decree introducing 'Immediate Security Measures [es]' the preceding day.
[1] In 1982 the municipal government of Montevideo named a street after Heraclio Ruggia.